Happy 2025 crafty friends!!! I didn't have a chance to use Honey Bee Stamps awesome Lovely Layers: Hoosier Cabinet Honey Cuts to make a holiday card, but today I'll show you how I turned it into a birthday card!
To make the Lovely Layers: Hoosier Cabinet into a birthday card, I thought about what elements I would want to decorate it for a birthday party. I looked through my various sets for a banner, bows, gift, cake, and flowers that would be small enough to be in scale with the size of the hoosier cabinet.
To my delight, there were plenty of sets to choose from! Here is a list of the name of the set, along with what dies I used from each.
- Lovely Layers: Hoosier Cabinet Holiday Add-On: cupcake, icing, stand, and cover
- Lovely Layers: Front Porch Holiday Add-On: bow (3 layering dies)
- Market Cart: flag banner, flower dies
- Market Cart Farm Fresh Add-On: flower pots, greenery (2 dies), flowers (1 die)
- Postcard Holiday Add-On: gift
Of course, you may have other sets with dies that will work just as well as these. I die cut the Lovely Layers: Hoosier Cabinet from light pink, dark pink, and white cardstocks. The only piece that I colored with Copic markers is the mixer (inside the bottom cabinet).
All of the elements from the other die sets were cut out from white cardstock and colored with Copic markers.
For a fun little surprise, I tucked the mixer on a shelf behind the bottom right cabinet door. I realized that the flower pots were just a bit too large to be in scale with the Hoosier Cabinet, so I used my scissors to trim just a bit off the top of each.
I made a shaped card base by die cutting a top-folding A2 card base with the outline die of the Hoosier Cabinet. NOTE: Just be sure that the top edge of the die is just above the card base fold!
I stamped a sentiment inside the card from the What's Cookin' stamp set with black ink. (I didn't want to put a sentiment on the outside of the card and cover up any of the cabinet!)
To finish up, I used a white gel pen to add highlights to several of the elements of the card. I added some Crystal Glimmer Enamel Stickers to each of the drawer/door knobs for a bit of sparkle.
I want to share with you about my new die cutting machine. A few weeks ago, my much loved and heavily used Spellbinders Platinum decided to only work in one direction. So I asked my husband if I could order my Christmas gift early (LOL)! I had heard great reviews about the Anna Griffin Empress die cutting machine. When I saw it on sale at Scrapbook.com, I ordered the Elite version as it comes with a lazy Susan piece. I absolutely LOVE it! The magnetic plate it comes with is a game changer! No more taping down dies! Plus with it being electric that makes it even better! I did go ahead and get a new Spellbinders Platinum 6" since I need that for the BetterPress and Glimmer machines I have. Check them out with the links below!
I'm wishing you all the best for 2025. Thank you so much for stopping by!
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