Hip, Hip, Hooray! It's Your Birthday!

Hello friends! Today I'm sharing my card featuring some products from Honey Bee Stamps' new Celebrate release and it's all about spring! I've used the Lovely Layers: April Showers Honey Cuts to create this cute birthday card with spring colors. Keep reading to see how I created my matching umbrella and boots with a floral pattern!

I made the background for the Lovely Layers: April Showers with the Perfect Bricks and Grassy Hill Borders stencils. I added Mowed Lawn and Lost Shadow Distress Oxide inks through the stencils with Detail Blender Brushes. I used glue to adhere the panel to an A2 card base.

For the fun floral pattern on the umbrella and boots I used the Wonderful Wishes Honey Cuts and Coordinating Stencils. For ease of stenciling, I die cut the cake portion from white cardstock. Then I lined up each of five stencils over the die cut piece and colored it with Distress Oxide inks. I used the new Beeluxe Detail Blending Brushes to add Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed, Mowed Lawn, Rustic Wilderness, Wilted Violet, and Ripe Persimmon Distress Oxide inks. The Beeluxe Brushes are so helpful with the small details of the stencils!

Then I cut the umbrella top layer (Lovely Layers: April Showers) from the stenciled piece. Line the die up diagonally on the stenciled piece and run it through your die cutting machine.

Next I used the Lovely Layers: April Showers dies to cut the elements from purple, green, coral and white cardstock. I used more Distress Oxide inks along with the new Beeluxe Detail Blending Brushes to add depth and shading to the various elements. I used most of the Distress Oxide inks I mentioned above.

I colored the three layers of the bird with Copic markers in the colors of E25, E23, E13, and E11.

Next I used glue to adhere the layers of the April Showers elements. The Layering Guide found in the product description is very helpful for getting your layers just right.

The dots and line details you can see were added with orange and white Gelly Roll gel pens. The sentiment is from the Celebrating You stamp set, stamped in black ink, and die cut with the coordinating die.

To adhere the elements to the card, I used foam dots, foam strips, and Bee Creative glue.

I hope you've enjoyed my process to make this colorful birthday card! Thank you so much for stopping by. Have a wonderful and crafty day!

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A Beautiful Day -- A Fun Card with Distress Spray Stains

Happy Wednesday crafty friends! Have you noticed that lately I'm very much into using my inks for lots of fun techniques? Well today's card is no exception!  Haha!  I've used the beautiful Lovely Layers: Water Lily by Honey Bee Stamps on my card with lots of ink sprays and stenciling! Check out the the details below!

First I created the background layers for the Water Lily. My thoughts were to create a pond surrounded by a grassy meadow. For all of the layers and flower I used Distress Watercolor cardstock. I began by coloring panels of the watercolor cardstock. For the green layer I first sprayed on Twisted Citron Distress Spray Stain. I used my water mister to spritz it with water to totally saturate the panel. You can let it air dry or use your heat tool to dry. The main thing is to always dry one layer before moving onto the next layer of ink.

Since I don't have any other green Distress Ink Spray Stains, I added Mowed Lawn Distress ink with the ink smooshing technique. Just press the ink pad onto your craft mat, lightly spritz with water, and dip the panel in. Dry, dip and repeat until you are happy! I created another panel to use to die cut the green pieces of the Lovely Layers: Water Lily.

Next I used the Grassy Hill border stencil to add in the grass. I used a Detail Blender brush and Rustic Wilderness Distress ink to add multiple layers of grass.  I used some white paint to add dots to emulate small flowers with a #1 paint brush.

I trimmed the grassy panel to 5-½" x 4-5/8" and adhered it to a white card base. Yes, the size is unusual, but it will fit easily into an A7 envelope. Next I created a blue watery panel using the same technique as the grassy panel, but I only used two Distress Sprays Stains: Salvaged Patina and Mermaid Lagoon. Die cut the dry panel with the largest die in the Ocean Deep Scene Builder Honey Cuts. I used Bee Creative glue to adhere it to the card.

I used the same techniques to create the Lovely Layers: Water Lily. The watercolor cardstock was spritzed with Saltwater Taffy and Abandoned Coral Distress Spray Stains. Before I die cut the layers, I added white paint splatters. The flower has some thin foam dots between the layers to show off the dimension.

I stamped the sentiment from the Mini Messages: Everyday with Intense Black ink and cut it out with a Mini Messages Banner die. A thin foam strip was used to adhere it to the card.  I added a few Ombré Pearl Stickers for some subtle bling.

It's so fun to create your own inky panels! No two are alike and yet all will be beautiful! I hope I've given you some inspiration to give these techniques a try. Thank you so much for stopping by today!

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You Are Pawsome! | Honey Bee Stamps

 Hello friends!  Today I'm sharing a cute puppy card using Honey Bee Stamps Puppy Dog Tails stamps and Honey Cuts!  I've loaded the adorable pups into a wheelbarrow that's in the Sandie and Sis set.

I began by stamping my images with Intense Black Ink (my favorite for Copic coloring!) and colored them all with my markers.  Here are the Copic colors I used for the main images:

• Dog 1 (left to right): C7, C5, C3, C1, C0; for all dogs' ears/cheeks I used R20 and R30
• Dog 2:  E55, E53, E51
• Dog 3:  E59, E57, E55, E53, E51, E34
• Dog 4:  C9, C7, C5, E18, E15, E13
• Wheelbarrow:  B39, B37, B34, N9, N7, N5, N4, N2, N0

When I finished coloring everything, I die cut them using the coordinating Puppy Dog Tails and Sandie and Sis Honey Cuts.  Next I stamped the sentiments from Friends FURever stamp set in Intense Black ink and die cut them with the coordinating Honey Cuts.

Next I worked on my background for the images.  I placed the largest circle stencil from the Circle Spotlight Stencils & Masks set on an A2 white cardstock panel.  Then I positioned the hill stencil from the Grassy Hill Borders stencil set under the circle stencil.   (Check out the following photo to see the stencil positions.)  Then I used a couple Background Blender Brushes to ink on Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide for the sky and Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide for the hill.  I added some water spatters to the green hill, let it dry, and then removed the hill stencil.  I then added white spatters with some diluted white gauche.

I used a circle die from my stash that coordinates with the size of the stenciled background to cut it out.  I used one size smaller circle die to due cut a piece of a foam sheet that I added to the back of the circle.  I added it to a card base that I created with some black cardstock and a piece of patterned paper from the Back To Basics 6 x 6 paper pad.

Next I adhered my cute little images to the card front with Bee Creative glue.  I did need to trim off the bottom of the dog on the left for him to fit into the wheelbarrow.  I popped up the sentiments with some foam squares and added them to the card.

I used a black gel pen to trace over the dogs' eyes and noses to help them stand out a bit more.  A few touches here and there with a white gel pen finished up the card.

I had lots of fun creating my card with these adorable pups!  Now, if you are totally a cat person, check out the adorable Smitten Kittens set (link is below)!  A wheelbarrow full of kitties would be so cute too!  I hope you've enjoyed my card today.  Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Honey Bee Stamps Instagram Hop Card Featuring the BEE Young: Blooms

 Thank you friends for stopping over to check out my card!  I've using the adorable BEE Young: Blooms stamp and die set.  This special set is free with a qualifying purchase in the Honey Bee store.  This is part of the gorgeous Summer Stems release by Honey Bee Stamps!

I think this BEE Young: Blooms set is just totally adorable and had to make a card with her while she is still available with that qualifying purchase!

I began by stamping her in Intense Black ink (all product links are below) onto 80# Neenah, and then once more onto masking paper.  I fussy cut the mask and placed it onto the stamped image.  I also stamped several of the larger flowers.

Then I used the cloud stencil from the Outdoor Scene Builder stencil set to ink in some clouds with Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink.  I used the grass stencil found in the Grassy Hill Borders stencil set to add grass with Mowed Lawn Oxide ink.  Next I used the largest A2 Double Stitched Frames die to cut the panel out.

I colored her and the flowers with a rainbow selection of Copic markers and used BG01 to dot in some water droplets from the watering can.  I stamped the sentiment from the set in Intense Black ink and die cut it with the coordinating die.  I popped up the sentiment and the flowers with foam tape.  For a bit of bling, I added some pretty gem stickers to the flower centers.

I so appreciate you stopping by for a look today!  I hope you will join us over on the Instagram hop for lots more inspiration from this wonderful Summer Stems release!

Wishing You A Hoppy Easter | Honey Bee Stamps

 Hello crafty friends!  It's almost Easter and I just had to use Honey Bee Stamps' adorable Easter Buddies set for one last Easter card!  I had lots of stencil fun creating my background!  Keep reading for the details!

First I created my background.  I have a few photos below showing my steps.  All of my inks are Distress Oxide inks and I used Honey Bee's Blender Brushes for my stenciling, which makes it really easy!  First I laid out the Oak Tree and Grassy Hill Borders stencil sets and placed them on my A2 80# Neenah card stock to kind of make a plan for my stenciling.  I used Gathered Twigs and Ground Espresso for the tree trunk.  Next I stenciled the tree and leaves with Mowed Lawn, Twisted Citron, and Rustic Wilderness.  The grass and hills are Mowed Lawn with a touch of Twisted Citron.

When I was finished, I realized I had a white sky!  So I used my Blender Brush for blue Oxides (without adding more ink) and lightly stenciled in some clouds with the cloud stencil that's in the Outdoor Scene Builder stencil set.  (TIP:  I keep one Blender Brush for each Oxide color family.  I just wipe it off on a clean, dry paper towel between each shade of that color and it works great!)

I decided to add a few water splatters to the grassy area and covered up the other parts before sprinkling on the water drops.  I took a clean paper towel and blotted it dry.  I wanted to add water drops to the tree, but I was too afraid of messing it up!  LOL!  I die cut the panel with the largest Deckle Edge A2 Honey Cuts.

Next I stamped all of the adorable little images from the Easter Buddies set in Copic safe ink and colored them with my Copic markers.  Then I cut them out with the coordinating Honey Cuts.  As I was planning on where to put everything on the card, I thought that the tree looked like it needed something more.  I remembered the cute little birdhouse and bird in the Birds and The Bees set and stamped, colored and die cut them with their coordinating Honey Cuts.

I decided to fussy cut the little grass pieces so they wouldn't cover up the eggs as much.  I added foam tape to the back of the birdhouse, bunny, chick and flower group and adhered them to the card front.  I adhered the other images with Bee Creative Glue.

I had a hard time choosing from all of the fabulous sentiments in the Hoppy Easter stamps, but finally decided on two.  I stamped them in Onyx Black ink and die cut them with the coordinating Honey Cuts.  I LOVE having dies for sentiments and Honey Bee does them so well!

I had so much fun creating this card!  The stencils sure do make creating backgrounds so easy!  I hope you have a wonderful weekend and a very blessed "Hoppy" Easter!  Thank you so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Easter Buddies stamps & Honey Cuts

Hoppy Easter stamps & Honey Cuts

Grassy Hill Borders stencil set

Oak Tree stencil

Outdoor Scene Builder stencil set

Birds and the Bees stamps & Honey Cuts

Deckle Edge A2 Honey Cuts

Background Blender Brushes

Bee Creative Glue

Distress Oxides:  Mowed Lawn, Twisted Citron, Rustic Wilderness, Ground Espresso, Gathered Twigs