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Santa Flying High with Gemma

Posted by Gemma Campbell | Sep 7, 2023 | Uncategorized

Today I’m mixing lots of stamp sets together to create a whimsical Christmas card. I thought the characters from North Pole Littles would work well in the Flying High hot air balloon, and the design grew from there. All my images are coloured with copic markers and die cut with the coordinating dies. I’ve listed all the elements and which sets they are from at the end of the post. For some Christmas sparkle, I embellished the garland on the balloon with some jewels, along with one on the wreath. I used a larger 5 x 7″ card base,...

Sweet Friend with Gemma

Posted by Gemma Campbell | Aug 31, 2023 | Uncategorized

Today I’m sharing a card made with the Strawberry Basket die set and Sweet Friend Words. I decided to make a background pattern with the strawberries. I die cut the strawberries, leaves and large flowers from some gel plate prints I made a while ago. I used distress oxides to create these. I’ll list the colours I used below. As the prints were a thinner paper, I adhered each one to a thicker white card die cut, for stability. Behind the strawberries, I added some dark brown card, to show through the holes as seeds. I adhered the die...

Strawberry Patch with Gemma

Posted by Gemma Campbell | Aug 24, 2023 | Uncategorized

Today I’m sharing a card using the adorable new Strawberry Patch stamp set. I used one of my own sketches, which can be found here. This card is based on sketch #009. I began by stamping out the images from the Strawberry Patch stamp set, then colouring them with copic markers. I then cut them out with the coordinating dies. Next, I worked on the background. I used some stitched strip dies from my craft stash to cut some strips of patterned paper. I arranged these on my card base, following the sketch. I stamped a sentiment from the...

Vegetable Garden with Gemma

Posted by Gemma Campbell | Jul 26, 2023 | Uncategorized

Today I’m sharing a card using the Vegetable Garden stamp set. I love the fun to-ma-toes sentiment in this set, so decided to make it the feature. I began by stamping the images out and colouring them with copic markers. I then cut them out with the coordinating dies. Next, I worked on the sentiment. I die cut the letters using the Jane Small Alpha die set. I cut layers of white card for each letter, then adhered them together for dimension. I added a pale green to the top layer. For the O’s in the sentiment, I die...

Jungle King with Gemma

Posted by Gemma Campbell | Jul 12, 2023 | Uncategorized

The Jungle King stamp set is a favourite of mine from the new release. I’ve teamed it with the new Safari Horizontal Scene die. Although this is a slimline die, I’ve used it in a way that works with my love of white space. I began by stamping the images from the Jungle King stamp set, using a brown memento ink, the colouring them with copic markers (colours listed at the end of this post). I then die cut them out with the coordinating dies. I also coloured an additional tree, using the Safari Tree die set. Next, I...