Hello Bluebird Stamps - Maverick

Thanks for coming to read my blog today where I have this new card using some old favourites from Hello Bluebird Stamps.

My card uses patterned papers for the two pink designs and I used the Partly Cloudy die for the cover plate which I die cut with white cardstock, glued this die cut to the pink background and inserted the gingham cloud.

I used Shaded Lilac Distress Oxide ink to ink blend some of the negative cuts from Partly Cloudy and an additional cloud from Maverick.   I stamped the word 'Hello' on the one cloud that I planned to put at the bottom right.  These clouds were attached with a single layer of foam tape.

I stamped the larger sentiment to a strip and applied that with foam tape and then I stamped my images from Maverick with Memento Ink in Rich Cocoa and coloured the images with Copic markers.    Here are my colours.

Plane - BV23, BV20, BV13, BV02 BV01, BV00, W5, W4, W3, W2, W1, W0

Puppy Pilot - E44, E43, E42, E0000, R20, R00

Birds - E43, E42, E41, E0000, YR07, R20, R00

Images were die cut using the coordinating dies and depending on where I was placing them they were applied with either a single or a double layer of foam tape ...... I do love some serious dimension!

I attached some sparkling clear sequins for the finishing touch and the card was complete!

Happy crafting!

 

Maverick - Hello Bluebird Stamps

It's been a while since I played with the adorable Maverick stamp set by Hello Bluebird Stamps and the fact that I needed a more masculine birthday card for an aircraft enthusiast was just the excuse I needed to create this tall slimline card.



The finished dimensions of this slimline card are 8 1/2 inches x 3 1/2 inches (fits a size 9 envelope).  I created a card base and set it to one side.  I then created a panel and brushed on Tumbled Glass Distress Ink with a large stencil brush.  I splashed it with water droplets and blotted them up and then splattered on some watered down Peacock Feathers Distress Ink.



I die cut the clouds from Maverick without stamping the image first.  Some were applied directly and others were popped up on foam tape to build dimension.



On Copic friendly paper I stamped the Maverick images using Memento Ink in Rich Cocoa.  I coloured the images with Copic markers and die cut them.  I backed them with foam tape and applied them to the scene.

I grabbed the Happy Birthday Words Die and die cut red cardstock 4 times and once more from white cardstock.    I glued the stacks of letters/words together finishing off with the top layer of white.   I adhered them to the scene.  As you can see, having a deeper colour underneath the top layer creates a fun shadow affect and nicely picks up the colour from the little airplane. 



In the image above you can see the red under the white a little more clearly.  To finish up I used a little scrap of the red cardstock and die cut the 3 stars from Maverick.  These were popped up on tiny pieces of foam tape.

The whole panel was adhered to the 110lb cardstock base which is nice a sturdy for a dimensional card of this size.

Happy crafting!

Nicky x

Pig Card for Hello Bluebird Stamps

Hello everybody and happy new year!   I'm kicking off 2020 by combining the Hello Bluebird Stamps pig stamp sets have always been amongst my very favourites, they are scaled to work together seamlessly and so I created this colourful birthday card.



To create this card I first ink blended a panel using Distress Oxide Ink in Blueprint Sketch and another panel using DI in Crushed Olive.  The sky was splashed with water droplets which I quickly blotted up and the grass portion splattered with more Crushed Olive ink.  The sky portion was attached to my cardstock base and the grass portion was die cut using the Grassy Knoll die.  It was backed with dimensional foam tape and applied to the sky portion.

I die cut some clouds from the Maverick set.   Each cloud is a 'double' in that I stuck one down directly and the second one was layered directly over the top with foam tape so you get a nice dimensional look when you view it from an angle.   The Big Birthday Wishes sentiment comes from More Jungle Littles.



On Bristol Smooth cardstock I used Ranger Archival Ink in Potting Soil to stamp my pigs and other images from Merry Pigs, Pig Day and Beach Babes.  They were watercolour painted using a limited colour palette of Kuretake Zigs in Light Pink (cheeks), Scarlet Red, Ochre, Cornflower Blue and Light Gray.  The pigs were done with Tombow ABT's in 800, 761 and 942.  Images were die cut, backed with either one or two layers of foam tape and applied.



A few points were highlighted with a white gel pen and a few sparkling clear sequins were attached for a little sparkly interest.

I hope that 2020 proves to be a very creative year for you and that you find lots of inspiration from here on my blog.   Consider signing up to have each new email post mailed to you and never miss another one.

Nicky x

Maverick & Sunshine Scene Die - Hello Bluebird Stamps

Super excited to be revealing this card for Hello Bluebird Stamps featuring the brand new 'Maverick'  stamp set combined with the new Sunshine Scene Die.  You can buy the new release May 16th at 7pm EST!

The Sunshine Scene Die is easily cut from a panel of A2 white cardstock.   When you do this, it'll die cut many pieces (not all used here) that come apart like a jigsaw puzzle for endless background scenes for your future project.  For my project I removed the sun portion and its rays.  I kept the useful frame and two of the cloud layers and I chose to keep them crisp white but they'd be lovely with ink blended edges.

A background panel was prepped by using a cloud stencil and Distress Oxide in Peacock Feathers.  The sentiments were stamped using Ranger Archival Ink in Potting Soil  to both the background panel and the cloud panel.

The Sunshine Scene Die was assembled with tape on the back.  The frame and lower cloud level were backed with a double layer of dimensional foam tape and applied to the cloud stencilled panel and the upper cloud level was adhered with just a single layer of foam tape.  The panel was then adhered to a 110lb weight white cardstock base, nice and sturdy for such a dimensional card.

On Bristol Smooth cardstock I stamped my Maverick images again using the Ranger Archival Ink in Potting Soil.    I watercolour painted the images using Kuretake Zigs in Deep Red, Dark Brown, Mid Gray, Light Pink, Cobalt Blue, Blue Gray, Light Gray, Olive Green and Shadow Mauve.   They were die cut and applied with various amounts of foam tape in order to equal the depths of the scene around them.

Finishing touches were the simple application of sparkling clear sequins by Pretty Pink Posh in varying sizes.

Thanks for stopping by to read today.

Nicky x