Travel Journals

I made these travel journals up for a trip to Europe that we will be going on with our very good friends. This is the front cover picture to the left. The second picture above is of the inside covers, there is some space for a photo that can be added later. It will be fun to use these and keep track of our adventures as we travel. More to follow on this in the future. The journals are made using those inexpensive coil bound books from the dollar store and all the paper and stamps are from my friend she gave me everything to use. TFL. Beth

Birthday hugs and wishes...

I had lots of fun this morning making cards with you girls :-) thanks for coming over! This was the third card we did using the Eastern Blooms set and the new in colours.
Have a great weekend!
Beth
Card Recipe:
Stamps: Eastern Blooms, Hugs & Wishes
Inks & Markers: baja breeze, tangerine tango, kiwi kiss, riding hood red
Paper: tangerine tango, kiwi kiss, confetti cream
Accessories: scallop edge punch, dimensionals

Merry Christmas #2...

As I mentioned in the post below, I am having a mini workshop tomorrow and this is the second card we will be doing :) TFL
Beth

Card Recipe:
Stamps: sleigh bells ring
Inks & Markers: brocade blue
Paper: brocade blue. night of navy, whisper white
Accessories: brocade blue grosgrain ribbon, snowflake embossing folder and c-bug, dazzling diamonds, dimensionals

Merry Christmas...

Deb and I had a great day shopping yesterday and even managed to get a quick lunch and a latte from Starbucks (my favorite!!!) - Great day thanks Debbie!!!
Well, here it is the end of September and time for us crafter's to get busy making our Christmas cards and special gifts for special people! I am having a mini workshop tomorrow and this is one of the cards we will be doing. I will post another one later. TFL and have a great day!
Beth

Card Recipe:
Stamps: best yet, lovely as a tree, en francais background
Inks & Markers: bravo burgundy, always artichoke
Paper: bravo burgundy, always artichoke and sahara sand, very vanilla
Accessories: mellow moss taffeta ribbon, designer label and large oval punches, sponge dauber and dimensionals

Hello...

With so many beautiful designer papers now it makes creating a simple card quick and easy! I used this paper from the Green Tea pack with the new in colours baji breeze and kiwi kiss cs. The stamp set is called Best Yet a level one hostess set. I haven't had any time to stamp lately so I pulled this one out of my stash to show you :)

Have a great day!

Beth

A work in progress...

Click on the picture for a larger view
Hi there! It is a beautiful sunny and warm day here in Northern Alberta!! SO wonderful!! I have been visiting a blog that my friend Debbie (Stylish Creations link on sidebar) has as a link on her site its called Pots & Pins and she has lots of quilts photographed on her site (as well as many recipes). It has motivated me enough to pull out this quilt top that I finished last October, shake off the dust (seriously!) and admire it again! I am going to get busy and find some nice backing fabric and quilt it! So, stay tuned I will hopefully have a finished picture to show you by...let's say Christmas, I'm hoping that will be enough time anyways. I know I usually only post papercrafts but I do have a few other crafty talents (Ha! Ha!) so I thought I'd share them with you once in a while too. I have no new cards to show you due to being away all last week so, today was a great time for this quilting post :-)
Enjoy your day!
Beth

Thanksgiving card...

This is my first post in awhile...I was away for a week and just got back yesterday. Since Autumn is in the air today (brrr...chilly here this morning) I thought I'd post this Thanksgiving card. For us Canadians that holiday isn't far away :)
Have a wonderful day!
Beth

Card Recipe:
Stamps: Inkadinkado
Inks & Markers: earth colours
Paper: chocolate chip, more mustard, elegant eggplant, watercolour
Accessories: brads, ticket corner punch, embossing folder and c-bug

Love You ...

I made this up several weeks ago it, I haven't had much time to craft this week so I dug into my card box and found this one that I had not posted yet. I like the brown and pink together in the paper called Holiday Treasures from SU. TFL ! Have a great day!

Beth

Card Recipe:
Stamps: dreams du jour
Inks & Markers: riding hood red and regal rose, brown stazon
Paper: holiday treasures dp, chocolate chip, regal rose, piroueete pink cs
Accessories: embossing folder and c-bug, regal rose ribbon, scallop nestabilities, dimensionals

Random Stamping Card...

Hello there! Such an easy and quick card this one was! I love this set Eastern Blooms, it makes random stamping a breeze. I cased this from AMY12E's gallery on SCS. Her card used the faux silk method with tissue paper but I wanted some quick cards to demo so I left that part out and also left the bottom edge straight instead of scalloping it.. The base is not quite navy and the scallop border is certainly celery and same for the inks. The large flower bloom is cut out and popped up on dimensionals.
Have a great day!
Beth

Card Recipe:
Stamps: eastern blooms, heard from the heart
Inks & Markers: not quite navy, certainly celery
Paper: same as inks and whisper white
Accessories: dimensionals, scallop edge punch,ribbon

Be Inspired Challenge #21

I made this card up for BIC21 you can check it out on Beate's blog there's a link on the sidebar. I posted the inspiration picture above the card. The yellow flower pot and orange tulips jumped out at me the most so that's what I went with for inspiraiton on this one. I love watercolouring this new stamp from the Serene Spring set, although I still have much to learn about watercolouring :-) I do enjoy it! I used apricot appeal and kiwi kiss - seems like a weird combo but I quite like it. TFL

Beth

Card Recipe:
Stamps: serene spring, short and sweet
Inks & Markers: kiwi kiss, old olive, so saffron, more mustard, tangerine tango, close to cocoa, baja breeze, riding hood red
Paper: apricot appeal dp, apricot appeal and kiwi kiss cs, watercolour paper
Accessories: brassy brads, vanilla ribbon, mat pat and piercing tool, dimensionals

Watercoloured Birthday Wishes...

I know I have posted a few other cards with this tree lately but I've had lots of birthday's this past little while and I just love this image. So, bear with me I'll try to refrain from using it for a little while now.
Beth :-)

Card Recipe:
Stamps: lovely as a tree, sanded bg, sincere salutations
Inks & Markers: old olive, certainly celery, close to cocoa, soft sky
Paper: watercolour, chocolate chip, old olive, very vanilla, fall flowers dp
Accessories: mat pack and piercer, oval punches, copper hardware, brown ribbon

Lots of Blue For You card...

Well, here we are the last day of the last long weekend of the summer...can hardly believe it!!! MY DH and DS went home for a visit last week and they stayed at my SIL's house. She loves the colour blue so I made up this card for them to send her as a thank you(sentiment stamped on the inside). I'm happy with how it turned out although I wasn't so sure as I was making it how it would end up :) Around the outside edge of the night of navy cardstock I stamped the flower stamp from this set Fresh Cuts using Versamark ink hopefully it shows up well enough in this picture for you to see it. I also used brocade blue and whisper white. TFL and have a great holiday!
Beth

Card Recipe:
Stamps: fresh cuts
Inks & Markers: brocade blue, night of navy, versamark
Paper: whisper white, brocade blue, night of navy
Accessories: bling from lss, blue brads, dimensionals, ticket corner punch