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Hello little honey bees! Happy Monday to you! I am over on the Honey Bee Stamps Blog today with a fun, interactive slider card!

I shared a sneak peek of this on Instagram last week, and I am excited to finally reveal the full card to all of you!

This card features the snail from the Special Delivery set, hearts from the Country Wreath stamp set, the word FABULOUS from the Beautiful Life set, and lots of words from the Sentiment Builder set! Oh my, oh my… I love the sentiment builder stamp set so much – you can get so many different greetings from one stamp set!

AND, I thought it would be fun to share a video tutorial, so you guys can all get a chance to see how I made the card, and see me in action! But before that, lets have a quick run down and some close up photos!

I decided that for a change I would colour mister snail with my Spectrum Noir colouring pencils as I hadn’t used them in a while. I also used a little of the blending solution to blend the pencil lines a little! I didn’t blend too much on his shell because I quite liked the texture it gave the shell.

For the greeting, I used good old black ink next to some pink colours for the word Fabulous! I used my misti tool to stamp it in a light pink ink first of all, then I stamped over the top once again but with only the bottom section of the stamp inked up in a darker tone of ink. The Misti tool sure does make techniques like this pretty easy to achieve, and I love the final look! I simply love the way you can mix and match these stamps to create lots of greetings!

Thanks for stopping by, and be sure to watch the video to see the full run through on how I made todays card!

 

🙂 Have a happy day, my little bees!

Lesley

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Good afternoon Crafty friends!

Today’s card is a celebration! A celebration of kindness, and the generosity of the whole hive over at Honey Bee Stamps.

Melissa and gang from Honey Bee Stamps has announced that throughout all of August, 25% of the proceeds generated through sales of the Kindness Stamp set and Kindness Die will be donated towards the Kind Campaign– a campaign that aims to stamp out bullying! 🙂

This is such a wonderful cause, and whats even better, is that these are really super awesome products! This makes me doubly happy! 🙂

To showcase the kindness stamp set I have made a card today to share with you guys. I have paired up the large stamps to create the word ‘kindness’ and then filled out the rest of the card with some of the other smaller words in the set. You can get so many variations from one stamp set – and this is something i really love about Honey Bee Stamps products!

I have paired this stamp set up with the Country Wreath stamps to build up a floral image, which I coloured with my copic markers. I wanted a sweet, almost vintage-feeling colour palate, so I used E95, RV10, R00, G21, YG02 and R20. This paired up perfectly with a little green pattern paper from my stash and some gold mirror card!

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I wanted to add some dimension to the card, so I cut out a couple of extra flowers and fussy cut them so i could decoupage or paper piece them together with a little foam dot. I love how this makes the card have a little more pizazz! A little glimmer from the wink of stella brush marker, and add a few gems – and the card is complete!

So if you want to boost your stamp supplies as well as support the kind campaign, jump over to the Honey Bee Stamps shop to purchase these great supplies. Simon Says Stamp is also honouring the 25% donation. 🙂

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Oh and by the way, Jennifer Maguire posted a great video of her using this stamp set today, and the video also showcases some of the other great stamps in this release. Hop over to her You Tube channel or blog to see it!

 

 

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Yo HO HO, me hearties!

oh, sorry… i kinda got carried away there! You see, in my head when I was making this card, I was envisaging a picture frame hanging on the wall of a seaside tavern, where an auspicious fisherman once was in the right place at the right time, and took a snapshot of the mystical sea maiden on a fair isle!

LOL, sorry, i am getting carried away again! 😛

For today’s card I am Masking, MASKing, MASKING! It is MASK-MANIA over here! I had the idea to combine a bunch of Lawn Fawn stamps to create an ocean scene featuring this darling little mermaid. It features ‘mermaid for you’, ‘Critters of the sea’, ‘loveable legends’, ‘life is good’, ‘Monster Mash’, ‘Beep Boop Birthday’ and ‘Big scripty words’. Gosh! I didn’t realise i had used so many!

I combined a little ink blending (using a brush) with some water colouring to create the main panel, and then used kraft cardstock ran through a woodgrain effect embossing folder to create the frame.

Here’s a video for you al to watch… and you will also get to see me make a WHOOPSIE, and how i simply made it work!

have a great day folks!

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