Retirement Days

Karin has used one of the images from the new Beach Bums set of stamps to create this fun card. I'm sure this lady has big plans to spend her hot summer days relaxing in the back yard next to her inflatable pool. If she's lucky, the grandkids may join her in the sandpit for a little castle building before they enjoy a cool lemonade in the shade of a lovely old tree.

Karin's Blog

Everything Papercraft - Gatefold Cards

Gate fold cards are simple to make and are a fast way to add dimension and movement to handmade cards. Gatefolds are basically cards that have two folds with a centre opening, although there are many design options you can add to change the size and shape of the finished product. While there are no hard and fast rules for making gatefold cards, it is important to carefully and accurately measure, score and fold for a good end result. You only need a piece of cardstock, a folding tool and your imagination to create unique handmade cards suitable for any occasion.

Here are some tutorials for different gatefold cards:

Gatefold Card

Altered Gatefold

Double Gatefold

Gatefold Window Card

DiagonalGatefold

Teardrop Double Gatefold

Enjoy Your Day

Deanne has created a beautiful, multi-purpose card using the new Orchid set of digital stamps. The dark background paper is a wonderful contrast for the flowers, while the little rhinestones add a touch of sparkle and shine.

Deanne's Blog

Sunset At The Beach

There's something extra special about watching the sun set over the ocean - the beautiful colours, the balmy breezes and the smell of salt in the air. I created my evening sky by blending distress inks onto a piece of smooth cardstock, masking the horizon between the sea and the sky. The images are from two different digital stamp sets - Beach Bums and Tree Scapes. Both have been fussy cut and mounted over the inked background.

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Cynthia Olheiser

Please join us in welcoming the lovely Cynthia Olheiser to the Beccy's Place creative team. Cynthia lives in Alaska with her husband and much loved chocolate Labrador, Bud. One of her favourite pastimes is creating beautiful cards for family and friends, which she loves to share on Facebook and her personal blog. We're thrilled to have her with us and look forward to sharing her creations later in the month!

Cynthia's Blog

May Winners

Congratulations to the May Challenge Winners!

Pam, Sarah and Gail

You are the randomly chosen winners of last month's challenge.

If you already have a Beccy's Place store account, I'll be adding a $20.00AU credit very soon.

If not, please email me at beccy@beccysplace.com to claim your prize.

New Releases

New digital stamps for June

Orchid

digital stamps

Available in Store Now

Beach Bums

digital stamps

Available in Store Now

June Challenge

Create a card or paper-craft project using any Beccy's Place image, upload a photo of it to your blog or other hosted site, and submit a direct link below. The challenge runs from now until midnight on the 30th of June 2022 (AEST).

DIGITAL PAPER

To keep things interesting, I'll be adding an additional optional element to the monthly challenges. This month it's a CASE (Copy And Selectively Edit) yourself challenge. Find a card that you really enjoyed making, or perhaps one that didn't turn out quite as you would have liked, and recreate it with a few tweaks. As always, keep in mind that the additional challenge is just an optional extra.

PLEASE READ THE CONDITIONS CAREFULLY

BEFORE ENTERING THE CHALLENGE

• Entries that don't meet the conditions will be deleted from the challenge.
• Your project must be created during the month of June 2022 and entered into the challenge during the active challenge period. Due to an automated system, late entries cannot be accepted.
• Each month I will include a re-mastered digital image from my library of freebies as well as a bonus challenge, such as a card sketch, bingo grid, etc. You DO NOT have to use the image or bonus challenge on your project, but you MUST use a Beccy's Place image, either free or purchased, to be eligible for entry.
• 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 different random winners will be chosen to receive a $20.00AU store credit for any digital stamps at Beccy's Place. To redeem the store credit, winners must have a Beccy's Place customer account. (Please note, you do not need an account to enter the challenge. It is acceptable to create an account in the event that you win. Accounts can be closed at any time.)
• Store credit won during any Beccy's Place challenge is only redeemable for digital stamps. Entries can be uploaded to the challenge from any hosted site including blogs, online galleries, Google photos, etc.
• If you do not have access to a hosted site, please feel free to email your photos to me and I will add them from the Beccy's Place Guest blog.
• Beccy's Place designers may enter the monthly challenge but are not eligible to win prizes.

CLICK HERE TO ENTER

Rock On!

I used a comic book style technique to colour the cat from the All That Jazz digital set. Instead of blending the highlights and tones, I left the hard edges between the different colours. It's not a difficult technique, but you do need to ensure there isn't too much of a jump between the different tones or you'll end up with separate areas of colour rather than the illusion of highlights and shadows.

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Floating By

I used lots of lovely, bright papers to create this card, ensuring I used some of the same colours on the image itself, which helps to bring everything together. I also added thin, black frames to make the vibrant colours pop even more!

Stamps:

 

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Hear The Music

Anesha has hand-coloured the images on all three of these cards using pencils on smooth cardstock. She has also added a hand-inked border around each image panel with a variety of dots, lines and crosses. This is a fabulous way to add a personal touch to your cards and papercraft projects!

Anesha's Blog