Hey everyone,

Independence Day is fast approaching for our US friends, and so this week Honey Bee Stamps are celebrating by having a red, white and blue week! Be sure to hop over to the Honey Bee Stamps blog this week and follow @honeybeestamps on instagram.

This fun will be starting today, Monday 27th June, and will run through until Monday 4th July. During this week, the Design Team will be posting their creations using the Red, White & Blue colour theme, and I wanted to share my project with you guys today!

I mixed a little distress inking with white embossing to make this red, white and blue card. I reached for the #HoneyBeeStamps Special Delivery stamp set for the bird, banner and ‘sending you’ image, and the little stars are from the Country Wreath stamp set. I just love the way the white embossed stars really pop against the vibrant blue background!

The card base is embossed using the swiss dots embossing folder from cuttlebug, and both the circle and scalloped circle I have created using the inlaid die cutting technique.

HoneyBeeStamps are challenging their customers, friends & crafty kids to play along with the challenge! Please share your creations on the Honey Bee Stamps Website, Honey Bee Stamps Facebook Page or on Instagram using the hashtag #HBSChallenge so that we can see everything you create! You can share anything crafty (cards, scrapbook pages, mixed media). And whilst HBS love to see you use Honey Bee Stamp products, its not required to order to participate.

Thanks for stopping by,
Lesley xx

Hello everyone! And Happy Weekend!

I just love furry friends! I guess you might already know that because a lot of my cards feature furry critters! 🙂 What you might not know is that we cannot have fur-babies in our house because my daughter suffers from eczema and has a super bad allergies. We had to unfortunately re-home our kitty about 2 years ago, and re-carpet the whole house to try to minimize the left over dander. So, no furry pets for us!

I did hope that I might be able to have some craft rats…some ratty friends that lived in the craft room, but the temperature fluctuates too much in there, so i don’t think it would work out for the little guys. I shall have to stick to stamped critters!

And, these little guys, from the Mama Elephant Lunar Animals set are A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E!

I made the background using some distress ink, on some cheap watercolour paper. I actually bought the paper for water colouring, but i really didn’t like the texture when painting with a brush, so figured i would just use it up on my cards! 🙂

I coloured the images using some watercolour paints – it only takes a few minutes because they are so small…but OH SO CUTE!! <3

On the grey mouse, i used a craft knife to trip around his hands so he could be holding on to the edge of his cheese!

The greeting was a little bit of a challenge. The word ‘birthday’ is from the big scripty words stamp set from Lawn Fawn – a new arrival in my stash! 🙂 I am loving the size of these stamps – so perfect!
For the rest of the greeting, I had to use images from two different lawn fawn stamp set to mix-and-match the letters and get the greeting i wanted!

Thanks of joining me, and be sure to give me a thumbs up on the video if you enjoy it! Feel free to subscribe for more crafty goodness!

Have a great day

Lesley