Reaching Deep Within: Dandelion Wishes

Monday, 30 April 2018

HLS May Watercolour Challenge - Make a Wish

I love CAS challenges (that would be "clean and simple"). How happy am I that this month's twist for the HLS Watercolour Challenge is exactly that? Very happy. And I'm happier still that I can use one of my Happy Little Stampers stamp sets for the challenge. Bonus!

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!

I'm using the Dandelion Wishes stamp set for this challenge. The single dandelion clock with some of the seeds lifting up into the breeze really appeals to me. And so I used my Memento Tuxedo Black to stamp that and then also used it to stamp short blades of grass along the bottom to "ground" it. Last, but not least, I used it to stamp my sentiment just to right of the top of the image.

All that black on the white seemed a bit stark and so I took the splatter stamp from my new Stampin' Up! Artisan Textures set, some of the new Grapefruit Grove ink, and stamped it over a light wash of the same colour so that it appeared to be blowing out of the dandelion clock. Love the effect!

To finish up I used a base of Heavy Whisper White and a matte of the Grapefruit Grove cardstock, attached the stamped piece and my card was done.

I love the simplicity of the card and those images and hope you do, too. Check out the other awesome samples at our HLS May Watercolour Challenge.

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.