Beverly's Stamping Beehive

Happy Easter! I'm happy today because its Easter {closer and closer to "patio" weather - yeah!} and another chance to relax with no cares or worries for the day, but a chance to bond with family and friends. We already had a nice surprise with friends bringing us a Easter basket of homemade cupcakes - how sweet of them!  Thanks to the Moores - Mom Mary, Emily, Bridget and Margaret!  The girls {the guys we barely see, lol} are terrif! But I didn't do too much this year for decorating but I DID manage a centerpiece! You can turn those CAKE STANDS into great centerpieces - and actually, the Moores gave me this cake stand many years ago for my b-day! Here is how I made it: I simply arrange some faux leaf brances entwined with straw grass around the plate. In the center I placed a small twig basket. Next I arranged my ceramic BUNNIES. I put a small can in the center of the twig basket [weighed down with marbles] and placed a small 4 inch doily on the top of the ...

CS25H Inside Greeting ' Happy Easter ' Hello, today I am entering a challenge!  I have not entered one here before, but over at Creative-Sketches  there is a challenge today called CS25H Holidays and Celebrations and I have chosen to make an Easter Card for a friend! To do this, I have chosen my INSPIRED BY NATURE stamp - using the floral image (it's a double-mounted stamp - opposite side has grass!) because it feels like Spring to me and I wanted my card to not be over-the-top Easter, but something more simplier and relaxed. I have made the focal piece using our SCALLOP CIRCLE Bigz Die (the scallop red circle) and then layered it with Pumpkin Pie and Whisper White cardstock, followed naturally,  nestled in the center,  my stamped image! My ribbon is a thin strip of paper cardstock (Whisper White )  run through our Crimper tool, and sponged ever-so-gently with PEACH PARFAIT ink. The two tiny tags (say that 10 times!) tied on are made with...

Hi everyone! Sorry - I have no creativity when making up my titles for my posts! I'd better stick to my day job as a crafter, lol! But that does not diminish this beautiful card made by my upline, Caroline - who is seriously talented. Look what she did with our bridal paper!  I've known about this technique and have tried it using sponges, but now I own a brayer, so I am going to dig out my own bridal paper (white) which has its glossy design raised (or embossed) on the surface.  This way when you ink the paper up [shown here in CAMEO CORAL, ROSE RED, SO SAFFRON Stampin' Up! inks]...the raised white design will peek through after you wipe away the extra ink!  Cool huh! That's one of the pretty tags from our SIZZIX TWO TAGS DIE (catalog item # 115954) and the close up shows more fun ideas to help you jazz up your projects...have a good look here.... ....she has taken a SCALLOP CIRCLE PUNCH and sniped it to create flower petals, then used some of the sticky go...

Hello fellow crafters......hope everyone is crafting on something this week! Here is my furball as he was last week-end on our Easter Spring class - I'm sure he has no ideas in his lil' head as to what we were up to, lol!  Probably just hoping we'd have treats! We DID have treats - and I owe a "Thank You!" to my daughter for taking time to decorate my mini-cupcakes so nicely - see aren't they cute?  She likes the decorating aspect - not so much the baking, ha ha...well, we all have our specialties, don't we!  Here are some of the results of the SUNDAY CLASS! Pretty nice! Everyone did such nice work!  In total, each member did 2 sets of a card & matching pillow favour box as I describe in my CLASS DETAILS in an earlier blog (dates are shown to the right side)...and one set is completely different in 'feeling' - and EVERYONE'S LOOKED FABULOUS!  BIG WELCOME to new crafters KIM and JULIA! I will add more details to my LINK to my d...