Time for another fab DT Thursday tutorial from Sandiebella, the first of 2018 no less!

Continue reading DT Thursday: Create a Best Friends Snapshot Card with Sandiebella

Hello everyone! It’s Francine from Switzerland here! First of all: HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope you had a fabulous New Year’s Eve.

For my first post this year, I have a holiday card to share with you:

I absolutely love walking in the snow with my Moon Boots and having snowball fights. This is probably why this rubber stamp (called The Littles Snowball Girl) immediately caught my attention. The sentiment is from the Holiday Sentiment rubber stamp set. I went for a clean and simple design using dotted patterned paper to make the image pop against the background. I stamped the snowball girl on cardstock, colored her and cut around, keeping a white border at the bottom. I glued dotted paper to a top-folded card base and adhered the image with the white border to the card front with foam pads for more dimension and interest.

It’s all for me today! I have one more card to share with you next Wednesday.

Best wishes for 2018 to all of you!

Francine

Hey hey! Elaineabella here with the very first Spotlight On post of 2018 AND the very first CRAZY TUESDAY SALE of 2018. Woohoo!

That’s right, there are THREE stamps and “CUT IT OUT” DIES on offer at Crazy Tuesday prices today and only for today! Check out the inspiration below to see why you need them, then click on over to the store to grab them before the prices return to normal! (by midnight tonight!)

Continue reading Spotlight On: January 2018 Crazy Tuesday Offers

Happy New Year! Elaineabella here with the very first Marker Geek Monday of 2018. I’m easing into the new year gently, after the hectic rush of December and all that entailed for me! I hope you had a wonderful festive season.

For this first post of the year, I’m sharing my colouring video for one of the gorgeous Zodiac Girls released in early December. These images have been among my favourites to colour, and I hope the colouring videos will inspire you to create with them.

Continue reading Marker Geek Monday: Colouring Zodiac Girl Capricorn using Copic Markers (video)

Hello everyone! Francine here! I hope you had a fabulous Christmas! Did you get a lot of crafty gifts and stamps for Christmas? LOL

Today, I have a fun winter project to share with you featuring the Little Bits Figure Skaters. Here is what I came up with:

I decided to create a scene showing a reflection on the ice. This ice reflection stamping is a super fun and easy technique! I started by creating a mask for the skater using masking paper. I then stamped the skater in black ink on white cardstock and masked him. I also drew a horizon line to divide the iced surface and the sky. Next, I stamped the skater in black ink on a transparent sheet and I pressed the sheet onto the white cardstock below the skater (upside down) to create the reflection. I sponged the sky using various blue Distress inks and I removed the mask. I colored the skater as well as the reflection and the iced surface. I heat embossed the wonderful sentiment from the Holiday Sentiment set with white embossing powder. The white sentiment really pops against the blue background. I added a tiny orange heart for more cuteness. To finish off the card, I matted the scene on white cardstock and a blue card base.

I hope you enjoyed this technique! Let me know if you give it a try!

That’s all for me this year! LOL See you in January! I wish you all the best for 2018! Happy New Year!

Francine