Nicky Meek | Hello Bluebird Blog

Mixing Up Hello Bluebirds Pig Stamp Sets with Nicky

Posted by Nicky Meek | Jan 2, 2020 | Uncategorized

Hello everybody and happy new year! I’m first up on the blog this year and mixing up my Hello Bluebird stamp sets. The pig stamp sets have always been amongst my very favourites, they are scaled to work together seamlessly and so I created this colourful birthday card. To create this card I first ink blended a panel using Distress Oxide Ink in Blueprint Sketch and another panel using DI in Crushed Olive. The sky was splashed with water droplets which I quickly blotted up and the grass portion splattered with more Crushed Olive ink. The sky portion was...

Cocoa Party with Nicky

Posted by Nicky Meek | Dec 2, 2019 | Uncategorized

Hello friends this is Nicky with you today and I’m sharing a new card featuring the sweet Cocoa Party stamp set from the October release. For this card I wanted to bring in minty greens and peppermint pinks as befits the theme of the featured stamp set. To make this card I grabbed a panel of white cardstock and ink blended it with Distress Oxide Ink in Cracked Pistachio. I splashed on some water and blotted it up for a little distressing and then splattered on some metallic pearl white watercolour paint and set the panel aside to dry...

First Snow with Nicky

Posted by Nicky Meek | Nov 23, 2019 | Uncategorized

Hello it’s Nicky with you today! I have a new card for Hello Bluebird Stamps featuring the adorable stamp set called First Snow. Also used in this project is the Hill and Dale die for the snow hills and the sentiment is from Typed Christmas. To make this card I created the background using Copic markers then splattered it with white acrylic paint and finally I applied large drops of Nuvo Crystal Drops in Simply White. This was set aside to dry for several hours. Once dry I die cut two hills using Hill and Dale. These were applied to the background panel after...

O Christmas Tree with Nicky

Posted by Nicky Meek | Oct 31, 2019 | Uncategorized

Hello, this is Nicky with you today and I’m sharing a card using O Christmas Tree and the Snowy Sky Scene Die from the brand new release. To make this very dimensional card, I first of all die cut a panel of white cardstock using the Snowy Sky Scene die. This becomes 3 sections and I ink blended the sky portion using Distress Oxide in Tumbled Glass. I’d already predetermined my layout and therefore I barely inked the focal point because I wanted to highlight it and draw the eye to the centre. The sky portion was adhered directly...

Leaf Play with Nicky

Posted by Nicky Meek | Sep 25, 2019 | Uncategorized

Hello and thank you for stopping by the blog today, this is Nicky with you and I have a card featuring the sweet stamp set called Leaf Play from the brand new Fall release. To create this slimline card with the dimensions of 8 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches I first of all ink blended a panel of white cardstock using Distress Oxide Ink in Crushed Olive, then die cut using the Grassy Knoll die to create 3 grassy edges. I used Distress Oxide in Brushed Corduroy and a little water to splash on a little texture and I...