Sunday, February 8

New Release: Wild About You

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and it's time to get those last minutes cards finished and passed out to all those special people in your life.  I designed this set with extended family and friends in mind, rather than spouses or partners.  I think the little animals would be perfect on cards for grandchildren, siblings or classmates.
 
Wild About You Set
Some images are available for individual purchase

Susan's Card
 
Renee's awesome exploding box card
 
Ilaria's Card
 
Two cards from Gail
 
Christine's Card

Wednesday, February 4

Scrap Card #5

Last month I shared a tutorial on collage cards, and today I've used one of the scrap backgrounds to create a card using the same technique.  I think this is probably my favourite scrap card so far, I love the colours and I really like how all the layering looks.  The inky fingers are definitely worth the result!
 

Tuesday, February 3

Design Team Call

I'm looking for a talented team of paper crafters to help promote Beccy's Place digital designs and provide inspiration and ideas using my images.
 
Duration
The position runs for six months from the beginning of March 2015 to the end of August 2015.  (Work will be showcased from the beginning of April 2015 to the end of September 2015).
 
Requirements
1. Successful applicants will be required to produce at least one card or paper craft project per digital release.  In practice, this means anywhere from one to five cards per month.
2. High quality photographs of all design work must be emailed to me by the 28th of each month unless otherwise specified.
3. Successful applicants must have a personal blog on which to display design team work.

DT Benefits
1. You will receive all of the images released during the period you are on the team.  They are yours to keep and use subject to all the normal copyright conditions.
2. During your term on the design team, you may select two sets of images per month for personal use.  They are also yours to keep subject to the same copyright conditions.
3. A link to your blog will be displayed on this site for the duration of your time on the team.
4. Your cards and projects will be displayed to a wide audience of other paper artists, including those people on the email subscription list.  They will appear on this blog and in my digital stamp store.
 
Considerations
I am looking for paper-crafters who are familiar with my designs and are comfortable using digital images.  I like to have a wide variety of styles and abilities on my teams, so applications from beginner through to experienced paper-crafters are welcome.  Although ALL applications are carefully considered, preference will be given to those who have links back to my blog/store and to those who do not have security on for comments, all else being equal.
 
How To Apply
Please email me at beccymuir@yahoo.com to indicate your interest and include a link to your blog that features your current work.
 
Dates
Applications will be taken from today until Wednesday the 25th of February (Australian Eastern Standard Time).  The new team will be finalised on Saturday the 28th of February.

Sunday, February 1

February New Releases

This month I have three new digital sets going in to my online store.  The first, called Iris Garden, features beautiful iris flowers that bloom in a gorgeous array of colours.  The next two sets, titled Wild About You and Valentine Stanley, are specifically designed for Valentine's Day, although they would be useful for other occasions too.
 
Iris Garden


Wild About You
 

Valentine Stanley

January Challenge Winners

Congratulations to Teresa H., Karin and Low Country Paisley!
You are the randomly chosen winners of the January challenge.
Please visit my online store and select either a full digital stamp set or three
individual images.  Email your choice to me at beccymuir@yahoo.com.

February Challenge

Create a card using any Beccy's Place digital image, free or purchased, upload a photo of it to your blog and submit a direct link below.  The challenge runs from now until midnight on the 28th of February 2015 (AEST).
 
Your project must be created during the month of February 2015.  You can enter as many times as you like and you can submit your card to any other challenge you wish. At the end of the month three random winners will be chosen to receive their choice of either a full set of digital stamps or three individual digital images from my online store.
 

Want to join the challenge but don't have a blog?  No worries!
Email a photo of your card or project to me at beccymuir@yahoo.com and I will post it on my Guest Blog and link it to the challenge for you.

Saturday, January 24

Scrap Card #4

Orange is not a colour I use regularly, so I was quite surprised to find so many off cuts in my scrap box.  I can't even remember what the original project was that generated so much extra paper, but it must have been pretty big!
 

Thursday, January 22

New Release: Tell it to the Trees

Trees and garden scenes are so versatile for card makers because they're appropriate for many different occasions, such as sympathy and thank you cards.  This set includes six sentiments that you can mix and match with the tree images to create the perfect greeting.
 
Tell it to the Trees

Susan's Card

Renee's Card

Ilaria's Card

Gail's Card

Christine's Card

Tuesday, January 20

Scrap Card #3

I'm really enjoying the process of making these scrap cards... having the bases already done makes the construction so much quicker and easier.  I've also noticed that the different colour combinations help to get the ideas flowing.
 
 

Sunday, January 18

Tutorial: Collage Cards

I had the best time creating these collage cards using a variety of stamps, papers and water based inks.  Although I think I was a little too experimental with the colours on this first card, it was still lots of fun to throw around different inks and water just to see what happened.  I thoroughly recommend having a go!
 
 
You'll need a piece of watercolour paper, a water pen, spritzing bottle filled with clean water, a collection of stamps, water soluble ink and a dark coloured oil based ink (not shown).
 
 
Start by stamping the background with the lightest coloured inks.  Do some spritzing or use the water pen if desired.

 
Now just add stamps!

 
I used a black, oil based ink for the script and sentiment stamps so it wouldn't react with the water already on the cardstock.  I used a permanent ink pen to draw a small double lined border to frame my image, which I created by stamping on a clean sheet of cardstock and colouring with one of the inks already used in the background.

 
The background for these two cards was created in the same way, except that I used slightly different colours.


Thursday, January 15

New Release: Retail Therapy

Ellie and Tippy are dressed up and ready to hit the shops!
 
Retail Therapy

Renee's Card
 
Two cards from Gail
 
Christine's Card
 
Susan's Card
 

Ilaria's Card

Tuesday, January 13

Scrap Card #2

I chose one of the pink and green scrap squares for my next card... it's one of my favourite colour combinations so I tend to have a lot of scraps in these colours.  I dry embossed the square to give it some texture and help unify all the different patterns and colours of the paper.  I then secured it to a soft pink card base and added a piece of ribbon, a stamped die cut shape and some self-adhesive pearls.