Hello Campers!

Hi Friends!

My new Crafters Companion Staycation stamp and die sets arrived today from HSN and I couldn't wait to try them out - they are so CUTE!  

Each set includes lots of cute stamps with the matching dies to allow you to create and build up a scene  on your card.  This card is made from the set called  'Happy Camper'.  

I stamped each image onto smooth white cardstock (I use Neenah Classic Crest Solar White) using Memento Tuxedo Black ink (as I will be using alcohol markers to color them), cut them out on my Gemini machine using the matching dies and then colored them with my Promarker alcohol markers.  For the background, I used a simple watercolor wash that I created last week when I was playing with my new paints 😃.  I mounted the images onto some foam tape and positioned on the background and then stuck it down onto a white 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" card blank.

The sentiment is from Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips Background, stamped with Versamark ink onto black cardstock and heat embossed with white embossing powder.

Love it!  So effective and came together really quickly.   I will definitely be making more of these!  

Can't wait to try out the other set now!  Will be sure to share the results when I do.  I believe they are currently sold out so really glad I got them when I did (although now wishing I had bought all the sets!)

Thanks for stopping by!

Bev x

Wish you were here ...

Hi

How many times in the past have I wished I had more time to craft?!  You would think that currently, when we are spending more time at home than ever,  my craft room would be bursting at the seams with finished projects wouldn't you?  Well, let me tell you, you would be wrong 😐  Aside from the fact that Mr Crafty Cow is currently working from home full time and has commandeered my craft room (which he thinks is his office - clearly deluded), when I do manage to get in there with a whole chunk of time to myself, I just can't seem to get inspired to start anything!    That is until a couple of weeks ago when I discovered the Challenges section on the Splitcoaststampers site 😃.  Just the kick up the backside I needed to get those creative juices flowing again ...!

A couple of weeks ago when I felt the old 'crafters block' creeping in again, I sat with some distress inks, a water brush and some paper and played around with different colors and techniques to create some backgrounds to use on future cards.  When I saw this week's Clean and Simple Challenge  on SCS to use paint on a card, at first I thought I would have to sit this one out as I don't have any 'paints' but then remembered I could totally use the backgrounds I had painted with inks last week.  My eye was immediately drawn to one I had created with stripes of blues and green and although I loved the colors together, I couldn't see what I was ever going to use it for as felt the stripes were too big and bold.  Suddenly though, I knew exactly what this one was to become! 

I created the scene using stamps from SU Sheltering Tree stamped in Versafine Black ink and then added a sentiment from Taylored Expressions stamped with Versamark Ink and embossed in black. 

Sadly as time passes, I find I am needing more and more sympathy cards and after I had created this it seemed a perfect choice for this sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by ... take care of each other and hope to see you again. 

Bev xx

Spring is in the air!

Hi friends!

Made another tent card - think I might be slightly addicted!  Once you’ve made one and figured out what goes where, they really aren’t too difficult.

This time I used a piece of light green card stock for the base and some papers from Echo Park’s Celebrate Spring paper pack by Lori Whitlock.  The scene in the window is also made from stickers from the same pack.  I just stuck them onto some scraps of white card and fussy cut them out.  The little birdhouse is so cute!  I added the gathered ribbon top and bottom as a finishing touch to disguise the fact that I cut the paper slightly too short! 😀 If you want to have a go at making one I used this tutorial on Splitcoaststamper.com

I thought a ‘Welcome to the Neighbourhood’ sentiment would be perfect for this card and so used one of the sentiments from Taylored Expression’s Simple Strips .  These are a such a time saver - you stamp a whole bunch of sentiments together and then the matching die cuts them all out in one go - genius!  I stamp a bunch at a time and have them in a little pot on my desk ready to use whenever I need one.  This one was also heat embossed with gold tinsel embossing powder.

Thanks for stopping by - hope to see you again!

Bev x