Andrea's Stampin' Moments

And another Yellow & White

I simply wasn't happy with my card yesterday so I squeezed in some in the afternoon to play along with Jess' Topical Tuesday!!

I stamped our Lil Bee with Memento London Fog and coloured him with Prisma's using Zest-It to blend.  I tried to keep the colours soft and not use too much grey seeing our colour challenge this week is Yellow & White...although I have another card in mind for that this afternoon lol!


Thanks for stopping by this morning!  I'm off shopping for school shoes and other winter bits and pieces for the boys, and I may even squeeze in a coffee lol!

Have a great day :)

Brighten Your Day!

My card today should brighten your day if you're feeling just a little low :)  Usually in photos the colour doesn't show as vividly as it is IRL, but i think I captured it today lol!

Thanks to Patti for her wonderful Topical Tuesday tutorial at Stamp Embellish Create because I hadn't masked for ages and really it can make all the difference!  A simple mask like this is pretty quick as well!

I have to point out the background stamp as well, because I stamped this last night with just my lamp on and I managed to line them all up perfectly!  Easy as pie!!

My images from the set Mum's Flowers were stamped with Versafine on watercolour paper and coloured with Inktense pencils.  I have these pencils in the shop for pre-order only as they are an expensive item to hold stock of :)  I used a couple of new items to watercolour them as well instead of a brush.  The first is the Dove Blender pen which I now stock and I also tried the Tsukineko fantastix.  Both have a firmer feel than a brush and for me a little more control purely because I'm not an artist and am use to using markers etc.  I'll give them a bit more of a go and let you know about where and tear :)

So I hope I've brightened your day with this one :)

Hugs for now,

Saturday Catch Up!

Hi this rainy Saturday afternoon!  22 years ago today it was a beautiful sunny 34 degrees when DH and I were married...today I'm in my study playing and he's watching the V8 Supercars lol!  We are going out for dinner tonight to celebrate with the boys :)

I finally managed to finish up my challenge card for the ABS blog Say It In...Brown, Olive and Mustard..

Did you all catch the fabulous tutorial from Sue K last week for Stamp Embellish Create's Topical Tuesday??  You can check it out HERE, and if you haven't joined you'll need to to see it :)  Sue showed us a couple of great hints to add texture to fur and dots using Copics.

The sketch is from Card Patterns, but I was a little late getting it done :)  We'd love for you to play along with Sue's Topical Tuesday and share your projects on the Stamp Embellish Create site!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs for now,

Faux Silk

Another rainy day and we're loving it!!  A couple of weeks ago Sue W shared a Faux Silk tutorial on Stamp Embellish Create and I've been trying to fit in some time to play along, and that time just happen to be yesterday!

I don't have a large Xyron machine so I used some vellum spray adhesive.  In my first attempt I forgot to do the scrunching before I did the spraying so it does always pay to re-read the instruction lol!

I've also used the current sketch on the AnnaBelle Blog but this time I remembered the bling!!  I hadn't used the spray adhesive before this (and my first attempt) but I think I needed just a little more.  I would probably also move out of my little office to spray!

Stop by Stamp Embellish Create and sign up so you too can play along and share your creativity!  We have weekly Topical Tuesdays just like this fun tutorial!

I also had some time to colour over the weekend (just not enough time to make them in to cards!) and what I've done here is use Prismacolors for the one on the left and Derwernt Coloursoft for the right image.  I've used a relatively cheap drawing cardstock, one uses mineral Spirits to blend (I think the Prisma one) and the other I used Zest-It a beautiful smelling citris oil based alternative!  Just thought I'd share the results :)

Have a great day everyone!

Hugs for now,

Topical Tuesday #1 at Stamp Embellish Create!

It's our very first 'Topical Tuesday' at Stamp Embellish Create!  I put myself down to go first and agonised over what to do!  When nothing would come to me - I think nerves played a part - I went with something I love to do!  Here's a little sneak peek :

Come join over at Stamp Embellish Create for the full video and tutorial!

Hugs,