May Your Christmas Sparkle

Hi There

Today iI am back with a card that I hope will inspire you for our monthly challenge at Bizzy Bec's.

This month we are having a "sparkle" theme form our last challenge of the year.

I have stamped my image in Dark grey ink onto Neenah card, I have then coloured around the edges 

of the card in Distress Oxide ink in Pumice stone using a blending brush to get a smooth blend.

ThenI have then coloured in the image with prismacolor coloured pencils. I have used traditional Christmas red and greens for her dress and boots softly blending the pencils together.

For some extra glitter and sparkleI have added Nuvo clear glitter drops around the image.

My sentiment die cut " may your Christmas sparkle" is cut out using red metallic card. 

I have then simply cut the sentiment apart to allow me to split the sentiment for the top and the bottom of the card.

Supples Used: 

Whimsy Stamps: Little Helper

Sue Wilson Dies: may your Christmas Sparkle Die ( by request) 

Prismacolour coloured pencils

Pickett fence Studio : Blending Brush

I hope you're inspired to join us at Bizzy Becs for our last monthly challenge for the year over on our blog. 

Don't forget to pop in to the shop too where you can pre-order these products and so much more.

Until next time

Mandy x

lovely Magnolias in watercolour for Paper Rose

Hi I am back again for Paper Rose Studio.

Today I am sharing a set of cards using the Lovely Florals Magnolia stamp set.

I love so many of the beautiful floral stamps that Paper Rose have in the collection and I must say that the Magnolias in this set could possibly be my all time favourite. 

I really wanted soft tones for these cards so I stamped and heat embossed white embossing powder onto watercolour paper.

This gave me a raised image to watercolour onto leaving clean white lines instead of the traditional black outline.

I watercolored in the background first using the new Altenew watercolor brush markers from the Spring Garden set.

 For the background I used Evening Grey and Moss.

For the flowers I used Warm Sunshine,Autumn Blaze and Rubellite with a little bit of Moss for the stems.

Once I had a good background I started colouring the flowers in layers starting with my yellow, warm sunshine, and then adding layers of darker colours.

The flowers on this card are exactly the same as the one above. I used my MISTI stamp tool. This allowed me to stay a second card the same as the first, I have just turned it around and that gave the card a whole new look.

Once all the the cards had dried I added Black and white splatters using a fan brush, I did mask off the flowers to prevent them getting splattered.

Supplies used: 

18186 Lovely Florals Magnolias 4 x 6 stamp set

16576 Stitched Rectangles A6

17850 Nesting Rectangles 

18042 Love Large Layered

17304 Hello 4 x 6 Stamp Set

16951 Layered Hello Metal cutting Die 

Thank you for stopping in to have a look at my latest set of cards. 

Until next time.

Mandy x

happy Anniversary oddball style.

Hi I have a card for you for Bizzy Becs,

I made this one for my hubby for our wedding anniversary which also happens to be today!

At least I know my Hubby doesn't read my blog! lol

My card Today features 2 of the Stamping Bella Oddball people that I have stamped in Memento 

Tuxedo black ink and coloured with Copic Markers

The background is alcohol Inks on Neenah card instead of the glossy alcohol ink card or Yupo.

I used a technique that Kelsey taught us using PVA Glue to create some texture and layering over this the alcohol inks and blending solution.

After colouring the stamped images I have freehand fussy cut them out and layered them onto the base card that I have cut the heart die into.

 This layer has been mounted onto the textured Alcohol Ink background with foam tape.

Supplies used: 

Stampingbella : Oddball Geek Stamp

Stampingbella : Oddball with a lock and Key ( by request)

Hero Arts Infinity Dies: Nesting Hearts

Memento ink pad: Tuxedo black 

Thanks for stopping in to have a look there are some wonderful new products added to the store so please pop in for a look.

Until next time 

Mandy x

Hi There 

I am back today to share with you another set of cards for Paper Rose Studio.

There are so many great new releases in the range to choose from, you can view them here.

Today I have used the Wooly Sorry stamp set as the theme for my cards.

These little sheep are just gorgeous and I have put them in groups by stamping and  masking the

images.

 This allows me to overlap them in groups to create some interest.

I have kept the cards really simple and stuck to a grey to black colour theme. The sheep are all coloured in with Copic markers.

For this card I have simply cut out my stamped sheep using a stitched Oval Die. I have layered this onto black card and the Victorian Oval lattice Frame Die. 

 I have Layered my top panel ,with the sheep on it , on foam tape just to give it some "pop".

For this card I have used the cable knit sweater stencil with a Versamark ink pad and heat embossed with a pastel green embossing powder.

This card is Just coloured in with Comic markers and matted onto black and white card.

I have used the Stitched Rectangles set in the A6 Australian Card size for some detail on my first layer.

Supplies Used:

18324 Wooly Sorry 4 x 4 Stamp set

:18204 Cable Knit Sweater 6 x 6 Stencil

16951 Layered Hello Cutting Die

16576 Stitched Rectangle Die Set

16551 Stitched Ovals Die Set

16578 Stitched Squares Die Set

16826 Victorian Oval Lattice Frame 

I really enjoyed creating this set of cards I hope you give this stamp set a go and remember it is a little more work to mask and stamp ( but only a little more ) the results are so worth it!

If you haven't seen all of our fantastic new releases over at Paper Rose you should stop into the store. 

Until next Time

Mandy x

Paper Rose Gnomies

Hi There

I have a set of cards for you featuring the new Gnomies stamp set from Paper Rose studio.

I think this is such an adorable stamp set and so versatile. You can use these cute little guys for any occasion, I decided to go with a Christmas theme.

I have a new found love for prismacolor pencils on Neenah Desert Storm card and how the bright colours pop on the craft coloured base.

I love how these two came out in blue and Red.

I have added crease lines to their hats to add some texture as the hats are the largest spaces to colour I wanted them to be the main feature.

The little green dude came out really well too and the traditional Christmas red and greens look great together.

Supplies Used: 

18372 Gnomies 4 x 6 Stamp Set

17586 Scribble Stars 4 x $ Stamp set

18225 Christmas Sentiments 4 x 6 Stamp set

I really enjoyed colouring in this images and I hope you are inspired to do some pencil colouring as well. It looks like a lot of work but it really doesn't take too long.

Until next time 

Mandy 

Oddball Llama Card

Hi 

Today I have a fun card to inspire you for Bizzy Becs' monthly anything goes challenge.

I love this llama stamp from StampingBella.

I have kept the card really simple, the colouring has been done with Prismacolor pencils on Neenah Desert Storm card. I have a new fun love for colouring on this card at the moment and it is the perfect background colour for this stamp.

Supplies used:

Stampingbella : Oddball Llama Stamp

Lawn Fawn : Simple Puffy Cloud Frames

Avery Elle : Wonky Stitches Die

Prismacolor pencils

I hope you will join us this month for our monthly challenge at Bizzy Becs.

until next time 

Mandy x

Inky cards using Ella's Garden Rose Bouquet Stamp Set

Hi There

I am back today with a set of cards for Paper Rose Studio using the Ella's garden stamp set.

I Just love these scribble style roses, 

I wanted to create a set of colourful cards that are easy to create.

I have used Distress Oxide sprays to pre colour plain cardstock. Three pieces I kept aside for my backgrounds.

I have then stamped out the Rose Bouquet stamp on several different base colours to be cut out later.

You also need to stamp it on the three background pieces to be your map for layering the roses and leaves on top.

Get your scissors ready!

 I cut out the leaves and flowers and I have layered them down onto of my back ground stamp.

This picture shows the subtle layering that give a bit of dimension to the cards.

The close up detail shows the layers of paint in black and white that I have splattered 

on the background.

Supplies used:

17967 Ella's Garden Rose Bouquet Stamp set

17986 Beautiful Words Stamp set

17451 Beautiful Layered Die

18147 Awesome Words 4 x 4 stamp set

17460 Awesome Layered Die

18144 Sunshine Words 4 x 4 Stamp Set

17463 Sunshine Layered Die 

Thank you for stopping by to have a look, I hope you find some crafting time and try out these 

beautiful stamps in the Ella's Garden series.

See you next time 

Mandy x