Leanne West | Hello Bluebird Blog

Maverick Card with a Feminine Twist

Posted by Leanne West | Apr 19, 2019 | Uncategorized

Greetings Hello Bluebird friends! Leanne here today. I have slimline card to share featuring the airplane image from Maverick. I’ve been playing around with customizing the airplane and wanted to make a very feminine card. I started by stenciling purple and pink fluffy clouds for the sky onto the card front. I made my own stencil using the cloud border dies from Grassy Knoll. Just die cut the cloud border from copy paper. That works just as good as stencil material. I also wanted some indivdual die cut clouds to add to the sky. I used cloud dies from...

Banner Buddies Rainbow Card

Posted by Leanne West | Mar 15, 2019 | Uncategorized

Hi there! Leanne here to share a slimline card featuring the adorable little critters from Banner Buddies. Since theses cute critters are looking up, I thought it would be fun to have them looking at a rainbow instead of the banner. I started with a card base that measures 8.5 inches tall by 3.5 inches wide. I used Salty Ocean Distress Oxide Ink and a blending brush to color the front of the card. I creating a grounding border using a die from the Grassy Knolls set. I then colored the grass with a combination of Twisted Citron and...

Easter Egg Hunt Birthday Card with Leanne

Posted by Leanne West | Feb 18, 2019 | Uncategorized

Hello everyone! Leanne here and I’m sharing a very colorful card featuring the new Easter Egg Hunt stamp set. I love the playful images in this set but thought they could be used for more than just an Easter theme. I wanted to have the bunnies and chick look as if they are painting a big happy birthday greeting front and center on this slimline card. I started by creating an ink blended background for the scene using three colors of Distress Oxide Ink – Squeezed Lemonade, Salty Ocean, and Seedless Preserves. I used the Happy Birthday Word dies...

Valentine Tags with Leanne

Posted by Leanne West | Jan 10, 2019 | Uncategorized

Hi everyone! Leanne here today. I’m sharing a trio of Valentine tags that I plan on adding to treat bags for friends and family. I have used the Just Sayin’ stamp set and Cozy Plaid Backgound to decorate my tags.I started by die cutting 6 tags – 3 from white card stock and 3 from kraft – using the Stitched Tag Builder die. I used white pigment ink to stamp the plaid pattern on the kraft tags.I layered the tags slightly askew and then tied on some gross grain ribbon and bakers twine. I stamped and Copic colored...

Skating Pond Scene Card with Leanne

Posted by Leanne West | Dec 28, 2018 | Uncategorized

Hello friends! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! I’ve got a winter themed card to share today that features 3 products from the December release – Skating Pond Scene Die, Frosty Flakes Dies, and Skating Together stamp set. These stamps and dies work so well together to give the card a complete winter look from top to bottom. The Skating Pond Scene die makes it so easy to create a background for an A2 card. I die cut one panel from Bristol Smooth card stock and used some Distress Oxide Inks and a blending sponge to add color...