Still daydreaming!

Here is another card with the same image as yesterday its from the Summer By the Sea set. I would love to be by the sea this week, but that is going to have to wait. It’s our Village Carnival this weekend and I have lots to get ready for that so I will just have to daydream about having my toes in the water!

The base of this card is Old Olive and the paper is Not Quite Navy (from the level 1 Hostess Set – I love the colours in that set). The greeting is from the Beautiful Thing Stamp Set punched out with the wonderful Oval Punch and layered with the Scalloped Oval Punch.

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Happy Crafting

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It feels like Summer!

What do you think about when you think of summer? For me its Sunshine, Wimbledon and being by the sea so today I am feeling pretty lucky as I have two of those three – Sunshine and Wimbledon on the TV.

I decided to make it three out of three with this card – how lovely would it be to be sat dangling my feet in the sea right now ...

The base of this card is Not Quite Navy and the paper is from the Level 1 Hostess Set. Here I have teamed it with Real Red card and ribbon. The image is coloured with Stampin’ Up!’s Watercolour Wonder crayons and a blender pen.

What will this lovely sunshine inspire you to create today?

Happy Crafting

Bekka

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Stamp with Us Sketch Challenge

Well its another lovely sunny Sunday here and I have this week’s Stamp with Us Challenge Card to share with you. This week’s challenge was to make a card based on this sketch .

I don’t know about you but I love sketch challenges as it means I can make a card for whatever reason I need one! If you need any more incentive than that if you enter any of the challenges in July you could win a free place on the Stamp with Us Summer Class – the more you enter the bigger your chance of winning!

Anyway here is my card – I had a lot of fun putting this together and blinging it up. I don’t know if it shows well on the photos but there is glitter on the blue flower and on the white panel with the Its Beautiful wheel stamped (well rolled!) on it. I think you will be able to see it better on this picture.

The card is bashful blue and whisper white. I have used Real Red papers from the Level 1 Hostess set. The stamps are from the A Beautiful Thing set and the Its Beautiful wheel, both of which have been stamped in Real Red. I have also used a couple of Bashful Blue flowers from the Die Cuts pack and a Chipboard flower from the Batch of Blooms set (here it was covered with Whisper White and then stamped). The pearls are from the Pretties kit.

I would love to see what you make in response to this sketch and don’t forget to post them over on the Stamp With Us blog for your chance to win

Happy Crafting

Bekka

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Was it You?

I had a fantastic time at Stampin’ Up! Field Training – what a lovely talented group of ladies were there – not to mention the firemen! I really do appreciate the support Stampin’ Up! give us with growing our business and the inspiration that is so freely available from my fellow demonstrators.

We all made cards which we swapped with each other and one of you is going to win the spare card which I made. All you had to do was guess correctly which stamp set I used. So did you get it right? Well here is the card

Now I thought you would all find this really easy and guess straight away since I seem to be somewhat addicted to this stamp at the moment! The correct answer is Bloomin’ with Beauty and you would also have been correct if you had said Starring You since that is where the sentiment is from. However nobody got it right! So the card is going to Sue whose answer suggested a stamp set I really should use more and a great reason for choosing it! Sue I promise I will play with it in the next few days since as you say the summer holidays are on their way.
For this card I have coloured the image using my SU Marker pens and in the close up you can see how I have blended / shaded with them. To achieve this effect you colour the whole image with the palest colour (in this case Barley Banana on the flower and Sage Shadow on the leaves) and then before it is fully dry work quickly to add some shadows with you darker colour (here I have used So Saffron on the flower and Old Olive on the leaves). Next colour over again with the lighter colour to blend them together. This technique works best if you work fast using light circular strokes of the brush tip of the pen and if you work on a small area at a time. I love the depth that colouring in this way gives and I hope it has inspired you to give it a go.

Before I go I just wanted to wave hello to the lovely ladies I met yesterday – you were brilliant and it was lovely to meet you all.

Thanks for stopping by

Happy Crafting

Bekka

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A quick competition - you could win!

I am really looking forward to this evening – I am going to be meeting up with some fellow Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators for Field Training. It’s going to be lovely to see my friends again and to meet some new ones – oh and to learn some cool Stampin’ Stuff that I will be able to share with you all over the next few weeks. Its great being a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator – you get to make some wonderful friends, share creativity, learn more about Stamping and Paper Crafting oh and have a lot of fun! I find it so inspiring. If you would like to find out more about it please do get in touch.

Unfortunately however it means I don’t have a card for you today – every spare moment I have had to craft I have spent making a batch of cards to swap with the girls. The good news is however that I will have one to spare and that is where the competition comes in ...

Can you guess which stamp set I have used? I will put the names of everyone who guesses correctly into a hat and send the spare card to the first person I draw out. I am happy to post internationally so don’t be shy – guess away. I will do the draw tomorrow.

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Stamp with Us on a Sunday

Goodness time is going quickly at the moment – can you believe its Sunday already! And what a Sunday it promises to be – its the British Grand Prix today and quite possibly the last one at Silverstone. Silverstone is rightly prpoud of its heritage.

The thought of no GP at Silverstone makes me sad as it is the end of an era. Many a weekend of mine used to be spent at Silverstone – arriving with the dawn and spending my time breathing in the smell and atmosphere you only get at a race track. I was one of the motor race marshals that helps ensure drivers safety and the smooth start of a race – and a couple of years I even got to marshal the Grand Prix, which was a huge honour and privilege. This image is more my era than the previous one and was taken on my section of the track!

I don’t Marshal any more but I still love motor racing and watching F1 at Silverstone takes me right back. I am glad at least we have now been guaranteed a British GP next year – to lose it totally would be tragic.

So today I will be watching with excitement and a small tear! I hope it’s a great race. Will you be watching? Or are you waiting for next week’s Tennis to start? I’m looking forward to that too!

Anyway – to Stamping ...

Since its Sunday it is Stamp With Us Challenge Day – and what a challenge it was this week. This week we have a recipie challenge –Use 4 patterned papers, 2 colours of card and NO other embellishments. What! Are you thinking what I was thinking 4 patterned papers and no other embellishments – you have to be joking! Well after getting over the initial shock this is what I came up with.

The image is from the delicious Lovely as a Tree Stamp Set, and it was stamped on Whisper White with Basic Black and then embossed with clear embossing powder. I then punched a one inch circle on the stick part of a Post It Note (I found it easier to punch when the Post it was stuck to a scrap of paper). I stuck my circle on the image and then using sponge daubers and a gentle circular motion I added colour little by little to the image. Around the moon I have used So Saffron, the sky is Bordering Blue, Not Quite Navy and Night of Navy and the grass is Handsome Hunter. Where I have wanted shadows or darker colour I have just added more ink.

The base of the card was made with Handsome Hunter, layered with a subtly patterned paper from the So Saffron Designer Series which I have used instead of a third colour of card. The patterned papers behind the image are from the Level 1 Hostess Set and are Not Quite Navy. I have used another pattern from this set in place of a ribbon. The sentiment is from the Starring You Stamp Set.

I hope you like it and it encourages you to have a go – I look forward to seeing your entry over at Stamp With Us

Right – I am off to watch the GP, thanks for stopping by and I look forward to seeing you soon

Happy Crafting

Bekka

PS - sorry Blogger is not showing all the line returns / spaces between lines properly making this hard to read - if anyone knows how to get over this please let me know. Thank you.

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Saturday Star

One of the things I love about being a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator is the friendships that form and the support that there is for each other. I made this card for a Stampin’ Up! friend of mine who has just achieved a goal she set herself. I am thrilled for her. Like me I know she loves Kraft card so here I have teamed it with Real Red and Chocolate Chip. I punched out an aperture with the Star Punch and backed it with paper from the Level 1 Hostess Set. The other stars and the greeting are from the Starring You Stamp Set and were stamped with Chocolate Chip. Some of the Stars were filled in with scraps of the Real Red patterned paper. I was pleased with how this all came together.

If you are interested in discovering more about being a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator and experiencing the friendship and support for yourself please get in touch (bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk) and we can chat about it.

I look forward to hearing from you

Happy Crafting

Bekka

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Did you not know its June?

Did you mean to use autumn colours? I guess so!

I love this Oak Tree image from the Lovely as a Tree Stamp Set and wanted to show you it again, this time on my precious Kraft Cardstock. I love the effect of using Chocolate Chip on Kraft. I wanted to create something simple, flat and easy to post, and only had a few moments to create!

I used the Boho Blooms punch in each corner of the Kraft Card (by turning the card over you can get the flowers to mirror each other). Behind the apertures created by the punches I have put some paper from the Spiced Cider Designer Series Pack and then drawn around the outside of them with a Chocolate Chip marker.

Thanks for stopping by

Happy Crafting

Bekka

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Dear Dad ...

Here in the UK this Sunday is Father’s Day so I thought I would show you the card I have made for my Father. Now I know he does not look at this blog so I am safe to share it with you before he gets to open it!

I chose to work with these colours as I know my Dad loves them - he has the largest collection of Old Olive, faded Old Olive and So Saffron Shirts I have ever seen! I have added some Chocolate Chip to give the card a bit of depth. The Oak tree is from the wonderful Lovely as a Tree Stamp Set and the sentiment is from Starring You.

Thanks for looking

Happy Crafting

Bekka

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Oh I do love to be beside the seaside

I adore this image of a girl from the Summer by The Sea Set – she looks so happy looking out to sea.
These cards were again coloured using the Watercolour Wonder Crayons and a Blender Pen. The colours are Sage Shadow, Not Quite Navy and the papers are Almost Amethyst and come from the Tea Party Collection.

The base of these cards is made from a quarter of a sheet of A4 card so the finished card still fits in a standard envelope. If you want any more information on how it is made drop me an email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

Thanks for looking

Happy Crafting

Bekka

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