Crimson Cloud in Creative Cardmaking Magazine

This month we were lucky enough to be asked to produce some samples for Issue 57 of Creative Cardmaking which is out now.

 

The theme was "Quick and Easy" using our range of stamps - Bees, Buttons and Circle Sentiments. You can find them all here.

Here is a close up of the cards made for the magazine -

Check out the magazine for details on how to make each of these quick and easy cards!

Mel xxxx Pin It Now!

Buttons, Bees and Circles....

Today we are showcasing some more samples from our lovely design team!

Lisa has been playing with the Bee Sentiments Stamp set

and she has created this beautiful gift bag

You can see more details on her blog

Debs used the complementary stamp set - Bee Backgrounds

and she created this fun, dimensional card -

Love the popped up bees! You can see this card on her facebook page .

Sandra came up with a really unusual concept for her set of Textured Buttons stamps

We loved the shape and clever layering of this card

You can see more details on her blog

Cheremane has been having fun with the Circle Sentiments stamp set

She designed this fabulously dimensional rosette card

A really unusual style for a new baby card - find more details here.

And finally, Linda designed this fabulous Congratulations card - which would be perfect for a guy

Check back with us next week to see the next batch of designers' samples.

Mel xxx Pin It Now!

Happ-bee Birthday and Design Team Call Out

First of all thank you to everyone who applied to our Design Team Call Out. We will be introducing the new team members shortly - we can't wait to start working with them and seeing some new ideas for our stamps.

And speaking of Crimson Cloud stamps......

This card was made using two stamp sets from the latest release -

Bee Sentiments

and Textured Buttons

These A6 stamp sets are super-versatile. The button stamps come in two sizes - to fit a 1 inch punch and a 3/4 inch punch. The buttons are made up of different patterns and textures and even include faux button holes and stitching.

The Bee Sentiments stamp set is made up of hexagons which fit the Spellbinders Hexagon dies, and even include a little bee and a row of dots to show his flight path.

To create the card, I die cut 5 hexagons from cream card and overstamped with the basket weave stamp. I arranged them on my Kraft card topper and trimmed the edges to fit.

At the top of the card, and on one of the hexagons I stamped the flying bee with his little trail of dots.

I stamped out my sentiment and cut it into a little banner which I decorated with one of the small buttons from the Textured Buttons stamp set.

I mounted my topper and sentiment banner onto a cream card base and doodled around the edges with a brown pen.

Hope you like it! xxxx Pin It Now!