Four Easy Cards Featuring Bitty Buzzwords with Stenciled Backgrounds | Honey Bee Stamps

Happy Wednesday friends!  Today I'm sharing four cards I made (in one day!) using the awesome Honey Bee Stamps Bitty Buzzwords stamp set and coordinating dies.  I used four different stenciled backgrounds to go with each one!

 These cards really were very easy to create!  I do want to say that the two cards on the left side in the photo above were made with backgrounds I created a while back.  I love to sit down with my background stencils and play with all the inks, texture pastes and foils!

To keep this post from becoming super lengthy, I'll list the products used beneath each card (aside from the Bitty Buzzwords) and mention any special tips or notes, as needed.  Each of the main sentiments are popped up with foam tape.  I used the Sentiment Banners dies to die cut the secondary sentiments after I stamped them with the new Bee Creative Intense Black ink.  Also, I spray the back of all stencils with Pixie Spray!  So helpful for holding the stencils down.  All of the products will be listed, with links, at the end of my post!

This features the gorgeous Garden Lattice stencils.  This is a set of two, however, I just used one layer.  I added some Aquamarine Nuvo Embellishment Mousse through the stencil.  When it was dry, I die cut it with an A2 Deckle Edge die.

I love the subtle shine of the Embellishment Mousse!

The next card uses the Honey Dipper Background stencil.  I used Background Blender brushes to blend these Distress Oxides: Faded Jeans, Broken China, and Mowed Lawn.  I left the stencil in place and spread some Ranger Transparent Matte Texture Paste through it.  When dry I die cut it with an A2 Scallop die.

The matte texture paste adds a lovely muted shine!

This background features the Layering Balloons stencil set.  First I placed the top layer onto some 80# Neenah Solar White and spread Deco Foil Transfer Gel through it.  When it was dry, I used some pink sparkly foil from my stash, placed it over the piece, and ran it through my Minc Mini foiling machine.  Then I used the other layer and added Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide with a Blender Brush.

I love the shimmer and shine of this festive card!

This next card is a background I made quite some time ago with the Garden Lattice stencil set.  First I inked up a white card stock panel with Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide.  Then I added the bottom Garden Lattice stencil, and added more Peacock Feathers for a tone-on-tone look.  Then I placed the top stencil on it and smoothed on some Turquoise Sea Glitz Glitter Gel.  The panel is die cut with an A2 Double Stitched Frames die.

I really hope you've enjoyed these cards and feel inspired to get your stencils out and have fun!  The Bitty Buzzwords are at the top of my most favorite sentiment sets!!  Thank you so much for stopping by!

Spotlight Floral Birthday Card | Honey Bee Stamps

 Hello my friends!  I hope your week is going good!  Today I've made a birthday card using Honey Bee Stamps beautiful Harvest Blooms Background stamp.   I've put one of the beautiful flowers from the background stamp into the spotlight!  Read on for the details.

First I chose a piece of coral colored paper from the Autumn Afternoon paper pad.  I inked up the Harvest Blooms Background stamp with Versamark ink and stamped it onto the paper.  I sprinkled on some sparkle embossing powder and heat set it.  I repeated the steps for extra dimension (using my MISTI made this very easy).  I die cut it with the largest die from the Deckle Edge A2 dies.  Next I used a Background Blender Brush and inked up the edges, very lightly, with Simon Says Stamp Coral Reef ink.   I added a piece of foam to the back and adhered it to an A2 card base.

Next I stamped the background stamp onto a piece of Neenah in Copic safe ink.  I colored the flower with these Copic markers: R22, RV42, R11, R000, YG67, YG17, YG25, YG03.  I fussy cut it out and then used  a Tuxedo Black dual marker to go around the edges to give it a more finished look.  I added foam tape to the back and adhered it to the card.

To finish the card, I stamped the greeting from the Buzz stamp set in Versamark onto some black card stock.  I added the same sparkle embossing powder and heat set it.  I die cut it out with a Banner Sentiments dies and added foam squares to the back and adhered it to the card.  I added a few drops of Nuvo Rosewater Jewel Drops on the flower center and on the card basefor a bit more bling.

This is a fun, and quick, way to make a beautiful card!  Thank you so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Harvest Blooms Background stamp

Autumn Afternoon paper pad

Deckle Edge A2 dies

Banner Sentiments dies

Buzz stamp set

Background Blender Brushes

Simon Says Stamp Coral Reef ink

Nuvo Rosewater Jewel Drops

CAS Peace on Earth | Honey Bee Stamps

Hello friends!  As promised over on my Instagram post, here's a quick "how I made it" blog post.  I was struck with fear when we were told this week would be CAS and quick to produce card week.  I mean, really, look at my cards--nothing CAS about them--not ever!  LOL!  All of the products I used are available in the Honey Bee shop--just click on the link.  Nothing like one-stop-shopping!

Here are the steps for the card base:

• Die cut some Tim Holtz Distress Woodgrain Cardstock with the largest A2 Deckle Edge die.  Die cut a top-folding A2 card base with the same die, leaving the top edge of the die just beyond the fold.
• Take the #5 and #6 deckle dies (with the smallest being #1) and center, then tape them together to create a frame.  See photo below.
• Center these dies onto the woodgrain die cut piece and run it through your machine.
• Keeping the 2 dies taped together, die cut some foam so the frame will have dimension. (I had to die cut card stock 4 times as I remembered that I was out of foam.)
• Adhered the foam to the woodgrain frame.
• Adhere the largest piece to your top-folding card that was die cut with the Deckle Edge die. Then adhere the stacked frame.
• Using the #5 Deckle Edge die, cut out a piece of the evergreen paper that's from the Holiday Traditions 6x6 paper pad.  Adhere it in the center.  (Honey Bee has a die release tool with a little spatula like tool on one end that helped push this piece down in the frame.)

Take a piece white self-adhesive glitter foam and adhere it to a scrap piece of white card stock.  Then die cut the wreath from the Joy Noel Honey Cuts twice.  I intertwined them a bit and adhered them together with a few drops of glue.  Adhere that to the center of the green panel.

Next I used a sentiment from the Rejoice stamp set.  I stamped it with Versamark and heat embossed it in WOW! Silver Metallic embossing powder.  Then I die cut it with a die from the Banner Builder Honey Cuts.  I added a couple of strips of thin foam tape to the back and adhered it to the frame.  

The final thing was to add some green gems from the Log Cabin Gem Stickers set.  I used small dots of Distress Collage Medium Matte just to make sure those gems stayed put!

Ok, I know that may sound like a lot of steps, but honestly, once you have it all set up, it comes together very quickly.  I hope you've found these steps helpful.  As always, you are so kind to stop by my blog--I appreciate you!

Supply list:

HBS A2 Deckle Edge Honey Cuts

HBS Joy Noel Honey Cuts

HBS Rejoice Stamps

HBS Holiday Traditions 6x6 paper pad

HBS Log Cabin Gem Stickers

HBS Die Release tool

Darice self-adhesive glitter foam sheets

Tim Holtz Woodgrain Cardstock

Distress Collage Medium Matte
WOW! Silver Metallic embossing powder