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A UNICORN BIRTHDAY POP-UP CARD WITH MARINE

Posted by Marine Simon | Jan 6, 2020 | Uncategorized

Hello everyone, Marine here with a pop-up birthday card showcasing the lovely unicorns from the Unicorn Tales stamp set. This set is one of my favorite and I’m super happy to share my first Hello Bluebird card of the year! To start, I die cut all the elements I needed to build the pop-up card base and assembled everything. Feel welcome to watch the video at the end to see the process ^^ In my head, unicorns go with sparkles and maybe rainbows, so I cut three rainbow sections out of blue, silver and white adhesive glitter cardstock using...

Light Up Fairy Card with Marine

Posted by Marine Simon | Dec 8, 2019 | Uncategorized

Today I am back with a new light up card featuring cute fairies by Hello Bluebird decorating their Christmas tree. I hope you’ll like it. I started by creating the background using non traditional Christmas colors: shaded lilac and spun sugar. As always, I splattered water on my panel and used a paper towel to dry it and add texture, and to create falling snow I simply splattered white paint on the paper. The images were stamped on neenah solar white cardstock using memento tuxedo black ink and colored using my alcohol markers. Here are the supplies I used: – Fairy...

Untraditional Christmas Card with Marine

Posted by Marine Simon | Nov 26, 2019 | Uncategorized

Hi everyone, Marine here with a card featuring some cuties all gathered and getting ready to celebrate Christmas in the jungle. To start, I stamped all my images on white cardstock using memento tuxedo black ink and I colored them using my alcohol markers. Here is a list of all the stamp sets that are featured on this card: – Jungle Littles – More Jungle Littles – Autumn Gatherings (for the bow tie) – Merry Mice (lights + small present) – O Christmas Tree (presents + scarf) – Snow Play (hat + sentiment) – First Snow (beanie) – Christmas...

Bold Holidays with Marine

Posted by Marine Simon | Nov 2, 2019 | Uncategorized

Hello there, Marine here with you a trio of holiday cards featuring the brand new Bold Holidays stamp set, as well as the Holiday Flurries stamp set which is from a previous release. . I’m usually into making busy cards with lots of critters and background elements but this new Bold Holidays stamp set called for simplicity so I tried to stay minimalist. . . The process was the same for the three cards, so here are the different steps: . 1. I cut a 5,5 x 4,25″ panel out of colored cardstock. To be able to stamp the three words in the middle of...

Spooky Spellers with Marine

Posted by Marine Simon | Sep 26, 2019 | Uncategorized

Hello, Marine here to share with you the last card I’ve made for the September 2019 release. It features the new Spooky Spellers stamp set and the new Boo To You Words die. And it’s an infinity shaker card that was inspired by Nicky, from the design team. . Make sure to check the video below to see how this card was made, and also for a quick recap of the card I’ve created for this release ^^ . . So for today’s card, I started by cutting a square panel out of bristol cardstock. I covered it entirely with cracked pistachio...