Beverly's Stamping Beehive

Hey crafters - hope you enjoyed your week-end! We are having a super hot summer day today. Ok, my " summer season " collection of tools and supplies has grown again!  Every year its my tradition to buy a punch or die  with an ocean theme. I even buy the occasional stamp with the same purpose in mind, but I do tend to buy punches and dies more.  I love those two tools - and if there is a matching stamp set, I'm "swimmingly" thrilled, lol! The summer is for our fun colours, but this year I gave myself a challenge- well, two challenges. ..1) buy a die that was really over the top ' seaside' and 2) use a sleek gold card base as my starting point.  The first was made easy when I saw CHEERY LYNN's Seahorse Family Die which I purchase as fast as I could from Scrapbooking Online Cafe . The second challenge was merely because of a personal challenge - how could I use a non-traditional colour for an ocean theme?  I usually delve into my bluesy, gree...

Another of  my SUMMER cards where I chosen a sea/ocean theme!  I love-love-love doing these kinds of projects at this time of year....which is why I buy stamps and equipment to equip me to make them and I buy the supplies from all over, no particular favorites. Here I have used a 'Your Next Stamp' stamp set - Happy Birthday Mermaid' paired with a simplier stamp set of sea creatures {the starfish, fish and seahorse} and even a foam leaf stamp for the background.  I also have entered this for COLOR THROWDOWN  whose celebrating their 200th Challenge - so, CT200 naturally!  The colours chosen were: Pink Passion Certainly Celery Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Pie Tempting Turquoise  I have used all of the above colours in one way or another on my card.  Certainly Celery is on the Mermaids's fins but also is sponged around the card's edges and overtop of the Turquoise water! Chocolate Chip is in one's hair, and fome finer detail on another m...

Another fun challenge over at Your Next Stamp's Blog ....and I made a very simple card for my entry!  More simple than my normal choice but I have tons going on right now, so this was a quickie for me! But I just received two teeny-weeny stamps from YNS last week....and I am anticipating getting a jar die  soon and thought these little Fiona stamps would look adorable stamped 'inside' the jars - so I am using one of them for today's card. The challenge asks for a colour trio of lime green, pink and teal.   My card is just a simple one that I cut in a different way other than normal and added a pink pocket containing a blank tag which could be used for a gift tag or a bookmark perhaps. My embellishments are a mix of ribbons....and that's it! My pictures are a little darker than in real life as I took them tonight - sometimes I wish I was  a much better photographer, sigh!   The little gal is MINI DAY DREAM FHIONA Thanks for stopping b...