Hungry Heffy Crafts

Masked Floral Thank You Card

on August 1, 2016

Happy Monday everyone!

I am sharing a card over on the Honey Bee Stamp Blog today, and I am happy that you stopped by!

We have been simply buzzing about the New Release! If you haven’t had a chance to see whats new, be sure to fly by the HoneyBeeStamps Shop to see some awesome new stamps and dies! You will love them!

For today’s card though, I am using one of my old favourites – the Country Wreath set, to make this fresh, floral card, where the beautiful stamped images frame the die cut greeting.

This card involved a lot of masking and fussy cutting, but I think the effort is very much worth the final result! First I masked a strip of the card using washi tape, then stamped on either side of the tape using the Country Wreath stamps in dye based ink. I built up the effect of layers by masking each flower that I stamped, before stamping other flowers and foliage around it.

To add dimension to the card, I raised up the inner panel ( cut using a Lawn Fawn stitched rectangle die) and added a layer of craft foam and pink cardstock underneath. It’s hard to see the pink layer when you look head on, but from the side I think it really makes the pink flowers pop!

I used a Paper Smooches die to cut out the word thanks from the same pink cardstock several times, and stuck them on top of each other to create the feel of a nice sturdy chipboard product. To give a lovely shine, I then embossed it with some clear embossing powder and finished the card with some teeny tiny adhesive pearls.

There’s a video tutorial here so you can see the whole process!

AND WAIT, there is more good news! Firstly, if you like the look of the card, but aren’t keen on fussy cutting, you could check out the Country Blooms stamp set. This set would give you a similar effect in a fraction of the time. And the other great news…. the Country Wreath set now comes with co-ordinating dies! SWOOON!! I have placed by order already, and cannot wait for them to get here!

Thanks for stopping by, and before I go, don’t forget that everyone that places an order on the Honey Bee Stamps shop will get an exclusive free gift in their package… – but the offer finishes today, so hurry, hurry over to shop and give your self a little sweet treat! 🙂

Have a great day!

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Honey Bee Stamps, Sentiment Builder SNEAK PEEK – Wonderful Shirley

on July 29, 2016

Hello everyone, Its the weekend! YAY!
I have been away for work all week, and I am feeling some severe crafty withdrawal symptoms over here! I am so glad to be home so I can get crafty this weekend!

I am also really excited to share a card featuring one of the BRAND NEW stamp sets from Honey Bee Stamps that is getting released this week! OH YOU WILL LOVE IT!!

You probably know that one of my favourite things to do when making cards, is to mix and match my stamp sets to create unique greetings and sentiments! I find it so fun, and it opens up a world of possibilities!

So when Michelle mentioned that there will be a new stamp set called SENTIMENT BUILDER, I nearly died with excitement!

There are DOZENS of stamps crammed into one stamp set- and you will not believe how many phrases are possible with this set! Be sure to hop on over to the Honey Bee Stamps shop – this stamp will soon be revealed, along with LOTS of other awesome stamps! let’s just say, if you have seen the Bless Your Heart stamp set, then you are going to LOVE-LOVE-LOVE what is coming to the shop this week! WOOHOOO!!

So lets talk about today’s card, which showcases not only this awesome new ‘Sentiment Builder‘ set, but also features the ‘Beautiful Life‘ set.

I wanted to make a card for our childminder Shirley, who is simply awesome in every single way! Piper adores her, and we are so thankful that she enjoys going to Shirley’s house every day. Sometimes it is a challenge to get her back home again at the end of the day, as she sees Shirley as one of the family, and totally makes herself at home over there! That makes me a very happy mummy!

I wanted the words to do the talking on this one, so the focal element of this card is a vellum panel where i stamped and embossed the bespokely built sentiment using versa mark ink and Ranger Liquid Platinum embossing powder. Oh i love that colour! The word ‘Wonderful’ is from the ‘Beautiful Life‘ set, but ALL THE OTHER WORDS are from the ‘Sentiment Builder‘ stamp set! And believe me, there are SOOO many more stamps in it also!!

To create the background panel, I used the heart stamps from the ‘Beautiful Life‘ set – these are awesome because you stamp the bottom layer, then stamp a brush mark layer over the top – i love how it turned out! I decided to stamp the hearts in threes- kinda like a three leaf clover. Then I used one of the small confetti images to fill in the gaps around the hearts!

Because the stamped background was pretty busy, I noticed that the vellum panel wasn’t opaque enough and there was a lot of colour showing through the vellum, making the stamped words harder to read. So to fix it, i just die cut two vellum panels and stacked them up with a little glue pen! Et Voila!!! 🙂

Thanks for stopping by, and please do buzz by www.honeybeestamps.com to see the rest of the release! There are so many awesome stamp sets and MORE!

You can also check out loads more sneak peeks over on Instagram using the HoneyBeeStamps hashtag! That’s where i am heading now! See you there!

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Nessie's Unbelievable Birthday – ft. Lawn Fawn Stamps {video}

on July 24, 2016

Good morning stamperooneys!:-)

I hope you are having a beautiful day!

In a recent stamp splurge, i bought the Loveable legends stamp set from Lawn Fawn. I have had my eye on it for a while, mostly because of the cute Loch Ness Monster image in there. Seeing as my hubby is Scottish, it seemed like it would be a good investment for my stamp stash! Plus he is super cute!

Today’s card features this awesome image, mixed with some die cutting,inking, copic colouring, heat embossing and a little vellum too. I love that it turned out quite simple, but effective.

Watch the video at the end of this post to see how i made the card – it was fun, and rather a quick one (by my standards anyway!).

In other news, have you seen the new lawn fawn release? OH MY! I am simply in LOVE with the ‘Jump for joy’ set – I have pre-ordered it already! Autumn is my fave so i couldn’t resist! Check out the new release over on the Lawn Fawn blog.

Back to today’s card… to create a little scene, i mixed nessie with some other stamps in the lawn fawn range – the stone from Mermaid for you, and the presents from Toboggan Together. I think it helps build a little story! and I love that all the lawn fawn stamps have a similar style which allows them to be mixed and matched easily!

To colour in the stamped images I used my copic markers. I think it gives Nessie a lovely texture, and I like the way it blends from a dark green to a lighter green.

One of my favourite things about this card is the way that the vellum looks like water, and that you can see Nessie’s flippers through the waves. I think it gives a cool effect! Don’t you?

Oh, almost forgot! To finish off the card, I added one more Lawn Fawn stamped image – the party hat from the Monster Mash stamp set. After all, what’s a party without a party hat?

Have a great weekend my crafty friends!

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