Clearly Besotted June Teasers Day 1

Hello everyone! How are you doing? It’s great to be back sharing some fun new Clearly Besotted sets. First up ‘Balloon Bunch Corners’. When I first saw it, I immediately thought of a photo booth so went with it!

To create the glitter curtain, I just trimmed some matt gold cardstock. It naturally curls a little, adding to the sense of movement. Those glasses are the perfect props for photos and those little guys are having the best time! I’m not one for photo booths particularly but I’d happily join in with this one.

Love the balloons. Adding in some white gel pen details is easy and adds some faux sparkle. I coloured the streamers with gold gel pen and added shading over it with alcohol ink. It covered it surprisingly well.

I added a strip of corrugated paper at the bottom- I wanted it to look a little like the ridges of a carpet. I had lots of fun creating this and know you’ll love this set too.

Now it’s time to There are still more cards and inspiration to come . Pop over to Clearly Besotted either on their Facebook page or Instagram account …and my fabulous team mate Michelle Short.

We’ve also got more loveliness from our super guests Francine, Kitty and Alberto .

See you tomorrow, with something very summery

xx

Clearly Besotted May Release Day!

We’ve made it. It’s Release Day. Those 6 sets are available today at 8pm GMT. I thought I’d do something a little different – using the Telling Tales Line Up. It’s nice when you give a book to give bookplates or even to say ‘given to….from’ so there’s a record of the gift.

Aren’t they fun! The gorgeous purple cats (why not!!) and the little dragons. If you want a copy of the Canva file that I created with the different frame designs on, do let me know.

I love sets that have so many colour options. Change the trees and dragons and cats and will look very different- and as you have seen, you can also chop up the image to use in different ways.

Fun times ahead for this little crew and there’s lots of fun ahead if you manage to get your hands on the new set. I hope you guessed that the theme is books and games.

It’s nearly time to be able to get the April release….at 8pm GMT tonight

Please now go over to visit Clearly Besotted‘s blog (and on Instagram too), to see Michelle (with her great video) and then onto visit our fabulous guest designers Alberto Gava, and Francine Vuilleme and Kitty Day to see more amazingly creative projects.

All sets are available tonight on the Clearly Besotted store and also from Art Creatiu, Cloud 9 Crafts, Card Nouveau , Butterfly Reflections Ink and Simon Says Stamp too.

I do hope you’ve enjoyed this month’s sets. You can see them all in more detail by visiting the Clearly Besotted Facebook page.

Take care,

Keren x

Clearly Besotted May Teasers Day 4

Hello everyone. How’s your day going?

A day is always better if you have chance to read a good book and I thought the ‘Clever Corners’ set might make a fun origami styled bookmark with a little editing.

They’ve been so usefully designed so that we can trim some of the image off and then I added some of the pencil elements from the other image on the stamp set.

To create the folded paper corners I used an easy tutorial here. The secret to these is to use a thin paper. Quality scrapbook paper that’s got a decent thickness might prove too hard to fold. I did do that with the orange and pink ones but it was much easier with the thinner word design paper.

Nearly there with our release. We’ve got one more day until the release.

As usual, please make your way to visit my lovely teamie Michelle,

There are still more cards and inspiration to come . Pop over to Clearly Besotted either on their Facebook page or Instagram account and then our super guests , Kitty ,Alberto and Francine .

Please pop back tomorrow for one final post.

See you then,

Keren x

Clearly Besotted May Teasers Day 3

Hi again. I love today’s set ‘Your Move’. We have a real chess fan in our house. He tries to get me to play matches with him, but he’s thrashed me in only a few moves so I tend to avoid playing him if I can!

My son was pretty unimpressed when he saw my card. He scornfully commented that both the chess board is inaccurately coloured (should be green and white) plus you’d never ever have a yellow and blue set. I tried to explain that artistic licence was applied, but he wasn’t having any!

I’ve used the set called Viking Plushies for the sentiment. I’d love to save it for my son’s birthday but I’m not sure he’d like to receive it!!! I added some blending for the sky and grass using Distress Inks in Mowed Lawn and Tumbled Glass.

I tried to colour the pieces as if they were shiny. Hopefully they’re giving off that vibe using Copic Markers and a white gel pen.

There‘s lots more inspiration to come . Pop over to Clearly Besotted either on their Facebook page or Instagram account.

We’ve also got more clever projects from lovely Michelle and our super guests Francine, Kitty and Alberto .

Please pop back tomorrow,

Clearly Besotted May Teasers Day 2

Lovely to see you back today. We’ve a really fun set today called ‘Rhyme Time’. It’s full of some famous characters that you’ll spot.

I just went completely left field with the scene. What is it? What’s the story? No idea…it just seemed like having random nursery characters hanging on a line seemed the right thing to do!!

It made me smile- and I hope it does too. It needs a good sentiment- not entirely sure what suits.. any ideas?! I’ve used the word paper again.

Have you noticed the tiny little pegs? They were fun to create with some brown cardstock. I cut out lots of little stars and hearts to give it some atmosphere.

Now it’s time to see more. There are still more cards and inspiration to come . Pop over to Clearly Besotted either on their Facebook page or Instagram account.

We’ve also got more loveliness from Michelle and then our super guests Francine, Kitty and Alberto .

See you tomorrow (hopefully!)

Keren x

Clearly Besotted May Teasers Day 1

Hi everyone! How are you? Lovely to have you back with me for another 5 days of projects using the fab new sets from Clearly Besotted. All six sets will be available on May 1st. This month there’s a definite theme- and I’m sure you’ll work it out pretty soon.

Today’s set is called ‘Tall Tales’ and you can either use one of the main images as a corner and there are so many characters that can sit atop the stacks of books.

Just a bookmark? Well it’s so useful if you’re a reader like me or bookmarks make such practical gifts. The way that the stamp is designed, it’s very easy to stamp twice and then stack on top of each other to make an even higher stack of books.

Having a bookmark having a ‘tail’ is very useful- so I added an eyelet (anyone still have a stack of those?!!) and some ribbon.

You can see the sparkle courtesy of a white gel pen and a few doodles. You might wonder why there’s a winged animal holding an icecream- but it’s a magical fictional scene- and who wouldn’t want to eat an icecream whilst brandishing sparkly wings?!

You might think that having a character added to the bookmark using foam pads would get in the way of closing a book. But I’ve used it as a stopper so it won’t slip down into the book making it quicker to find your place. I chose some worded paper to fit in with the book theme.

Well it’s time to head to see some more inspiration.

It’s time to visit to my amazing teamie Michelle, its good to have her back as we missed her last month. We’ve also got our lovely guests again…  Kitty, Alberto and Francine.

Please also visit Clearly Besotted either on their Facebook page or Instagram account.

Hope to see you here again tomorrow.. same time, same place 😉

Keren x

Clearly Besotted April Release Day

It’s here – we made it! Thanks for coming along for the ride. Did you guess what the theme was for this month? It was a little random, but they all had green base layers. Was that too tricky?! Today’s set is ‘Cutting Corners Cuties’ which partners with the floral Cutting Corners set. I decided just to go this set alone…

Can you remember seeing little children with comfort blankets, or blankets that they just dragged around? Well this little kid has a leaf blanket.. or at least that was the look I was going for! I sort of ‘adapted’ the bear by adding eyebrows and lashes.. and then wished I hadn’t !!!

Isn’t the flower just gorgeous! I love orchids. Let’s not start discussing that one, or you’ll wish you’d never asked. I seem to know a little too much about growing orchids! But I’m rather excited that my current orchid is blooming again. Probably a few weeks before flowers start to show! Back to the stamp set though!

I added a sentiment from the remaining April set ‘Blooming Dahlia Plushies’ and a little sprinkle of sequins. You can really feel this little miss bear striding along with her leaf blanket dragging along behind her!

It’s nearly time to be able to get the April release….at 8pm GMT tonight

Please now go over to visit Clearly Besotted‘s blog (and on Instagram too) and then onto visit our fabulous guest designers Alberto Gava, and Francine Vuilleme and Kitty Day to see more wonderfully creative projects.

All sets are available tonight on the Clearly Besotted store and also from Art Creatiu, Cloud 9 Crafts, Card Nouveau , Butterfly Reflections Ink and Simon Says Stamp too.

I do hope you’ve enjoyed this look at most of the sets. You can see them all by visiting the Clearly Besotted Facebook page.

Take good care of yourselves,

Keren x

Clearly Besotted April Teasers- Day 4 – Pop Up Line Posies

Hey ! It’s me again, with some more loveliness from Clearly Besotted’s new April release set. Are you ready to see these beauties?!

Aren’t they the cutest ? I know that the tulip headdress doesn’t really look like flowers, but after I’d coloured them, I thought that you could create a unicorn as they look a little like flowing manes. Just add a horn and you’ve a completely different animal character!

I thought I’d ground the design.. in the ground! haha. I snipped away at some green cardstock to make some grass. If you can’t be bothered- you can get grass dies or download cut files if you’ve an electronic die-cutter.

Don’t you just love them!! These little cuties just popping out of the watering can, wheelbarrow and bucket! I really like the tiny fork and trowel. You can use those to add decoration to the wheelbarrow or watering can, just like I’ve done with the flower.

Hope you can see the tremendous possibilities with this set- particularly when combined with the Pop Up Line Up set.

Keren x

Clearly Besotted April Teasers- Day 3-Cutting Corners

Hey. How’s your Thursday going?

I hope there’s some sunshine where you are. I love a good floral and Clearly Besotted don’t do florals all the time, so I love it when they bring out sets like this ‘Cutting Corners’ set.

They’re all corner styled (4 different sets of flowers plus sentiments) but multiple ways of using them. I’ve used mine to sandwich the sentiment.

It doesn’t need to be complicated- just some simple Copic marker colouring and a little highlighting and shading using Prismacolor pencils. The shapes are easy enough to trim around, and then just add some foam pads underneath. Do excuse the fuzzyness around the edges from the photo above- the portrait setting on my phone doesn’t like certain colours. It didn’t like this one!

And more details, more little sequins. I wonder if you’ve spotted the other ‘theme’ I’ve used this month? Hopefully by tomorrow you might have got it for sure (and it’s not sequins !!).

Isn’t that sentiment just beautiful! Clearly Besotted are soo good at creating heart warming and funny sentiments. There are plenty of people you can imagine sending a card with this greeting on.

Keren x

Clearly Besotted April Teasers- Day 2 – Pop Up Line Up

Hello lovely blog readers, how are you today?

We’re beginning today’s post with a riot of flowers. I don’t know what flowers would riot over, but I’m sure it would be a beautifully well behaved riot. I could imagine the flowers saying ‘ you go first’ ‘after you’ !!

I’ve combined two sets- the ‘Pop Up Line Up’ and combined it with the partner set ‘Pop Up Line Posies’.

Aren’t they the cutest images! This month, many of the images are a little larger, which for me, is just brilliant when colouring- much easier with a slightly bigger image. I added the lovely foliage behind- to give it a palm house kinda vibe, and they’re from The Greetery (Boxwood Heart Die).

Lots of lovely spaces to colour. I love that the little animals match the flowers in their hats / headdresses! It reminds me of a photo I’ve got somewhere of my youngest, Will, visiting a garden centre and he’s crouched in a giant flower pot, just like this little bear!

Sequins add some subtle sparkle, and it’s a while since I’ve used any. I have little collections of things like sequins that I forget about and then have the urge to use. It stops the card being so one dimensional plus with the greenery diecuts, makes for a much more interesting design.

Now it’s time to There are still more cards and inspiration to come . Pop over to Clearly Besotted either on their Facebook page or Instagram account.

We’ve also got more loveliness from our super guests Francine, Kitty and Alberto .

Please pop back tomorrow,

Keren x