Demonstration Day...

...Tomorrow Saturday 13th November!!!

Hiya Everyone

Hope you're all ok, just wondered how you were fixed for tomorrow?

We are very lucky to be having 2 of our fantastical demonstrators in the shop again for you....

And there is the poster that the lovely Bev has created to let you guys know what's going on!

Hope to see you there

Take Care

Sam xxx

Lest We Forget...

Morning Everyone

I saw this this morning and thought it was something to share.

11th of 11th of 11th

On the 11th hour...

Men and women have stood tall

For their country with pride

Sadly all to many have died

On the 11th hour let us remember

On the 11th day...

So many years have past

Father, Daughter, Brother, Son

Millions have died more than just a number

On the 11th day let us remember

On the 11th month...

The conscripted, The regulars, The Volunteers too

So much this country owes to all of you

With 2 minutes silence a country will remember

Lest We Forget the 11th of November

May you all Rest in Peace!

 

 

I don't think I really need to say anything else today

 

Take Care

 

Sam xxx

48 sleeps.........

.......Until the man in the big red suit comes to visit!!!

It's been a while since I came and said hi, sorry! 

So anyway how are we all? Keeping well I hope.  I thought I would come in and let you know that due to a little staffing shortage Bee Crafty will not be open on the first Sunday of December.  What this means is that there will be no Crop on that Sunday.  However as we are always keen to provide the cropping time you need, should we be able to generate enough interest then the Cropping space would be available on the Saturday.  So, if you think that this is a Saturday you'd like to come cropping then let us know by email or call us on 01386 831123 and we'll get you booked in.

With all this cropping talk in mind, we were having a think about January's Crop and with it being the 2nd of January we doubt very much that anyone's dinner will have settled from the day before so the New Year crop will be either the following Sunday (9th January) providing we get enough interest or perhaps, depending on what you want, we will run on to February which will DEFINATELY be on Sunday 6th!!!

If you haven't already seen there is a great list of classes, demo's and workshops available on the website as always with our classes if there is something you are looking for but it doesn't appear on the list, contact us and we'll always do what we can to meet your requirements.

Well thats enough for now but i'll be back much more often... and I am now going into the depths of my Craftroom and hopefully i'll come out in a couple of days with something new to show you.

Take Care

Sam xxx

Classes, Crops, MiniMakes & Demos

Good Evening Everyone,

I hope everyone had had a good week, mine has gone so so fast it is unbelievable.

Well it has happened Christmas is definitely coming how can I tell all of a sudden you ask, Well, that blooming DFS advert, All I want for Christmas is You, blooming heck :)

As Michelle Jackson MOgford had a bit of an emergency this week her Haunted House All Day workshop will now be next weekend, if we have any places come available we will let you know as soon as we can as we know how much we all love Michelle Jackson Mogford and her fantastic classes

Here is a list of whats coming up over the next couple of months 

Classes, Crops, Demos & Mini Makes

November & December 2010

Mon 1st Nov Accordion Tag Book 10am - 12noon

Fri 5th Nov Never Ending Card 10am - 12noon

Sun 7th Nov Crop 11am - 4pm

Mon 8th Nov Birthday Mini Album 10am - 12noon

Fri 12th Nov Christmas Pudding Cards 10am -12noon

Sat 13th Nov Frosted Flowers DEMO All Day

Mon 15th Nov Easel Cards 10am - 12noon

Fri 19th Nov Post It Pocket Book 10am - 12noon

Sat 20th Nov Tando House Book 10am - 4pm

Mon 22nd Nov Heat Embossing 10am - 12noon

Fri 26th Nov Spirelli Bauble Cards 10am - 12noon

Sat 27th Nov Christmas Mini Makes All Day

Fri 3rd Dec XMAS Book 10am - 12noon

Sat 4th Dec ProMarker Colouring 10am - 12noon

Sun 5th Dec Crop 11am - 4pm

Mon 6th Dec Diamond Fold Card 10am - 12noon

Fri 10th Dec Snowman Penny Spinner 10am - 12noon

Sat 11th Dec Jacobs Ladder Christmas 10am - 12noon

Mon 13th Dec Never Ending Card 10am - 12noon

Fri 17th Dec Christmas Favor Boxes 10am - 12noon

*Subject to Change

These are bookable both online, in store or over the phone, we are trying to get some samples ready and as soon as we have some they will be shown either on here or on our fabby facebook page or both :)

To be the first to know all the goss at Bee Crafty Facebook is the place to join in.

Either put Bee Crafty in your Facebook search box, or even easier than that click the like button in the facebook box on the Bee Crafty homepage.

If you have any ideas for classes, projects, products or demo's you would like to see at Bee Crafty please feel free to contact us.

Thank you

Bev x

What a fortnight!!!

Well that was a quick 2 weeks, Julie was away then I was away, I was sure I posted but obviously not and I am so sorry. Have you checked out Bee Crafty's NEW Tuesday Challenge Blog, it's all in the name of good fun but you can also win FREE crafting goodies so always worth an entry.

Well whilst I was away the shop has been overhauled Julie is back at the helm at Blackminster and it is MARVELLOUS so if you've missed Julie over the past few months why not come in and have a cuppa and a chat.

I am putting together a schedule of classes, demo's & mini makes for Bee Crafty on the run up to Christmas and if there is something missing that you would like to see or do, please pop in, email or give me a ring. We have always said we are run by crafters for crafters so you tell us what you would like to see.

Have I told you about the fantstic NEW Wild Rose Ladies, they are very scrumptious.

There are four brand new ladies in the Wild Rose Studio Range

I will get some samples made of these soon hoefully, but like I say we have a NEW class schedule up and there are no piccies as yet so the samples for those have to come first :)

I hope you've all had a good start to the week.

Bev x

Christmas Frame with Victorian Paper Strips

Happy Monday Everyone,

Like I said on our Product Focus on Friday, October will be focusing on the Woodware Fingerguard Trimmer, so I wanted this Mondays project to be something different, so I picked up this mirror and started painting

I then base coated with a white paint laying it on quite thick letting it dry a little and then dabbing with kitchen paper to get a dimply effect.

I then mixed a brown and green paint to get a nice rich colour and stippled it on/

I cut strips of card out of Pearlescent Moulin Rouge, Satin Mirri Gold, and Green Glitter Card, using the Victorian blade that comes free with the A4 fingerguard.
I edged the green glitter card with a gold gel pen and used it again to create a stitching effect on the moulin rouge pearl.

I also used the gold gel pen to bring out the vein detail on these fabulous poinsettias (I am so sorry I've been off poorly today and didn't have chance to add them to the web I will hyperlink tomorrow)

I completed it with the Gold bling on Mulberry Holly Leaves 99p (12) and some Satin Mirri Gold Flourishes to finish.

I hope you like the finished result, it is in the shop if you want to come in and take a look, I will try and come up with something funky and fabby later in the week. I hope you have all had a good start to October

Bev x

October Product Focus

A new feature of the blog will be our product focus every month, we will give the in and outs and pro's & con's of our favourite products here at Bee Crafty, we will try and bring you projects through the month that will give you an idea of the versatility of the product we have chosen.

OCTOBER ~ The Woodware Fingerguard Trimmer

This is one of the best hobby trimmers on the market, and not only for it's fantastic price.

The Woodware Fingerguard Trimmer is so easy to use, versatile, inexpensive and safe. The blades are safely encase in their cartridges, which not only protects your fingers but makes changing these rotary blades really quick.

This trimmer is compact and lightweight making it easy to store no matter what size of are you have for your crafting goodies, you can cut small and big items really easily. as the lock in tracking bar, helps to keep your papers in place.

The standard A4 Woodware Fingerguard comes with 2 blades to get you started, the all important straight edge and the wonderful versatile Victorian, which adds that small bit of decorative edge to any of your projects.

There are 12 fantastic designs of blade available for this trimmer and at only £2.99 each it won't take long to collect them all.

NEW ADDITION:

The Woodware Fingerguard Trimmer fanily has just had a new addition.

The A3 Woodware Fingerguard Trimmer.

This trimmer has a much wider base than the original, making cutting even larger than 12x12 a breeze. , without losing any of it's versatility. It comes with a straight blade, a scoring blade and a perforating blade. So if making boxes or folded card projects is your particular craft this is a great start up set.

We will try and show you as many things as we can using the Woodware Fingerguard throughout October, and if you want any more information please don't hesitate to give us a call, e-mail shop@beecrafty.net or you can even leave a message for us on our facebook page.

Thank you

Bev x

P.S The NEW Bee Crafty Challenge Blog is nearly ready to go live are you poised and ready to use your card making to win FREE stash.

Mondays Card.

I made this card today using the fabulous back2basics scalloped cards (only £6.50 for 50), a fantastic base suitable for nearly all cards.

I layered up fuchsia, pink with mirri silver & white card and used a double layer of double sided foam between the smaller square and larger square to give some wonderful depth.

The large bloom is taken from a dissected artificial flower (a wonderful way of getting large multi petaled fabric blooms), centred with a bunch of large white tea roses.

This would be a great card for, weddings, birthdays, anniversaries and mothers day, you could change the clolor of it really simply and even add patterned papers of backgorund stamping for your own touch.

Bev x

P.S Keep your eyes open for our NEW weekly challenge blog starting next week :)

Sammy's Birthday

I told you that September was one of those months.

Today is Sam's (Big Sis) birthday she is once again at 28, if the rumour you get to 30 and go backwards is true. We have had a lovely dinner and a chocolate cake that looked very similar to the one Bruce is made to eat in Matilda.

She has had some lovely cards and pressies, and I though you might like to see mine.

The base card is a Tunnel Card from Kanban which has 2 in the pack comes in 4 different colourways and they are all great for Birthdays anniversaries etc

The large rosebud heads are fantastic and I just touched up round the petals with a Sakura Stardust to give it a bit of bling and a Bee Crafty Bloom from the flower patch. I have also used Card Candy down the side as well as Crystal Brads both in the scallops and as the centre of one of the flowers on the centre piece.

The Happy Birthday peel off is one of our favourite to stock instore as it is fun and quirky but still very useable for all sorts of Birthday Cards. We stock gold and silver peel offs so I have coloured this one in with a Black ProMarker.

We have got lots of ideas, projects and products and CHALLENGES coming up for over the next few months so keep your eyes peeled on the blog or facebook.

As always we love to get your feedback/input so if you have any ideas for products you'd like us to stock, challenge ideas, workshop/demo suggestions or some ideas you;d just like to throw at us, either message us via facebook, e-mail the shop at shop@beecrafty.net or give us a call 01386 831 123.

Thanks for Looking guys, have a great weekend.

Bev x

A Couple of Crazy Card Weeks

That is what we've all had you know that fortnight of the year where you need half a dozen cards all in the same fortnight, I have two a year, the first fortnight in July and the first fortnight in September.

We have had Julie (Mum & Boss) and Bill's (Dad & Dude) Anniversary, Alex's 8th Birthday, My friend Laura's birthday, Abi's second Cousin Imogens 1st Birthday just loads & loads.

Some of these I forgot to take pictures off at the time so will re~acquire at some point to get some photos.

I did have the prescence of mind however to take photos of this one which I made for Laura's 28th Birthday.

I made it using 2 CD's, punched with a Crop a Dile & secured with ribbon,

Lots of Blooms of course, tea roses & Bee Crafty Blooms all matched up for a fantastic overall effect.

The message is a peel off coloured with a Green Identipen & accented with a Crystal Sticker

The Butterfly is made using 3 identical butterfly peel offs, stuck to each other and then the CD to create a 3D 'free' winged effect.

I do also have images of Imogens 1st Birthday card which I will put up later this week accompanied by the one I made for her christening which I was really chuffed with earlier this year.

Thanks for Looking

Bev x