A little light in the dark - Hello Sweetums

Hello my crafty friends! This card has been through a lot. I actually had a video and everything for it; and on the day I heard Hello Sweetums was closing I was in the middle of working on it. And then I was going to post it anyways and it sold out so I kept putting it off. Well eventually I lost the video footage (it got corrupted) and so I shelved it.

I really super loved Hello Sweetums and their owner was just the kind of crafty friend you could want. So please don't get up in arms at me if you can no longer find these sets for sale but I don't want to just never use them again because that would make me beyond sad.

I was inspired originally to make this card as soon as I saw the stamp set. This past summer at my house was the first time in forever I've seen fireflies out in droves and it just really warmed my heart.

So here is this little card sending you light and warm wishes.





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Yeti Hugs! - Hello Sweetums

Hello my crafty friends! I've finally found my winter mojo and Ive been playing with all my new and old stamps. I grabbed up this Hello Sweetums Yeti Set Go stamp set during the last sale & if you hurry the Black Friday sale will save you 30%! I also snagged a bunch of the scene building dies like the Mountains of Magic dies & Slippery Slops dies I used to create my winter valley here.

I used plain white cardstock to die cut all my scene pieces and then inked them with distress oxide inks. The sky is Tumbled Glass; the back set of larger mountains I did Shaded Lilac with a top layer of Blueprint sketch to darken them up; and finally the smaller mountains are just Shaded Lilac. I love blues and purples for winter! I also stamped the sentiment using the Shaded Lilac distress oxide as well.

The little yeti buddies I colored with copics: N2, N0 for the fur,  B02, B00, B0000 for the face of the Yeti on the left, BV13, BV01,BV000 for the face of the Yeti on the right & Y13, Y11 &Y000 for their little horns.

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Some Buggie - Hello Sweetums

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I am here today with a card featuring the stamp set Bitty Bugs from Hello Sweetums. Something about seeing the view from the garden from a bugs perspective just really drew me to this set. Did you ever see Honey I shrunk the Kids? There is a scene where they are out in the grass and everything is giant sized and I just adored it. That's where I got my inspiration from today.

I wont fool you here and say the background was easy, it wasn't. It took me a few tries before I was happy with the layout and the blending. And that's ok! Don't be afraid to start fresh if  something didn't turn out.

I started by using masking paper which I cut using landscape dies. I cut two interlocking layers. First I adhered the top part of the mask and blended cracked pistachio distress oxide downwards. Once that dried, I placed the bottom part of the mask to line it up with the top and then I peeled up a smaller section I had cut between the two for the dirt. I blended across the center of the card with  Tea Dye distress oxide and a bit of vintage photo to darken the top. I also splatted on some vintage photo for texture. I replaced the middle mask after it dried and peeled up the top. I very lightly used Spun Sugar distress oxide through a stencil and brought it down from the top edge. Then I used Faded lilac and a cloud stencil to finish off the background.

The images from Bitty Bugs were stamped and die cut from Neenah 110lb cardstock and copic colored. Lastly the sentiment I stamped out on a banner strip. I masked off the middle "Buggie" while I inked up the other words with black ink and stamped. Then I reversed it and covered the other words so I could ink up Buggie with distress Oxide inks. I used Spun Sugar and Worn Lipstick to get a bit of an ombre effect.


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Just hanging around - Hello Sweetums

Hello Crafty Friends! Here with this ridiculously adorable Funky Monkey stamp set from Hello Sweetums. Its got some super cute monkeys paired with a bunch of punny sentiments. Also includes some scene builder elements which I always appreciate.

I started with a base of distress oxide blending in twisted citron and mowed lawn. I stamped the solid leaf stamp from the set just to give the top edge some texture. The monkey's are copic colored with E47, 44, 43 & 41. The leaves are YG67, 63, 61 & a top coat of YG03 to brighten them up a bit. Bananas are YR24, YR30 and Y11. I stamped the solid leaves again in the mowed lawn. The sentiment is white heat embossed on black cardstock.

Can you get over how cute they are??

Mer Friends - Hello Sweetums

Hello my crafty friends! I finally got my hands on some of the Hello Sweetums stamp sets. This is my first card with Angie's adorable images. You can learn more about Hello Sweetums here! Not only are her images adorable but Angie is just as sweet as pie too.

So I am always in love with the scenes Nichol makes so you can see some of her influence here. I love the light streaming through the water so I picked up the light rays stencil at the same time as my stamps. I was also inspired by Jenn Shurkus with her rainbow mermaids recently so I played on that theme as well.

The background was made using some Blueprint sketch distress ink blended on the upper 2 thirds of some Bristol paper and some Shaded Lilac which I concentrated into the middle. I used the same Shaded Lilac through the MFT light rays stencil. I stamped the coral with Chipped Sapphire. The sand is in Warm Honey and Spiced Marmalade. The images are all colored with Copic markers.