Bumbleberry Blog — Watercolour

Hello lovelies! Happy New Year! I hope you all had an amazing time celebrating and are walking in to the new year feeling refreshed, looking forward to the year ahead!This week I have a simple watercolour card to share with you all using the "Staggering Branches" stamp set from Hero Arts! This style of stamp is usually out of my comfort zone, but I'm trying to push myself this year to try new things and not get stuck in a creative rut (we all know what it's like to hit that wall!). I secured a piece of watercolour paper in...

Hello there, it is Verity here from Pretty Little Button for the Bumbleberry Design team. When I saw the All my Love stamp set from Concord & 9th I thought it would be a beautiful stamp to watercolour with heat embossing. This technique is great for small stamps like this where you may struggle to keep within the lines or where you struggle painting small designs. What's more, adding a light wash of the colours over the design, allowing the colours to bleed out the lines adds a lovely soft touch to your edges without stark white borders. Written and photos All My...

Hello there, it is Verity here from Pretty Little Button for the Bumbleberry Design team. Watercolour is one of my favourite colouring mediums to use when it comes to floral stamps. But when it came to the background, I wanted a soft wash as though the watercolours from the flowers were bleeding out. Watercolour bleed background technique allows you to softly build colour around the flowers in the background before going back in to define the flowers.  Video Tutorial Watercolour Bleed background: Written and photos Watercolour Bleed background: The stamp set I'm using is the Altenew Sketchy Floral stamp set and has a lovely large floral...

Well Good Morning Crafty Friends, I'm back to day with how to add Die Cut images to your design. Using the MFT Die Stitched Ric Rac.   https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/products/stitched-ric-rac-die-namics?variant=22224083255378     Products Ric Rac Dies as above in the link. 6 Scraps of Rainbow Coloured Card Stock  and Matching Nuvo drops MFT Pure Innocence Stamp (Bundles of love) Bristol smooth card stock or Water coloured card stock. Zig Clean Color Markers       I matched all my Card Stock,Pens and Nuvos ready to use together (As close as possible) Die cut the Ric Rac die, out of the 6 colours...

Hey lovelies!Today I'm sharing a simple card using the "Flying With Friends" stamp set from Mama Elephant! I'm guilty of always wanting to add "more" to my cards but sometimes a simple small scene is all you really need! I cut a panel from watercolour paper using the second largest of Mama Elephant's "Basic Rectangles" Creative Cuts. I stamped the elephant on the left first using Ranger Archival Jet Black ink and created a mask for him before stamping my second elephant sitting next to him. I coloured my images and created a soft background for them using my Altenew...