Bumbleberry Blog — Diecutting

Hello lovelies!This week I'm sharing a Valentine's Day card using Mama Elephant's "Little Bear Agenda" stamp set! I have a feeling these cuties are going to be appearing in a lot of my love themed cards this year! I stamped the entire set using Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured them using my alcohol markers, I like to batch stamp/colour when I know I'm going to be making lots of cards with this set! I added details and highlights using a white gel pen and fussy cut my images out. I cut down a piece of white card stock and...

Hey lovelies!We've shifted from Christmas cards to Valentine's Day cards in the craft world, so today I thought I'd share with you this simple card using Concord & 9th's "Monster Love" stamp set! As soon as these cuties were released I knew I had to have them!  I stamped my monster and his tummy first using Archival Jet Black ink on some watercolour paper. I masked the monster while I stamped the balloon and string, I used the "love you" sentiment in the balloon this time to fit with the theme. I used Altenew's watercolour palette to colour my monster...

Well Hello There Crafty Friends, I am kicking off my Valentines 2019 collection today. Card One I thought I'd start by using those, cheeky raccoons from My Favourite Things Products Friendly Raccoons Stamps from My Favourite Things ,https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/products/friendly-racoons  Full of Hearts Stencil, https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/products/stencil-full-of-heart  Lawn Fawn Chilli Card stock  https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/lawn-fawn/products/chili-pepper-cardstock  Abandoned Coral Distress Oxide Nuvo drops in Gloss White, Ebony Black, and Red Berry. White Embossing Powder 6 x 6 Inch Card Blank Method  Stick down your stencil, with low tack tapeBlend over the stencil with the Abandoned Coral Oxide and a blender tool   Then splash with a little water and...

Hello lovelies, Happy New Year!I hope you've all had a fantastic time over the holidays and you're settling in to 2019 quite nicely, today I wanted to share a friendship card and some matching tags I've made using the Mama Elephant "Heart In Bloom" stamp set! How beautiful is this floral stamp? I'm positively in love with it! I started by stamping out the large floral heart with the banner in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colouring it with my alcohol markers, I'm so used to colouring floral stamps with my watercolour paints it was refreshing to have a change!...

Well Hello Crafty friends, And A Very Happy New Year. 2019 Wow, how did that happen so fast, I must be getting older,  as the years, seem to be getting shorter. Oh well this year, I'm going to make a few resolutions, hoping to keep them longer than previous years. 1, Be more productive,with more blogs. 2, Give myself less of a hard time, when not able to fit everything in. 3 ,Me time, instead of saying yes all the time, my work load comes first. 4, Use down time to recharge my batteries by relaxing and pamper session at...