Marleen DT - wednesday inspiration

Good Morning Blogger friends..

Im running a bit late today as we are going back to routine in this house. 9 weeks summer holiday is (finally) over. All my babies are now back at school so hopefully i'll soon be back to normal lol

Anyway, its my turn to share a bit of inspriation for BeeCrafty.
I had a play with the "Ground Elder" stamp and the "Family Masterpiece (lg)" stamp.

 The background is made using a stencil and distress ink. I brushed the colours with a make-up brush. Using the brush instead of the normal foam tool, gives a more textured look as the brushes catches the detail in the card but without "soaking" the card in ink. When you use the foam tool, you tend to gently press down and the foam goes into the texture of the card and creates a more smooth look. 

After inking I simply stamped with black archival ink and mounted on to a 14.5cm x 10.5cm note card.

And that is all from me for today.

Many thanks for popping by and for any comments left behind.

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 Happy Crafting

Ground Elder stamp set inspiration - Marleen DT.

Heeeeelllooooo Everyone :-)

Once again wednesday and once again my turn for a bit of inspiration using the fabuuuuuleeeessss stamps from Bee Crafty..

For today I've used the new stamps that Bev showed us on Hochanda a few weeks ago. I LOVE these stamps and have to admit I still havent removed mine from my table lol.. even when the NEW STAMPS landed hehehehe... New stamps?? I hear you ask.. YEP thats right.. Bev will be on Hochanda again very soon. I dont have the excact date and time so keep an eye out in the        

BEE CRAFTY FACEBOOK GROUP.

I've used the stamp set called "Ground Elder" but dont forget you can buy each stamp individually. Just go in under the "BEAUtanical" tap under "Stamps".

You can find these stamps and all the other yummy goodies in the STORE.

Both tags were made with a simple distress ink background. Both tags were then stamped with versamark and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. The lines and the edges of the tags are done with clear embossing powder as well.
The tag on the left has then been smothered with a brown distress ink that makes the colour under the clear embossing powder to "pop" up.

I finished both tags with a couple of water splashes for a bit of extra interest.

And that is all from me for today. Thank you for popping by and for any comments left behind.

And dont forget to come visit me on FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest or my FB page.

DT Kerrie - BEAUtanicals 'Dandelion' - Family Masterpiece

Hiya and Welcome to my Monday Post for Bee Crafty

I wanted to share with you one of my makes showing how to use up off-cuts of pretty papers. If like me and you horde pretty paper off-cuts because you don't like to waste them - teaming them up with Beautiful Stamps from Bee Crafty is the perfect way to use them up and make Pretty Cards

I've had this pretty piece of paper for about a year and its such a shame for it not to have been used. It was an odd sized piece of paper so I made a cardblank to fit it using a piece of white pearlescent cardstock 

I then chose a chalky ink to match one of the colours in the paper for this one I picked a cloudy blue, I inked the edges of the pretty paper using the cloudy blue ink and then stamped the large 'Dandelion' stamp from the 'BEAUtanicals - Dandelion' set onto an off cut of white pearlescent cardstock

I matt & layered using a chalky grey pearlescent cardstock which tied all the colours together - I love this sentiment from the 'BEAUtanicals - Ground Elder' stamp set - to finish the card nicely I used some pale blue flat back pearls

Thank You so much for visiting my Post today - Please do Visit the Bee Crafty Blog again soon for more Gorgeous Makes from the Amazing Design Team 

Krafty Hugs xx

Kerrie DT - Ground Elder - 'Every Hour is a DREAM'

Hiya and Welcome to my Monday Post for Bee Crafty

Today I wanted to Share one of my Samples from Last Week's 'Hochanda Shows' and give you some details of how I made it

I used the Ground Elder from the 'BEAUtanicals - Ground Elder Set' and one of the Sentiments from the 'BEAUtanicals - Dandelion Set

I have been on a declutter and using up crafty stash mission of late and part of that has been to use up some of my offcuts from my storage drawers - so for this card I chose this pretty pink and brown paper offcut and teamed it up with a pink dotty offcut and a sheet of brown pearlescent cardstock to tie the colours together - I cut two large flag shapes for the background and then used some round dies from my stash to cut the topper. on a plain piece of watercolour cardstock which again was an offcut I stamped the 'Ground Elder' using brown archival ink, I then die cut the watercolour cardstock using a smaller round die and inked around the outside using 'Spun Sugar' 'Worn Lipstick' and 'Abandoned Coral' distress inks and a round inking tool

I layeered up all the elements making sire to back them all using the brown pearlescent cardstock to tie all the colours together - I also coloured some white flatback pearls using a brown alcohol marker to tie these into the colour scheme too - I always buy these perals in white and my gems in clear so I can colour them to any theme rather than trying to match up the papers to random coloured gems 

Thank You so much for visiting the Bee Crafty Blog today - I hope I have inspired you to use up any of those offcuts you keep for 'Just in Case' I know we all have them

Krafty Hugs xx