Something new.....

welcome back,
It’s not long to go now until the big reveal of the new annual catalogue on June 4th so I thought you might like to see a couple of sneak peeks of new things coming soon.

Both of these cards feature something new, can you spot it? 

On the first card the flowers are from a new set of stamps and also gave a coordinating punch, making it easy to build up the layers of the flowers, to make them even more beautiful and layered we have some coloured vellum coming too.

On the octopus card the anchor is from a fabulous new set featuring boats amongst other things, I gave a feeling this is going to see a lot of ink here at the crafty yellow camper as I come from a sailing family, and I’m sure none of you will be surprised to discover that the family hatch is also yellow! Are you seeing a pattern here!?

In case you were wondering the background for both of these cards was made using the cling film technique, a bit messy, but with fantastic results.

The final card I have to share with you today uses the fabulous new best birds, it has a whole suite of wonderful items that coordinate with it and the images are fabulous for those of us who love colouring, I’ve used the blends to colour this but it would be equally amazing with watercolour pencils or using an aqua painter and our inks.
That’s all from me today, I’ll be back soon with more sneak peeks for you.
Please also excuse any bleepers in my last couple of posts, both my tablet and computer have decided to give up on me so I’ve had to resort to using my phone to post these! No mean feat I can tell you!
Happy stamping
Julia x

Last chance to see...........

Hello again, it's been a bit quiet on the crafting front here at the Crafty Yellow Camper as we have sadly had a death in the family.

I thought I would share some of the cards from my last class which gave me a chance to explore some background techniques and say a fond farewell to some more of my favorite retiring stamp sets.  There's always a lot of excitement about new products coming but although lots of my favorite stamps made it over into the new catalogue, there are also a few that didn't.

This set has been one of my favourites as I love dream catchers and also the fact that there are dies to match. The technique we used for the background is the elastic band technique , really simple to do but quite effective.

On this next card we used the fantastic background wood effect stamp, this is retiring but thankfully the pinewood planks embossing folder isn’t as the wood effect backgrounds are so useful for masculine cards. I’ve paired it with the lovely as a tree set which after many years is finally retiring and will be missed. I’ve also given you a sneak peek at some great new frames dies coming soon in the new annual catalogue.

Finally we used sponges and inks to make this sea scene, inspired by one of my favourite places to take the yellow camper, we have seen some beautiful sunsets there framed by the trees and I wanted to recreate them. Once more I’ve used lovely as a tree with a few elements from high tide.
That’s all from me for today, don’t forget that retiring products will be gone on 3rd of June to make way for some new goodies that launch on 4th July so if there’s something you feel you must have in your stash , get in touch before they are gone forever!
Happy stamping
Julia x