Stamping Bella Valentine Chicks Digital Stamp Set...

 Hello friends...

Happy Thursday!

I'm back again with another super digital stamp set from fabulous Stamping Bella!

Stamping Bella Valentine Chicks Digital Stamp Set

This set is just great!  It has so many stamps - the cute chicks are all provided separately as well as together making so many creative options!

Ingredients from Stamping Bella

Stamping Bella Valentine Chicks Digital Stamp Set

Happy Everything Bunny Wobble Digital Stamp Set (Sentiment)

Other Ingredients

Bockingford Hot Press Water Colour Card

Sansodor Blending Fluid 

Gina K Daisy Chain Stencil (From Dies To Die For)

Distress Ink Pad - Scattered Straw

Stardust Stickles

Chevron Striped Design Paper - (Ancient, My Mind's Eye I think)

Faber-Castell Polychromos Pencils

...just incase this is useful...

I use PowerPoint to create my digital card designs,

I have a fairly basic HP printer and I set my ink settings on draft to print, the image comes out beautifully and there isn't so much ink that it smudges or is affected by pencils/alcohol markers.

Thank you for popping along today,

Happy crafting

love from

Sue...xxx

Stamping Bella Valentine Chicks Digital Stamp Set

Stamping Bella - Kissing Booth Squidgy Digital Stamp Set

 Happy Fri-Yay! friends!

I hope the day is kind to you and you have happy weekend plans!

I'm back today with one of my favourite Stamping Bella images ...

Stamping Bella - Kissing Booth Squidgy Digital Stamp Set

Isn't she just THE cutest!...

I loved creating this card, coloured with polychromos.  Enormous thanks to the very wonderful Paula Williamson for the colour palette inspiration!

Ingredients from Stamping Bella

Stamping Bella - Kissing Booth Squidgy Digital Stamp Set

Other Ingredients

Bockingford Hot Press Water Colour Card

Sansodor Blending Fluid 

Whimsy Stamps It's Cloudy Stencil (Dies To Die For)

Distress Ink Pad - Tumbled Glass & Bundled Sage

Stardust Stickles

Polka Dot Design Paper - (Ancient, Echo Park & MFT I think)

Faber-Castell Polychromos Pencils

...just incase this is useful...

I use PowerPoint to create my digital card designs,

I have a fairly basic HP printer and I set my ink settings on draft to print, the image comes out beautifully and there isn't so much ink that it smudges or is affected by pencils/alcohol markers.

Thank you for popping along today,

Happy crafting

love from

Sue...xxx

There are some great sentiments in this stamp set too!

Stamping Bella - Kissing Booth Squidgy Digital Stamp Set

Stamping Bella - Irish Chicks Digi Stamp & Exciting News...

Hello friends!

I bet you didn't expect to see me back so soon! (:

Well - I'm here today to show you a card I've made with a digital stamp from wonderful Stamping Bella! 

Stamping Bella have started releasing some of their retired images as digis, it is almost too exciting!

...almost as exciting as being asked by lovely Elaine to join their new Digital Design Team. 

I am over the moon - if you have followed me for a while you will know how much I adore Stamping Bella and how thrilled I have been over the years to occasionally Guest Design for them.

Being part of their exciting new venture is amazing - I might just combust! (:

Ingredients from Stamping Bella

Stamping Bella Irish Chicks Digital Stamp Set

Ingredients from Dies To Die For

Taylored Expressions Mini Slim Postage Stacklets Die Set

Glitter Card (Pink Fresh Studio Essentials Glitter Cardstock)

Lawn Fawn Glue Tube

Distress Rock Candy Glitter

Other Ingredients

Bockingford Hot Press Card

Faber Castell Polychromos Pencils

...just incase this is useful...

I use PowerPoint to create my digital card designs,

I have a fairly basic HP printer and I set my ink settings on draft to print, the image comes out beautifully and there isn't so much ink that it smudges or is affected by pencils/alcohol markers.

Thank you for popping along today,

Happy crafting

love from

Sue...xxx

Penny Black - Christmas Cubs .... again!

 Hello everyone...

Yes - I'm back again with a second card from the beautiful Penny Black Stamp Set -

Christmas Cubs

Ingredients

(Uk friends these are available at Buddly Crafts)

Christmas Cubs T is For Transparent Stamp Set

Christmas Warmth T is for Transparent Sentiment Set

Bockingford Hot Press Watercolour Card

Ink on 3 Black Hybrid Ink Pad

Faber Castell Polychromos (colours below)

Zest It Pencil Blending Fluid

Paper Stumps

Distress Ink Pad in Lost Shadow and Speckled Egg

Taylored Expressions Blender Brush

Thank you for popping by today!

Happy Crafting

from Sue...xxx

 

Polychromos

Bear - Sky Blue, Cold Grey 2, Coral

Skin - Copic E000 & Coral

Greens - Walnut Brown, Chromium Green Opaque, Permanent Green Olive, Earth Green Yellowish

Reds - Magenta, Aklizarin Crimson, Pale Geranium Lake, Cadmium Orange

Browns - Cold Grey 2, Paynes Grey

Grey/Blacks - Dark Indigo, Paynes Grey

Penny Black - Christmas Cubs

 Hello everyone...

I'm back today to show you a card made with another gorgeous stamp from Penny Black.

I love making Christmas cards and the new Penny Black release is just beautiful.

The glamour dust makes a beautiful sparkly effect but unfortunately the camera hasn't caught it!

Ingredients

(Uk friends these are available at Buddly Crafts)

Christmas Cubs T is For Transparent Stamp Set

Joy of Christmas T is for Transparent Sentiment Set

Bockingford Hot Press Watercolour Card

Ink on 3 Black Hybrid Ink Pad

Faber Castell Polychromsos (colours below)

Zest It Pencil Blending Fluid

Paper Stumps

DecoArt Crystal Glamour Dust

Distress Ink Padin Lost Shadow

Alex Syberia Designs Frosty Lace Stencil

Taylored Expressions Blender Brush

Thank you for popping by today!

Happy Crafting

from Sue...xxx

Penny Black - Frosty Hops

 Happy Sunday friends!

I hope today is a good one!

I said I'd be back soon and here I am!  It's been an age since I posted twice in a week so things are definitely going in an upward trend!

I have to admit to being more than a little bit in love with a lot of the Christmas stamps available at Penny Black.

They are so beautiful and the attention to detail in the designs is exquisite.

I have a few so expect to see more from me in the coming weeks!

(I mean - you all know how much I love making Christmas Cards) (;

Ingredients

(Uk friends these are available at Buddly Crafts)

Frosty Hops T is For Transparent Stamp Set

Joy of Christmas T is for Transparent Sentiment Set

Bockingford Hot Press Watercolour Card

Ink on 3 Black Hybrid Ink Pad

Faber Castell Polychromsos (colours below)

Zest It Pencil Blending Fluid

Paper Stumps

Clear Glitter

Distress Ink Pads in Tumbled Glass and Weathered Wood

Taylored Expressions Blender Brush

Artistro White Acrylic Paint Pen

Thank you for popping by today!

Happy Crafting

from Sue...xxx

Chameleon Party - Whimsy Stamps

Hello everyone,

Please know that all you are all close in my thoughts at the moment.

Life has certainly taken a turn for everyone, stay safe and look after yourselves and those close to you!

I am here today to show you a card I made with one of the wonderful

Whimsy Stamps

March new release goodies!

Chameleon Party Clear Stamps - Dustin Pike

With black ink I stamped this confused chameleon on watercolour card and coloured him/her with Faber Castell Polychromos

Chameleon - Phthalo Green, Permanent Green,Yellow Lemon, Light Cadmium Yellow

Red - Cadmium Red, Pale Geranium Lake, Dark Flesh,

Yellow, Dark Chrome Yellow, Dark Cadmium Yellow, Light Cadmium Yellow

Purple - Mauve, Violet

Sweet Bag - Bistre, Nougat

I cut the image out and set it aside whilst I die cut a piece of card with a

Notched Squares Die

and blended Scattered Straw Distress Oxide over it.

I added the sentiment from the Chameleon Party stamp set and added a selection of enamel dots.

Finally, I fixed the image to the inky background with

Crafty Foam Tape

and then used the same tape to fix the card design to a piece of polka dot paper.

If you have nt already joined, it's a great time to become a member of the 

Whimsy Stamps

Credit2GetIt reward scheme!

..and there's more! ... if you join up following this link

HERE

you will get a $5 off reward discount!

Please have a good look around the 

Whimsy Inspirations Blog 

at the gorgeous cards by the rest of the Whimsy Stamps Creative Team – and then follow that with a trip to 

Whimsy Stamps 

store for some essential retail therapy!

Thank you for popping by today!

I hope you are all managing to stay safe and healthy in these uncertain and worrying times!

Happy Crafting

From Sue…xxx

  

You can say aaaahhhhh (: ...

Hello friends,

Hope you're having a good Sunday and aren't too badly affected by the terrible weather!  It is still lashing it down and howling a gale in Gloucestershire!

I have been having so much fun colouring with pencils recently, and I really enjoyed making these three sweet cards.

I am trying to be a lot more organised around my card making this year and really concentrate on doing what makes me completely happy - including batch making some cards so I have a few 'up my sleeve'!

These beautiful stamps from 

Purple Onion Designs

are perfect for rustling up some cute quick cards.

Stacey Yacula Studio - Star and Sky Rubber Stamp

Stacey Yacula Studio - Sign (A Sweet Summer Collection)
Stacey Yacula Studio Sweet Occasions Sentiment Set

Stacey Yacula Studio - Dolly (Mouse First Prize)
Stacey Yacula Studio - Milk Set (Mistletoe Farm Collection)
Purple Onion Designs - Everyday Blurbs

Stacy Yacula Studio - Eve (Sleeping Mouse)
Stacey Yacula Studio - Mushroom Trio (Garden Blooms Collection)
Stacey Yacula Studio Sweet Occasions Sentiment Set

To make these cards I first stamped the cute creatures onto Bockingford card, masked them and stamped the backgrounds - being the sign, stool and mushrooms.

I then coloured the designs with Faber Castell Polychromos and Caran D'Ache Pablo's and finished the backgrounds with Distress Oxide Inks (Tumbled Glass and Mowed lawn).

I created the card designs with die cuts of Design Paper (Lawn Fawn Spring Fling - Dies To Die For), Kraft card and a paper doily - (which I hardly ever use but they just seemed to suit these cards)!

Finally I added the sentiments and some Star Dust Stickles Glitter.

Please have a good look around the 

Purple Onion Designs Blog

At the gorgeous cards by the Design Team – and then follow that with a trip to 

 Purple Onion Designs

store for some essential retail therapy!

Happy Crafting

From Sue…xxx

Pencil Colours Used - 
Dolly Mouse - Polychromos Light Flesh, Cinnamon, Black, Warm Grey VI, Warm Grey III, Warm Grey II, Rosette - Deep Scarlet Red, Cadmium Yellow, Stool - Burnt Umber, Dark Sepia.

Star and Sky - Pablo's Gentian Blue, Sky Blue, Dark Grey, Steel Grey Sign - Sepia, Chestnut, Brown Ochre, 

Eve - Granite Rose, Black, Brownish Beige, Sepia, Ash Grey. Mushrooms - Burnt Sienna, Scarlet, Reddish Orange, Sepia, Brownish Beige, Cream, Ground - Khaki Green, Spring Green, Sky - Sky Blue

Who can resist a donkey!!!...

Hello friends,

I'm trying to catch up with all my blog posts so here is card I made a while ago for a lovely friend of mine.

I have a real soft spot for donkeys! <3 (Be honest - who does n't)???

This card is made with the gorgeous 

Stamping Bella - Donkey Trio Stuffies Rubber Stamps

Stamping Bella - Mail Chick Rubber Stamp

MFT Die namics Stitched Fishtail Frames

Ink On 3 Blackout Hybrid Ink Pad

I used my favourite card for pencils - Bockingford Hot Pressed, coloured this cutie with Faber Castell Polychromos and cut him/her (?) out! (:

To create the background I cut a 10cm x 13cm rectangle of Bockingford card and blended Distress Oxide Inks in Scattered Straw and Worn Lipstick over it.  I also splattered it with water and Perfect Pearls to create texture. 

I then used the largest Fishtail die to cut a piece another piece of Bockingford and fixed it to the background.

I cut out a fishtail banner die... (Your Next Stamp - discontinued - but any small die would do, you could adapt this bit)!... and stamped the sentiment from

Stamping Bella Mail Chick

in black ink onto it.  I fixed the sentiment to the card design as shown, along with the donkey!

Be sure to have a look around our

Dies To Die For Blog 

to see the gorgeous DT creations there and then to 

Dies To Die For

to engage in some essential retail therapy!

Thank you for popping by!

Happy crafting

from Sue...xxx

Naughty or Mice?... Whimsy Stamps New Release

Hello friends!

Happy Friday and Happy November!

Today is the start of several days fun and inspiration showcasing the brand new November release from wonderful

Whimsy Stamps!

Oh.My.Word!

The Whimsy Goodies are so gorgeous this month - I have been wanting to share them with you for aaaaages!

I have decided to start with one of my favourites - The very cute

Very Mice Christmas Clear Stamps by Crissy Armstrong

with the brilliant and oh so useful

Mason Jar Rubber Cling Stamp by Barbara Sproatmeyer

I stamped the gorgeous 
Mason Jar 
onto Kraft Card and then stamped that tooooo cute 
Christmas Mouse 
inside it.  

I masked the mouse and the outside of the jar and stamped lots (!!! /-:) of teeny tiny buttons so that it looked as if the mouse was standing on them!  I had to mask the buttons as I went along to create the illusion of depth.

I coloured the whole thing with Polychromos pencils and added some 
Star Dust Stickles 
to the background.

Finally I stamped a sentiment from the
Very Mice Christmas Clear Stamps Set 
onto a piece of vellum, die cut it with a 
Quick Strips Die
 and fixed it to the top of the design.

The image is layered onto a piece of festive design paper with a twine bow.

This was a real colouring challenge for me.  I have been trying to improve my colouring and stretch myself - the jar was a real challenge but I am pretty happy with how it came out!
I have so many plans for that 
Mason Jar!
so I'll surely get lots of practice! (:

Please have a good look around the 

Whimsy Inspirations Blog 

At the gorgeous new release cards by the rest of the Whimsy Stamps Creative Team – and then follow that with a trip to 

Whimsy Stamps 

store for some essential retail therapy!

Happy Crafting

From Sue…xxx

  

There's gnome one like you!...

Hello everyone,

Hope you are having a happy Monday!  (I think there is such a thing)! (:

I'm here to day with some gorgeous gnomes -

because you can never have too many right!?

Whimsy Stamps

Gnomies Clear Stamps by Krista Heij-Barber

I enjoyed colouring these cuties so much that I made two cards with them - if time permitted, I could have made a hundred and two!

I simply die cut some Kraft card with a

Hand Stitched Nested Rectangle Die

and stamped the gorgeous 

Gnomies 

with black ink.

I then coloured them with an assortment of Caran d'Ache Luminance and Polychromos pencils.

I stamped a sentiment from the 

Gnomies stamp set and also used a sentiment from the 

Gnome Matter What Clear Stamps.

 I mounted the images on Kraft card decorated with an embossing folder and added some twine tied with a bow at the front.

Finally I added some enamel dots.

Be sure to pop to 

Whimsy Stamps Blog 

to see the gorgeous Creative Team creations there and then to 

Whimsy Stamps 

to engage in some essential retail therapy!
from Sue...xxx

 

Special Birthday Hugs...

Hello everyone,

I hope the weekend is being kind to you!

Today is a funny old day!

Today would have been my dear Mum's 80th Birthday!

I have two lovely friends who's Mum's also have a birthday today and here is a card I made for one of them.

  

This lady loves dogs and supports her daughter with the running of a dog rescue charity, I thought this beautiful image 

Dawn Loves Her Doggie by Stamping Bella 

was perfect for her!

To make my card I used 

Whimsy Stamps Notched Square Die

to cut a piece of Bockingford Card and with 

MFT Hybrid Extreme Black Ink 

stamped the beautiful

Dawn Loves Her Doggie by Stamping Bella 

I then masked the image and created the background with Cracked Pistachio, Broken China and Faded Jeans Distress Oxide

I coloured this sweetie with a mixture of Polychromos and Caran D'ache Luminance pencils and finished the design with some dabs of 

Star Dust Stickles

Finally I stamped the sentiment that accompanies the stamp and die cut it with a

Mama Elephant Slim Tags Trio Die

Be sure to have a look around our

Dies To Die For Blog 

to see the gorgeous DT creations there and then to 

Dies To Die For

to engage in some essential retail therapy!

Thank you for popping by!
Happy Crafting
love from
Sue...xxx