Hello my inky friends!
There are SOOOO many people having babies right now! In the last week alone, there have been FOUR new additions within our family / circle of friends! FOUR! crazy right? Three little Princes, and one darling Princess!
So it is no surprise that I am on a baby card binge 🙂 and to start everything off, today’s video features this New Baby card where I FINALLY got to play with my new Mama Elephant Page Hugger dies!
I just ADORE the way that the dies cut out the hands of the little critters- this makes it super easy to tuck items into their claws, or to create the idea of these furry friends peeking out from behind something. I stamped the image onto watercolour cardstock and coloured them using watercolour paints.
To complete a cohesive scene, I pulled out a variety of Lawn Fawn stamps. The HELLO is from Yay, Kites, BABY is from Winter Alpaca, the CRAYON is from Color My World and the BOAT is from the Loveable Legends set. <3
I wanted the background to look a bit like a note page, so I coloured it with some Squeezed lemonade distress ink before stamping it with a Hero Arts Ledger stamp.
To finish, I added some sequins from Lucy’s Cards, and some Diamonds from Honey Bee Stamps!
And now, I just need to decide which one of the new arrivals will be receiving this card!! 🙂
Here’s the video, walking you through the whole process – enjoy!
Have a great day!
p.s – The Honey Bee Stamps Blog Hop giveaway is still open for entrants! Click here to start the hop and be in for a chance to win!!
P.P.S -I am over on the Honey Bee Stamps blog tomorrow- hope to see you there!
x
Lesley
Good Morning Honey Bees! Welcome to our November Release Honey Hop!!!
All this week we have been showing you little sneaks of our awesome new embellishments, stamp sets and dies! Well, here they all are! Everything will be available for purchase today in our shop HERE.
What’s a Honey Hop without some sweet prizes, right? One winner will win a gift certificate to purchase new goodies in the Honey Bee Stamps Store.
All you have to do to win is comment on the Honey Bee Stamps blog and again at each one of our designer’s blog by Sunday, November 13th. Winner will be announced on Monday, November 14th at Noon PST.
So Hop along and get ready to BEE inspired! The Honey Hop started with our Spotlight Designer : Laura Bassen, and the full line up is listed at the bottom of this post.
*Hippity Hop!*
If you are playing along with our blog hop today, you should have arrived from the blog of the wonderful LAURA JANE, and at the bottom of this post, I will be directing you over to your next stop,
Lisa. But for now… brace yourself…as today I have a few projects to share, featuring the new LITTLE PICKUP and SENDING YOU SENTIMENTS stamp sets!
For the main event today, I have used the awesome pick up image to create a Christmas card that lights up. To do this, I have used the Chibitronics circuit stickers and built these into the design of my card.
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I think this is an especially fun card because it doesn’t even really look like a light up card – but this is what happens if I press the top right corner of the card…
As this is a Christmas card, I decided to use the Christmas tree as cargo in my truck – but I love that there are so many different accessories in this stamp set which means that it can be used all year round. Be sure to check out the tags at the end of this post to see how I have used one design to create a variety of different styled tags!
Did you notice that my little Christmas tree has fairy lights? I used the fairy lights stamp set from the More Flakey Friends set – they were just the perfect size for my mobile Christmas tree!
I have coloured the pick up with some copic markers, and added some enamel accents to the tyres to make them dimensional and glossy. The Sending You Sentiments stamp set has so many options – I chose a simple Christmas greeting and embossed it in white so it would pop against the ink blended background.
As soon as I saw the Little Pickup stamp set, I knew that I had to pair this truck up with some LEDs! It was
especially fun to link different coloured lights together. Here is a closer look at the circuit I designed, just in case you wanted to give it a try for yourself.
To finish the card, I used a stencil to add some white embossing paste which creates a lovely snowy feel to the card!
If you would like to see the creation of this card – check out the video tutorial below 🙂
Remember I mentioned that these stamps could be used all year round! Take a look at these fun SHAKER TAGS I have made.
One design, but three very different feels!  I used a tag die to create six card tags, then cut an aperture in three using a scalloped square die. I added colour with a little ink blending on each, and after stamping a greeting inside, I built each of them up into shaker tags using foam tape, and a mix of sequins and seed beads. Then the trucks were all stamped on neenah cardstock and coloured with copic markers before adding these onto the tags.
Thanks for stopping by to see my projects, and your next stop is
Happy November everyone! Good bye Halloween, and HELLO HOLIDAY SEASON!
At least that is what it felt like when I went for a walk in town today- I even counted three Christmas trees! :-O
I don’t normally make a lot of Christmas cards, but sometimes inspirations strikes – and that is exactly what happened with this card. I recently got the Dotted Detail die set from Mama Elephant, and I had the idea to create a double slider card. Many moons ago, I did share a tutorial on how to create a double slider card, but I thought it was time to create another one.
If you haven’t seen one of these before, they are a fun, interactive card where you can pull out a panel from the right hand side of the card. As you slide this panel out, a second panel emerges from the left! It can be quite a surprise, and always FUN! Take a look!
The video is a little longer than normal, as it not only shows the design process, but also explains how I have made the slider mechanism. Be sure to watch right up to the end- as we have an exciting new end screen to share! YAY!
There were two things that I wanted for this card – firstly, I wanted the colours to be soft and fresh – so there is actually very little copic colouring on this card. Every colour was blended out with the colourless blender to result in an almost pastel look. Secondly, I wanted the open card to have a continuous landscape. Can you see how the rolling hillsides continue from the front panel right the way across the left and right to give the finished card a cohesive look!?
Let me leave you with the video, and please do leave a like, or a comment – they mean the world to me!
Happy Crafting!!
