Bundle Girl Winter Friends - Stamping Bella

 Hello friends!

This is the last card from me this year - I'm so sorry to not really have made very many!

It has been a fairly mad, bad and sad year every way up!

I did consider that it may be a bit lightweight to keep blogging throughout the awfulness of it all this year but I decided that as it keeps me happy and sane, it might just be doing the same for you!

Twelve months ago I never expected that the world and the UK would be in such a state!

Neither did I expect that a simple slip whilst on a summer walk along the cliff side in Dorset would cause such damage to my leg!  It has been a horrible ordeal to break bones!  The only thing I've ever broken in my life is the speed limit and an occasional nail!  However, it is small fry given what so many others have to contend with!  I have surgery scheduled in January to remove the metalwork in my leg and then all should be good to go!

I am genuinely moved and quite bowled over by the love and support of so many of you - thank you from the bottom of my heart!

I think this beautiful image and sentiment says it all!...

Bundle Girl Winter Friends - Stamping Bella  (Dies To Die For)

Bazzill Basics Kraft Card

Archival Ink Pad in Shadow Grey

Prismacolour Pencils

Skin Light - Umber, Lilac, Rosy Beige, Beige, Peach, Light Peach, Cream

Reds - Tuscan Red, Scarlet Lake, Poppy Red, Salmon Pink

Browns - Dark Brown, Light Umber, Clay Rose, Putty Beige, Ginger Root

Holly Leaves - Dark Green, Olive Green, Limepeel, Yellowish Chartreuse

Boots - French Grey 90%, French Grey 70%, French Grey 50%, French Grey 30%, French Grey 10%

Snowy Ground - Slate Grey, White

Twigs - Sepia

Thank you for popping by today!

Take extra special care of yourselves, those you love and those who love you this festive season, even if it is at a distance!

love from

Sue...xxx 

Snowy Trees - Whimsy Stamps

 Hello everyone...

I am such a bad example!... (:

I leave everything until the last minute and am probably the only person still madly making Christmas cards! 

I am so thankful that wonderful

Whimsy Stamps 

has so many lovely products!

I cobbled together a set of cards using the beautiful

Snowy Trees Die Set

These were so easy to make! (...and did I mention quick)!!!

I swooshed some water colour card through some ink spritzed with water.  (I used Sparkle Pens but you could easily use which ever you have to have to hand.

I then cut a small rectangular piece of hammered white card and die cut the smallest tree in the centre of the rectangle.  ( I eyeballed the sizes and did nt write them down!  If you wanted to, you could cut the tree out first and then cut the rectangular shape to a size you are happy with)!

I cut the inky card 5ml wider than the die cut tree pieces and fixed them together as shown with foam tape.

The sentiments are stamped on in grey ink.

Ingredients from Whimsy Stamps 
Snowy Trees Die Set*

Gingerbread Greetings Clear Stamps (for sentiments)*

Warm Fuzzies Clear Stamps (for sentiments)*

Thank you for popping by!

Happy crafting!

love from Sue...xxx

  

Other Ingredients

Watercolour Card

Crafter's Companion Sparkle Pens

Catherine Pooler Ink Pad in Twilight

Your Next Stamp Gumdrops Firecracker Sparkly

Your Next Stamp Gumdrops Watermelon Sparkly

Please note that in order to assist with the running of this blog I do use affiliate links from time to time and there may be some in this post, denoted with a *.  I only work with products I love and my opinions are my own.

Please see my About Me page for more information.

Thank goodness for Tartan Paper! - Whimsy Stamps

 Happy Sunday friends!

If you are anything like me then you are in a state of panic and still making Christmas cards!

Thank goodness for 

Whimsy Stamps!

Yesterday I made a set of cards with a few Whimsy Stamps goodies to help rescue myself! 

These were so quick and easy to make and despite being in a flap I really enjoyed putting them together!

Ingredients from Whimsy Stamps *

6x6 Paper Pack - Tartan

Wonky Stitched Rectangle Die Set

Primitive Shaker Shapes Die Set

Bookmark and Tags Die Set

Christmas Mini Tag Sentiments Stamps

Thank you for visiting!

I hope you have a good day and are managing to stay safe and well. 

Happy Crafting!

love from

Sue...xxx

Other Ingredients

300gsm Kraft Card

Natural Twine

Pretty Pink Posh Holly Jolly Christmas Sequins 

Your Next Stamp Gumdrops Firecracker Sparkly

Please note that in order to assist with the running of this blog I do use affiliate links from time to time and there may be some in this post, denoted with a *.  I only work with products I love and my opinions are my own.

Please see my About Me page for more information.

A Stinkerbell Christmas! - Whimsy Stamps

 Hello everyone!

I hope this rather damp and gloomy Saturday finds you all safe and well!

I love to be able to make Christmas cards with stash that was nt intended for that!

I try and challenge myself to use 'everyday' goodies for seasonal cards!

This year the very fabulous

Stinkerbell by Whimsy Stamps (Deb Davis Amped2Stamp)

has had a Christmas makeover!

Ingredients from

Whimsy Stamps

Stinkerbell Clear Stamps Set*

Slimline Card Builder*

Primitive Shaker Shapes Dies Set*

Happy Large Word Die*

You're My Jolly Clear Stamps (Sentiment)*

Simple Sentiments Strips Clear Stamps*

DecoArt Crystal Glamour Dust*

Copic Markers

Skin E04, E11, E00, E000

Hair R30, RV42, R43, R39
Clothes YR000, YR01, R12, R32, R35, R43, R56, E81, E84
Wings YR21, YR12, YR27, YR18

Thank you for popping by,

Have a lovely weekend and Happy crafting!

love from

Sue...xxx

  

  

Other Ingredients

Watercolour Card

  Sparkle Pens*

Gold Glitter Card*

Red Glitter Card*

Your Next Stamp Gumdrops - Firecraker Sparkly

Ink on 3 Blackout Hybrid Detail Ink Pad

Please note that in order to assist with the running of this blog I do use affiliate links from time to time and there may be some in this post, denoted with a *.  I only work with products I love and my opinions are my own.

Please see my About Me page for more information.

Mochi Ornament Girl - Stamping Bella

 Hello everyone!

I hope the world is being kind to you today!  

I have been wanting to make this card for agaaages but I knew it would take some concentration and time so I've been 'sitting on it'!

From the moment they were released I lost my heart to the beautiful

Mochi Girls by Stamping Bella!

I have been determined to get creative with them before Christmas and I've had a lovely couple of days this week designing and colouring this card.

Mochi Ornament Girl - Stamping Bella

Ingredients from Dies To Die For

Mochi Ornament Girl - Stamping Bella

Christmas Sentiment Set - Stamping Bella

Ink on 3 Blackout Hybrid Detail Ink Pad

Catherine Pooler Ink Pad in Twilight

Taylored Expressions Blender Brushes

Other Ingredients

Bockingford HP Watercolour Card*

Judkins Eclipse Masking Paper

Distress Oxide Ink Pad in Tumbled Glass

Perfect Pearls Mica Powder*

Quickie Glue Pen*

Twinklets Diamond Dust*

Wink of Stella Clear Pen*

Whimsy Stamps Crystal Hearts Sparkletz*

Caran D'ache Luminance Pencils*

plus Caran D'ache Portrait Set*

Hair - Payne's Grey 30%, Payne's Grey 60%, Prussian Blue, Idanthrone Blue, Black

Skin - Dark Flesh 40%, Herculanian Red Burnt Ochre 10%, Pink White

Eyes - Cobalt Green, Grass Green, Violet Grey, Sepia

Reds - Moss Green, Scarlet, Anthraquinoid Red, Anthraquinoid Pink

Yellows - Raw Sienna, Medium Cadmium Yellow, Naples Ochre

Blue/Black Sweater - Copic Markers BV29, BV25, BV23 plus Prussian Blue, Indanthrone Blue, Slate Grey

Thank you for popping by!

Stay safe and well and happy crafting!

love from

Sue...xxx 

Please note that in order to assist with the running of this blog I do use affiliate links from time to time and there may be some in this post, denoted with a *.  I only work with products I love and my opinions are my own.

Please see my About Me page for more information.

Paisley has a Pressie - Stamping Bella

 Happy Tuesday friends!

I have of my favourite stamped images to share with you today, and although she isn't a Christmas image per se I decided to make her into one!

Paisley has a Pressie - Stamping Bella

available in the UK from  

Dies To Die For

Ingredients from

Dies To Die For

Paisley has a Pressie - Stamping Bella

Long Distance Christmas Sentiment Set - Stamping Bella

Whimsy Stamps Slimline Card Builder Die Set

Mama Elephant Slim Tags Trio

Catherine Pooler It's a Boy Ink Pad

Taylored Expressions Blender Brushes

Copic Markers

Skin - E13, E11, E01, E00, E0000

Hair - E29, E27, E25, E23, E53

Clothes - R24, R22, R20, YR24, Y18, Y08

Pressie - B04, B02, B01, B00, YG25, YG03, YG01

Ground, W7, W5, W3, W1

Thank you for popping by!

Happy creating,

love from

Sue...xxx

Whimsy Stamps Pine Bough Background and other goodies!...

 Happy Sunday friends!

Whilst I am writing this post it is absolutely chucking it down with rain and still dark!  - So not very festive at all to be honest!

Hopefully I can change that feeling with today's card with is something a bit different from me but I did enjoy putting it together.

I used some gorgeous goodies from Whimsy Stamps

(UK friends you can find all of these goodies at Dies To Die For)

To make the delicate looking stamped background I painted directly onto the 

Pine Bough Background Rubber Cling Stamp

with brush markers.  (I used Arteza but any would be fine, you could even use straightforward watercolours and apply them with a brush.  

I used a selection of browns and greens and just dabbed them on the star roughly where I wanted the colour to be.

I then very lightly sprayed the stamp with water and stamped direct onto watercolour card.  I dried it with a heat tool (because I'm impatient, you can let it dry naturally)!

Next I sprinkled on some chunky embossing enamel and heat set it from underneath.  

I assembled the rest of the card with goodies from Whimsy Stamps as shown.

Ingredients from Whimsy Stamps

Slimline Card Builder Die* 

Pine Bough Background Rubber Cling Stamp*

Bookmark and Tags Die Set*

6x6 Paper Pack - Tartan*

Simple Sentiment Strips Clear Stamps*

Peppermint Stix Sparkletz*

Thank you for popping by!  Stay safe and happy crafting

from Sue...xxx <3

 

 

 

Please note that in order to assist with the running of this blog I do use affiliate links from time to time and there may be some in this post, denoted with a *.  Please see my About Me page for more information.

Whimsy Stamps - Gnome(s) For Christmas ...

 Hello everyone!

I hope you are all well and enjoying your weekend!

Oh.My.Word - you know how sometimes you make a card ... and you just get ridiculously over excited...well here is THAT card!

(Thank you Hazel France for such a fabulous photo)!

I made this card with two amazing stamp sets from

Whimsy Stamps 

Gnome For Christmas Clear Stamps by Crissy Armstrong

Gnome For The Holidays Clear Stamps by Crissy Armstrong

and one of the fabulous Whimsy Stamps innovations,

Slimline Card Builder Die 

I have put together a little tutorial to show you how I masked and stamped this Gnomie panorama...

 

I die cut a piece of Kraft card with the Card Builder Die and stamped the first gnomes right in the centre.

...then I stamped and created a mask with my favourite masking paper (Judikins Eclipse) and put it over the top of the original stamped gnomes.  (The best way to create the mask is to cut very carefully just into the black outline so that you can line up you images without any gaps)

I then placed a piece of clear acetate over the card and stamped my second gnome onto it.  I do this as it helps to see what the design will look like and I can make sure the images are lined up how I like them!

...I repeated this with the third gnome...

I then masked the second and third gnomes...

...and stamped the final two images onto acetate again to line them up.

I stamped the two final gnomies and then peeled off the masking paper - the reveal is my favourite part!  This is how the gnomie scene looked - and I have to confess I was pretty happy!

I settled down to do some colouring with my Prismacolor pencils, lashings of tea and the odd chocolate biscuit! - such FUN!

...it was worth every colourful minute!

Thank you so much for popping by!

Take care of yourselves and happy creating!

love from Sue...xxx

Ingredients from

Whimsy Stamps 

Gnome For Christmas Clear Stamps by Crissy Armstrong*

Gnome For The Holidays Clear Stamps by Crissy Armstrong*

and one of the fabulous Whimsy Stamps innovations,

Slimline Card Builder Die* 

Prismacolour Premier Pencils* - colours used 

(Thank you Elaine Marker Geek for the colour combo inspiration)

Skin - Clay Rose, Nectar, Peach, Seashell Pink
Beards - French Grey 70%, French Grey 50%, French Grey 30%, French Gray 10%
Reds -  Olive Green, Crimson Lake, Scarlet Lake, Carmine Red
Blues - Poppy Red, Aquamarine, Light Green
Greens - Crimson Red, Kelly Green, Apple Green, Spring Green
Yellow/gold - Lilac, Goldenrod, Spanish Orange, Jasmine

 

Other Ingredients

Neenah Desert Storm Kraft Card

Ink on 3 Blackout Detail Hybrid Ink Pad*

Mod Podge Matt*

Crystal Glamour Dust

Please note that in order to assist with the running of this blog I do use affiliate links from time to time and there may be some in this post, denoted with a *.  Please see my About Me page for more information.

Purple Onion Designs Holiday Sale 2020 - Egg Nog!

 Happy Fri-Yay friends!

I hope you are all well and getting your heads around it being DECEMBER!!! o-:

You still have a few days to visit the fabulous Holiday Sale at

Purple Onion Designs

...there is so much off the scale gorgeousness to look at there so be sure to pop along and look at the beautiful selection of stamps bought to life by Michele's amazing Design Team! - I can't tell you how humbled I am to be a Guest Designer for this fabulous event.

This little chap has had quite a journey with that lantern to light his way!

Ingredients from Purple Onion Designs

Egg Nog Rubber Stamp - Stacey Yacula Twas The Night Collection

Warm Winter Thoughts Sentiment Set

6 x 6 Clear Mounting Stamp

Other Ingredients

Make It Colour Blending Card by Elaine Hughes (Marker Geek)

Judikins Eclipse Masking Tape

Ink on 3 Blackout Hybrid Ink Pad

Copic Markers

Egg Nog - E47, E74, E71, E43, E50, E41,W8, W4

Scarf R89, R39, E35, YR23

Lantern Y02, Y21, Y26, E39, G20, Y04, G000

Light Y0000, Y000, YR30

Ground BV21, BV23, BV25

Catherine Pooler Inks in Stone Blue, Twilight, Limoncello

Taylored Expressions Blender Brushes

White Gel Pen

Sparkle Spray (Prima I think)!

Thank you for popping by!

Please stay safe

love from Sue...xxx