Stampin' with the Bee's
Annette Ball Ontario, Canada
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Be Inspired - Bright and Bold
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Coast to Coast Blog Hop
Hello Friends!! Today I am hopping with the team and we are using a sketch
I have been playing with the Pears bundle and colours.
I used Darling Duckling and Garden Green for my background, stamping on the duckling and embossing the green. Each piece is 2 x 5 3/8”.
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Be Inspired - Floral Fun
Hello Friends!! I am so Excited to tell you I have been invited to join the
Be Inspired Design Team Blog Hop!!!
My dear friend Emma Goddard from the Coastal Crafter invited me!! The theme is a perfect start…Floral Fun!! Hope you are sitting down with your favourite beverage and ready for all the gorgeous florals coming your way!!
This group of crafters includes some of the most creative people I know!!
A few I am even lucky enough to call friends!!
I pulled out the new Charming Day bundle and ‘inspired’ by Emma pulled out my water brush!! The images were heat embossed with Smokey Slate and Clear Embossing powder. What you do is ink up your image with Versamark, then ink it up with Smokey Slate right on top of the Versamark. Stamp on watercolour paper, dust the paper with clear embossing powder and bam!! It looks like you have Smokey Slate embossing powder. You can do this with all the colours. Just be careful to always use Versamark first or your Versamark will be stamped with your image.
I used Berry Burst and Lost Lagoon. I wet the area first with my brush.
Then add some water to the ink and lightly add the colour to get the variation
in colour to replicate real flowers.
I pulled out the two-toned cardstock I bought on the same we had recently. Chopped it in 1.5” strips, then 1.5” squares. I then roughed up the edges the.
Ran it through the
corrugated embossing folder. Arranged them in a checker board pattern, flipping to use
both shades of Lost Lagoon on dimensionals on another piece of Lost Lagoon cut at
The Cardbase is white. I scored a 4.25 x 11, scored at 5.5”
Monday, July 14, 2025
Team Hop - Online Exclusives
Hello Friends!!
It’s the 14th of the month!! Team Hop!!
Today we are focusing on the Online Exclusives.
Did you know that we have a whole bunch of products available only online??
They are shaping up to be one of my favourite things!!
My order did not arrive in time for me to showcase some of the new things. So I pulled out one that I have not done a lot with... Inspired by a new hydrangea that we bought this year. I have been spending all my time in the garden and not so much time in the craft room. Hoping to get back in there soon!!
So here is my garden picture, I just LOVE these colours!!
The Stamp set s called Thankful Garden
I finished it late at night, I love my outdoor pictures a bit better,
so there are lots of pictures!
Hope you like my card!
Please go and check out what the rest of the team has made!!
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Team Hop - New Annual Catalogue
The 14th of the month means I am hopping with the Coast to Coast Blog Hop Group!!
We are featuring products from the New Annual Catalogue that came out on May 6
Do you love the new catalogue?? I’m not going to say I Love it, But I do like it much better than the last one. With one exception, it doesn't have much 'New' stuff in it that appeals to me.
Here are a few things that I Love
- Page 24 has some new sketches
- Page 52 to 57 Beautiful Gallery Mega Suite is gorgeous!!
- Page 76 & 77 2 more Cardstock to Love!! I am in Love with the 2 toned cardstock!!
- Pages 99-101 show returning sets..some of which I have barely had time to play with!!
- Pages 116 - 121 shows all the dsp and for the first time they have kept a few of my favourites!!
- Page 125 Excited about the flat pearls in both sets of incolours!!
- Page 127 Could not wait to get my hands on that gorgeous Incolour ribbon!!
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AWOW - Outside the Box
Hello Friends!!
Today is an Around the World on Wednesday Blog Hop.
This year we are Caseing each other every month and today I am Caseing my amazingly talented friend Mikaela at the Crafty Oink. Now it has been pointed out that Mikaela often finds creative ways to use Stampin’ Up! Products.
She is super creative!!
Well this pushed me to really look at the stamps and figure out something to make…
I took a frequently used ‘sketch’ that I have noticed Mikaela uses, here are a few examples.
Notice the larger border around the first layer
Notice the blending in the cards…one of my favourite techniques!! And Mikaela is one of the best blending brush artists!!!
And notice the central focal point. This is a Great Standard Layout everyone should have in their library!
These are all Mikaela Trademarks!!
Ok so my card. I used the Beautiful Butterfly Stamp set.
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
AWOW - Anniversary
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