Marleen DT - even more snowflakes

Hey bloggers..

Have you guessed that Im in love with the new snowflake stamps from BeeCrafty??
Well I am lol.. And today Im sharing even more cards made with these yumy stamps..

I love christmas, and I love making christmas cards. But like many others, I send out so many cards each year that in order to have them all hand made, I have to be frugal with the supplies I use. Crafting is'nt cheap BUT with some AMAZING timeless stamps and a few supplies, you can make a mass of cards on a very small budget..

Both of these cards have been made using:
* plain white card stock
* Distress inks
* Embossing powders
* BeeCrafty Stamps. Find them HERE..

 This one was made by first putting down "Wilted violet" distress ink on my card. I then took the "Dusty Concord" and stamped the single snowflakes. (leave your background now to REALLY dry or your embossing powder will stick to the whole lot)
Once REALLY dry, I then took the script stamp and inked with versamark, stamped randomly on my background and heat embossed with gold embossing powder.
I did the same with the "Snow" greeting.
I finished this card by making a mat with the same gold embossing powder and mounted onto my card base with foam pads.

This one is made pretty much as above. "Wild Honey" and "Rusty Hinge" distress ink.
Its hard to see here on the picture, but the whole background is stamped with the script stamp using "Rusty Hinge". (Again, leave your background now to REALLY dry before adding embossing powder.) (Distress ink can be used as an embossing ink instead of versamark)

Once dry I did my stamping with versamark. I used the BIG grungy snowflake stamp. I love this stamp. Its so versatile. You can use a section like I have here, or the whole stamp. (I have a card coming next week using the whole stamp) I added added my embossing powder and heat set it.
I did the same with the greeting.
And as the card above, I made a mat using the embossing powder also before mounting onto my card blank with foam.

So as you can see. 2 VERY easy cards, using not a lot of supplies. They dont take too long to make either and could be made in bulk using different colours.

And that is it from me for today. I hope you like my creations.

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 Happy Crafting

DT Kerrie - Christmas in August

Hiya and Welcome to my Monday Post for Bee Crafty

Now that my Children's Birthday's are done its my tradition to begin my prep for Christmas which includes beginning my shopping plans for their gifts but also the start of my Christmas Cards so today I am sharing one of these new makes for the Festive Season...

I have used some of the Bee Crafty Stamps from the 'Yuletide' Collection

I created a background using the 'Yuletide' - Snowflakes' set along with light and dark blue chalk inks for some of the flakes and then clear embossing ink with a mixture of blue, silver pearl and tinsel white embossing powders which I then heated using a heat toolto create some texture, shine and sparkle.

I then stamped the 'Yuletide' - Believe' large sentiment using blue chalky ink which I sprinkled a little of the tinsel white embossing powder over. I trimmed the seniment, inked the edges by running a clear embossing ink pad accross them, I then dipped into tinsel while embossing powder to add sparkle. I matted the sentiment onto blue cardstock.

To finish my card I matted the background I created onto the same blue cardstock as the sentiment and attached this to a 7x7 card blank. I fixed the Sentiment to the card front using foam tape at a jaunty angle.

Next I repeat stamped the Snowflakes onto offcuts of cardstock in the same inks as before adding ebossing powders including some clear this time for the darker blue. I fussy cut them, used an embossing tool on the reverse of them to create dimention. I then arranged them at the corners of the sentiment layering them up a bit and adding gems to the centres. I added some extra gems to opposite corners of the card to finish

Thank you so much for visiting the Bee Crafty Blog today, please come back again soon to see more gorgeous makes from the Design Team x

Krafty Hugs xx

 

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Life's Rainbow

Morning, Since I very first saw the Bee Crafty stamps I have loved them. I especially like the sentiments, sometimes even using them as a starting point for my finished project. I make a lot of Artist Trading Cards and the smaller sized sentiments are superb for that.

The project I am sharing today is actually a completely different card to what I set out making. I started off using the Quill,Nibs and antique accounts stamps. It was when I chose the sentiment that I was sidetracked and started a different design entirely.

I stamped the'Life' Sentiment onto my Super Smooth card, then used one of the Backdrop Borders to create a frame around the sentiment. Then taking a selection of Distress Inks I coloured the piece. I started off at the top right hand corner with Blueprint Sketch to about half way across the card, then blended through Chipped Sapphire approximately quarter way down. Then from the bottom left I repeated the process using in order: Mustard Seed, overlapping slightly to give green, then Spiced Marmalade and finally Candied Apple.

For the main card, I started by stamping the large and medium curled feathers with versamark to give a watermark to the background. Then drew a rough idea of my rainbow and placed this over the background, then using the Distress Inks, stippled the colours through in turn. Keep an eye out for the paper getting saturated, All I did then was cut out the next segment from the mask and move down. I used the following colours for the rainbow: Candied Apple, Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed, Mowed Lawn, Dusty Concorde and Blueprint Sketch.

When I had completed the rainbow, I made the decision to make the feathers more prominent in the main background, The versamark was still sticky so just added the ultra fine clear embossing powder and used the heat gun. Then for the top of the card I blended out from the edge using Blueprint Sketch and Chipped Sapphire and for the bottom I used Mustard Seed and Spiced Marmalade.

Finally I used a black fine liner pen to create a border about 5 mm from the edge. Added my sentiment with 5 mm foam tape to raise it from the card and added a black mat.

I really hope you have enjoyed my Step by Step today, along with the finished card. I hope you will join me again very soon.