Saturday 23 December 2023

The Merriest Little City - Purple Onion Designs

Hello friends,

I hope you are all keeping well and are ready for the imminent Christmas holiday break.  

I feel I am scraping into the festive season by the skin of my teeth!  I am just looking forward to having a rest, with my boys, and getting by!

This is my last card of 2023.  It has been a sad and difficult year but I am looking forward with optimism to 2024.

It is no secret I am a massive lover of all things Stacy Yacula by Purple Onion Designs.  I have adored and cherished the beautiful red rubber stamps for many years and have been lucky enough to appear several times as a guest designer for lovely Michele.

Picking a favourite collection is like picking my favourite child but he latest of Stacey's collections,
The Merriest Little City is I think my favourite one so far!

I can not tell you how much fun I had creating this card.
... silver bells ... silver bells ...
come on... you know you want to! (:

Ingredients from Purple Onion Designs
Stamps from The Merriest Little City Collection by Stacey Yacula

Other Ingredients
Black Cardstock
Make It Colour Blending Card by Elaine Hughes (Marker Geek)
Copic Markers
Star Dust Stickles Glitter Glue
Vellum
Black Stazon Ink Pad

I want to say a massive thank you to Michele for her kindness and support with my card making!

...and also to Amy Young for always being so generous and sharing her talent, colouring palettes and processes.  I borrowed from Amy in the making of this card!

Wishing you all a peaceful and happy time
from Sue...xxx



Saturday 2 December 2023

I'll Be Home For The Holidays - Purple Onion Designs Holiday Sale

Saturday hugs friends!
2023 Holiday Sale Graphic - 3 Dogs and Row House
I am so thrilled to be a Guest Designer for Michele's fabulous 
Purple Onion Designs 2023 Holiday Sale!

There are BIG reductions in store so please be sure to follow the links below for all the details.  Sale ends 3rd December so don't linger!!!

Here is another of my cards made with some of the gorgeous stamps available at Purple Onion Designs.
The ones I have used here are from the 
I'll Be Home For The Holidays series by Stacey Yacula
I stamped, masked and coloured this scene with Copics.  
I did a masking tutorial a while back especially for creating these gorgeous designs with Stacey's images.
I'll pop the link at the end of this post for you!

Ingredients from PURPLE ONION DESIGNS


Other Ingredients
Multifarious Card by Lavinia Stamps
Extreme Black Hybrid Ink Pad by MFT
Distress Ink Pads Spun Sugar, Dusty Concord & Faded Jeans
Dr Ph Martin's Bleedproof White Ink
Gold Acrylic Paint 
Judikins Eclipse Art Masking Tape
Ranger Stickles Glitter Gel - Moon Dust
Acetate
Turquoise Card

Copic Markers 
Holiday House - BG93, BG90, BG75, BG72, BG70
Windows - E11, YR21, YR31, Tree YG67, YG25
Melvin - C2, C0, R24, R14, E34, E33, E30
Fox - YR68, YR02, YR00, YR0000, YR31, YR21
Eddie & Ethel - W3, W1, W0, R20, B28, B24
E34, E33, E31, V15, V12
Ground E50, N2, N1, N0

Thank you so much for popping by today.  

I hope you and those you love are all keeping well

Sue...xxx

Link to Stamping/Masking instructions...




 

Friday 1 December 2023

Stamping Bella December 2023 New Release Day!

Happy Fri-Yay friends!


The much waited for Stamping Bella December Release Day is here!

All the new gorgeous stamps are available in store right now!

Here is a round up of the cards I made with some of the new stamps!

I had such fun, thank you to lovely Elaine and the Bella's for having me!


If you check out my blog posts for the last couple of days you will see all the ingredients I used to make these cards!

Be sure to pop to the Blogabella to see all the gorgeous inspiration from the wonderful Bella's!

Thank you for popping by today!  Happy Crafting!

from Sue...xxx