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Hello and welcome to this month’s Color Fusers Blog Hop where have got a gorgeous (though slightly unusual) colour combo for you, and I am showcasing the new Branching Out bundle from Stampin’ Up! This month we have got Crumb Cake, Pretty Peacock and Blackberry Bliss, not three colours I would have put together, but they SO work! The first thing that I do when I get given a colour challenge is to get all three ink pads out on my desk, to really see the colours. I then have a glance over each of my stamp sets and pick […]

Hello and welcome to this month’s Color Fusers Blog Hop where we are working with the colours Basic Black, Pecan Pie, Mossy Meadow and Old Olive – the perfect combination for this card made with the Autumn Trees bundle. I have had a little play with watercolouring here and love how the tree itself is the star of the show. Because we are watercolouring with this card, we need to use Staz-On ink rather than Memento ink. We need an ink that isn’t waterbased, otherwise when you add water it will react and run, not the prettiest of looks! I […]

Hello and welcome to this month’s Color Fusers Blog Hop where we are working with the colours Darling Duckling, Basic Grey and Basic White, and I am going to explain how to stamp off, in case you are new to stamping. I really love the colour combo of grey and yellow, so was really pleased to see this one this month. That said, I must say I find Darling Duckling just a little dark for some of my needs, and that is where the amazing (yet oh so simple) technique of stamping off comes in to play. By using this […]