Bee Crafty - Saturday Inspiration

Hi everyone....a very quick post from me today as I have a date with a bucket of hot water and a wallpaper scraper!

This has been such a busy week....decorator in, plumber, drive specialists, and.........grand-kids making a mess everywhere. (although this was the only mess I didn't mind)....

Anyway, enough waffle, the card I'm showing today is one of my samples from last weeks Hochanda show with BEE CRAFTY

I wanted this card to be simple but effective. 

I just laid 2 colours of Adirondack ink in a watery mess, and allowed it to dry. Next I stamped the feather, and ink pot  from the 'Art Stamps', Ledger, Nibs & Ink (HERE) in Versamark, then heat embossed in copper powder. The sentiment is from the 'Hope & Faith Infinity set (HERE)

I splashed a few drops of ink onto the white background, then matted & layered onto brown and gold card stock.

Well, that's it for now, hope you all have a fab bank holiday weekend,

catch you next week

Barbara x

Bee Crafty Stamps....As Seen On Hochanda.

Hi there, happy weekend!

Well, after all the excitement yesterday of the Hochanda shows with Bev, from Bee Crafty, it's back to another weekend inspiration post from me.

The card I'm showing is one of my DT samples which was on the show yesterday. (if you missed the shows, you can still watch on Hochanda 'catch-up)

I found a piece of background in my 'inky box, made with Brusho's, and thought it would be perfect for a ( VERY ) simple card. After cutting it in half, I stamped the sentiment between the two pieces.

I used the 'quill' from the Art Set Ledger, Nibs & Ink ( HERE )

The quill was stamped onto black card with Versamark ink and heat-embossed with white embossing powder, then 'fussy cut'.... all I had to do was adhere it to the inky background and add some twine and a button.

So you see, a very simple card, but quite effective, don't you think?

I'll be showing some of my other DT samples from the show on the Bee Crafty Facebook page, over the next few days.

Catch you all soon,

                                                                        Barbara x

DT Inspiration for Bee Crafty....

Morning everyone, back again with my DT cards for BEE CRAFTY

I've been really busy this week making new samples for the Bee Crafty shows on Hochanda on Thursday....so today, for quickness, I'm showing a couple more cards that I made last week.

 On these two cards I've used the 'Easy Frame - Heart' (HERE) 

and three colours of Adirondack ink.

I'm loving using these Inkables at the moment, so very versatile.

I also used one of the words from the sentiment 'Live Laugh Dream' from the Wordage collection - (HERE)  

When my stamps come from Bev @ Bee Crafty, I always look at them to see which ones I can chop up. With the above sentiment stamp, I've cut out the word 'Love' and used it by itself as a background filler.

Everything was mounted onto black card then a white base, and I added a couple of die-cut sentiments to finish.

I'm off on holiday tomorrow for a week in Pembrokeshire....I've already packed all of my crafty stuff, so if the weather is bad, guess what I'll be doing?!

Catch you soon,

Barbara x

ps don't forget to pop over to the Bee Crafty Facebook page and enter this month's challenge.

Lavinia Stamps May challenge.....

Hi everyone, a quick post from me tonight, as I'm late with my DT projects for LAVINIA STAMPS .

The new challenge for May has started...... the theme is 'SPRING FLOWERS', and the prize is a fabulous £40 worth of Lavinia products.

All you need to do is go to the Lavinia Stamps Facebook page to upload your entry.

These are my DT cards for this month.....

 ALL cardstock is from 

PAPERMILLDIRECT

I've used Brusho's for the background and 

MOON PODS (HERE)

 

A die-cut sentiment, a few sequins and some stickles and I was done.

I just wanted to keep this one very simple.....I inked a small piece of card, then stamped the pods in red and green.

The sentiment is a die-cut.

Stamps used on this card are :-

Mooch - HERE

Wildflower - HERE

Sentiment - HERE

Various inks and stickles....

Well, that's all for today....don't forget to pop over to the Lavinia Stamps facebook page, to checkout all the inspiration from the rest of the DT.

Back soon,

Barbara x

Saturday 'Brightness' for Bee Crafty.....

Hi everyone....well, here we are again, another Saturday post and you might need sunglasses today....'cos these cards are very bright!

It's my Chippenham Workshop today, then we're flying off to Dublin tonight for a few days, so I'm just doing a quick blog this week....hope you don't mind.

When I saw Bev Tonks of Bee Crafty at Ally Pally, I grabbed a few of the Inkables,  HERE 

and this week I've been having a play with them......honestly folks, if you haven't already got these in your stash, you seriously need them, they're brilliant. I have lots of stencils and masks, but to have the negative AND the positive, makes them so much more interesting to use.

 ALL CARDSTOCK IS FROM PAPERMILLDIRECT.
 I used Adirodack inks on all 3 cards, and small die-cut sentiments.

This one features the 'Easy Frame - Maple',  Cow Parsley & Large Branch stamps from the BEAUtanicals range.

 On this one I used the same inks, with 'Easy Frame - Star', Da Vinci Script & Wings from the Da Vinci  range.

 This last card features the 'Easy Frame - Maple' with Ground Elder & Da Vinci Script. I've added some 'Stickles' in Cranberry,  to the Ground Elder......Stickles are on offer at the moment - HERE 

Well, that's all for this week, 

I'll be back next week with another couple of similar cards, as once I started on the Inkables, I couldn't stop ;-)
In the meantime, I'll have some Lavinia DT cards to show you in a day or so....

Take care, 

Barbara x