Quilted Autumn Friendship Card -- Honey Bee Stamps

Hello, crafty friends!  When I first saw this new Bee Quilted: Honeycomb Hexies Honey Cuts by Honey Bee Stamps, I knew I wanted to create a quilted autumn themed card!  I love the warm and rich colors of autumn and a few papers from the newer Acorn & Ember paper pad and one from the Fall Is In The Air paper pad helped me create this beautiful autumn card!

I began by creating my "quilt" with the Bee Quilted: Honeycomb Hexies dies.  I die cut the base with cardstock from the Hive Hues Acorn & Ember paper pack.  I used a piece of the dark orange that you see here on the card.  I doesn't show but I chose this for two reasons: 1) it's a 100 lb. cardstock that will add stability to the patterned paper, and 2) I was afraid that white cardstock might show through.

Next I die cut one of the, what I call ornate hexies, three times, from paper in the Acorn & Ember paper pad.  Then I proceeded to die cut more paper from the Acorn & Ember paper pad with the single die that cuts three shapes.  (You will have extras to use on more cards!)  The floral paper you see is in the Fall Is In The Air paper pad.

I die cut more paper from the Acorn & Ember pad with the die that cuts the intricate border of the quilted look.  Again, you will get lots of extras to use in another project.

I LOVED having the new Bee Creative Platinum Scout die cutting machine beside me for these small die cuts!!

Then I glued this piece to the base and filled in all of the other pieces in the grid with Bee Creative glue.

I wrapped some twine I have twice around the Honeycomb Hexies piece and tied it into a bow.  I added foam tape to the back to adhere it to my A2 card base.

The detailed elements are from the Lovely Layers: Autumn Bouquet Honey Cuts, except the flower.  It's in the In Stitches: Pumpkin Honey cuts.  I added a bit of shading to the flower layers and green stems.  (I had saved the wheat stems and the cotton bole stem from a previous project!). I used Bee Creative glue to arrange and adhere the pieces to the card.  I added a double thick layer of small pieces of foam strips to the flower so it would fit over the knot of the twine bow.

I pulled out a scrap of the orange cardstock in the Acorn & Ember cardstock pack and stamped a sentiment from the Keepsake Sentiments: Fall stamp set with black pigment ink.  After I cut it out with the coordinating die, I added foam strips to the back to adhere it to the card.

I am so pleased with how my quilted card turned out, and hope you are too!  There are so many ways to use the Bee Quilted: Honeycomb Hexies for all seasons.  Do you think I should make one with holiday themed papers?

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Thank You Card With Boho Pumpkins -- Honey Bee Stamps

Hello, crafty friends!!  I'm super excited to share my first project with products from Honey Bee Stamps new Acorn & Ember release!  I'm in love with everything in this release and had a hard time choosing what to create with first!  I ended up choosing the beautiful Lovely Layers: Boho Pumpkins Honey Cuts for this card.

• Please check this out!  I'm featuring this card for Honey Bee's Instagram Hop today, which begins at 9 am CDT.  I strongly encourage you to come on over to my Instagram to get started as there will be prizes!  Honey Bee is giving away one $25 gift card to two winners!  Just leave "hearts" and comments on each stop in the hop for more chances to win!

Now on to the fun details of my card!

I started out by creating a side-folding A7 card base from white cardstock.  I chose this beautiful leafy green paper from the new Acorn & Ember paper pad for the first layer and glued it to the card base.

Next I used the largest die in the Design Deck: Base die set to cut a piece of brown cardstock.  It's so cool that there's an embossing folder to coordinate with this die cut!  I just lined up the brown cardstock die cut in the Autumn Keepsakes 3D embossing folder and ran it through my die cutting machine.  I inked up the edges using blending brushes and Tea Dye and Vintage Photo Distress Inks.

Then I added gold splatters with a paint brush and gold metallic paint from Gansai Tambi Starry Colors watercolors!  (P.S.:  This set is my MOST favorite gold tones!). Then I swiped a gold metallic ink pad along the edges and glued it to my card base.

Next I chose three more papers from the Acorn & Ember paper pad and cut out the pumpkins with the dies in the Lovely Layers: Boho Pumpkins dies.  I die cut the lace from watercolor cardstock, the leaves from green cardstock, and the stems from brown cardstock.

I smooshed Antique Linen and Tea Dye Distress inks onto my silicone mat.  Then I spritzed the ink with just. bit of water.  Next I dipped each die cut layer into the ink, drying between colors and layers of ink with my heat tool.

I inked up the edges of each pumpkin using a blending brush and Tea Dye and Vintage Photo Distress inks along with some orange inks from my stash.  I used Rustic Wilderness for the leaves.  Before I glued the Boho Pumpkin layers together I inked the edges with gold metallic ink.

The sentiment is from the Keepsake Sentiments: Fall stamp set.  Before I stamped it, I die cut watercolor cardstock with the die in the Design Deck: Base dies.  Then I ink smooshed it as described above.  When the piece was dry, I patted an anti-static tool on the paper then stamped the sentiment with clear embossing ink.

I sprinkled copper embossing powder over the stamped sentiment, then heat set it with my heat tool.  I used a blending brush to ink the edges with Vintage Photo Distress ink then swiped the gold metallic ink pad along the edges.  (Of course, there is a coordinating Keepsake Sentiments: Fall die set, but I didn't need it this time.)

I adhered the Boho Pumpkins and the sentiment to the card using glue and some foam tape.

This was such a fun card to make.  I love these Acorn & Ember papers and the Boho Pumpkins too!  Be sure to check out the entire release on Honey Bee's website.

Thank you so much for stopping by.  I hope you have a wonderful and crafty day!

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