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Pencil colouring over coloured backgrounds - Timeless Tulips

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Pencil colouring over coloured backgrounds - Timeless Tulips

  Hello there, it is Verity here from Pretty Little Button for the Bumbleberry Design team.  Pencil colouring over coloured backgrounds - Timeless Tulipsvideo tutorial:   Pencil colouring over coloured backgrounds - Timeless Tulips photos and written step-by-step:   The stamp set I'm using today is the Timeless Tulip stamp set from Mama Elephant. This has a lovely big floral bouquet of tulips perfect for colouring but also fits well on a 5 by 7-inch card.  To start off, I have trimmed a sheet of distress watercolour down into 4 and using one of the pieces for the background.  I have a...

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Birthday Card Using Lawn Fawn's "Be Hap-Pea" Stamp Set!

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Birthday Card Using Lawn Fawn's "Be Hap-Pea" Stamp Set!

Hey lovelies!I'm back this week with another birthday card, I find it handy to always have a couple stashed away in case I forget or I'm too busy to sit down and create one week! This time I'm using the adorable "Be Hap-Pea" stamp set from Lawn Fawn, I love a good punny set! I stamped a couple of the peas out and one of the pods using Memento Tuxedo Black ink, I used some of the adorable faces that come with the set to give them different expressions! As I planned for this to be a birthday card I...

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Birthday Card Using Heffy Doodle's "Oh Crumbs" Stamp Set!

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Birthday Card Using Heffy Doodle's "Oh Crumbs" Stamp Set!

Hey lovelies!It was my mum's birthday on Friday, she's just as obsessed with dogs as I am so what better set to use for her card than the adorable "Oh Crumbs" stamp set from Heffy Doodle?! As soon as I saw this set I knew it was a must have, the corgis are just the sweetest and I love how you even have the option for spinner cards with the front and back end of one of them! Any time I get a new stamp set I always start by stamping the entire thing out so I have plenty to...

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Get Well Soon Card Using Lawn Fawn's "Get Well Before 'N Afters" Stamp Set!

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Get Well Soon Card Using Lawn Fawn's "Get Well Before 'N Afters" Stamp Set!

Hey lovelies!With all of the cold weather we've been having it seems it's germ season! Almost everyone I know has the cold/flu (myself included!) so this week I thought I'd share a simple get well soon card to send to your loved ones while they're a little under the weather! I stamped the cute sick whale from Lawn Fawn's "Get Well Before 'N Afters" stamp set using Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured it with my alcohol markers. I used a white gel pen to add some highlights as well as dotted details to the whale's cheeks before fussy cutting...

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Masked stamping with heat embossing - Mama Elephant Pretty Lovely

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Masked stamping with heat embossing - Mama Elephant Pretty Lovely

Hello there, it is Verity here from Pretty Little Button for the Bumbleberry Design team. I'm longing for beautiful colour flowers to spring up outside, but whilst I'm waiting I decided to create this vivid blue floral card using the Mama Elephant 'Pretty Lovely' stamp set. For the project, I have used masking stamping with heat embossing to create a one layer panel for my card. I can't quite say one layered card as I did foam mount my panel onto the card base, but this has hardly any dimension for me really. If you haven't use Zig Clean Colour Real Brush...

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