Thank you all for participating in the Honey Bee Stamps Blog Hop over the weekend – celebrating the fantastic new release! Be sure to check out the HoneyBeeStamps Facebook page and Instagram to see the winner!
For today, I wanted to use the new Hello Gorgeous stamp set, and really showcase the variety of big floral stamps.
This card really does demonstrate that you can make impactful cards with the right product – even the beginner crafter could achieve this one!
I started with a panel of kraft cardstock, cut using a rectangle die to be the size of a standard A2 card. Next I prepped my surface with an anti static embossing bag, before stamping and embossing floral images all over the card. There are so many to choose from in this set, but they all coordinate perfectly – so I randomly stamped them all over, then heat embossed them with white embossing powder.
I really didn’t want to cover up a lot of those gorgeous floral images, so I decided to go for a simple, yet elegant look. I die cut some vellum using a speech bubble die (Quickutz) and then stamped and embossing the large Hello image from this set. I am IN LOVE with this ‘hello’ – it is exactly what I needed in my stash! It is going to get SO much use, I can tell!
To finish the card, I reached for the Honey Bee Stamps exclusive Dew Drops embellishments – I love that these give such a WOW factor to my cards!
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.
SCROLL DOWN FOR THE VIDEO TUTORIAL
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
