Homemade Stamping Tool | With the help from Create in Spain Youtube

Hello all, Well as any of you been struggling with stamp positioning? I certainly have indeed and the most annoying of all is stamping and missing part of the stamp image! so I needed a tool that would help me with my problem. I know there are several stamp positioning tools out there but with funds being over stretched in January, I just could'nt afford the one I wanted so I started looking out for alternative. I was over the moon to find a wonderful blog called Create in spain <------ click here where the blogger created her very own tool. So I decided to give it a go and to my surprise it worked just perfectly     

(Regarding Copyright ---- I have made this for myself for my own personal use, I am not selling anything and not standing on anyone's toes and not copying anyone's business. I would love to own a proper stamping tool one day but for now I have to manage with this handmade one.)

All the materials I managed to find on eBay and local Home bargains store, all are quite easy to get hold of.

I printed out the grid paper from my printer that allows you to print out office sheets and laminated it and used removable adhesive, so any paper or card would attach.

I have attached the video of the lady who inspire me to create mine, so hope you find it of some use as much as I did.

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Mulberry Wood CD Crafting | Happy Birthday

Hello all, I hope you are all enjoying your weekend? So hope you all know about my new blog address by now and you still continue to follow me. Please make sure you add my new blog address to your favourite's bar and if you follow via bloglovin, you will have to re follow too. 

On with the card itself, started with A6 card folded to make a tent fold, next I cut a piece of white card just slightly smaller than the card blank and scored lines across with a boxer board and embossing tool, leaving a couple of centimetres at the top.

Next cut a thin strip of the pattern paper from the Mulberry Wood CD Rom, and adhere this with double sided tape to behind of the lilac card that I cut down to fit the bottom half of the card. Then adhere this to the card blank using double sided tape.

Stamped Happy Birthday (from Clearly Besotted) using acrylic block and versafine onyx black ink, just to the right bottom corner of the card. Using silhouette cameo software I pulled in the image of the bear from the Mulberry Wood CD ROM and created a circle which I cropped the image down and added the Sarah Hurley Silhouette Store die element to finish, printed and cut out and adhere EVA foam to the back of the die element and attached the middle of the card using the same double sided tape. To finish I added a few sequins which were adhered with micro glue dots. 

Supplies 

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Name change

Hello all, you may have guess from the title of this post, I've decided to have name change for my blog, I wanted something more simple, streamlined and easy to remember.. so this why I've decided on simplybypink.blogspot.com so hope you find it better and more easlier to remember. 

Important - Please be sure if you have my old blog address added to your favourite bar, please re add my new blog address in your favourites. Also please make sure if you are already a follower that you are following my new blog address. I understand there will be a transition period for people to re find me but it will be worth it. Also if you were following via Bloglovin you may have to re follow by clicking on the bloglovin button just right of this post.

So hope you like the name too, will be back soon with new post so please keep an eye out for that one.

Thank you for your continue support and hope you continue to follow me for now on, I understand that there will be transition period and it will be most certainly worth it.   

MIC digi stamp | colouring pencils

Hello all, well I thought I'd bring you my first card design for the new year, My inspiration came from a digi stamp from Make It Crafty <------- click here  this totally sweet girl is the very lovely Tress Joyful, she is she so adorable and so relaxing to colour in too. My aim this year is to use my Silhouette Cameo a lot more than what I normally do, so I can get even more value out of this super awesome machine.  

On with the card itself, Started with with piece of  pink A3 card which I cut down to 21.3 x 10.5 cm and folded to make a tent fold card. Next I went into Silhouette software and cropped the MIC image and added offset as stitched line and created another offset to create a cut line then cut it out on the Silhouette. I coloured in the digistamp using WHSmith artist's colouring pencils. Then I cut down a strip of tracing paper (excellent alternative to vellum, better value too) and stamped birthday using acrylic block and perfect medium stamp pad, heat set it with heat tool then folded the strip around the card and adhere to the back of the matt with double sided tape. (making sure it was positioned correctly to suit "Happy" cutout)

Using the Silhouette cameo software I typed "Happy" using one of my favourite fonts and cut out three times on the Silhouette, I adhere two of them together with Zig fine glue pen and the third I heat emboss using clear embossing powder and a heat tool (repeated this three times to create glossy finish) then adhere to the other two to this embossed one with the same Zig fine glue pen.

Now I adhere sheet of EVA fun foam to the back of the stitched matt with some double sided tape, then adhere  to card blank using double sided tape. Glued the "Happy" just left of the middle of the card (just above the birthday) with Zig fine glue pen. Made my own enamel dots using my Silhouette Cameo, cut out 4 and 5mm circles and using foam mat and round embossing tool, gently rub in circular motion on the back of the circles, to create a dome effect then heat embossed them three times each using clear embossing powder (to create that shiny glossy effect) and adhere the dots to the card using Stix2 mini foam pads. (Top tip - used cocktail stick and ball of blu tac or sticky tac to make the embossing easier) To finish I applied a little clear wink of stella to her headband, earrings and bangles.    

Supplies

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WHSmith | Craft Haul

Hello all, well this is my first post of 2016 and what better to celebrate..is with a craft haul, back on Christmas day there was sale on at WHSmith (UK) and my favourite artist quality colouring pencils were back in stock at last (after such along time of waiting) also notice they stocked watercolour pencils so decided to purchase some and see how they get on. I usually use Faber-castell watercolour pencils but decided that these WHSmith seem good and worth trying.

(Sorry for the light, but it was rather difficult to photo this metal tin)

They look like beautiful colours and so rich in vibrant colour and just as good as the well known brands out there on the market. I can't wait to start using them and will let you know how I get on.

I have used the artist quality coloured pencils for some years now and they are superb quality and are quite a good price, now they are £6.99 for the set of 36 colouring pencils and the set of 36 watercolour pencils are £14.99. (I did get a little discount as I got them in christmas sale)

Have you ever tried any of these pencils? I can highly recommend them for sure and you can get such great results with these too.

Supplies 

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I will be back very soon with my first card creation of this new year, so please do keep a look out for that one. Until next time keep crafting and smiling.

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