Kerrie DT - Phoebe FASHIONettes

Hiya and welcome to my Monday Post for Bee Crafty

This week I have made a card for my littlest Daughter reBecca as its her 7th Birthday in a few week's she may only be young but she is already a shopping diva who knows exactly what she wants lol she has more handbags than I do 

I have chosen to colour FASHINettes - Phoebe this week her hair is a lot like reBecca's all long and wavy

I coloured Phoebe using my big collection of alcohol markers - she took best part of a day to colour but I loved every minute

I chose a pretty backing paper which I colour matched with my markers - thats the joy of having a big collection being able to colour match to pretty much any paper i choose - the Shopping List was created using the packaging from some stickers I got online last week it was too nice to throw away I stuck some washi tape across the bottom to hide the brand info. The writing is my own messy writing but I quite like how it turned out

I also used the front half of a shaped cardblank to create the layer behind the shopping list - which I stamped onto using 'Yuletide - Holly Swirl', 'Beautanicals - Dandelion' and the tiny butterfly from 'The Village - Elm Road' - I added a sentiment 'Happy Birthday' which I mounted onto a panel that I had covered using the same washi tape as earlier. The punched edge on the Mirror Board is from Martha Stewart.

I hope I have inspired you today to mix up your crafting materials with a few things you might not normally use

Thank You for visiting today, come back to the Bee Crafty Blog soon for more makes from my Amazing Design Team Buddies

Krafty Hugs xx

Marleen DT -The Village.

Hello Blogger friends..

Wow.. How the weeks are flying.. Already first week into march..
It's once again wednesday and time for my post for

Bee Crafty.

Ive once again had a play with the stamps from the "The Village" range.

Again, Ive used the "Orchard Close" set.
You can find it in the STORE with all the other yummy goodies.

Here is what I've made for today:

 

 Well after having made scenes for the last 2 weeks, I really wanted to try something else with this stamp set so I decided just to use the 1 stamp, the greeting that comes in the set.

I really just started to stamp the word home and the rest just flowed from there. It just fitted perfect to add the house stamp in the corner and the keys are diecut and embossed.

I then needed a background to add it all too, and having recently tidied up my masks, I remembered that I have a brick mask. Its was perfect. I first smothered my project in distress inks and then added some clear texture paste to a section of the mask. Its a bit hard to see on the photoes, but its give the card some fab texture up close.

And that is all from me for today. Dont forget to join our Boss Lady Beverly over on

 The British Craft Network channel.

And join us in the
 Bee Crafty FACEBOOK group 

Anyway, thank you for popping by and for any comment left behind

Marleen DT - The Village

Hello Blogger friends..

Once again wednesday and time for my spot for

Bee Crafty.

Today Ive once had a play with a stamp set from "The Village" range.

Ive used the "Orchard Close" set.
You can find it in the STORE with all the other yummy goodies.

Here is what Ive made for today:

 

 

 Ive had another play with creating a scene.
This one went a bit better I think. Simply because I focused on the stamping and not the colouring.
I think I really like this scene thingy and as I used distress markers to colour with I was back to something I know well and I felt more at ease with it.
I really like how this card came out, very different from my usual makes but hey, thats hopefully not such a bad thing ;-)

And that is all from me for today. Dont forget to join our Boss Lady Beverly over on

 The British Craft Network channel.

And join us in the
 Bee Crafty FACEBOOK group 

Anyway, thank you for popping by and for any comment left behind

Marleen DT - The Village

Hello Blogger friends..

Once again wednesday and time for my spot for

Bee Crafty.

Today Ive had a play with a stamp set from "The Village" range.

Ive used the "Orchard Close" set.
You can find it in the STORE with all the other yummy goodies.

Here is what Ive made for today:

Well, Well, Well.. For today Ive done something I never thought Id ever try.. I made a scene..
Ok I admit it, this was my 3rd attempt.. Do i like it?? Yaaaa Its ok..  I liked doing the stamping.. but making the back grounds I found a bit tricky...

And I have to give credit where credit is due. As I said, this was my 3rd attempt.. My very first attempt, I put up for show in the Bee Crafty FACEBOOK group to get some feed back and some hints and tips.
One of my old teamies, Bernie, send me a PM and offered a few tips on how I could improve the idea. Bernie was beyond kind, not only did she give me a written step by step she gave me picture instructions as we went along.. Bernie, I THANK YOU for all your kindness.

And that is how this card came together. I wont sit and give you instructions on how to make a scene, as Im simply not qualified to do so, But I do know that our Boss Lady, Beverly, will be showing you how to do it, over on The British Craft Network channel.

Anyway, thank you for popping by and for any comment left behind

Being Happy....

...Means whatever you want it to

So not my normal sort of post but hey whats normal? 

Anyhoo I went down the journal route for this one, I just fancied something a bit different and perhaps it's not everyone's cup of tea but isn't that the point of what we do?  Individual? Each to their own kind of stuff?

So I used some of The Village stamps with an array of the Inkables templates coupled with what has to be one of my favourite Wordage stamps.

So first I got some colour down and then couldn't decide which template to use so pretty much went wild with the chain link, the honeycomb and the one with the bunting that will be with us soon!!!

I didn't want the uniform chain link fencing so literally wafted my distress inkpad all over it and splatted it onto the page and kept going until I had what I thought looked like an OK background.  Inked through the honeycombe and bunting and then set about stamping some houses...

I decided that the houses needed paths so just doodled these onto some lightweight cardstock and attached them to the houses once I had coloured them in using promarkers

Like I said one of my favourite Wordage stamps - Being Happy in the large version, stamped it out in black memento ink onto some lightweight cardstock and chopped it up a bit so that I could spread it over the page.  I think it covers what I was saying earlier quite well in terms of - perhaps my perfection and yours are different - which is why I love that stamp!

Once I had cot my houses stuck down I used the birds and wire stamp from the village collection and doodled the joining and extra bits in to fit - have to say having them as a guide was awesome though and a great way to use the stamp.

So hope you like it - I had great fun with this one!

Take Care

Sam xxx