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 Hello and Welcome If like me you enjoy colouring as you find it relaxing, but struggle with blends and highlights. I recommend starting with a good set of coloured pencils. Today I'm using Faber Castell these are a wax pencil. The other tool I recommend is a blending stick which can be picked up cheap enough. These are shaped like pencil and are made of a very tight roll of paper. Gamsol is the other thing to get amazing results with little to no effort. To bring my work to life I also use fine liners. Products Merry Mantle Stamp...

Hello everybody! Today I’m sharing an absolutely gorgeous, and very large stamp set by Gina K, called, ‘Autumn Chrysanthemum’. This is a huge floral, with three leaves and beautiful sentiments. You can purchase the stamp and coordinating die sets here. Autumn Chrysanthemum Stamp SetAutumn Chrysanthemum Die Set Instructions stamp out the floral and three leaves with watercolor friendly ink onto watercolor paper. watercolor the leaves with a light, medium, and dark green. Watercolor the Chrysanthemum with red, orange, and yellow brush markers. Everything was colored with Chromatek brush markers. die cut your colored images. Once completely dry splatter white and black acrylic ink...

 Hello and Welcome, Its starting to look a lot like Christmas and even if we are late to start a mammoth task. There are quick and easy technique's to dent the to do pile in the Craftroom. So here's one of those technique today.                      Products Quitted Card Front Die (Concord & 9th) https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/concord-9th/products/quilted-card-front-die-c9  Merry Christmas Die (Lawn Fawn) https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/lawn-fawn/products/giant-merry-christmas-lf?variant=39555653435474  Infinity Tag Dies (Hero Arts) https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/products/tag-infinity-dies?_pos=11&_sid=f028acef3&_ss=r Stars Di-Namic's (MFT) Gold Glitter Card Stock (Any) Ink's in Wild Lilac, and In The Navy  (Gina K) Bristol Smooth Paper (Strathmore) Metallic Thread (Altenew)...

Hello! Today I’m sharing a super quick card using the Hero Arts Birthday Messages Cover Plate and Distress Oxide Inks.  Instructions Cut one piece of each, black and smooth white card, to a2 size.  Die cut into your black panel then set aside.  Use the white smooth panel and ink blend Distress Oxides, Picked Raspberry, Squeezed Lemonade, and Peacock Feathers.  Once you have a smooth transitional blend, splatter your panel with water. This gives a much softer look that ink.  Allow to dry and then adhere your sentiment panel to your ink blended one.  Attach to an a2 card base,...

 Hello & Welcome Still sticking to the "Christmas Theme," I fell in love with the latest Honey Cuts from Honey Bee. I love die cutting with smaller dies as Its a chance to use up scraps.   Products Build A Snowman Dies (Honey Bee Stamps) https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/new-releases/products/build-a-snowman-honey-cuts-hb Drifts and Hills Slimline Stencil (MFT) https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/my-favorite-things/products/slimline-drifts-hills-stencil Snow Fall Stencil (MFT) https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/my-favorite-things/stencils Obsidian Ink (Altenew) https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/products/obsidian-pigment-ink?_pos=1&_sid=b046fad2a&_ss=r Iconic Christmas (MFT) Sentiment Only Inkpads In Sno Cone and Summer Splash (MFT) Various Card Scraps In Brown, Red, Orange, Black and White Slim Card Blank Perfect Pearls Frosty Snowflakes (Trinity Stamps) Method Firstly using the snow fall...