Beverly's Stamping Beehive

*click on photos for close-up views Welcome everyone to my blog!   As part of the Paper-Garden's 2018 Mother's Day Cards Challenge I have created a card using Paper-Garden's beautiful cardstock  and a few of my favourite dies and techniques.  To see how you can help determine the winners for the challenge, see below.  close-up  Choosing beautiful colours to celebrate Mother's Day was fairly  easy as I always love the combo of pink, green and white!   To make it more fabulous, Paper-Garden's soft shimmering cardstock  really adds that lovely quality you'd want in a card for your Mom!  Look for their Curious Metallics cardstock. The white base of  my card is their sturdy cover weight in Ice Silver. I am a real fan now! I chose to use my Fantasy Floral 3D Die Set from Altenew , and my  Large Lace Faerie Queen (butterfly) die.  I wanted the title MOM to be simple and in subtle contrast to the fussiness of the flower

Hi crafters.   Today I want to show a trick I like to resort to when I craft up my cards. When I am under no pressure, I will have a craft session where I design 'parts' of a card. It could be making flowers or as I will share today - making card fronts.  As I have my craft supplies laid out, it's quick to make two duplicates.  Ok, I have pulled out a banner stamp and coordinating die set and have chosen my ink colours. I placed each banner stamp on a clear block and set the blocks directly onto the ink pads. These are small banners and it will take time to cover a 4x6 in. card front. The technique is to stamp one card front first and double stamp onto the other card front without re-inking first. Then repeat till you've covered your cardstock.  (Click on pictures for a closer look)     As you can see, I am getting a bright effect on the left card front and an almost pastel effect on the right! Neat! I am not at all worried if the ink isn