Home Sweet Home & BOM Sneeky Peeks

Happy Monday Crafters,

Well we have been very busy bees at the Hive this weekend, not only have we been prepping to go to the trade show next week SSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Excited but have also been coming up with some fabbbby samples for the upcoming workshops.

First of all if you are on our Facebook Page you may have already seen them but is our

Home Sweet Home Hanger

This Class is on Saturday 18th February and uses a Tando Chipboard Hanger, Kaisercraft Papers, PLUS some faux stitching, ProMarkers and ribbon

PLEASE NOTE: You do NOT have to use these papers when you come to the class you can choose whatever we have that would go best in yout home

Our Next Class is

Saturday 25th February

and is the First Session of a 6 Session Series

Book of ME

This is an 8x8 Scrapbooking/Altered Project ALL ABOUT YOU

I have some sneaky peeks of the sample here, but again you can select paper sthat you think reflect you better.

In the First Session we will be making our Book Covers AND a SMASH Style Notebook to keep ideas etc in.



I hope to see you at some of our classes over the next few months :)

Bev x

Marvellous Monday

Happy Monday Crafters,

I hope you all managed to stay nice and toasty over the weekend and maybe get some crafting done. It was my little munchkins 4th Birthday on Friday and we have had an entire weekend of celebrating that, I can't believe she is 4 already and starts school in September VERY weird. Anywho this is why we scrapbook isn't it to make sure we keep as many moments as we can for as long as possible.

However it is very easy to keep up to date with pages, notes etc about the people we love, family & friends, when was the last time you did something about you? Well if I was to answer that the anser would be 2007 :)

We have some lovely papers in the shop and we will be using them to create the Book of Me series of classes starting on the 25th Feb.

In the first class we are going to make the Covers for our Book of Me, and I will have a sneak peek of that before the end of the week, but in addition to that we are going to make a small SMASH style book for you to take notes stick pictures etc in about things that you love or surround you to give you inspiration for your Book of Me Pages.

You can book the first in the Book of Me Series of Workshops in store or online.

Which moves me seemlessly onto my next item which is the classes etc are now online to book, but if you would like to start coming to the crops etc and want to book 3 to guarantee your place you can save money as Crop&Craft is £5 but you can book 3 months for £10 (this can by done via email or over the phone or in store)

NEW PRODUCT

I was supposed to have a lovely NEW product to Bee Crafty to show you today but the suppliers are blaming City Link and Vice Versa but they are so yummy I didn't want to wait.

Paper Cherry Blossoms

These beautiful blossoms are 2.5cm across and will be available in small bunches. There are several colourways to tie in with your projects but take colourings such as misters and spritzers or watercolour with distress inks really well, and as soon as they are in I will demo this for you.

I will post on Facebook as soon as they are here so make sure you 'Like' Bee Crafty

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bee-Crafty/109016309116

Thats all for now

Bev x

CLASSES

Good Afternoon Cold Crafters,

The February & March Classes are now available

Saturday 18th February ~ Home Sweet Home Hanger

10am - 12noon ~ £8

Using Chipboard, Paint & Gorgeous Papers to create a fabulous home

decoration for yourself or a gift

Saturday 25th February ~ Book of Me (continuing Project)

10am - 12noon ~ £8

In this first Book of Me Session we will create our books and create a SMASH (note) book to keep all of our ideas ready to create pages in our book Next Month.

Sunday 4th March ~ Sunday Crop & Craft

11am - 4pm ~ £5 (Book 3 for ONLY £10)

Crop/Craft session where you bring your stash we provide the cake & you spend all day crafting with like minded people sharing ideas & inspirations

Saturday 10th March ~ ProMarker Colouring

10am - 12noon ~ £5

If you haven’t used ProMarkers before or just want to get in touch with them again come and play for the morning and get back to grips with these fabulous blending pens

Saturday 17th March ~ Watercolour Stamping

10am - 12noon ~ £5

Watercolour made easy with this beautiful NEW STAMPS from

Flutterbug Designs. You can create cards pages, altered art, easy peasy

(no artistic talent needed)

Saturday 24th March ~ Book of Me (continuing Project)

10am - 12noon ~ £8

Session 2 of your book of me, we will be taking ideas from your smash book to create gorgeous pages for this fabulous book dedicated to the brilliance that is you :)

We have taken on all the opinions of the people who contacted us regarding what they'd like to see on our classes and we have managed to fit everyone's ideas in. I am really looking forward to the monthly Book of Me classes and if you like the crop or want to start coming we are doing 3 for £10 if you book them all at the same time. They are not on the website yet, so if you want to book any before then please give us a call or email and we will send you a paypal invoice.

 

Thats all for today.

 

Bev x

Ooooh love that Candi

Good Afternoon you Bee Craftiers,

I hope you are all good and keeping warm, if you are crafting today, make sure you keep your feet warm socks and slippers are a must, so bright and sunny though so @I do feel that softens the blow when its cold.

Well here we are in February which can be disappointing because as our biggest trade show of the year is in 3 weeks it usually means we have a wait for New Goodies.

NOT THIS YEAR!!!!

We have just had in some GORGEOUS New Card Candi from Craftwork Cards which is so blooming lovely. Craftwork have really begun to think outside the box and the new ranges are foil decorated.

They are all available in the shop and online of course, I have got the biggest pictures I can get onthe website so they do expand if you click on them, however if you can get to the shop pop in, they are so much yummier in the flesh especially the Newsprint one, ooh heck its fab!

The others are delicious colours with foil accents with in stripes or stars with our Queen celebrating her Diamond Jubilee this year a fabulously topical colour set is Brittania

There are others too so bee sure to look at the Candi Page on the website or pop in :)

Thanks for Reading and hopefully see you soon

Bev x

I totally heart this.....

hearty hanger!

Hi Everyone how are you?

Saturday just passed was the first Saturday workshop of the year and what a good start we're off to

 

So they set sail at 10am with the kit including some beautiful Kaisercraft papers and some ink and some inspiration....

Julie took the class and a great time was had by all.  The great thing about the workshop was that there weren't two projects taken away that were the same.  Essentially this means that whilst we try to provide a great inspiration by means of booking your workshop the finished article is always how you want it to be. 

Here they are almost at the finish point - as you can see there is a bit more going on at this stage. 

All of our workshops include free tea and coffee too (I don't know many crafters who can go without).

So the finished article (the one that inspired them to come to the workshop) is this one

Also created by Julie I think you would have to agree it is stunning!!!

Well I'm just about done so the last thing I thought I'd mention incase you hadn't seen

we're having a sale - click here to see whats on offer!!!

Take care everyone

Sam xxx

New Year, New Goals, New Products (Coming Soon) Old Bee's :)

Good Afternoon Bee Crafty Followers

Happy New Year to you all, I know we are only 6 days in but I hope 2012 is already shaping up okay for you, we had a great day wrapping up the Christmas Decorations at the beginning of the week, don't get me wrong I LOVE LOVE LOVE my Christmas Decorations but the taking them down always seems like a new start for me. I don't really go in for resolutions as I only dissapoint myself later, so I think it's better to set yourself little goals throught the year and achieve all you can :)

Lots of people seem to be enjoying the SALE which is great only one thing is better than brilliant craft stash and that is 50% OFF brilliant craft stash. We are all crafters before we are anything else so the excitement of the sale is not lost on us at all :)

We have found this week that lots of people are just finding out we have moved to Bidford, trust me advertising is not all it is cracked up to be so if you can get the word out there too we would really appreciate it.

We have lots of plans for 2012 some already in motion others might take a bit more prep as and when these get going I will of course let you know

Remember you can follow us on Facebook and Twitter and  get your friends to aswell, it is usually the first place NEW happens as it's quick and easy (and because it's where I am usually lurking :) )

The NEW Class and Crop schedule is due out anytime, there will also be Saturday workshops and crops this year as this seems to be what has been most requested so please let us know if there is anything specific you want/need, we are here to make your crafting fun so tell us what you want.

Right that'll do for now, still lots to enjoy in the sale and I'll get back to you soon

Bev x

A Little Something Just For Me!

Having made lots of cards lately, I decided to take a bit of a break and make something else! It's very unusual for me to make an "Off the Page" project, but sometimes it can be really good to step a little outside your comfort zone!

I had recently purchased some stunning Kaiserkraft papers from Bee Crafty, so I chose a selection of papers from the Gypsy Sisters collection and came up with the idea of making a mini folding photo album/calendar - just for me!
               

First of all I cut 6 pieces of card measuring 9cm by 13cm. I then inked around the edges of the card using a Plum coloured Promarker. I made 8 hinges from card and glued them onto the relevant sections.

I then cut 12 pieces of patterned paper measuring 9cm by 13cm and distressed the edges with "Faded Jeans" Distress ink.The papers were then glued in place onto each section of the album.

I made some pockets and tags out of the paper off-cuts and decorated them with co-ordinating ribbons, pins, adhesive gems and lace. These were then glued to the various sections of the mini album. I added a few photo's of my lovely mum (sadly no longer with us) to the remaining sections and also added a 2012 calendar.

                         

                          

This album was so simple to make and is going to take pride of place on my craft desk from now on.
 

If you haven't tried Kaisercraft papers before, please believe me when I say the papers are simply stunning. The quality is excellent and the patterns and colour palettes they use are beautiful.

Bee Crafty has lots of the new papers by  Kaisercraft in stock at the moment (both on line and in the shop) I am definitely going to buy some more from them next week - whilst they are still available!

Till next time - happy crafting!

Free Digi Stamp from Bee Crafty

Have you downloaded your lovely FREE Bubble Christmas Tree digi stamp from Bee Crafty yet? I downloaded mine yesterday and have made three Christmas cards with it already.

The first one was made by using up some of my non-adhesive clear gems. I simply glued the gems onto the image and then matted and layered it onto some silver mirror card and co-ordinating card stock from my stash.

On the second card I coloured in the gaps between the bubbles with a Promarker in Holly. Then I used a selection of adhesive gems, coloured pearls, cabochons and brads to once again to fill in the various bubbles. I then cut the image out and matted it onto some gold mirror card and green card stock. The photo doesn't do this card justice ... it's really lovely (if I say so myself! lol)

For the third card I wanted to keep things really simple, so I just coloured in the bubbles with my Promarkers. I then added a little Stickles glitter (in Stardust) around the edge of each bubble. Once again I carefully cut around the image and matted it onto a green card.

Make it fancy or keep it simple, this image is really versatile. If you have children who enjoy crafting, why not print off a few images for them to colour in and make their own Christmas cards.

Don't forget the digi image will only be there for one week - so use it or lose it! lol. Happy Crafting.

FREE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . Christmas Tree Digi

We have got a FREE Digi on our website.

http://www.beecrafty.net/

Available in both PNG and JPEG formats

The PNG is great if you want to print onto printed paper (as the background is clear) the JPEG is great if you want to colour, glitter, sticky gem your digi

Please show us what you make with it either by sending a picture to shop@beecrafty.net or upload it to the Bee Crafty facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bee-Crafty/109016309116

Bev x

Just One Sheet of Decoupage ....

I have dipped into the world of non die-cut decoupage for the first time this week and have discovered I really like it!

Bee Crafty have a wide variety of beautiful non die-cut decoupage sheets, covering all manner of occasions. For my decoupage taster session I chose a "Good Luck" sheet (a bargain at only 25p!) which had three lovely images on it.

First of all I carefully cut out all of the images using a pair of small embroidery type scissors.(I took my time as I didn't want to lose a ladybird leg! Then I used 3d foam pads to layer the relevant pieces together. I would have preferred to use silicon glue but I had run out! (Note to self - pick some up next time I am in Bee Crafty - lol) Then I chose my card stock and backing paper from my paper stash and set about making the following three cards.

I made three extra ladybirds for this card - just a red card Candi drawn on with a black pen, with a few legs added once they were on the card!

For this one I mounted the brick tag shape onto some cream card stock and added a green satin bow and some card Candi. 

This one was just simply matted and layered onto some green card stock and some green gingham paper.

I was very impressed with both the quality of the decoupage paper and with the number of cards I could make from one 25p sheet of decoupage. I am off to make some more now! Till next time - happy crafting x