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Heffy Doodle Big Reveal DAY ONE – Elephant of Surprise

on June 28, 2017

The time has finally come…it’s DAY ONE of our HEFFY DOODLE reveals!
You have had sneaks, you have been teased, but now it’s time to see our first ever revealed stamp set! Ladies and gentlemen, Heffy Doodle is proud to present…

ELEPHANT OF SURPRISE

Elephant of Surprise is one of Heffy Doodle’s four animal themed stamp sets which make up the core collection of our first release. Not only will the stamp set contain these adorable elephant stamps, but also a host of supporting images to help accessorise your elephant. You will see that every single image has a coordinating die – how super fun is that!?

In addition to the images, there are a range of sentiments which are both practical and fun! Everyone loves a pun, right? The sentiment images have been created in both a small, plain font and a bolder, more whimsical font – and you will see more of these as we reveal more of the release! This will allow you to mix and match the sentiment stamps across the whole range – giving you lots of versatility!

Be sure to check out the video to see some more projects made using the ELEPHANT OF SURPRISE stamps and dies – and also to hear more about the quality that you will see when you buy Heffy Doodle products.

This is our first big exciting reveal, and there are more to come each day this week as we run up to the Kickstarter launch on 3rd July. The Kickstarter will be going live at 12 noon BST, so be sure to mark you calendars! You can also visit www.heffydoodle.com and sign up to the mailing list to be kept up to date! Be sure to follow us on social media too!

Instagram – @heffydoodlestamps

Facebook – @heffydoodle

Twitter – @heffydoodle

Pinterest- @heffydoodle

As a new company, we need your help to spread the word about Heffy Doodle. Please help spread the word to your crafty friends – that would be so awesome! We have made a special blog button here for anyone who wants to add this badge to their blog, or you can use it on your own social media channels. Just right click to download.

Don’t forget to come back over the next few days so you can see all of the full reveals before we go live on Kickstarter on July 3rd. We are so excited that you will also get to see some awesome projects made by some fantastic crafters who are supporting the launch of Heffy Doodle. We also have a blog hop coming up on 15th July!

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Lesley

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Celebrate – Celebrating A Year With Honey Bee Stamps

on June 26, 2017

Hello my sweet friends!
The time has come! You know what they say – time flies when you have craft supplies to play with! 🙂
Today is my last blogging day as part of the Honey Bee Stamps Design Team. Of course I am a little sad, but I prefer to look at this differently and be thankful for the last year that I have spent on this sweet design team. So today, I am sharing a celebration card!

I am celebrating the fact that I have had the pleasure of serving two terms on the HBS team, and that I have had the opportunity to play with so many of their awesome products. I am celebrating that the awesome Melissa helped make it possible for me to go to Creativation in January, where I not only had a blast, but also allowed me to meet so many more wonderful people in this industry. I am celebrating that this year, I was lucky enough to be invited to illustrate stamp sets for the Honey Bee Stamps brand. It still makes me smile so much to see projects made with the stamps that started life as a doodle in my notebook! So, THANK YOU Melissa, to Lisa, Taniesa and EVERY single one of the other wonderful people that work behind the scenes to make this a fabulous craft company. ALSO, thank you to everyone who visited the Honey Bee Stamps blogs to see my projects and for the sweet comments that you leave!

Anyway… enough blubbering, let’s get on with the card for today! I hope you like it!

Every one knows that celebrations need balloons, right? YEAH! So I used the balloon dies from the Celebration Box die set to cut out some mini masks from post it note paper. Next up I grabbed a few distress inks so I could add some colourful balloons to create a background. I did one at a time, working from the left to the right, and I overlapped them slightly to create more interest.

I was mindful of colours that would work well together – I didn’t want to accidentally create any muddy looking overlaps. I love the soft effect this gives! The round mini blending tool from ranger was perfect for this technique. After I had finished my balloons, I used some of the confetti element stamps from the coordinating Celebration Box stamp set, and used the same colours to add some fun confetti to the background.

Next I die cut a rectangle from vellum to layer on top of my card, and then I simply had to add my greeting and a few embellishments. Of course I HAD to use the Celebrate Honey cuts die – it was simply perfect for this occasion! I used it on some self adhesive black foam and carefully stuck it to the front of the vellum. To adhere the vellum to the balloon panel, I used tiny glue dots behind the sentiment, and I also added a few in other places, which I managed to hid with a few pretty sequins!

There we have it!

Thank you HONEY BEE STAMPS for all the fun and creativity over the last year. You’re so SWEET – sweet as honey in fact!

Big hugs!

Lesley

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CCWM – Surprise Slider Interactive Card ft. Heffy Doodle Sneak Peeks

on June 22, 2017

Hello Crafty friends!

I intended to get this post up earlier in the week… but it didn’t happen. Better late than never I guess. 🙂

Last Friday in my Come Craft With Me YouTube LIVE show I was sharing this fun interactive card and at the same time sharing some sneak peeks of some stamps from Heffy Doodle!

In case you have missed the news, Heffy Doodle is a NEW stamp and die company that I am launching via Kickstarter on 3rd July. Please come on over to www.heffydoodle.com to see some more sneak peeks and sign up so you can be notified of all the latest Heffy Doodle news.

Over the next few weeks on my Friday night CCWM shows, i will be giving you all some sneak peeks of some Heffy Doodle stamps, and then the full reveals will begin on 28th June!

Let’s get on with the card!

So I totally tried to be organised this week – aren’t y’all proud of me? I received some requests to share some information earlier in the week so that you can gather supplies and then you can craft the same card when I am LIVE. It was a great idea – you guys are so clever! I am going to try to do that, although part of the reason I started doing LIVE shows was because of time constraints… what with launching a new company and all! 🙂 But I promise to try real hard, and if i can.. i sure will.

I know some of you guys like measurements and exact dimensions. My brain doesn’t work like that, so in the video I talk you through the mechanics. If you can wrap your head around the engineering a little, then you will be free to make different variations of the card much easier.

But for those of you that like to keep track of dimensions – i did promise a guide. Here is is! The finished card is A2 – 5.5 inches x 4.25 inches

I had lots of fun breaking in my Distress Oxide inks – both for creating the blended background but also for stamping the messages! This ink stamps SO deliciously!

I used the masking technique to turn this card into a Fathers day card – I just love the teeny weeny ‘slide me’ message at the top! And if you like it, you are in for a treat when you see the full stamp set reveal!

If you are free, i would love you to join me for my LIVE Come Craft With Me show – it is every Friday night at 9pm BST (4pm EST). You can always go to my YouTube channel http://youtube.com/hungryheffy and join the event – that way you will be notified when we go live.

Otherwise, get crafty and maybe play the video in the background! If you can’t join me in my craft room, I would love to join you in yours! See you soon!

Happy crafting!

Lesley

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