Having Fun Mixing Hello Bluebird Stamps!

Made this card purely for the fun of it and for the love of Hello Bluebird Stamps.  This card combines bunny images and puddles and splashes from several Hello Bluebird stamp sets.  I just appreciate the fact that Hello Bluebird thoughtfully scales their stamps so that you can do this and in turn this creates endless possibilities.



For your reference I've used bunny images from Elephant Friends and Moose and Friends and puddle images and splashes from Puddle Play, Elephant Friends and Rainy Day.  The sentiment is from Puddle Play also.

To create the card I first ink blended a panel of white cardstock using Distress Inks in Iced Spruce and Tumbled Glass .... I just might have a favourite new colour combination in these two!!!  I did a little ink splashing to distress the blending.   I die cut white cardstock with the Gallery Frame 2 Die and backed this with foam tape and applied it over my coloured panel.  The sentiment was stamped using Memento Ink in Fog in the upper portion.



I also stamped the water puddles and splashes with the same Memento Ink as well as some little hearts from Puddle Play that I did in a slightly darker grey shade of ink.

On Bristol Smooth cardstock and using Ranger Archival Ink in Coffee I stamped the bunny images and watercolour painted them using the following:-  Kuretake Zigs in Oatmeal and Mid Gray and Tombow ABTs in 800 and 761.  Points were highlighted with a white gel pen.



The bunnies were backed with a little foam tape and applied to the scene.



I stuck the panel to a 100lb white cardstock base and then uses a few tiny sparkling clear sequins to complete my project.

Thanks for stopping by and I'll be back with something new before you know it!

Nicky x

Elephant Friends - Sneak Peek for Pretty Pink Posh

Hello!  I have a fun sneak peek at the upcoming Pretty Pink Posh new release.  I am featuring the new stamp set 'Elephant Friends'.  This new release will be available to buy April 29th.



Pretty Pink Posh has started a new line of stencils which is very exciting to me and my card uses the 'Leaves Stencil'.  The grassy hills were created using the Stitched Borders 2 Die.

This card is a slimline card with finished dimensions of 8 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches and fits a Size 9 standard envelope.  I made a card base and set it to one side.  I created a panel, masked off the edges so that I'd have a white border and I used the stencil together with Distress Oxide ink in Cracked Pistachio and a with a Clarity Stencil Brush I brushed the ink through the stencil.  The stencil is not as wide as this extra long card and so I moved the stencil along and completed the job.  The mask was removed.



I die cut 3 sections of 'grass' using one of the trio of dies from Stitched Borders 2 and ink blended them using the same ink as for the stencilling and then backed them with foam tape and applied them to the background panel.  I stamped the sentiment BIG Hugs in my Misti so that I could repeat the stamping and get a bold look.



On Strathmore Bristol Smooth the Elephant Friends images were stamped using Ranger Archival Ink in Potting Soil.  They were watercolour painted using a Tombow ABT in shade 451 and Kuretake Zigs in Blue Gray, Light Pink, Yellow and Green Shadow.  Points were highlighted with a white gel pen.  They were die cut and backed with more foam and applied to the scene.



For the finishing touches, I applied Glossy Accents to the star balloon to make it shiny and highly dimensional and several Sparkling Clear Sequins of 3 different sizes were also attached.

I think you need these these elephants in your life - aren't they just so sweet?

Thank you for stopping by the blog today to read.

Nicky x