So Long and Farewell Blackberry Bliss

I, like many of you I suspect, have had a love hate relationship for the last two years. Blackberry Bliss has been a tricky friend! I love its rich colour, and ability to add depth to any colour combination. I have not, however, enjoyed its ability to stain everything in sight! 

When I get creative its not generally a very orderly process, (which some would say shows true creative genes..?!) but as a general rule whatever mess I have made can been easily remedied with a wipe of the craft table, wash of my hands and perhaps of wash of the clothes I've been wearing. 

Blackberry Bliss, however, has not been so willing to part company with me. My hands have regularly looked like I have had a rather unfortunate accident, or someone else just has! A favoured pale blue cardigan now has some custom sleeves with a rather unique ombre effect on the cuffs, and I have smudged more finished cards with just a spot of Blackberry Bliss for 'effect' than I can really get away with.

However this has not stopped me using this fantastic colour one more time to make this gorgeous butterfly card above. Having die cut out the Butterfly in Whisper White Card I then used a sponge dauber to colour the centre of the butterfly in Daffodil Delight. Then from the edges inwards I daubed in Blackberry Bliss, lightening the pressure so that the two colours could blend together. Three Daffodil Delight candy dots were glued down the body of the butterfly to pick up the yellow on the wings.

The Background of the card is simply stamped with the fern from Butterfly Basics in Cucumber Crush on Cucumber Crush Card, stamping and then stamping again before reinking to create depth (know as stamping off). The green card was then glued to the base card made from Blackberry Bliss.

A greeting was stamped in the corner of my green background, before gluing on the butterfly. Here I just glued the body of the butterfly, which then allowed me to shape the wings outwards to give more dimension and also the lovely shadow on the background.

I hope you have enjoyed using this fabulous colour as much as I have, and will now enjoy some of the pretty New InColours available, that will perhaps be a slightly easier friend to have in the craft room!

Flowering Fields Sale-A-Bration Card

A Happy Accident!

I love the SAB stamp set Flowering fields, it's so pretty. I was especially happy when I played around with this stamp on my scrap paper and happened upon the look of a bunch of lavender. So I created this simple but effective card with that idea in mind and am pleased with the outcome, I hope you like it.

Once I had had a play with stamping my lavender  into a bunch shape to my satisfaction I felt it did not need much else to set it off. I just stamped it in on a square of whisper white, stamping once and then again before reinking (stamping off) in Blackberry Bliss several times.

A little tie of linen twine and a bow in Lost Lagoon finishes it off, along with this pretty greeting from the Cottage Greetings set stamped in Soft Suede on my base card made with Kraft card.

I'd love to hear from you, so do leave a comment and let me know any happy accidents you came across while playing on your scrap paper!

Build a Birthday with SAB papers

I hope you've all had a good week. I've not had much time for craft this week having my 18 month old niece staying, but I do have this card to show you.

Build a Birthday stamp set is a really versatile one for male and female cards for all celebrations, with lots of variations possible.

I made this one using the free Sale-A-Bration Designer series papers Wildflower Fields for the background paper and the tiers of the cake. The cake stand was then stamped in Old Olive and the banner in Hello Honey. I then painted with them clear Wink of Stella for a little sparkle! The edges of the white card were then lightly daubed  in blackberry bliss to finish it.

I used the coordinating colour card stock of Blackberry Bliss and Hello Honey for some simple banners, and stamped the top one with a birthday greeting in Blackberry Bliss.

It would be really easy to just change up the greeting and the could would be suitable for a Congratulations, and perhaps with different colours and papers a Wedding card.