A Cute Bee Happy Card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope you had a good weekend. In spite of the rain we managed to get a lot of gardening done on Saturday. Then on Sunday we had friends round for lunch in the garden it was rather windy though. All in all it was a good weekend. I wonder what will happen this week. 

As I have said recently when I am using digi images I often print more than one. I found this image and I had a go at colouring it with my Prismacolor Pencils. 

The background was made with some inky kitchen roll stuck to some card. I used Snippets of black card to make the hexagons the sentiment and the bees. 

This image is called Spring Bumble Bee and it is available HERE from Star Stampz.   The image was printed onto a blue background and coloured with Prismacolor pencils. I do love practising with them. I added a stalk to the flower with a Micron Pen. 

I might send this to someone who needs cheering up. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Week 578 at the Allsorts Challenge blog

Challenge 381 at Pixie's Snippets Playground

Challenge 640 at the Cute Card Thursday Challenge blog

Challenge #260 at the Crafty Cardmakers Challenge blog

Have a good week. 

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Sunflower - Thank You cards

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? As you can imagine we are very busy with the lead up to the wedding. This will be my last blog post for a while. Tomorrow we are setting off to Bristol for the wedding. We have a meeting at the venue where we hand over all the decorations and the table plans. Then on Friday everyone starts to gather and Saturday is the day of the wedding. Until we return home I won't be around much in blogland there just won't be time.

I love sunflowers they are just so cheerful so I treated myself to issue 148 of Papercraft Essentials magazine with its free sunflower stamp set and paper pad.

I have just invested in a Tim Holtz stamping platform and I am so glad I have. I just makes stamping so much easier and if you miss a bit it is so easy to go back and re-ink it. For batch making it is a dream I am going to use it to make some Christmas cards. I had all the stamps on the platform and I stamped them all at the same time. I cut the layers out with the Double Pierced Rectangle dies by Creative Expressions. I added a lattice cut with Trellis Edger die set I extended it to make it long enough it was very easy to line up. 

All the stamping was done onto water colour card with Watering Can archival ink. All the colouring was done with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. I wanted to stamp the pot straight onto the card as I liked the shadow for the pot. 

The bee came from another stamp set. 

The sentiment came with the set. 

With all the stamps in place it was easy to make this smaller card. 

Sunflowers are so cheerful. I now have three thank you cards for the end of term. 

I would like to enter challenge 122 at the Creative Moments Challenge blog. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Alphabet Challenge Blog - Letter E - Enchanted Creatures

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How are you all doing? I hope you have had a good week. The weekend in nearly upon us. My husband is off to our future son-in-law's stag do and on the way he is dropping me off at our daughter's so I can spend the day with her. It will be so nice to have a girly day together that hasn't happened for a long time.

We have got to letter E on the Alphabet Challenge blog and the theme is Enchanted Creatures.

I had a rummage in my crafty stash and I found this Flower Fairy sticker and the pretty floral paper with a cut border. 

The bee was one of the stickers in the set.

My mother-in-law has always loved flower fairies. I made this card with her in mind. 

My Crafter's Companion die set. 

I think fairies are enchanted creatures so this should be right for the challenge. 

I would like to enter Week 415 at the Allsorts Challenge Blog. 

Have a great weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Isobel Craft Collection Design Team Challenge

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you have had a great weekend. We have just got back from celebrating our future son-in-law's birthday. We had a lovely meal with them and his parents. Then we went back to their house to have cupcakes made by the company who are making cupcakes for their wedding. The cupcakes are very yummy.

Last week Sophy from The Isobel Craft Collection set a challenge for her design team. We were to make a monochrome easel card with one of the her stamp sets. Well I do like a challenge. I used the first stamp set I ever got from The Isobel Craft Collection.

I decided to make a twisted easel card. I thought the bees were ideal for a monochrome card. I used black and yellow card to make the mats and layers. On the top yellow layer I used the hexagons stamp from the set and stamped it in black. I did ink round the edges with yellow Distress Ink. 

I stamped other elements from the stamp set and black and where I added colour I used my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. I cut the different images out with some hexagon dies in my collection these have a stitched border. 

I do like that easel cards fold flat for posting. This is the card folded for posting. 

Here is the rub. This card will be posted on The Isobel Craft Collection Facebook page along with the other entries and I need votes. Please vote for me. 

Sophy is also hosting one of her wonderful craft sales this evening. This is the link to this event https://www.facebook.com/events/326143511093173/. There will be lots of crafty bargains. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Bee-lated Birthday

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? I have been very busy the end of term is always busy. I have some leaving cards to make.

I was asked by Sophy Haes, who runs  The Isobel Craft Collection - The Cardsmaker's One Stop Shop www.facebook.com/theisobelcraftcollection,  to use some of her stamps to make a card and mention her Facebook page on my blog. I agreed and I choose the Bee Set of Stamps. They are so cute.

This is the card I made. I stamped the stamps onto watercolour card with Black Archival ink and when this was dry I coloured them with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. 

This is the stamp set you get lots of stamps they can be bought from the Etsy shop. 

For the background I used the honeycomb stamp. All the other stamps where cut with some Crafter's Companion nest hexagon dies. They came with the latest edition of Crafter's Inspiration. They were ideal for this project. 

The stamps were in various sizes and suited different dies from the set. 

The finished card measures 7.5" x 5". The ribbon was in my stash. Why not visit Sophy's page www.facebook.com/theisobelcraftcollection. This page also holds monthly sales where you can buy craft goodies from brands such as Phill Martin, Sue Wilson, Sizzix, Spellbinders, Creative Expressions, Tonic Studios and many more! Here is a link to her next sale https://www.facebook.com/events/1726696614265379. Why not grab a crafty bargain. 

I would like to enter Challenge 66 at Creative Craft Cottage , Challenge 117 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog and Challenge 317 at Craft your Passion Challenges. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie