Bagain Betty Meets Bebunni

This week has been a week for bargains.

 

Last week, I decided to list my last three 'My Child' dolls on Ebay. Back in the 80's these dolls were the bee's knee's, and most little girls wanted them.

 

Now three decades later, these beautiful dolls are classed as vintage, and very collectable. I had some of them, that-shamefully- were collecting dust. So I brushed them off, combed their hair, and give them new, hair bows. I then popped their pictures on the major league selling page. I didn't want to mess around with auctioning them off, and set them at Buy it Now. Within a few hours, the first two sold, with the last being bought the following day. I made a tidy profit of £85. I couldn't use it all for craft stash, unfortunately, as there were other things that the money was needed for more, but I did have £20 of it.

 

I really wanted to make it stretch as much as possible, but wanted lots of things at the same time.

 

So off I went to browse the web for bargains.

 

My first stop, was to crafting.co.uk

 

The true home of Tattered Lace.

 

I decided to take a chance and purchase a mystery die set. They were all described as being mini dies, but from what I know, and from photo's that friend's have shared, on the crafting facebook pages that I frequent, there's nothing, actually, that small about them. These, when they are delivered, should include a selection of dies, twenty in total, and include sentiment dies, amongst other things.

This bargain cost me a total of £12 with free P&P...£12...for twenty dies!

 

My next stop was Crafters Companion.

 

Crafter's Companion always seem to have a sale on, and sell some pretty awesome stash, for really good prices. I purchased their last Crafters Inspiration magazine. This was filled with free stuff

 

Free goodies:

 

A Sheena Douglas, Fabulous Florals embossing folder.

 

A stamp set, including Bebunni Love, and Angelica and Adam images, with sentiments.

 

A Wirework crochet set.

 

A gorgeous paper pack, and the CD ROM, to be able to reprint them all, once used.

 

And a Video Resource DVD containing over three hours of tutorials.

 

This little lot cost me a grant total of £3.89. Crafter's Inspiration, usually sells for £9.99 per issue, but if you're prepared to wait, until the next issue is due out, they reduce the last edition printed, to-usually- £3.00. Postage is also £1. But if you sign up to their members reward scheme, you get a discount on top. Now this only saved me 11p, but it all adds up.

 

But one of my best buys was bought, from the baking section at Quality Save.

 

I know I now have a die cutting machine, but I am yet to buy a doily die. So I couldn't help but grin, when I found a pack of thirty doilies, in three different sizes, and white, for 49p!

 

The largest size will be too big, but the two smaller size ones are perfect, for anything up to an 8x8 card, or even bigger, should you have means to make ginormous cards.

 

The other perfect thing about these doilies is, because they're white, I can colour them up, with my promarkers, in any colour I want. This means I can colour co-ordinate them, with the colours I use to colour a digi image.

 

So I bought them :-)

 

 

 

My total for everything I bought, including 20 mini tattered lace dies, 30 doilies, a paper pack, a tutorial DVD, a papercrafting CDROM, a stamp set and an embossing folder, came to a grand total of..

 

£16.38!

 

My Crafter's Inspiration Magazine arrived today, and I wasted no time in ripping it open, to find my new treasures.

 

The papercrafting CDROM and paper pack, contains images from The Makey Bakey Mice, Bebunni, the vintage floral collection, Rachelle Anne Miller, Angelina & Adam, Love & Romance and Special Birthdays Card Collections.

 

I have seen so many peeps posting Bebunni Cards, and have found the images totally adorable.

 

So the first card I made had to include one of the lovely images, within my new paper pack.

 

I used my Basic Square die, from Joy Crafts, to cut out squares, from the paper pack, and stuck these down onto a piece of white card, to create a patchwork effect. I then matted and layered this onto some silver mirri card. I wrapped a boarder of pink ribbon, (bought in a sewing shop for pence) around the card, then added a second smaller band, of cream, lacey ribbon, from a ribbon pack from The Works. 

 

I then took one of the smallest Doilies, from the pack, and coloured it, using a letraset promarker, (colour listed below)

 

I cut out the Bebunni image and layered it onto silver mirri crad, then took the same image, but smaller, and layered this onto the first image, using foam pads.

 

I used some of the ivory, Jute Shapes, that I purchased from Poundland, a while ago, and added pink buttons to the centres. The buttons were from a multi-coloured pack from The Works, also £1. I die cut some leaves from green mulberry paper, and added these to the arrangement of flowers, which had been stuck down with hot glue.

 

I made a pink bow, from matching ribbon, on my makeshift Afro Comb Bow Maker, and added a Jute flower, adorned with a pink button, matching the ones previously mentioned, to the centre of the bow, and again, used hot glue to stick it in place. I added a simple sentiment to the bottom corner, and added the flowers and leaves to tie it in with the rest of the card. I finished it off with one, single, pink button in the top right corner.

 

 

 

My finished Card.

 

 

 

Letraset Promarker used:

 

Baby Pink.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by

 

XOXO

 

Just as an added note: I recently found out that the lovely, non other than Sara Davis, from crafters companion, included my card (the one above, that I posted on Instagram) in one of her monthly news letters!! EEEP. XOXO

Busy Bee and Period Pains

Don't be fooled by the name folks, it's just my need for quirky titles, and nothing to do with yucky lady problems, lol.

 

I have been a busy bee over the past month. I've made numerous cards (which I have just donated to our local spiritualist church) and been busy designing more background papers, based on past 'periods of time'...see what I did there?

 

I will start this post, and base it on a card I made yesterday. And will post the others over the next few days.

 

I printed of my little Bumble Baby image a while ago now. I took time to colour it properly and loved the finished look.

 

Then it got shelved, and I didn't get around to using it, until yesterday.

 

The card came about, as a result of a 'duh' moment, of which, I have many.

 

I was looking over my little collection of dies, day dreaming about buying more, and wondering what sort I would choose. I thought about a hexagonal one, so I could make a kind of patchwork background. I was all in favour of this daydream purchase, and the first thought that popped into my head, was that I would finally be able to use my little bumble baby! It was only then that my eyes fell on the small set of Joy Crafts, basic square die, which has the cutest, little stitch detail, which embosses, while being cut.

 

Straight away, I pulled out my cuttlebug, some lemon, and pale grey cardstock and set myself off cutting.

 

I did some basic matting and layering, using the bargain mirri card, that I got 20 sheets of, for 79p, from Quality Save (aka home bargains) and poundland, 200gsm, white cardstock. I made a chequered pattern on this, using the quilting squares, and stuck them down, using Dovecraft, ultimate craft glue.

 

For the topper, I cut out a circle of card, using the XCut circle cutter set, then embossed this with a sizzix embossing folder. Matted this onto more of the mirri card, and stuck my little Bumble Baby onto this. this was then added to the top, left corner of the card, after being backed with a DoCrafts doily, this was coloured, with a yellow Letraset Promarker, to tie it in with the theme.

 

I received a die cut swap, from a lovely lady on facebook, but have unfortunately forgotten the name of the die. This was coloured grey, again, with Promarkers, then stuck it to the bottom left corner.

 

I added three, differing size buttons, (from The Works) and glued them into the bottom left corner, and a fourth, in the top right corner.

 

For the sentiment, I cut out a scalloped edge circle, using the outer die, from a free die I received, when I signed up to the Tonic Gold members club (which was free, to sign up for, by the way). I hand wrote the sentiment, in black ink, stuck this to the card, and finished it off, with a yellow bow, made using an afro comb (another post will be done for this little money saving idea, another day), and some yellow ribbon, bought in Poundland.

 

 

finished card :-)

 

Things used:

 

Generic white card blank.

 

Poundland, white 200gsm card.

 

Silver holo card.

 

A die that I will find out the name of, lol.

 

Yellow buttons, from a mixed colour bag of buttons, from The Works

 

A Docrafts doily

 

A sizzix embossing folder.

 

Yellow ribbon, from a mixed pack, again, from Poundland.

 

Joy Crafts, stitch detailed, basic square creatables.

 

and my own Design, Baby Bumble digi image.

 

Letraset Promakers used:

 

Summer Sun.

 

Black.

 

Ice grey 1,3 and 5.

 

Cinnamon.

 

Blush.

 

Sunkissed Pink.

 

Cloud Blue.

 

Sky Blue

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading.

 

XOXO