Bee Craft Stamps - FASHIONette's - Tracy 'Important to be Nice'

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I jumped back into my own comfortzone for today's post with Alcohol Markers and Pretty Colours

I picked my 3 backing papers first from my stash and trimmed them down and layered them up along with Mirror Board and Pearlescent Cardstock - I love the lots of layers look

I stamped and coloured 'FASHIONette - Tracy' and coloured her using my Alcohol Markers to match the papers I chose. I stamped the swirl part from 'Yuletide - Holly Swirl' (Christmas stamps are not just for Christmas) around the edges of the image using 'Pumice Stone' Distress Ink to make into a topper. The Sentiment 'Important to be Nice' is from  'WORDage' collection, I stamped this using the same Distress Ink, layered with some dark brown card and fixed between the layers at the side of the 'Tracy' topper

I created the floral bouquets using 'Fabulous Flowers - Star Flowers' stamped using 'Pumice Stone' Distress Ink, fussy cut them out and coloured them with Alcohol markers to match the image. I also used the 'Larger Branch' from the 'BEAUtanicals - Branches' set using the same distress ink, fussy cut them out and layers these up with some diecut swirls around the Flowers

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Krafty Hugs xxx

Bee Crafty Polymer Stamps - Star Flowers - Wake Wonderful - Warm Gold, Pink & Brown

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I have been struggling for the last few weeks to get making again after slowing down over the festive period... so this called for some much needed Inkiness and my lovely Bee Crafty Stamps

Today's colour theme is Pink, Brown & Gold I loved playing with my stencils, embossing powders and distress inks and I really hoped that this was the push I needed to get back to crafting - messy inky fun!! so of course it has helped xx

Here is my project for today using the lovely 'Fabulous Flowers -Star Flowers' and 'WORDage - Wake Wonderful'

I trimmed down a piece of white pearlised cardstock to ink onto. I first inked the whole piece using 'Abandoned Coral' distress ink, I used a heat gun to speed up the drying process. I inked around the edges again to bring in more colour. I then used one of Bev's brilliant techniques of laying a stencil over my work, spraying with water and then taking off the excess with tissue this added a lovely textured look into the coral background. I think inked through the stencil using 'Tea Dye' distress ink, lightly in some areas and darker in others. I then inked the edges using 'Tea Dye' and then 'Walnut Stain' distress inks to add some depth to the colours. 

Using embossing ink I stamped the 'Star Flowers' into the corners but off the page as I wanted them to peek out a bit from the corners, I also stamped the edges using just the leafy swirl part of the stamp. I tipped gold embossing powder over the inked areas and then tapped off the excess, where the distress ink was a little wet still a dusting of embossing powder clung to it... a happy accident really though as I think it looks really pretty like that. I heated the powder using my White Heat Gun until it was all melted and shiney. 

I stamped the 'Wake Wonderful' WORDage stamp onto the centre of the page using brown dye ink. I matted this inked up page onto some brown pearlescent cardstock from my stash and then mounted onto a 7x7 cardblank. I finished the card with some Brown and Gold Ribbons and some Brown Gems... I didnt have any brown so I coloured in a few plain white gems using an Alcohol Marker.

Thank You so much for visiting my Post Today i really appreciate it. Please visit again soon for some more Gorgeous Projects from our Amazing Bee Crafty Design Team xx

Krafty Hugs xx

Floral - Never Regret - Bee Crafty Stamps

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Wowser Christmas & New Years were Amazing and I feel very rested after a few weeks at home with my Family x x I hope you all had a lovely Festive Season and i wish you all well for an Amazinf New Year xx

For my Project today I have mixed it up a bit with one of the Newer Floral Stamp Sets and a Wordage Stamp I again chose the softer/warmer look that I love love love

I cut down a piece of watercolour cardstock. I inked through an Inkables Template using 4 shades of distress inks

I stamped and embossed the Floral Corner using versamark ink, gold embossing powder and my trusty white heat gun 

I made more flowers stamped and embossed onto vellum using darker gold and white embossing powders, which I then cut out, dry embossed the backs using a ball tool and a soft mat and layered up using a hot glue gun

To finish the card I inked the edges using Pumice Stone distress ink and added a matt of pearlescent Gold cardstock 

Thank You so much for visiting my Post today, please do visit again soon for more yummy makes

Krafty Hugs xx

New Beginning's - January Challenge @ Crafting Musketeer's

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I hope you all had a Lovely Festive Holiday with your Families and Loved Ones

Wishing A Very Happy New Year to you all x x

I have been away from my Crafting Desk for quite some time but I am now back refreshed for the New Year and what better way to start than a New Challenge with Crafting Musketeer's - the theme is 'New Beginnings' this could mean anything from a New Baby card, A Wedding Card, New Year or any other Celebration with the Start of Something New - please visit the link below to see the gorgeous makes by the Design Team and for all the info about the Challenge

Crafting Musketeers Challenge Blog - New Beginnings

Here is my Example for the Challenge....

I went with a New Baby theme for mine but with a Vintage Clutter feel 

I used some pretty Handmade Stickers along with diecuts and Decoupage from my Stash - also some Flower Forming flowers, buttons & Brads. The Sentiment is one of my favourites 

I do hope you will join us over at the Crafting Musketeers Blog and enter one of your Gorgeous Makes for a chance to win a Lovely Prize

Thank You so much for visiting my Blog Today - Please visit again soon to see more of my New Makes for 2016 xx

Krafty Hugs xx

Yuletide Elves - Quick Makes For Christmas Fair - Bee Crafty

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Over the Weekend I have been Crafting up a Storm getting ready for my little ones' Christmas Fair at School where I have my first ever stall selling my Christmas Cards and Christmas Gifts 

The very gorgeous 'Yuletide Elves' have been a Godsend for making up lots of Quick Cute Christmas Cards 'Eric & Elsie' and 'Ernie' are all so so cute and so much fun to colour up and teamed with some lovely christmas papers from my Stash and now I have stacks of cards ready and packed for the Stall

I stamped the 'Yuletide Elves' onto supersmooth card and coloured them to match the papers I chose using my fave Alcohol Markers 

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Krafty Hugs xx

Design Team Make - Christmas Wordage 'Believe' - Bee Crafty

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I had a couple of weeks off due to being ill and half term with my 4 Kiddies taking me away from my Desk for far too long - but today I am back to where I love to be - in my Korner creating pretties

I have really gotten into making my Christmas Cards and most of those have been non-traditional colours - I love to mix it up a bit - this time I chose soft pink, brown and rich gold

The Bee Crafty products I have used are...

Inkables Template 'Easy Frame 4" Star'

Yuletide Polymer Stamp 'Believe'

Yuletide Polymer Stamp 'Snowflakes'

Backdrop Border Polymer Stamp 'Splatter Swirl'

A4 Card White Linen 255g 10 pack 

And - Distress Inks 'Spun Sugar', 'Tattered Rose' and 'Victorian Velvet' (all stocked on the Bee Crafty Webshop

I chose a 7x7 White Cardblank, and added some Matt & Layering using some pearlescent cardstock from my stash, the gold piece I used an embossing folder to create a swirly background.

With a small piece of Linen Cardstock I inked through the Star Template using Distress Inks 'Spun Sugar', 'Tattered Rose' and 'Victorian Velvet' to create the an ombre effect (lighter in the middle and darkening towards the edges) 

I stamped The 'Believe' accross the Star at a jaunty angle using brown ink, the 'Splatter Swirl' border around the edge of the Linen Cardstock and then stamped the 'Snowflakes' into opposite corners using the brown ink and 'Victorian Velvet' distress ink.

I ran my embossing ink over the edges of the Linen Cardstock and dipped these edges into gold embossing powder then heated with my 'Heat Gun' (available from Bee Crafty's Webshop) to melt the powder and create the smooth gold finish. I also used my Embossing Ink Pen to draw a shadow around the 'Believe' word then heat embossed this in Gold too.

I hope you like my card today. I really do like how it turned out.

Thank You for visiting my Post today - please do visit the Bee Crafty Blog for more stunning makes from our Talented Design Team

Krafty Hugs xx

Bee crafty- Hope - Shaker Card

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Eeeeks today is a very exciting day for Bee Crafty with our Bev on Hochanda TV 

Bev truely is a Natural at this Demonstrating Lark but bless her she was so Nervous about being Live

Join her at 10am, 1pm and 5pm over on Hochanda sky 663

I am so so Excited that some Samples by me are on the show along with Gorgeous Makes by Bev and the Amazing Design Team 

Here is one of my Samples from the Show - my 'Hope' Shaker Card

I used the Circle Template emboss the circle into the centre of a sqaure piece of card, but then cut it out to create an aperture. I cut a piece of acetate to fit behind the circle at attached using extra strong double sided tape, to create the window. Then I cut some foam tape into small pieces to stick around the circle on the reverse side leaving no gaps, more foam tape around the outside edge of the reverse of the square piece of card. 

I trimmed a piece of bronze pearlescent cardstock to a few mm smaller than the 6x6 scalloped edge card blank that i had chose to use. I had decided on pale hues for this card to show that the stamps can be used for softer makes as well as the artsy makes.

For the main image I used a piece of pearlescent white cardstock and inked from the edge to the centre using 'Antique Linen', 'Tattered Rose' and 'Victorian Velvet' Distress Inks and a small blending tool. Then using 'Pumice Stone' I stamped the 'Dandies' backdrop border along the bottom, and 'Hope' and her Balloon towards the centre so they would fit inside the aperture. I used a water brush to blend out around her feet so she appears to be standing on a little hill.

I fixed the bronze pearlescent square into the centre of the card blank, followed by the stamped image, then tipped in some white seed beads, Glitter and little punched flowers onto the centre of the image being careful not to spill out too far. I then fixed the Aperture Window over the centre to complete the shaker 

I really like how this card turned out

Thank You so much for visiting my Post today - Please do visit the Bee Crafty Blog soon to see more Gorgeous Makes by the Talented Design Team 

Krafty Hugs xx