Beverly's Stamping Beehive

  Funky Insects Thinlits Dies (not including bee die shown upper left ) Tim Holtz's Funky Insects are a hoot to play with. I am just playing to discover the million-gazillion ways to colour each bug and not concerned with how to design projects featuring them yet. Here's a tall slimline card, an A2 card and an ATC that l've created so far. To get inspired, you only have to look at the amazing designers that contribute to Tim's Chapter releases such as this year's Chapter 2 release.  To be honest, l was not bothered cutting so many parts for the different insects as l thought l might be....time flew by as l cut batches of the body 'base' and then spent most of my time inking, embossing, painting, etc the wings and body sections. There lies the fun!

A very nice person is helping us out by looking after our cat today and I wanted to give her a nice bright card that literally has 'good vibes'! Actually I had been working on this card this past week in a rather lazy style - and then just in time, my parcel of new craft treats arrived ! I was so thrilled because it's been 7 weeks in the making for its journey to my home,gosh. The word dies are part of Pink Fresh Studio's "Phrase builder Sending die set". This is a great set of 10 word die sets - each one has the shadow die included for a total of 20 die pieces. Great value and really useful words to own. But l wanted a chance to express 'good vibes' and the best way I thought was with vibrant colours! Because what else would you want to send to someone who brought you happy feelings knowing that your precious pet was in good hands! Right? Good vibes all around - to you too !! Thanks for dropping by :) Pink Fresh Studio Phrase builder Sending Dies Stam

Hi! Its time to make some summer cards again! This year I picked up a multi-media stamp/stencil pack from Michael's and some Distress Oxide inks. The stencils were very large and I love that! Here are two cards with the same wave style stencil and I was really happy at how they both turned out! So get yourself some stencils and have a go! Enjoy 

Hey everyone!   Today I am blogging about the card I made in the middle of the night, lol.  It started with the idea that I wanted to use the bear from Stampin' Up!'s Cookie Cutter bundle set {stamp and punch}.  My intended recipient loves bears and I was dying to do a shabby chic style card, so voila!  Some details: I dyed a piece of white satin ribbon using ink. Ink refills {liquids} are so helpful to create co-ordinating materials for your projects. Soft sponging of paler colours help to frame your main more colourful image. Add more details by layering accents such as my poinsettias and label.   Here is one of the  embossing powders from the Stampendous Fran-tage line called ' Shabby White '. See how bubbly and glittery it is?   There it is - I love doing soft colours paired with white for pretty styled christmas cards!!!  Hope everyone is having a safe and enjoyable holiday season this year, cheers!

 Here's my trick'or'treat for my daughter! A good book and some chocolates delightfully tucked into this adorable batty treat box!   I found the polka dot cardstock recently and I had just barely enough to make my treat box and I also purchased some black twine, so I was quite happy as I always like to use up my cardstock as much as possible. The thing about our crafty supplies is that they can be abundant at first, then a year or two goes by and that particular pattern is no longer around!  Any rate, a book and chocolate -  a terrific treat for anybody :) Happy Halloween everyone!

Hi Crafters, ... as my previous post showed playing with my inks is a lotta fun! Here's the results of incorporating that fun - beautiful red and white Christmas cards. I love them! Winter Deer Red Inked Cards    Silver embossed antlers    White sparkly embossed oval frame     Supplies  SU! Oval Thinlits  Impression Obsession Deer Dies  White Cardstock  Real Red Ink Refill   Red Cardstock   Ranger Bridal Embossing Powder