Nicky Meek | Hello Bluebird Blog

Flying High with Nicky

Posted by Nicky Meek | May 11, 2021 | Uncategorized

Hello everyone this is Nicky with you today, thank you for coming by the Hello Bluebird Blog where I’m sharing a new slimline card featuring one of the adorable new stamp sets from the recent May 6th release. This is Flying High. Read on for all the details. To create this card I first grabbed a slimline panel of smooth white cardstock, the same that I use for Copic colouring and that smooth surface make ink blending a breeze! I used a cloud stencil in my stash and started from the bottom and worked upward ink blending using Distress...

By The Sea Background Stamp with Nicky

Posted by Nicky Meek | Mar 28, 2021 | Uncategorized

Hello friends, I hope you are enjoying the new background release by Hello Bluebird Stamps and perhaps you’ve picked up some of the older designs now that they are rereleased following a long wait. My card today features the brand new scenic background stamp called ‘By The Sea’. Sooo many of the Hello Bluebird stamp sets work with this background as you will probably have seen already from myself and the rest of the Design Team. I stamped my card using Memento Ink in Rich Cocoa and took my time to colour the background scene with Copic markers. ...

Blowing Leaves Background Stamp with Nicky

Posted by Nicky Meek | Feb 21, 2021 | Uncategorized

Hello everyone this is Nicky with you today with some happy news about both a brand new release from Hello Bluebird together with a re-release. My card uses the Blowing Leaves Background Stamp. All of the rubber background stamps will be re-released March 4th as clear stamps and now will be kept in stock. Included in the new release will be several brand new Scenic Background Stamps so that you can place your favourite Hello Bluebird characters in lots of new situations and stories. Look out for the design team’s previews in early March. Spring has sprung outside and...

Party Parade Infinity Shaker Card with Nicky

Posted by Nicky Meek | Jan 23, 2021 | Uncategorized

Hello everyone this is Nicky with you today and I have a super fun infinity shaker card to share with you today featuring the Party Parade stamp set, Gallery Frame #3 die and the Happy Birthday Words die. Read on for how this card was created. First step was to ink blend a background panel which I did with Distress Oxides in Spun Sugar and Peacock Feathers. I also splashed on a little of the Peacock Feathers and then I randomly stamped the musical note images from the stamp set into the ‘sky’ as if they’d been tossed into...

Polar Friends with Nicky

Posted by Nicky Meek | Dec 5, 2020 | Uncategorized

Hello friends this is Nicky with you today and I’m sharing a card using Polar Friends from the brand new Black Friday winter release! This slimline card also uses the new Winter Walk Scene Die which is actually going to carry you through 365 days of the year with a little imagination. Today I’m staying firmly in the Winter/Christmas genre of course. To create this card I first ink blended a panel of white cardstock using Distress Oxide in Speckled Egg. I then grabbed a second panel and die cut the Winter Walk Scene. Again I used Speckled Egg...