Card Making

Hello Beeautiful – Honey Hive Shaker Card

on June 12, 2017

[Shared on the Honey Bee Stamps Blog today 🙂 ]

Hello sweet friends!

I am LOVING this hexagon coverplate – I think it has so many great ways to be used! Today I decided to make a shaker card, and try to give the impression of looking inside a honey hive!

I started by cutting a frame into cardstock using some rectangle dies, and then I layered this awesome hexagon cover plate die cut underneath the frame, before adding a layer of acetate underneath. All that took mere minutes, and already the card was looking so gorgeous! I reached for my Honey Jar sequins to go inside- they are a beautiful mix of golden yellows with hints of black, and some sequins even have an awesome debossed texture to it! A little foam tape to the edges of my frame and my shaker element was complete!

I thought that I would use black cardstock to coordinate with those tiny sequins, and the contrast in colour would really make the design pop! First I white heat embossed one of the cute Busy Bee images onto black card, then coloured him in with some polychromos pencils.

I have been doing some address calls on my blog recently – where I send out cards to some of my blog readers – so I decided to choose a general greeting that I could use to send to my crafty friends. The Hello honeycuts die was just perfect. I decided to die cut this from some adhesive craft foam and stick to the front of the card.

Next I took a strip of black cardstock and white heat embossed a greeting using the Hello Gorgeous stamp set. I had to do a little masking with some post it note tape in order to stamp two E’s but it was worth it in the end!

I used the shadow die from the Hello honeycuts set to trim the edge of the black strip so it nestles nicely against the word hello. Do you see the shine on that word hello? Yesterday I invested in a brand new bottle of glossy accents- Oh MAN, I can’t believe how nicely it flows. I had forgotten that it used to be so easy! I added a layer of glossy accents on top of the foam and also added some to the bees wings!

FUN!

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Crafting!

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Introducing Heffy Doodle – A new stamp company in town!

on June 10, 2017

Finally… the wait is over!

Last night in the CCWM YouTube LIVE stream, not only did I show you how to make an interactive card, but I also FINALLY shared a huge announcement! eekk! 🙂

Introducing – Heffy Doodle!

That’s right! A new stamp company in town! Woohoo!

Over the last year I have been doodling, designing, tweaking, sampling, experimenting and creating… and now – all the hard work has all come together!

Heffy Doodle is a new craft company, specialising in stamps and dies. We will be launching our new family run business via Kickstarter, which will launch on July 3rd.

Last night, live on air during my Come Craft With Me LIVE stream – I made the big announcement – you can watch the playback in the video above. I also gave everyone a sneaky peeky – or rather, a cheeky sneaky peeky – as I don’t want to give too much away at the moment.

To kick things off we made the Heffydoodle.com website live last night, along with opening up social channels across twitter, facebook, pinterest and instagram. Over the course of the following weeks, we will be sharing more sneak peeks – and the full reveals will start on 28th June. Then, on July 3rd, the Kickstarter will be live and you will be able to place your orders!

To celebrate this MASSIVE announcement, on last night’s CCWM LIVE show, I made a peekaboo card featuring some Heffy Doodle stamps – let’s take a look!

I used some distress oxides to blend the pink and blue panel on the front of the card, and accented my card with purple cardstock. On the front is this sweet Heffy Doodle elephant, and you can see a message through the aperture, along with a cute cake. Let’s see what happens when we open the card…

PEEKABOO! I love these kinds of interactive cards! I think they are so fun! When you open the front flap of the card, another elephant mysteriously appears in the aperture! BOO!

All the stamps on today’s card are Heffy Doodle stamps.

A huge thank you to everyone on the LIVE stream who shared my excitement and for all the amazing encouragement that I have had already. I am so excited – and just can’t wait for the Kickstarter to launch on the 3rd of July.

Don’t know what Kickstarter is? Well, essentially it is a way for us to collect pre-orders as we need to reach a minimum number of orders before we can start production on everything. The Kickstarter will be running from 3rd – 31st of July, and assuming we reach our target we will be starting production first thing in August and shipping out to you shortly after that. If you would like to be kept in the loop with the latest Heffy Doodle news and announcements – sign up here.

So here’s the deal – we need your help! PLEASSSSSEEE 😀

For any new company, marketing is the big challenge, and for Kickstarter to be a success, we need as many pre-orders as possible. SO here’s how YOU can help Heffy Doodle

If you have a blog – please tell your followers about Heffy Doodle. To use the sneak peek photo above – click here. Link to HeffyDoodle.com and encourage everyone to sign up so they can get Heffy Doodle updates
Follow us on Social Media – see our sneak peeks, share them with your community. Tell your friends, talk about Heffy Doodle in forums and your crafty groups.

Instagram – @heffydoodlestamps

Twitter – @heffydoodle

Facebook – @heffydoodle

Pinterest – @heffydoodle

Thanks again for all your support – with your help, I hope that Heffy Doodle will be a huge success. I can’t wait to see what you make with these designs!

Join me for more sneak peeks over the next few weeks, and on next week’s Come Craft With Me YouTube LIVE video, I will be using another Heffy Doodle stamp set -so you will get another peek at some of our range!

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Hang In There Friend – Mixing Old & New Stamp Sets

on June 5, 2017

One of the things I like to do every now and again is mix my new products with older products. Sometimes I am so amazed at how much more mileage you can get out of your stamps this way. Today I am sharing a card that features the Curious Kitties stamps and die set released in February this year, with an older (but still so amazing) stamp set called Special Delivery to create a fun scene.

At first I thought that i would have the little kitty hanging off the mailbox so I could use the sweet Hang In There Friend sentiment from the new Blah Blah Blah set, but my design changed a little as I went along! haha!

To start I stamped the mailbox, birdies and a bunch of envelopes from the Special Delivery set and then stamped this sweet cat from the Curious Kitties set. I coloured them all with copic markers and cut them out. I love the way the Curious Kitties dies cut around the tail which is so tricky to get perfect with scissors!

I have been really enjoying playing with bright colours recently, so decided to add a little rainbow ink blending to my card to ground the design. I used a strip of post it tape to mask off my card, leaving an exposed strip of about an inch at the bottom. Next using my mini blending foam tools and some distress ink, I added colour all the way along the bottom edge – overlapping the colours slightly to get a nice blend! Afterwards I gave it a spritz with water to get a distressed look!

To add a little texture I used a border die to add some faux stitching just above the inked section, and then stuck all my elements in place using glue dots. Can you see that I used my craft knife to cut a little slit in the mailbox so I could tuck some envelopes inside it! So fun! To finish the card, I chose this sentiment from the Blah Blah Blah set and to bring a little more colour to it, I used a BG10 Cool Shadow Copic marker to add a little shading around the letters. It’s pretty subtle, but it is a fun way to make your greetings pop!

Enjoy your day, and I will see you next week!

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