More Alcohol Inks.......

Morning everyone, and a bit better start to the day than yesterday, I can see some sun....yay!

Anyway, just thought I'd show you a few more of the alcohol ink cards I made as samples for my latest Chippenham Workshop. I'm still loving the inks, and will be using them on a regular basis, now that I've bought more ;-)

All card bases and 'mats' are from PAPERMILLDIRECT, and the inked pieces are done on Yupo paper.

 Love the colours on this one

 This was also one of my samples for the BEE CRAFTY show on Hochanda, last week....I 'fussy-cut' that tree....yawn!

And another sample for Bee Crafty, using the tree stamp from the BEAUtanicals range, HERE. 

The sentiments are from the 'Wordage' range on the Bee Crafty website.

Just stamped with Stazon, onto an alcohol ink background.

Hope you like them.

Catch you soon,

Barbara x

Saturday's Sure Do Come Around Quickly at Bee Crafty.....

Hi again, just a quickie today showing one of my DT cards for the Hochanda show yesterday with Bev of 

BEE CRAFTY

 Did you see all the fabulous new releases of leaf stamps, aren't they great?

I chose to use the oak leaf stamp for this card and first stamped both sizes of leaves onto gold mirri-card with Stazon. Then I fussy cut them out......not as much of a chore as I thought, LOL

I mounted 3 of the leaves in the corner, with silicone gel, then added a twine bow, onto a piece of black smooth cardstock from 

PAPERMILLDIRECT.....

Mirri-card is very hard to photograph.

In opposite corners I made some dots with a Versamark pen, then heat-embossed in gold.

Added one of my favourite sentiments, HERE 

and I was almost done. All that remained was to mat onto more mirri-card, then onto a black base.

Voila! done ;-)

Hope you enjoyed the shows, I'll be showing you more of my DT work over the coming days.

Catch you soon, have a good weekend,

Barbara x

Lavinia Stamps Challenge......Still Time To Enter

Hi everyone, just wanted to remind you, there is still time to enter the challenge at

 LAVINIA STAMPS (FACEBOOK PAGE)

...to be in with a chance of winning £40 of Lavinia products.

This was my DT creation for the theme of 'ANYTHING FOR A FRIEND'. 

  I plan to put a bookmark in the next few cards I send out.

Back tomorrow with my Saturday post for Bee Crafty.

Barbara x

A Canvas for Bee Crafty

Hiya, happy Saturday......

This is another quick blog, I'm afraid, as this weekend is the Scarecrow Festival in our old village, and I have arranged the 'Craft Market' part. I'm selling my cards, as always, so we're hoping for a very busy weekend.

My inspiration for BEE CRAFTY this week is a little canvas.

I've used Dylusions for the background, then overstamped with 'Flower Distressed Border' find it HERE

 I stamped the flower part on a separate sheet of card, a couple of times, fussy-cut, inked them in a contrasting colour then triple embossed them to bump up the shine.

 I used another of my favourite background stamps in a couple of places, the Da Vinci Script....find it HERE

 The background spots were made with a small piece of sequin waste, and the sentiment is another favourite of mine, which can be found HERE

 A little bit of gold wax around the edges, some Rangers 'Stickles' and a piece of twine completes the canvas. 

If you have found some inspiration from this project, it would be great if you could leave a comment, they are always appreciated.

Catch you soon,

Barbara x

Elegant Inspiration for Bee Crafty....

Morning all, just a very quick post as I'm on holiday this week, and we're heading off to the beach soon with the grandchildren.

I chose to do a very simple & elegant card this week only using black smooth card and gold mirri, gold embossing powder and BEE CRAFTY stamps (of course)

Black smooth card stock is from

PAPERMILLDIRECT

I used a Versamark inkpad and fine gold embossing powder to emboss the images and sentiment.

Stamps used are :-

Large Wings - HERE 

Small Feather - HERE

Sentiment - HERE 

It's quite hard trying to photograph mirri-card

I love the black and gold together and think it looks very elegant. It would probably look just as nice on white card stock with maybe a coloured embossing powder.

Well, that's all for now, as I promised the family I wouldn't spend too long on my lappy this week.

It would be lovely if you could leave a comment, if you've found some inspiration from this card. 

Back soon,

Barbara xx

Alcohol Inks and Yupo Paper......Heavenly!

Hi all, just a quick blog today to show a few of the samples I made for my Chippenham Workshop on Saturday.

I used Alcohol Inks and Yupo paper for these....

 I'll be back tomorrow with a few more.....still lots to show :-)

Barbara x

Hello everyone....how quickly do these weekends come around??

I'm a bit late with my blog today for BEE CRAFTY but hope it's been worth waiting for .......

I decided to make a little project for my craft room and started with a 4" mdf heart, which I covered with 3 shades of Dylusion paints..... Lemon Zest, Fresh Lime and Vibrant Turquoise ( HERE )

I then used some texture paste through the Honeycombe (3) Inkables (HERE)

Once it was completely dry, I started overstamping.

I used the following stamps to add a bit of interest to the background, 

Style Wire Circle (HERE) 

Da Vinci Script (HERE) 

Butterflies Set 1 (HERE )

And the word LOVE from 2 different stamps.... Live, Laugh, Dream, (HERE) and Love Isn't Complicated (HERE) 

I stamped the butterflies directly onto the heart, then again on some inky card and cut them out.

Once the  butterflies had been adhered to the heart, I used some lemon Stickles (thanks Sam Green, you were right, I DID need it ) , and also did a bit of doodling with a white Sharpie pen.

A bit of raffia for a hanger and Voila!

If you like my little heart, it would be lovely if you could leave me a comment below.....they are always appreciated. 

Catch you soon,

Barbara xx

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

Some late Saturday DT Inspiration for Bee Crafty....

Hi everyone.....I'm very late today with my Saturday Inspiration for 

BEE CRAFTY

I didn't get started crafting this week until Thursday, after a really horrible tummy bug, last weekend, and it seems I've been chasing my tail ever since.....

Anyway, I've made 2 completely different cards this time.....must admit, not sure if I like any of them, but thought I'd show you anyway.

For the first card, I only used red and black ink with the 'Splash Art Guitar Set'

I stamped the guitar twice, fussy-cut then covered it with Glossy Accents.

 The second card only uses the very pretty 'Inkables' template, DAMASK.....  I inked through the template with Adirondack inks, spread it with clear texture paste, then covered the paste with micro beads. Once the texture paste dries, the inks really show through the glass beads.....I love the effect.

 Just a simple card, but I like 'simple' now and then ......

Well, that's it for this week, catch you all soon....happy bank holiday weekend.

Barbara xx

New Stamps from Bee Crafty.....Saturday Inspiration

Morning everyone...... wow, don't these Saturday's come around quickly??

Today I want to show you a card made with brand new stamps, from
BEE CRAFTY 
which were on Hochanda this week.

 I certainly LOVE them all, and couldn't decide which to use first, but the 

Splash Art Guitar Set won....find it HERE

This was a simple card.....!!

I stamped the images from the Guitar set, in black Versafine then heat-embossed with clear embossing powder. I stamped the guitar again,  fussy-cut it out and mounted it on top of the main image.

The background was made with distress inks and finger daubers.

A bit of matting and layering and I was done.......
White Linen and black smooth cardstock is from PAPERMILLDIRECT

 

 I made a couple of others, which I'll show tomorrow....in the meantime, have a great weekend and don't forget to pop over to BEE CRAFTY to checkout the new stamps.

Barbara x

A Little Canvas for Bee Crafty......

Morning everyone, Saturday again, and that means it's my turn for the inspirational blog at
BEE CRAFTY 

This week I fancied doing something a bit different than a card so decided to make a little canvas for my new craft room.

I chose a set of stamps that don't often 'get an airing' on the blog.....

The Village - Millbank 

Fabulous for 'new home' cards too, which is really the reason I bought them.

First I covered a small canvas with Dylusions paint,  inked through a couple of stencils, then stamped a few images (stamps used listed below)

Next I stamped the houses again on contrasting inked card, and fussy-cut them out.

Once these were adhered to the canvas, I simply added a bit of interest with a white pen.......

Voila! done ....

I used a small piece of voile for a hanger.

This certainly looks bright, hanging in my craft room, and I LOVE the sentiment ;-)

Stamps used are :-

The Village - Millbank

Da Vinci Script

Background Distressed Flower Border

Stencils used are :-

Inkables Template - Chainlink Fencing

Inkables Template - Honeycombe 3

Well, that's all for this week, but don't forget Bev is back on Hochanda on Tuesday with some amazing new stamps....can't wait to get my hands on them!!

Catch you all soon,

Barbara xx

Please leave a comment if you've enjoyed looking, I appreciate them all x

Lavinia Stamps New Challenge

Hi everyone.....just a quick post tonight from me to let you all know about the brand new monthly challenge from

LAVINIA STAMPS

Pop over to the Lavinia Stamps Facebook page to enter your creation....it's sooooooo easy!

The prize is a whopping £40 to spend on Lavinia products, and I can definitely recommend the new stamps, they're fab.

Here are my DT samples for this month......The theme is 'Add Some Glitter'

Linen textured card and Pan Pastels.

Stamps used are :-

Dancing with Dawn.

Fairy Buttercups

Vine

Cherry Blossom Tree

This card is for our gorgeous little Eva's 3rd birthday on Friday....she loves fairies.

This was just one stamp,  

the Background Script...really love the design of this.

I used a tiny sentiment die from Penny Black for the sentiment.

For this little card, I just used a selection of the very small stamps from Lavinia, and different coloured Distress Inks

I think the 'masked off' corners are quite effective

Well that's it for now..... hope you get the chance to join the challenge this month.

Back soon,

Barbara.

 xx

It would be lovely if you could leave a comment, they are always appreciated xx

Saturday Inspiration for Bee Crafty........

Morning everyone....excited today as I'm off to Ally Pally with my lovely friend Jean and her 'just as lovely' daughter. 

Will certainly be calling to say hello to Bev at the BEE CRAFTY stand. .....might treat myself to a few things too (who am I kidding....I have a list as long as my arm!)

Anyway, on to my Saturday inspiration.
ALL CARDSTOCK IS FROM PAPERMILLDIRECT

I chose to use the pretty butterfly this week from 'Winged Things' - butterflies set 1 -  and stamped many times on a piece of inked card. (Adirondack inks, Pool, Sunshine Yellow and Citrus) I used the masking technique, so as not to over-stamp.

I mounted the sentiment onto black cardstock and added an extra butterfly, coloured with Sakura pens and Promarkers. Some white highlighting, a bit of matting and layering and I was finished.

Hope you like it enough to leave a comment, they are always appreciated.

Barbara x

DT sample for Bee Crafty......

Morning everyone, Saturday already.....and today I host my monthly workshop in Chippenaham. Guess which stamps we'll be using this month? BEE CRAFTY ...yeah!!

However today I'm showing a card which is totally different from what I normally do.

 I had a piece of painted cardstock in my 'scrappy' box, so decided to chop out a few holes....

I printed the sentiment onto a scrap of card, cut it into pieces and used the

Backdrops Frames ~ Style Wire Circle Sm/Med. 

Still not sure if I like it, so much out of my comfort zone.....

Let me know what you think, please.

Catch you all soon,

Barbara xx