Honey Bee Stamps

You Are Wonderful! – Sequins Behind Die Cuts!

on May 25, 2017

Hey guys – I thought I would share another Honey Bee Stamps project with you – one that i shared on their blog at the start of the week! Yippeee!

I am using the Beautiful Life and Celebration Box stamp sets, along with the Hello Gorgeous dies and some luscious sequins. <3

This card was inspired by a happy accident! For a previous project, I had die cut the word ‘hi’ from black cardstock using the Hello Gorgeous dies. I took out the die cut, and left the negative on my desk, and later when tidying up, I realised that the negative was sitting on top of a bag of sequins. You could see the sparkly sequins through the hole in the cardstock and it looked so pretty. So i decided to use this as a starting point for a new card.

I used another die to cut the black cardstock into a square speech bubble, and then on another scratch piece of white card, I stuck down a load of gorgeous Honey Bee Stamps sequins. I made sure that I covered enough of the card so that the whole aperture would be full of sequins when I layered the die cut speech bubble on top. I then set this to the side to dry whilst working on the rest of the card.

Then I cut some white cardstock using a Mama Elephant die to create this scalloped frame, and then using a stencil and some ink blending brushes, I added some colour using distress inks. Working in circles, I used the yellow ink in the middle, then pink, then added some light green to the outermost sections. It is really subtle, and hard to see in the photo, but it gives such a lovely soft touch to the card.

I used my Mini MISTI to stamp the ‘You are wonderful’ image onto the centre of the cardstock, using stamps from the Beautiful Life stamp set. Next I added some small party / confetti images from the Celebration Box set.

To finish off the whole card, I used some diamond embellishments from the Frozen Dew Drops embellishment pack, along with some tiny stars from the Baby Boy sequin pack.

Et Voila! That’s the card! I hope you have enjoyed it!

Thank you so much for stopping by, and have a great day!

Lesley

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Lotus Blossom In Luscious Lavender! ft Honey Bee Stamps

on May 8, 2017

Happy Monday everyone!

I am kicking off the week with this luscious lavender card, that was inspired by fellow DT member Galina. She has made some gorgeous cards using the Lotus Blossom stamp – and this inspired me to add this stamp to my shopping card so i too could get to play with it!

I noticed that I had a piece of watercolour cardstock on my desk which already had a curved section cut into it. It was my original idea to stamp and die cut the flowers, so I grabbed this piece of card and started stamping. Of course, my original ideas don’t always transpire, and sometime new ideas form. As I was stamping and white heat embossing the blossoms, I decided to instead create a floral background.

Before stamping with versamark embossing ink, I prepped the surface with an anti-static powder tool. This meant that when i sprinkled my embossing powder over the top – the embossing powder ONLY stuck to the stamped lines. I used a post-it note to cut out three masks, which I was able to move around my card when I was overlapping the stamps.

Next I used my Kuretake Tambi Gansai watercolours to mix some purple tones in a palate. I used the wet-on-wet technique to achieve a soft watercolour finish. To do this, simply ‘paint’ the area with clean water first, then when the paper is still damp, drop in a little watercolour. I tried to concentrate the pigment towards the centre of the flower, or in areas that would naturally have a shadow.

I think it looks so fresh and beautiful! I added this panel to a purple card, along with some twine, and then added some dew drops. I had a little piece of purple cardstock left over after making the folded card base, so I white heat embossed the word ‘hello’ from the Hello Gorgeous stamp set, and used the coordinating die to cut this out before adding this to the card!

Thank you so much for stopping by

Happy Crafting!

Lesley

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Sequin Love – Ft Honey Bee Stamps Embellishments

on May 1, 2017

Hello everyone,

Have you guys had a chance to check out the awesome range of embellishments in the Honey Bee Stamps store yet? I am absolutely loving them – Melissa does such a great job of creating gorgeous mixes that coordinate so beautifully together.

For today’s card I am ALL about the sequins! I wanted the sequins from the popsicle mix to be the main focus on this card, so first I covered a square card blank with some pink patterned paper. Next I took a heart die and drew around it lightly with a pencil. This created a guide where I would place a plethora of fun sequins!

I used my tombow mono adhesive to stick all the sequins in place, one by one. Yes it took a little time, but isn’t the final result just BEAUTIFUL! So sparkly, it reminds me of sprinkles on a cupcake!

When all the sequins were in place, I realised that you could still see the pencil lines, so I reached for my Nuvo crystal drops. I used the gloss white nuvo drops to add little blobs all along the pencil line. It felt like i was icing a cake!

To finish it off, I needed a simple but bold message, so I use the ‘hi’ die from the Hello Gorgeous die set to cut out of black cardstock. So simple, and so pretty!

Thank you for stopping by, and I hope you take another look at the many awesome embellishments in the store!

Happy Crafting

Lesley

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