Kerrie DT - More Love - Fashionette Judith

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Our Bev is over on Hochanda again on Friday showing lots of inspiration with the Fashionette's  Stamp Collection

The Design Team have been working on Samples for the show using the Gorgeous Fashionette's and today I am sharing with you one of my makes for the shows

I chose 'Judith' for this cute 7x7 card

Bee Crafty products used:

Fashionette's Judith stamp

Star Flower Bouquet stamp

Beautanicals Branches stamp set

Do More of What You Love Wordage stamp

6" Easy Frame Circle Inkables template

First I trimmed a piece of pearl cards Tockenham to a few mm smaller than a 7x7 card blank and matted onto brown textured card that I had distressed the edges of using a nail file. I inked through the 6x6 inch Circle Inkables Template using distress inks

I stamped Judith using London Fog memento ink as it's a lovely pale ink that when coloured with markers fades to faint lines. I coloured her using copic markers. I then fussy cut her and fixed to the card front offset from the centre of the inked circle.

I the  stamped the 'do more of what you love' wordage sentiment stamp into the inked circle using black archival ink.

I stamped the large branch from the 'branches' stamp set repeatedly onto scrap card stock and fussy cut them and attached to he card front at the edge of the inked circle using hot glue.

I stamped the Star Flowers from the star flower bouquets stamp repeatedly onto scrap card and coloured using copic markers. I then fussy cut them out shaped them with an embossing ball tool and layered up over the branches using hot glue. I stuck gems in the centres

Thank you so much for visiting today.... please come back soon to see more gorgeous makes from the Bee Craft Design Team

Krafty Hugs xx

Kerrie DT - WORDage 'Wake Up'

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I made this card using distress inks and a few of my favourite bee crafty stamps

First I trimmed down a piece of cardstock to a few mm smaller than a 7x7inch card blank. I inked up the front using foam blender and distress inks in 'Shabby Shutters' 'squeezed Lemonade' 'Tumbled Glass' and 'Worn Lipstick' to create a coloured marbled like background. 

I then repeat stamped a Style Wore Border at different angles over the background. Once dry I matted this background piece using black cardstock. 

Next I stamped the 'Dreams Come True' wordage sentiment onto a smaller precut piece of cardstock. I stamped the style wire border around the edges and matted this smaller card onto black carstock and fixed to the card front using foam tape. 

I Sramped just the flower part of the distressed flower border onto scrap card a few times which I then fussy cut out. I shaped them using a ball tool on the reverse on a foam mat to create dimension and then fixed at oposite corners of the card front using a hot glue gun.

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Kraft Hugs xx

KERRIE ☆♡☆♡☆

Kerrie DT - Decision To Try... - Mixed Media Canvas

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Today I am sharing with you a recent make for one of the Hochanda Shows that I have not Blogged about before... my Mixed Media Canvas

The Bee Crafty Products I used on this project are...

Art Canvas

Inkables Template - 6" Square

Inkables Template - 4" Heart

Style Wire Borders

Textures - Lines & Dots

WORDage - Decision To Try (Large)

First I covered the canvas with white gesso, Once dry, I trimmed a piece of old music from a piano book and glued this to the canvas and then painted over again using white gesso. I made sure that the gesso was applied thinly so that the music notes could still be seen. Next I painted over with a coat of Magnolia Chalky Paint and left to dry fully.

On a piece of thin corrugated card I drew around the inside and outside of  the 6" Square Inkables Template which I then cut out to create a frame, I covered this frame using music score paper and then I used filler to seal in the corrugated edges and painted over a coat of white gesso. Once dry I painted over the frame again using Mink Chalky Paint and left to dry fully.

Once both pieces were fully dry I used a strong white glue to stick the frame to the canvas at a jaunty angle. I then used filler through the 4" Heart Inkables Template to place hearts inside and outside of the frame and around the canvas. I used a heat gun to speed up the drying process so that I could then paint the Hearts using Damson Chalky Paint.

Next I stamped the Style Wire Border around the edges of the frame, and the Lines & Dots Texture onto the canvas. I then stamped the Decission To Try WORDage onto white cardstock, which I then cut the scetions of the sentiment out, backed them with dark gold mirror board and attached to the canvas inside the frame using a hot glue gun spreading the words out over the space. I picked out some paper flowers, wooden buttons and metal embellishments (one being a little Bee for Bee Crafty... just cause I can) I fixed them into opposite corners of the frame using a hot glue gun.

To seal and varnish the project I painted over everything using Mod Podge.

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Krafty Hugs xx

Dreams and Things - MDF Tag

Hiya and Welcome to my Monday Post for Bee Crafty Stamps

We hope you all watched and enjoyed Our Bev's Brilliantly Inspiring demos on the Saturday Show's on Hochanda wowser they were amazing

Today I would like to share another one of my Sample that were on the shows... This was one of my favourite makes using the new MDF tags and the gorgeous stamp sets

Bee Crafty Products used:

MDF large tag
Backdrops; Textures stamp Set
Wordage; Dream, Beautiful Things

I painted the tag first with white gesso and then with a translucent lime green paint. Once dry I used purple and pink paints to stamp the Textures over the tag. I stamped the words using black archival ink. For the bubbles I used various pen lids dipped into white and black paints.

Thank you so much for visiting today... come back soon for more amazing creations from the Vee Crafty Design Team

Kraft Hugs xx
KERRIE

DT Kerrie - MDF Tag 'Dream'

Hiya and Welcome to my post for Bee Crafty...

I have hijacked the Thursday Spot this Week as I was getting over a flu-bug...

We have an exciting Weekend coming up as Our Bev will be over on Hochanda on Saturday

I am sharing one of my Design Team projects with you today that I made using products that will be live on the Saturday Show's

Bee Crafty Products used:

Textures Stamps - Spots and Line&Dot

Wordage Stamp - Dream

MDF Tag - Medium

Bee Crafty on Hochanda!

Hiya and welcome to my Monday post for Bee Crafty

Today our Bev is live on Hochanda at 10am, 1pm & 5pm with the gorgeous Feathers stamps sets and the New Steampunk papers which are all gorgeous

I made some lovely new samples for today's shows but due to wanting to get them sent on time I forgot to take any pictures Doh!!!!

So instead I am re-sharing some of my feather makes from last time

We all hope you will join Bev and enjoy some of her yummy inspiration

Thank you so much for visiting  today

Krafty Hugs xx
KERRIE

Kerrie DT - Fashionette's 'Shirley' - Decision to Try

Hiya and Welcome to my Post for Bee Crafty - I have Hijacked the Thursday Spot this week and I am sharing a FASHIONettes make today - I love love love these gorgeous girls so much

I stamped 'Shirley' using light grey ink and coloured her using my favourite Alcohol Markers. I then used Glossy Accents for her glasses to create the look of glass

I created the backinp paper myself using the flourish part of the 'Fabulous Flowers - Bouquet' with some clear embossing ink and white embossing powder which I heat embossed - these flourishes then were raised and worked as a relief when I inked through a handmade stencil I made using a metal die and a scrap of cardstock. I used 'Seedless Preserves' and 'Milled Lavender' distress inks to ink through the handmade stencil. I matted this backing paper panel using Mink and Brown pearlescent cardstocks.

I trimmed round 'Shirley', inked the edges using Milled Lavender distress ink and matted onto the off cuts of the Mink and Brown cardstock from before. I fixed this to the cardfront using foam tape.

Next I die-cut lots of different size flowers from the same set of metal dies I used for the background which I then stamped the 'Fabulous Flowers - Star Flowers' onto all but the largest size die-cut flowers using embossing ink, which I then tipped gold embossing powder onto and heated them using my heat tool. On the largest die-cut flowers I first inked the same flourish I used on the background in Milled Lavender ink and then over that with clear embossing ink and powder. I inked the edges of the largest flowers using Milled Lavender and then all the other flowers using Seedless Preserves. One dry I used a large ball tool to shape the flowers from the backs, then pushed the centres back on the fronts to make them pop out.

next I die-cut some flourishes and then layered them up with the flowers at oposite corners of the Image topper. I added some brown flat back pearls to the centres of the flowers.

To finish the card I stamped the 'Decision to Try - WORDage' sentiment onto white cardstock and then cut out all the idividual pieces which I then matted with offcuts of brown cardstock and fixed to the cradfront all scattered out, using foam pads.

Thank you so much for visiting my Post today. I will be back in my usual Monday Spot next week. Please visit the Bee Crafty Blog again soon to see more gorgeous makes by the Brilliant Design Team

Krafty Hugs

Kerrie DT - Time Flies

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For this card I used the smaller feathers from the 'Love & Hope Infinity' to create a background on watercolour cardstock

I stamped the feathers repeatedly over a piece of  precut watercolour card using Versamark embossing ink which I then tipped pure white embossing powder over and heated with a heat tool

I then watercoloured over the background using milled lavender distress ink

I fixed this watercoloured background to the front of my card blank

I then stamped the sentiment onto an offcut of white card which I cut using a circle die. I cut a decorative circle from a pretty die and mounted these onto the card front using foam tape

Thankyou so much for visiting my post today please do visit the Bee Crafty Blog again soon for more gorgeous makes by the amazing Design Team

Krafty Hugs xx

KERRIE

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

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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

Kerrie DT - Bee Crafty - Hochanda - Samples

Eeeeeks it's Monday!! and Welcome to my Post for Bee Crafty!!  - today is very exciting for Bee Crafty because our Beverley is over on Hochanda TV showing the Brand New Stamp Sets that are now available over on Hochanda and also individually on Bee Crafty's website eeeks

Today I am sharing with you a few of the Samples that I made for the Shows

Showtimes - 11am, 2pm and 5pm on Hochanda - sky channel 663

For my Samples I have really enjoyed playing with the New Stamp Sets, distress inks and Inkables Templates and a few extras from my crafty stash

If you would like to see more of my Samples please do check out my own Blog where I will be showing the others - as you can see I was very busy and I loved every minute

Thank You so much for visiting my Post today - please do come back to the Bee Crafty Blog soon for more gorgeous makes from the Amazing Design Team

Krafty Hugs xx

Kerrie DT - Life is Good

Hiya and welcome to my Monday Post for Bee Crafty

This week I have been playing with a few of my New Bee Craft Stamps and oh how I love them

I teamed the Stamps with Inkables Templates and lots of Distress Inks

Items I used on this project that are available from Bee Crafty

Stamps:

Backdrops Frames - Style Wire Circle Large

Backdrops Frames - Splatter Swirl Circle

Backdrops Borders - Flower Distress Border

WORDage - Life is Good

Templates:

Inkables Template - Circles

Inkables Template - Easy Frame Circle

Inkables Template - Dots

Inks

Distress Ink - Spun Sugar

Distress Ink - Worn Lipstick

Distress Ink - Pumice Stone

Distress Ink - Frayed Burlap

Distress Stain Spray - Antique Linen

I trimmed a piece of  watercolour cardstock and inked through the 'Easy Frame Circle' using first 'Spun Sugar' and then 'Worn Lipstick' distress inks. I inked over the 'Circle' cut out from the frame set into the corners of the cardstock. I then inked over the corners again using the 'Circles Template'. Once dry I sprayed the 'Antique Linen' stain spray through the 'Dots Template' i sprinkled over some salt and dried using my Heat-It tool.

I then I stamped the 'Style Wire - Frame' offset from the pink circle using embossing ink and heat embossed using gold embossing powder. I also inked up just the swirls of the 'Splatter Swirl Circle' and stamped it twice around the wire circle frame, I heat embossed these using the gold embossing powder.

I then inked up the stem of the 'Flower Distress Border' and repeatedly stamped this around the edges to create a frame, using embossing ink and gold embossing powder I heat embossed like before. I used a scrap of card to Ink and heat emboss just the Flower from the Flower Distress Border, I then cut these out, I embossed them over the backs using a round embossing tool and a soft embossing mat to give them dimention. 

I stamped the 'Life is Good' WORDage stamp into the centre of the circle using 'Frayed Burlap' distress ink. I then fixed the dimentional flowers to the edge of the circle (where the two Swirls meet) using my hot glue gun. I inked the edges of this topper I created using 'Pumice Stone' distress ink.

To finish my card I matt and layered the topper using Cream and Brown pearlescent cardstocks.

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Krafty Hugs xx

Kerrie DT - FASHIONette Mary - Happy Birthday

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Another FASHIONette make from me today, this time it's MARY I adore these pretty/girly stamps they are so much fun to colour up using any medium but Fave of course are Alcohol Markers

Products I used that are available over at Bee Crafty's shop...

FASHIONette - Mary

Inkables - Circle Easy Frame Template

Backdrop Border - Spatter Swirl

WORDage - Happy Birthday/With Love

Distress Inks - Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick, Seedless Preserves

Ink Blending Tool

I used a masking technique for this project. I stamped Mary first onto super smooth cardstock using light grey ink and then again onto masking paper (large post-its could also be used). I cut round Mary on the masking paper and fixed over the stamped image on the super smooth cardstock so I could ink a circle over her but leaving her completely blank. I used Distress Ink pads and my Inkables Circle Easy Frame Template for this. 

Leaving the Mask in place I then Stamped the Splatter Swirl stamp around the sides in grey ink and then inked lightly over the edges using black ink. I also inked a few spotty areas using Seedless Preserves distress ink and a small circle pattern template.

I pulled back the Mask to reveal my still clean stamped image of Mary, who I then coloured using my Alchohol Markers. Where I had stamped her in light grey ink the lines are softer and almost disappear when using Markers over it (I love this effect) - I drew over her Eyelashes with a fine Black Drawing Pen to make them stand out.

I added some gems and a Sentiment to finish 

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Krafty Hugs xx

DT Kerrie - FASHIONette's - Tracy 'Important to be Nice'

Hiya and Welcome to my Monday Post for Bee Crafty

I jumped back into my own comfortzone for today's post with Alcohol Markers and Pretty Colours

I picked my 3 backing papers first from my stash and trimmed them down and layered them up along with Mirror Board and Pearlescent Cardstock - I love the lots of layers look

I stamped and coloured 'FASHIONette - Tracy' and coloured her using my Alcohol Markers to match the papers I chose. I stamped the swirl part from 'Yuletide - Holly Swirl' (Christmas stamps are not just for Christmas) around the edges of the image using 'Pumice Stone' Distress Ink to make into a topper. The Sentiment 'Important to be Nice' is from  'WORDage' collection, I stamped this using the same Distress Ink, layered with some dark brown card and fixed between the layers at the side of the 'Tracy' topper

I created the floral bouquets using 'Fabulous Flowers - Star Flowers' stamped using 'Pumice Stone' Distress Ink, fussy cut them out and coloured them with Alcohol markers to match the image. I also used the 'Larger Branch' from the 'BEAUtanicals - Branches' set using the same distress ink, fussy cut them out and layers these up with some diecut swirls around the Flowers

Thank You so much for visiting my Post today - please visit the Bee Crafty Blog again soon to see more Gorgeous Makes from the Talented Design Team x x

Krafty Hugs xxx

Kerrie DT - Star Flowers - Wake Wonderful

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I have been struggling for the last few weeks to get making again after slowing down over the festive period... so this called for some much needed Inkiness and my lovely Bee Crafty Stamps

Today's colour theme is Pink, Brown & Gold I loved playing with my stencils, embossing powders and distress inks and I really hoped that this was the push I needed to get back to crafting - messy inky fun!! so of course it has helped xx

Here is my project for today using the lovely 'Fabulous Flowers -Star Flowers' and 'WORDage - Wake Wonderful'

I trimmed down a piece of white pearlised cardstock to ink onto. I first inked the whole piece using 'Abandoned Coral' distress ink, I used a heat gun to speed up the drying process. I inked around the edges again to bring in more colour. I then used one of Bev's brilliant techniques of laying a stencil over my work, spraying with water and then taking off the excess with tissue this added a lovely textured look into the coral background. I think inked through the stencil using 'Tea Dye' distress ink, lightly in some areas and darker in others. I then inked the edges using 'Tea Dye' and then 'Walnut Stain' distress inks to add some depth to the colours. 

Using embossing ink I stamped the 'Star Flowers' into the corners but off the page as I wanted them to peek out a bit from the corners, I also stamped the edges using just the leafy swirl part of the stamp. I tipped gold embossing powder over the inked areas and then tapped off the excess, where the distress ink was a little wet still a dusting of embossing powder clung to it... a happy accident really though as I think it looks really pretty like that. I heated the powder using my White Heat Gun until it was all melted and shiney. 

I stamped the 'Wake Wonderful' WORDage stamp onto the centre of the page using brown dye ink. I matted this inked up page onto some brown pearlescent cardstock from my stash and then mounted onto a 7x7 cardblank. I finished the card with some Brown and Gold Ribbons and some Brown Gems... I didnt have any brown so I coloured in a few plain white gems using an Alcohol Marker.

Thank You so much for visiting my Post Today i really appreciate it. Please visit again soon for some more Gorgeous Projects from our Amazing Bee Crafty Design Team xx

Krafty Hugs xx

DT Kerrie - Yuletide Elves - Quick Makes For Christmas Fair

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Over the Weekend I have been Crafting up a Storm getting ready for my little ones' Christmas Fair at School where I have my first ever stall selling my Christmas Cards and Christmas Gifts 

The very gorgeous 'Yuletide Elves' have been a Godsend for making up lots of Quick Cute Christmas Cards 'Eric & Elsie' and 'Ernie' are all so so cute and so much fun to colour up and teamed with some lovely christmas papers from my Stash and now I have stacks of cards ready and packed for the Stall

I stamped the 'Yuletide Elves' onto supersmooth card and coloured them to match the papers I chose using my fave Alcohol Markers 

Thank You so much for visiting my Post today - please do visit the Bee crafty Blog again soon to see more gorgeous makes from Our Amazing Design Team

Krafty Hugs xx

DT Kerrie - Christmas Wordage 'Believe' - Bee Crafty

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I had a couple of weeks off due to being ill and half term with my 4 Kiddies taking me away from my Desk for far too long - but today I am back to where I love to be - in my Korner creating pretties

I have really gotten into making my Christmas Cards and most of those have been non-traditional colours - I love to mix it up a bit - this time I chose soft pink, brown and rich gold

The Bee Crafty products I have used are...

Inkables Template 'Easy Frame 4" Star'

Yuletide Polymer Stamp 'Believe'

Yuletide Polymer Stamp 'Snowflakes'

Backdrop Border Polymer Stamp 'Splatter Swirl'

A4 Card White Linen 255g 10 pack 

And - Distress Inks 'Spun Sugar', 'Tattered Rose' and 'Victorian Velvet' (all stocked on the Bee Crafty Webshop

I chose a 7x7 White Cardblank, and added some Matt & Layering using some pearlescent cardstock from my stash, the gold piece I used an embossing folder to create a swirly background.

With a small piece of Linen Cardstock I inked through the Star Template using Distress Inks 'Spun Sugar', 'Tattered Rose' and 'Victorian Velvet' to create the an ombre effect (lighter in the middle and darkening towards the edges) 

I stamped The 'Believe' accross the Star at a jaunty angle using brown ink, the 'Splatter Swirl' border around the edge of the Linen Cardstock and then stamped the 'Snowflakes' into opposite corners using the brown ink and 'Victorian Velvet' distress ink.

I ran my embossing ink over the edges of the Linen Cardstock and dipped these edges into gold embossing powder then heated with my 'Heat Gun' (available from Bee Crafty's Webshop) to melt the powder and create the smooth gold finish. I also used my Embossing Ink Pen to draw a shadow around the 'Believe' word then heat embossed this in Gold too.

I hope you like my card today. I really do like how it turned out.

Thank You for visiting my Post today - please do visit the Bee Crafty Blog again soon for more stunning makes from oour Talented Design Team

Krafty Hugs xx

Kerrie DT - Hope - Shaker Card

Hiya and Welcome to my Monday Post for Bee Crafty

Eeeeks today is a very exciting day for Bee Crafty with our Bev on Hochanda TV 

Bev truely is a Natural at this Demonstrating Lark but bless her she was so Nervous about being Live

Join her at 10am, 1pm and 5pm over on Hochanda sky 663

I am so so Excited that some Samples by me are on the show along with Gorgeous Makes by Bev and the Amazing Design Team 

Here is one of my Samples from the Show - my 'Hope' Shaker Card

I used the Circle Template emboss the circle into the centre of a sqaure piece of card, but then cut it out to create an aperture. I cut a piece of acetate to fit behind the circle at attached using extra strong double sided tape, to create the window. Then I cut some foam tape into small pieces to stick around the circle on the reverse side leaving no gaps, more foam tape around the outside edge of the reverse of the square piece of card. 

I trimmed a piece of bronze pearlescent cardstock to a few mm smaller than the 6x6 scalloped edge card blank that i had chose to use. I had decided on pale hues for this card to show that the stamps can be used for softer makes as well as the artsy makes.

For the main image I used a piece of pearlescent white cardstock and inked from the edge to the centre using 'Antique Linen', 'Tattered Rose' and 'Victorian Velvet' Distress Inks and a small blending tool. Then using 'Pumice Stone' I stamped the 'Dandies' backdrop border along the bottom, and 'Hope' and her Balloon towards the centre so they would fit inside the aperture. I used a water brush to blend out around her feet so she appears to be standing on a little hill.

I fixed the bronze pearlescent square into the centre of the card blank, followed by the stamped image, then tipped in some white seed beads, Glitter and little punched flowers onto the centre of the image being careful not to spill out too far. I then fixed the Aperture Window over the centre to complete the shaker 

I really like how this card turned out

Thank You so much for visiting my Post today - Please do visit the Bee Crafty Blog again soon to see more Gorgeous Makes by the Talented Design Team 

Krafty Hugs xx