A bit more fun with Bendy Cards .....

I have several events coming up, and Birthday Bendy cards are a perpetual favorite!  Here are a couple of quick and easy ones to try!

Each layer is held in place by strong magnets, and the decorating potential is practically limitless!

Just color your candles, flames, and add decorator paper.  The "icing" comes with your birthday cake kit, so you can have whatever flavor you decide to color it!  

If you wish to have a personalized, custom made card, I would be happy to 

design one just for your birthday celebrant!

Just send me an email, and I will contact you for the details.

You can order your Birthday Bendy Cards on the right sidebar of my blog!

Very fast delivery :)

Happy celebrating!

Create fun every day!

Never wishi WASHI!

I have a new love for Washi Tape!  It is available just about everywhere, even Walmart, in great colors and designs.  I have started a nice little collection (er, obsession) and this is a fun, easy note card in one of my favorite color combos....

Cut base cardstock 4.25 x 11, scored at 5.5, folded at the top.

Use corner rounder on the bottom corners.

Cut two white pieces 4 x 5.25, also rounded on the two corners.

Add three strips of color coordinated washi tape.

Stamp the cat first (Studio G stamp)

Then stamp "hello" (Studio G)

Add second white card to inside as liner.

Great in any color combo :o)

I hope you will enjoy making some fun, easy cards to say"hello"!

Hello, Anna!

I'll be back soon with a cool Christmas card!

Happy crafting ~

Springtime in Paris

Ah, is there anything more romantic than thinking of Springtime in Paris?  I hope the flowers are blooming, and the fountains are flowing ..... well, at least they are here!

I started with an Inner Stair Step Card (4.25 x 5.5) ,

paper by Authentique, Seasons: Spring

and Hero Arts stamps

Two different Martha Stewart Punches added the layers in front.

The Deco Fan punch created the shimmery fountain

and the Tulip Garden punch added another layer of flowers 

The Boujour plates are cut from  Art Philosophy Close To My Heart Cricut Cartridge 

Add two flying butterflies on tiny strips of acetate

fly around the beautiful image of the Eiffel Tower

which has been accented with soft green and blue chalks.

Martha's branch punch is the perfect base for tiny star and circle punch flowers

along the front of the fountain and at the edges of the sentiment.

Add tiny spots of liquid pearls for flower centers.

Au revoir, mes amis!  Until we craft together again!

Roses and Lace

Nothing is as feminine as beautiful lace and gorgeous roses.  I am delighted to share both with you tonight.  This is a card I have made for a special friend, and it features a new die I have from Heartfelt Creations.

The roses are handmade from punches and Cricut cuts, with a delightful new twist.  Watch for a YouTube video coming soon!

I hope you will be joining me for my UStream class tonight.

Happy crafting,

New and Revisited... Cards

This week's card class had three delightfully different techniques for the ladies to try out...
You saw the fun and cheerful layered sunflower card in my last post.

Here is the flashback project we revisited:

 This Criss-Cross Card was created in kraft colored paper, and layered with celebration papers, and borders were punched with Martha Stewart edge punches.  Add a belly band, and it is a fun way to send special greetings anytime of the year! 

 This shows the tag removed from the inside of the card, ready for your message.  This card can also be done in a horizontal mode, like this one from a couple of years ago:

Here's the link on this style Criss-Cross Card.  Hope you like it!

Our next beautiful creation was done with the new Martha Stewart STAMP AROUND THE PAGE stamping set.  I will be doing a video very soon showing some of the tips and techniques I have come up with to help make this is a very easy to use set, with great results.  The ladies made fabulous cards!

This was made on cream cardstock with copper cardstock on top, which had been punched with a Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page punch set to create the layered background.  The sentiment was a layered combination of Studio G and another small stamp that I had.  I will be sharing

these tips soon... (See the note at the bottom of the post.)

AND... Last, but certainly not least, here is a sample of the brightly colored creations made for

Little E's First Birthday Celebration!

 There were lots of banners, posters, cupcake toppers, a big 1 tied with ribbons, and other goodies... check out BettyBee Designs FaceBook page in a day or two to see the whole array!

And the Birthday Princess came by the hospital to visit with her Papa... who,

unfortunately, couldn't go to her party :(

She brought her smiles to him.

That brings me to my NOTE for this week's UStream Class... due to Bob the Babe being in the hospital, I will not be holding class. See you next week...

Wishing you all the best.



and Happy Crafting ~



 

Display Cards - a new design!

When I was working on some very special cards this past week, I came up with a brand new design, and I am excited to share it with you!  I have three different examples here today. 

 First is a baby card for my new granddaughter, Paisley.  It is designed to be able to stand up on a shelf, yet fold flat, so it can be mailed in a regular A2 envelope.

The secret is the addition of a tab on the inside.  Here you will see three little hearts.  They are an important part of the design!

This is the front of a wedding card for Ashley and Steven, who are getting married on Saturday!

 When I made their card, it was theirs that gave me the idea to score it so that they might display it, should they want to.... and the rest is history, as they say!

Are you ready for the tutorial?  It's really pretty easy! 

The cardstock is cut at 5 1/2 x 11

Score the first score at 3 3/4 inches.

The next score is 8 inches from the left edge.

The next score is 9 1/4.

The first section is your card front.

For the baby card, I covered it with another piece of 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 paper. 

For the wedding card, I embossed it with a Cuttlebug embossing folder.

The second section is the inside of the card,  and perfect for adding extra accents, like the "Welcome", "Happily Ever After" and the heat embossed message on the birthday card below.

The last two sections were also embossed with a smaller repeatable pattern.  This can sometimes be a little bit tricky, because it means your card and embossing folder won't go through the embossing machine sideways.... you will have to emboss the biggest part, and then CAREFULLY match up the pattern, and repeat to get the rest.  It isn't hard, just be careful, and you will have a nice design. 

NOTE: If you have a SideKick, the small plate is just the right size for placing over the part you are embossing second, without re-embossing the first part.  Just use the regular plate on the bottom and the little one on the top.

Score all the lines, and it will have a nice flat bottom to stand on. 

To keep the card stable, you need a tab on the inside to tuck the bottom flap into.  See the hearts on the baby card?  There is also one heart on the wedding card.  That is the tab.  Just place adhesive on the bottom of the heart (balloon, star, or whatever is appropriate for your design) and leave the top unattached, so the flap can slide under it.  (Dimensionals don't work.... they leave too big a gap.)

 This little Owl birthday card for my granddaughter Madelyn, who is 11 today,  is a slight variation to the Display Card, as it doesn't tuck to the inside.... the little owl feet hold it together with the flap on the outside.  

 Happy Birthday, Madelyn!!

I hope you have enjoyed the tutorial, and will give it a try.  It really is a fun design, and it's nice to get a special card to stand on display.  I am very fond of the different textures together.

It's Baby Week at BettyBee's Buzz, and we'd love for you to create something for a baby in your life and share it with us.  The HoneyBees have a lot of inspiration to get you started.  Check them out!

What do you think?  I'd love to hear your comments!

Happy crafting ~ and don't forget to hug your loved ones!  (Especially the Bedlamites!!)  Special hugs to my Mom today.  It would have been Mom and Dad's 60th Wedding Anniversary.  I love you, Mom! (and I miss you, Dad).

Be Inspired #97 Book It!

Today's card is entitled "One Last Book of Summer" and this might be one last look at our summer vacation photos for a while! This is the Victory Monument at Yorktown, VA. The statue of Lady Victory (the sister to the Statue of Liberty) commemorates the victorious battle of the colonists over Cornwallis, and the end of the Revolutionary War, in 1781.And here is my entry for the Cuttlebug Challenge #97 - Book It! We have been having a Book Club this summer, and, though I've been traveling and haven't been reading as much as I like to, there have been some wonderful stories out there....what did you read this summer?
My image is from an artist that is new to me.... a delightful children's book illustrator named Elizabeth O. Dulemba. She offers wonderful coloring pages and free images....so be sure to check out her website!!

My Cuttlebug got some fun use on this with the Asian Scales folder for the "waves" and the new Dominoes folder creating the frame behind the Copics colored image.

Computer generated wording inside and out makes it easy to say whatever you like :)

These little embellishments were both friends on Life's A Beach Cartridge.

I hope you enjoyed this project, and will get over to Cuttlebug Challenge and create something with a BOOK theme for this week's challenge. I have something really different in mind for Cuttin' Up Saturday!

In the meantime......

Happy crafting ~

BettyBee

New Challenge Site

The Cute Daisy May and WhoopsiDaisy studio is a new sponsor of the Cuttlebug Challenge - watch for upcoming features in September - so I wanted to try out Linnie's precious digital images. This darling little lady is the first that I colored with my Copics and Smooches, and it's for a challenge on their blog, calling for Blue and Green...

There are four images on a sheet when you download them, so I have three more of these cuties waiting to come to life. I cut the oval and the scallop with Nestabilities, and the blue paper is the brand new Glitter Core'dinations - OH, MY how yummy!!! The label behind is the ALL GIRL cut from LACY LABELS Cricut Cartridge, distressed in green, and dressed up with three different sized pearls. The ribbon is from Offray, and it all sits on velvety flocked paper from DCWV.

I hope you will check out their site, and watch for futher images from WhoopsiDaisy!....

Until tomorrow...

Happy crafting ~

BettyBee

Chocolate and a Special Request

First, the special request card! A friend has asked for a card with a pick up truck on it, and I love red, black and white together....along with the great embossing of the Cuttlebug cross hatch folder that looks like the tool boxes in so many pick up trucks.

Sorry I can't identify the papers, but I can tell you that the shiny silver stuff is flashing tape that you can pick up at your local hardward store, on a big roll, and it adheres to cardstock very easily. Then you can cut it, emboss it, ink it, or "just about anything else" it!!!

Silver leafing, satin ribbon, and self-stick gems complete the design. The inside has a computer generated message from the sender to the recepient. This is one of the nicest features of special request cards :)

Now the chocolate! I am preparing for another great Cricuteers in Paradise Swarm, and our theme this time is "Swimming in Chocolate", so no trip to Pennsylvania would be complete without a stop at Hershey's Chocolate World!!Here are some anxious tourists waiting to get inside to try out the ride through the exhibit on how the chocolate is made (mostly to get the free treat at the other end, because they live nearby and have done this before!!)

And these tourists were mightily tempted with these GIANT Hershey bars, but, alas, the August heat, and over 1,000 miles to travel in a hot car, made us think better of it. However..... we did have a cooler with us for other tempting goodies for our fellow swarmers!!! Never fear!

Until next time .....

Happy crafting ~

BettyBee

One BIG Happy Scarecrow Family

DZ Doodle images has a challenge contest going on, and offered this cute little scarecrow freebie download. I decided to copy it three times, in different sizes, which is one of the great advantages of digi stamps. By coloring each differently, and adding a couple of feminine touches to "mom", and cutting and rearranging "dad's" arm, I was able to create a nice little family from the same image. I colored them with Copics, and the papers are from Debbie Mumm's Harvest and Holidays Collection.

I hope you like it!

Don't forget, there are still a couple of days to enter your invitation to the Cuttlebug Challenge! Don't miss out on all of the fun!

Happy crafting~

Shimmery Sunflowers

This image is one of my favorites from Me and Carrie Lou Stamps, and the end of summer seems a perfect time to showcase sunflowers. These were colored with Copic markers, then highlighted with Niji Pearlescent Watercolors to give them the all over shimmer. The "always" sentiment is from SU!, and the background paper is from the new Harvest & Holidays pack by Debbie Mumm, available at JoAnn's.
Happy September to all! I can't believe that August is gone, and another month is here already.

Tomorrow is the big Kick Off for Cuttlebug Challenge's birthday party...be sure to check in!
Happy crafting~