Bumbleberry Blog — Distress Oxides

Hello lovelies, Happy New Year!I hope you've all had a fantastic time over the holidays and you're settling in to 2019 quite nicely, today I wanted to share a friendship card and some matching tags I've made using the Mama Elephant "Heart In Bloom" stamp set! How beautiful is this floral stamp? I'm positively in love with it! I started by stamping out the large floral heart with the banner in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colouring it with my alcohol markers, I'm so used to colouring floral stamps with my watercolour paints it was refreshing to have a change!...

Hello lovelies!I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and that 2018 treated you well, now we're speeding towards 2019 I thought I'd share with you some simple cards I made to welcome in the new year with you all! New Year cards aren't typically a tradition here in the UK but with Mama Elephant's "Happy New Year Wishes" stamp set how is a girl supposed to say no?! I started by making some very simple backgrounds using Distress Oxide Ink and metallic watercolour paint. I cut a panel of white card stock down to the size I needed for...

Hey lovelies!Christmas is only a couple of days away now, where has this year gone?! I wanted to take this opportunity to wish you a very Merry Christmas (or happy holidays, whichever you prefer!) before the big day! I wanted to revisit which is probably my favourite stamp set I've bought for the holidays this year, Mama Elephant's "Yappy Woofmas" set is just too adorable for words! I stamped a couple of the images using Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured them using my alcohol markers. I added some highlights with a white gel pen and fussy cut them out....

Well Hello There Crafty Friends,   Things in the craft room are rather glittery at the moment.  With just over 13 days to go until the big day. I am a true lover of Christmas, and to me its more about the birth of Christ. So for my very last Christmas cards this year.  I wanted to have some cards that celebrated that fact.   When MFT released their Beautiful Blessings Stamp set, I was over the moon. It has a beautiful font and so many lovely sentiments, not only for Christmas. In fact only one sentiments was relevant to...

Well hello there! This week I'm sharing a project using the beautiful Altenew Build-A-Flower: Rose, stamp and die set you can get here.I am in love with this set and it was relatively easy to work out due to the helpful how to on the pack of the stamp packaging. It took me awhile to work out what colours to use but I went with the following; RoseDistress Ink- Squeezed LemonadeMemento - Dandelion, Cantaloupe, Tangelo, Morocco, Rhubarb StarkLeavesNuvo - Lime BurstAltenew - Frayed Leaf, Forest GladesMemento - Olive GroveBackgroundDistress Oxide - Salty Ocean, Twisted Citron, Mowed LawnSentimentNuvo - Black Shadow Hybrid I started...