Penguins! - Tubby Craft DT Tutorial

Happy Wednesday!

Midweek already and I've happily blitzed the cleaning ready to get some crafting done.  My kind of day!

I'm sharing a quick tutorial on creating Christmas cards using the Penguin Love stamp set together with a couple of the latest Tubby Craft stencils.   These would be good to make in batches so you could make your backgrounds in one go and stamp, colour and cut out your penguins another time.   

To begin, I stamped both my images on watercolour paper and then used the Tubby Craft inks with a water brush to colour them in.  I fussy cut them out ready to use on my cards.

For my first card I decided to give some texture to the inked background and I did this by using a foam pad through the stencil.  I dabbed it as I didn't want a smooth look.  I wanted an icy cold look.

I used 3 shades of blue and then stamped some snowflakes on top.  My stencilled background was then matted onto a plain white card blank and I added one of the fussy cut images together with my stamped sentiment.

For my second card I used 3 bright colours through the stencil but I masked off part of it as I wanted a clear area for my penguin.

Within the clear area I stamped a couple of very cute hearts from the same set.  I die cut a strip and stamped the sentiment to finish.

I have some images ready coloured so I will definitely make a few more backgrounds to go with them which'll mean I can assemble them all in one go!

See you on Friday!

Shabneez

Products Used:

Tubby Craft Penguin Love Stamp Set

Tubby Craft Stencils 02 and 04

Tubby Craft Dye Inks in Raspberry, Aqua Blue, Jet Black, Sapphire Blue, Imperial Red, Pink, Mustard Yellow, Chinese Blue and Lead Grey

Everything else from my stash

Layered Floral Cards - Tubby Craft DT

Happy Weekend!

As promised I'm back with a couple of cards made using the Tubby Craft Camelia Layered Flower stamp set.  With the weather getting a little miserable I thought I'd make a bright and colourful set of cards using the vibrant Tubby Craft inks to cheer myself up!

For my first card I've gone with a clean and simple look using Tubby Craft inks to stamp, concentrating on the bottom right hand corner of the card.

I finished off the card by matting onto a yellow background and adding a heat embossed sentiment from the same stamp set.

My next card happened a little by accident.  I was testing out colour combinations with sets of inks while layering and I decided I to use them all on a card.  I fussy cut the small flowers out and arranged them on a half cut wreath die.

I spattered gold shimmer spray on the patterned paper to form my background and stuck on the wreath and flowers.  To finish, I added a glitter die cut happy birthday sentiment.

Have a great weekend!

Shabneez

Supplies Used:

Tubby Craft Camelia Layered Flower Stamp Set

Tubby Craft Dye Ink - Imperial Red

Tubby Craft Dye Ink - Lemon Yellow

Tubby Craft Dye Ink - Chocolate Brown

Tubby Craft Dye Ink - Tangy Orange

Tubby Craft Dye Ink - Lawn Green

Tubby Craft Dye Ink - Mustard Yellow

Tubby Craft Dye Ink - Olive Green

Heidi Swapp Color Shine

Dovecraft Happy Birthday Die

Sizzix Pretty Wreath Die

Everything else from my stash

Spotlight on Florals Tutorial - Tubby Craft DT

Happy Monday!

I'm back!  How was your weekend? I was busy demonstrating the new Trimcraft Christmas products yesterday which was very enjoyable and in fact I have another couple of months of demos coming up.

I'm up on the Tubby Craft blog with a tutorial on the spotlight technique today.  This technique is used to emphasise particular areas of a card and I've shown two different ways this can be done using the Wishes with Magnolia stamp set.

To begin, I took the stamp set and positioned the stamps individually before stamping with my stamp platform.  I then used a couple of circular dies and die cut areas from the image I created.

I am drawn to colour pencils at the moment so I used my Chameleon pencils to colour in the images within the circles.

For my second card, I decided to stamp using a different composition of the stamps and use only one die.  This time I wanted the focus to be on the flowers around the spotlight so I coloured in the images around the die cut circle.

I've a jammed packed week ahead so I must get on and I hope you have a good week!

See you again soon!

Shabneez 

Products Used:

Tubby Craft Wishes with Magnolia Stamp Set

Tubby Craft Dye Ink – Jet Black

Nesting Dies - Circle and Tag

Chameleon Pencils

Everything else from my stash

Adorable Animals - Tubby Craft DT

Happy Weekend!

As promised I'm back, a day later than planned but nevermind!  I am sharing a couple of very cute animal cards using the Tubby Craft Giraffe Love and Baby Elephant stamp sets.

For my first card I stamped the image using the Tubby Craft Lead Grey Ink Pad.  I then proceeded to colour in the image with my Chameleon pencils and coloured in the background too.  

To finish I cut a strip of card in a contrasting colour and stamped the sentiment from the same set along it in a line.

Next up, I used the Giraffe Love set and stamped the image in Tubby Craft Chocolate Brown.  I coloured in the image with my Chameleon pencils once again and fussy cut it out.  

I added die cut circles to my card base and used different elements in them.

I've just come in from doing the garden or as much as I could as the garden bin is now full!  Hope you're enjoying your weekend!

Shabneez

Supplies Used:

Tubby Craft Dye Ink Pad - Jet Black

Tubby Craft Dye Ink Pad - Lead Grey

Tubby Craft Giraffe Love Stamp Set

Tubby Craft Baby Elephant Stamp Set

Tonic Cross Stitch Circle Layering Die Set

DCWV Pastel Patterns Mat Stack

Sizzix Circle Dies

Let's Smoosh! - Tubby Crafts DT

Happy September!

I'm wayyyyyy behind on my blog as I've been away for most of August.  We had an amazing holiday and managed to spend time with family in America too.  The boys are back at school and so I've been trying to get back into the routine.

This post was on the Tubbycraft blog at the end of August and in fact it was created at the beginning of August but I just haven't had time to get it out on my own blog until now.  I decided to do a post on smooshing as it's something I really enjoy and the dye based inks Tubby Crafts has are perfect for this technique!

So for the first card I used the Unicorn Dreams set and isn't that unicorn so adorable!  I used the Tubby Craft ink pads to colour in the stamped image too.

For my second card I used the technique on a shell and I'm really pleased with the way it came out.

I heat embossed the sentiment to make it pop and I added Dovecraft 3D Pearl effects to the pearl in the middle and I think it looks quite realistic don't you?

Hopefully I'll be back on track soon and I will be hopping over to your blogs to comment as well.  Thanks to those of you who commented in my absence.

Have a great weekend!

Shabneez

Products Used:

Tubby Craft Dye Inks in: Imperial Red, Tangy Orange, Lemon Yellow, Lawn Green, Aqua Blue, Lavender Violet, Chocolate Brown, Mustard Yellow and Jet Black.

Tubby Craft Unicorn Dreams Stamp Set

Tubby Craft Precious Treasure Stamp Set

Dovecraft 3D Pearl Effects

Everything else from my stash

It's All About The Bows - Tubby Craft DT

Happy Wednesday!

This is a scheduled post and my very first one for the Tubby Craft Design Team.  You can find more information about the company HERE as they produce acrylic blocks, dye inks and a range of polymer stamps which is what drew me to them.

For this post I have used the DIY Background stamp set to create a couple a of cute cards featuring bows.

I really like how the bow stamp on this set shows the stitching so well and I used it as a focal point on my first card.  I added more of the stamps to create a border at the bottom of the card as well and finished with nuvo drops.

For my second card, I stamped and die cut a number of the bows and added them to my card base along with some tiny hearts from the same set.  I finished with a die cut sentiment.

A useful stamp set that can be used in a number of ways to create pretty cards.  I'll be back later on in the month with a couple of other stamp sets from them.

Apologies for not being able to comment on your blogs at the moment.

Shabneez

Products Used:

Tubby Craft DIY Background Stamp Set

Tubby Craft Dye Ink - Raspberry

Tubby Craft Dye Ink - Aqua Blue

Tubby Craft Dye Ink - Jet Black

Trimcraft With Love Sentiment Die

Hero Arts Happy Die

Altenew You Make Me Stamp