Reaching Deep Within: Black and White

Tuesday, 4 September 2018

HLS September Christmas Challenge - With a Twist of Trees

Among the cards in my Christmas stash, I always like to include a few which are simple, elegant, and non-traditional. That's what I decided to do with the card I created for the Happy Little Stampers Christmas challenge.

Although the challenge is an "anything goes", I decided to play along with the "optional twist of tree". I took my inspiration from a piece of Designer Paper which is simply white with black trees randomly spaced on it. I used a base of Heavy Whisper White cardstock, added a layer of Basic Black and then added the piece of Designer Paper. Then I heat embossed the evergreen from the Lovely as a Tree stamp set using black embossing powder on vellum. When that had cooled, I cut out the embossed tree and mounted it on the die-cut white rectangle with its black matte. To finish off, I die-cut the word "peace" as well as a star from some silver foil cardstock.

The card is simple, elegant, and worked out as beautifully as I had hoped it would.

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

Hope you'll pop over to see what my Team Mates have created and come join us this month at our Happy Little Stampers September Christmas Challenge with the optional twist of tree.

Sunday, 11 March 2018

Happy Little Stampers - New Release Blog Hop

This is so exciting! As a member of the Happy Little Stampers Design Team I had the opportunity to get some of the New Release stamps ahead of time and also to take part in this Blog Hop, celebrating the stamp sets. How awesome is that!

You have the chance to win amazing prizes just by hopping along with us. We, the Designers have prepared a feast of inspiration with the new sets and we can't wait to show you what we have come up with!

Let's take a look at the new sets - you are going to LOVE them!

How to win? You need to do the following -

1. Comment on this blog post

2. Follow the links below to our Designer's blog posts and leave them a comment.

3. The Blog Hop will run for 1 week from 12th March 2018 @ 6am to 19th March 2018 6am AEST.

3. That's it! Enjoy the show!

I've created four cards using the two brand new stamp sets which I bought, Born to Be Wild and Dandelion Wishes.

My first card features the stunning zebra from the Born to Be Wild set. I kept the card simply black and white and used two sentiments from the set. The first sentiment, I stamped vertically along the left side in black. The second sentiment, I stamped horizontally along the bottom using red.

My second card features the same stamp set but the wonderful image of the lion this time and a different sentiment. I decided to use a number of different colours for this card to give the effect of a lush jungle and the warm colours of Africa.

For my third card I turned to the Dandelion Wishes stamp set and, again, decided to use black and white. I heat embossed the image of the three dandelion clocks using white embossing powder on black cardstock.

My fourth and last card features the single dandelion clock from which some of the seeds are blowing away in the wind. I decided to heat emboss it using white embossing powder as well, but this time on white cardstock.

I used a sponge dauber to apply the various inks, using the emboss-resist technique. Then I stamped randomly with the dauber, using the same colours, to give the illusion of a bokeh effect.