Bee Crafty Samples for the Hochanda Launch

Hi all. Don't miss the Bee Crafty shows today on Hochanda. Bev will be live at 10am,1pm and a final show at 5pm. You all know just how busy these shows are, so don't miss out and buy early. Here are some of the cards I made for the shows.

The stamp sets are so versatile, you can use them in conjunction with all of your existing crafty stash, they make great frames and borders as well as allowing you to create all of your own designs. These are one of those collections, where there really are no limitations.

Also on the show today is a wonderful set of sentiments, I love the Bee Crafty sentiments, they really are unique and suit all people and occasions. They stamp beautifully giving you a clean, crisp image time after time.

The MDF will also be on today's shows, while the stocks hold up. I highly recommend these, the quality is superb giving a perfect base for all of your projects and an excellent surface for all media.

It's great to be back, I'm still taking it easy so my daily posts wont be straight away, but the way I feel at the moment you wont have long to wait. Thank you so much for all of your messages and mail, I really appreciate your care and support, it has been a tough time for me. I do hope you have enjoyed what I have shared today and thanks for stopping by. Take care and Happy Crafting.xxx

Making Memories

Morning, I so enjoyed making my 'Autumn Lady' project and I had so many wonderful comments that I decided to make a variation to share with you. On Hochanda a few weeks ago Leonie brought us some wonderful stamps from HOTP on her 'Let Leonie Loose' show. The set I am using is called 'Dancing Flowers',for this project I have coupled them up with the 'Ladies Profile' from Bee Crafty. This is such a versatile stamp and can be used for so many different looks.

To create the look, I needed some masks, to ensure that the flowers didn't overlap. I stamped these onto copier paper and cut them out. These stamps are quite detailed, so it's best just to choose a few of the larger one, too many and it can soon look messy.

I took a sheet of Super Smooth card measuring 8'' square and stamped the profile using Memento Black Ink.

I chose my sentiment and arranged the larger stamps around her head using my masks. To soften the edges of the card I used the mall group of butterflies and some of the smaller flowers.

I coloured the main flowers using a selection of blue and teal alcohol markers. Then for the butterflies I chose apricot and peach. For the face I used fairly light skin tones from my alcohol markers. Once again I felt that the white background worked best for this design rather than shading the card with distress inks.

To finish, I layered the piece onto teal/blue Coredinations cardstock to compliment the colours in the image. I tried various colours and this one worked the best.

Thank you so much for visiting today, hopefully you have lie the project I have shared and the step by step I have included for you. I hope that you will visit again very soon.Take care xx