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Pig Picnic with Chris

Posted by Chris Comploj | Feb 29, 2020 | Uncategorized

Hello everybody, Chris here and today I have a card to share with you all. I love to mix and match several stamp sets. In this case the featured set is Pig Day and the cute pigs are making a birthday picnic in the park. I used: Pig Day Moose and Friend the blanket is from the stamp set Hippos on Holiday To begin my card I started off with stamping out all my images onto some white cardstock. I then used alcohol markers to color them all in. Some highlights I made with a white pen. In my...

Little spring scene card with Chris

Posted by Chris Comploj | Jan 27, 2020 | Uncategorized

Hello and happy Monday! Chris here with you today to share a Spring themed card. We still have winter where I live but Spring will come and so I decided to create a little ‘Spring scene card’ with these adorable guys from Easter Egg Hunt. They still have some time until Easter and so they renovate their home. For this card I used: Easter Egg Hunt Pond Builder Die Treehouse Scene Die the sentiment from Storybook Friends and the ladder from Merry Mice First, I stamped and colored my images with alcohol markers and fussy cut them. For the...

Garden Friends wishing Happy Birthday with Chris

Posted by Chris Comploj | Jan 10, 2020 | Uncategorized

Hello everyone! Chris here today, I hope your 2020 started well and maybe you find some time for crafting. After all the winter cards I want to bring some spring feeling into the house. So I decided to create a birthday card using the amazing and adorable birds from Garden Friends stamp set. For this card I used: Garden Friends Birch Trees Die Pond Builder Die Oliver Alpha Die the balloons from Party Parade First I stamped all images on alcohol marker friendly paper and colored them with alcohol markers and cut them out. One bird I created again with...

Skating Party with Chris

Posted by Chris Comploj | Dec 20, 2019 | Uncategorized

Hi everyone, it´s Chris, back with a winter card featuring the cute skating critters from Skating Party which have a lot of fun in the forest. For this card I used the “mirror stamping technique”. For this technique there are a lot of tutorials on the Internet and since I wouldn’t be able to explain it as well as Jennifer McGuire did a few years ago, I’ve linked you to her video here. To create this card I used: Skating Party Woodland overlay Die the trees from Snowball Fight and the sentiment from First Snow In my case I...

Warm Wishes from the Frosty Littles with Chris

Posted by Chris Comploj | Dec 13, 2019 | Uncategorized

Hi there! It’s Chris and I´m so excited to be here for my first post on the Hello Bluebird blog! My card today features the adorable Frosty Littles which are sending warm wishes. To create the scene, I used several stamps and dies: the snowmen from Frosty Littles the tree from O Christmas Tree the street lamp from Merry Mice the sentiment from Family Photo and the Warm Wishes Die First I stamped all the images I need for the scene on Post-It (or masking paper) and cut them out. Then I stamped the snowmen which are in the...