Snow Blizzard Samples for Bee Crafty

 Hi There! I am here with the samples I made for the Bee Crafty Hochanda show last Tuesday. First up are the wonderful bauble decorations. I added some acetate on two and added glitter in between to make them into 'shakers', as well as decorating with the snowflake, star and tree frame inkables and pop outs.

The stamps are absolutely gorgeous and I really enjoyed playing with them making all sorts of inky backgrounds...

The bauble easy frames work really well with them too.

 You can probably tell how much I have enjoyed playing with them, and I have plans to play with them quite a lot more over the next few weeks! If you didn't get chance to see the show, it is still available on Hochanda, and both Bev and Jane have done facebook lives with the stamps which are available to watch on the Bee Crafty Facebook Page

You can find the stamps here

 MDF pop-outs are here

The easy frame baubles are here

The snowflake, tree frame and stars inkables are here 

I hope you have as much fun with them as I am having if you decide to take the plunge😁

Thanks for looking!  

Spring, lambs and Creative Stamping

 Hi There!
I had a lovely trip out with a friend at the weekend to a tea shop a few miles from here. Beauvale Abbey is between Watnall and Eastwood to the west of Nottingham.

There is a wonderful tea shop in one of the farm buildings, and we indulged in a pot of tea and some lemon-iced ginger cake. The pot of tea for two had more than seven cups in it and the cake was delicious (that is high praise indeed from me!)
On our wander around the remains of the Abbey we met some very very new lambs...

They reminded me that the latest copy of Creative Stamping is now out, and there are some wonderful springtime stamps with it. There is a particularly lovely lamb, which I used on this card.

All details of how I made this and several more are in the magazine.
I will leave you with a photo of a beautiful primula that I treated myself to at the garden centre down the road.

Spring wishes to you, and thanks for looking!

Punch away at Stampalot

It is the first Sunday of the month and time for another Stampalot Challenge. The challenge this month is to use Punches. Here is my card.

I used a stamp from Ruth's Tonic studios chrysanthemum set, coloured with coloured pencils and blended with a versamarker pen. I stamped the foliage in versa mark and then brushed wild Honey, Picked raspberry and festive berries Distress inks over the top. the flower border is a Tonic studios punch. I then used 2 different sizes of daisy punch (woodware) to make the little flower, which I mounted on a punched circle and added 4 punched leaves(X-cut).
Please pop over to the challenge blog and take a good look at the gorgeous creations of my teamies. I think you will agree that their creations this month are so inspiring. You will also find details of the prize, if not straight away, then in the next few days, hopefully. Looking forward to seeing your fabulous creations using punches. Thanks for looking.