New Release from LBBS!

New release from Little Blue Button Stamps to tempt you with, ideal for anyone who feels a bit horticultural or loves flowers! I made this as a mother's day card for a customer, but any kind of (especially spring) card would be suitable for this beautiful new Hyacinth digi.

I coloured the flowers with polychromo pencils on kraft card. Made a real change for me, colouring something flowery and leafy! The font is Apple Butter. I added some stickles to the ribbon and bow and some bling from the stash to the corners.

If you'd like to keep up with new releases and offer codes for the shop it might be worth joining the Little Blue Button Facebook group? Lots of ideas from the DT there too which might inspire you!

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day! (Well in the UK at least.) I thought I would share with you my brusho flower pop-up boxes! Both of these were made for customers.

I used a standard pop up box with matting and layering. The flowers were white heat embossed and then brushed with water. I took tiny pinches of Brushos and dropped them on. The leaves are  stamped in distress ink and oxide, then a wet brush to bleed the colour out. Papers are all from the stash! The matting and layering is the most time consuming bit of these. The pop up boxes are ready made blanks from Everycraftsapound.

Stamps are from three Sheena Douglass sets.

• SD-LBFL-DAHL - A little bit floral dahlia (leaf stamp)
• SD-SS-FLOW - A little bit sketchy flower power (leaf stamp)
• SD-LBS-BBEA - A little bit sketchy Bloomin Beautiful (flowers)

Bunch of Birds

I felt really sad that A Day for Daisies and Sami Stamps have stopped sponsoring challenges. They have beautiful images and they are a pleasure to colour. I decided to buy the one I was hoping for for the next challenge, called Bunch of Birds. I made two layouts with it, one for a commissioned birthday card and one for a Mother's Day card.

They are coloured with, as normal, polychromo pencils on Kendal Buff Card.

Font is East Coast Stationery. Background papers from stash. Glossy Accents and Bling to finish.

Using the adult colouring craze for cards!

I've already posted how I'm keen to make use of the "adult colouring" pictures for cards and other projects. This time I am using one of the postcards from "Pretty Animal Postcards" by Buster Books. (Designs by Felicity French, Cindy Wilde, Hannah Davies and Hannah Wood).

I lightly sketched a circle onto the design and just coloured, with polychromo pencils, inside the circle. I added a greeting, some bling, and foampadded it onto a card blank. This was for personal use, not for sale, I gave it to my Mother-in-law :)

New Much Love Collection

I've just uploaded onto Etsy and in the Facebook Group half of the new "Much Love" Collection! These four images are on sale and will be joined by the other half of the collection next week I hope :) They are all themed around Valentine's Day, Mothering Sunday, Aniversaries, etc.

 Puddles of Kitty Love

 

Geranium Love

 Purrfect Mum

 

Tail of Two Kitties