Beverly's Stamping Beehive

Boy, its nearly Oct 31rst and another Halloween is dead set to arrive! Where does the year go!! This year I suffered through some illness and so my Halloween is weak this year, but we did decorate the patio - I may be down at times, but I'm not out, lol!!! However, before Fall came along I had done an interesting project with COFFEE FILTERS.  And the results were SPECTACULAR -- I dyed plain ol' generic coffee filters and turned them into flowers and I swear to you that when they are adorning a wreath, or gathered into a 'floral' arrangement, they look so real! CLOSE-UP DYED COFFEE FILTER "FLOWERS" {note the dyed coffee filter "flower" beside the rust sunflower - pretty good, eh?} MORE PICTURES BELOW and SUPPLY LIST Click on pictures for enlarged view.  I am not showing the process of the flower creation - for that you can Google or Youtube " DIY Coffee Filter Flowers" and you will see plenty of tutorials on this subject...

The following project was inspired by Jennifer McGuire's card Love Joy Peace . It's a window card and I haven't done one of these in ages!!!  So I promptly started rummaging through the house looking for clear acetate....and couldn't find any, awww.  But for one card I created a cellophane wrap "baggie" and for the other, I used a square cut from some clear packaging I had in the recycle bin. Voila! I decided to make a fall and a christmas card as experiments. Both cards have a white heavy cardstock bases ( folded 8 1/2 x 5 1/2) and a panel of decorative paper cut to 2 1/8 x 5 1/2 and attached to the left half of the card front. * To extend the paper around to the back of the card, cut it at 3 1/8 x 5 1/2.  [see end photo of Fall card].  This causes a straight division down the front and where I " centered " my dies to cut the window.  I decided to cut the windows after I attached the decorative panel to one half of the card front - thi...

Hello Blogworld! I am back!  I intended to take a long break from crafting and blogging for several reasons: 1) to deal with important home projects and 2) to have a " creative break " which I hoped would restore life into my general view of things.  Nothing worse than growing stagnant right? But - my beautiful dog Pepper got seriously ill in spring and died before his 11th birthday which would of been in July.  We were grateful we had time to prepare and we did a little 'bucket list' and held his birthday early. However, it killed my enthusiasm for caring about my crafts - and - I wanted to come back to blog when I put a terrific tribute together about Pepper. That hasn't happened yet, probably because I just want more time. Boy, its hard to lose your beloved pets. To say I miss him - well, can't actually measure that. But in dealing with our loss, we were surprised to find that we couldn't stand the silence after about 1 month - even felt a lit...