Bumbleberry Blog — Catherine Pooler

Hello there, it is Verity here from Pretty Little Button for the Bumbleberry Design team. Christmas is almost upon us, so I'm making a different kind of card that you may find handy after the big day. I've been playing around with my Glimmer Hot Foil machine and have got a few more hot foil plates including the Brushed sentiments from PinkFresh Studio. When you pair your card back to a simple colour scheme you can make an easy CAS card with no stamping and few items to make it bling.  Written and photos Quick elegant CAS card with no stamping:  Start...

Hello there, it is Verity here from Pretty Little Button for the Bumbleberry Design team. One thing I love with Catherine Pooler Designs is the pattern paper list on the front the ink colours that coordinate with the paper. Now if you struggle to put colours together, then this is the perfect solution for you. Here you can easily take inspiration from pattern paper and use this to help create a beautiful card that looks cohesive in no time. This card uses the lovely Touch of Frost pattern paper which has a beautiful soft colour palette featuring colours from the Spa ink...

 Hello there, it is Verity here from Pretty Little Button for the Bumbleberry Design team. The recent release from Catherine Pooler Designs has some beautiful winter inspired designs perfect for creating Christmas cards or cards to fit the season. Today I'm showing you how to create this fun Slimline falling snowflakes card featuring the new Scrolling Snowflakes stamp & die set. These Scrolling snowflakes have such a beautiful elegant design and each snowflake in the set is unique, just in real life! So, let's get started.  Written and photos Slimline falling snowflakes:  Start off stamp the snowflakes from the Scrolling Snowflakes stamp...

  Hello there, it is Verity here from Pretty Little Button for the Bumbleberry Design team. I couldn't make a card featuring Catherine Pooler Design products without including some ink blending. These inks blend beautifully and I love the ink collections as they are ready-made rainbows. I picked Date Night inks from the Party collection to create a fun bright pastel inspired card with some simple rainbow ink blending. So let's continue the celebrations for the 5th Inkaversary! Written and photos Simple rainbow ink blending:  Temporary adhere the Wavy Line stencil down over a white card panel and with blending brushes start to...

Hello there, it is Verity here from Pretty Little Button for the Bumbleberry Design team. One thing I like about layering stencils in layering ink colours in the process too. It can create beautiful looks, and at times create new fun colours. Here, I overlaid Dress Blue with Uptown intensify the colour and giving a slight teal hue to the navy colour.  Written and photos Layering colours with layering stencils:  Start off by laying the biggest diamond layer from the PinkFresh Studio Slimline Diamond builder stencil. With blending brush, add Uptown ink through the layer. Next, positioned the middle sized diamond stencil...