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Karen Hadler Stamping Bees

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Creating Texture with Tasteful Touches

Creating Texture with Tasteful Touches was so easy with this beautiful stamp set. There are different layers textures and colours to create interest. On the Crumb Cake mat the images are firstly stamped. This is done prior before to embossing with the c-ordinating folder Tasteful Textile. I love this folder and would be a close second to the Subtle embossing Folder. The Early Espresso Strip is embossed using the amazing new Old World Paper Folder. This folder gives you that scrunched up ... VIEW POST

How to Turn Sunflowers into Gerberas

How to Turn Sunflowers into Gerberas is very easy, colour them pink! When I looked at the Celebrate Sunflowers Stamp I also saw the beautiful and bright Gerbera another of my favourite. The new In Colour Magenta Madness was so perfect, I love pink and Gerberas have the most stunning pink flowers. Because the flowers are so bright I played around with the background, to start I had Balmy Blue. This was to light against the brightness of the pink, the New Misty Moonlight was ... VIEW POST

Creating a Bird House with Birds and Branches

Creating a Bird House with Birds and Branches, is another card to show you how wonderfully versatile this bundle is. Mum and Dad looking after their nest with their cute speckled eggs. I really wanted to create duck egg blue so I mixed some pool Party and Balmy Blue together. I then water coloured both of these on our Fluid 100 Water colour paper, the texture on this paper was perfect. To finish I flicked some ink from the dark Soft Suede Stampin' Blends to add the speckles. I was very pleased ... VIEW POST