You Are Sweet As Honey | Honey Bee Stamps

 Hello my friends!  Today my card is featuring the new Honey Bee Stamps' Honey awesome Honey Jar Paper Piecing die set!  I also tried out Honey Bee's new No-line Coloring ink (and I love it) for my stamped images.  Read on for the details!

First I created my card base by die cutting three shades of teal card stock with the Hexagon Cover Plate dies.  (These are available as a set, or individually.)  I used Bee Creative glue to adhere them together and then I glued the stack to a light teal panel.  Next I glued this to a top-folding A2 card base.  I love how these dies easily create a stunning card base!

My next step was to die cut the Honey Jar Paper Piecing dies from 80# white Neenah Solar White card stock.  To make coloring them easier, I put the pieces back into the negative space and held them with some purple tape on the back.  For the jar and honey drips I used Copic markers in these colors:  Y19, Y18, Y15, and Y13.  I shaded the honey jar lid with C2, C0 and C00.

Next I stamped the flowers, leaves, and bees in the NEW Bee Creative No-Line Coloring ink by Honey Bee Stamps.  These are in the Chin Up Buttercup and the Busy Bees stamp sets.  I colored the leaves with YG67, YG17, and YG23.  I shaded the flowers with the "C" markers listed previously.  The bees are colored with the same yellows as the honey jar. Next I used a Micron .05 black pen to add the eyes and antenna to the bees.

When I finished my coloring I used the coordinating Busy Bees and Chin Up Buttercup dies to cut out the images.  I popped up the honey jar with foam tape and arranged the flowers around the jar.  I also popped up a couple of the bees.  To finish up I stamped the sentiment from the Just Bee-cause stamp set and die cut it with the coordinating die.

I really do like Honey Bee's no-line coloring ink!  What I really like is the particular shade of the ink and that I did not have to stamp it more than once in order to see it!  Definitely at the top of the list for me!

Thank you so much for stopping by!  I hope you are having a wonderful, and crafty, week!

Happy 6th Birthday Honey Bee Stamps!

Hello crafty friends!  Today I have a floral birthday card to celebrate Honey Bee Stamps' 6th birthday!  Happy birthday Honey Bee!  I took inspiration from the tiger lilies in my backyard and transformed the Lovely Layers: Easter Lily Honey Cuts!

 Before I get to my card, I want to let you know that Honey Bee is celebrating their birthday with a sale of 20% off all of Honey Bee branded products!  It's a great time to check off that wish list!  You can click the image to go directly to Honey Bee's shop!

PSSST! Over on Instagram I have a fun giveaway of a $15 gift card to the Honey Bee shop!  Come over and leave a comment for your chance to win!  Click HERE to check it out!  :)

Now, on to my card!  For the card base I die cut 80# Neenah with the Hexagon Cover Plate: Stipple Layer, then I ran it through my machine again with the tan embossing mat and embossing plate.  This adds so much dimension to the awesome die!  (These dies were the very first cover plate dies I ever bought, and these are still at the top of my favorites!)  I used Bee Creative glue to adhere it to a yellow mat layer and then to the card base.

Next I die cut the Lovely Layers: Easter Lily pieces.  I die cut the flower parts twice, and the bud parts once.  I die cut several of the leaves and palm fronds to have extra in case I needed them.  Then I colored all of the die cut pieces with my Copic markers.  For the flowers I used YR07, YR04, YR02, Y15, Y13, and E18.  I used G07, YG09, and YG05 for the greenery.

Just so you can see what the flower looks like before assembly, here is a photo for you.  It's amazing how these pieces are transformed to a beautiful flower after I shaped and assembled it!

I used the tools from the Flower Shaping Kit to add dimension to all of the petals and leaves.  Then I used Bee Creative glue to assemble the flowers.  Next I added drops of Glossy Accents to the stamen tips and set them aside to dry.

I just had to add a few of these sweet little bees from the Busy Bees stamp set!  After I colored them, I used the coordinating dies to cut them out.  Then I adhered the flowers and leaves to the card with Bee Creative glue.  I did add foam squares to the center flower to pop it up a bit.

I chose a sentiment from the Thanks A Bunch set.  I love how several of these sentiments have coordinating dies!  I added foam squares to the back and adhered them to my card.

I hope I've given you some inspiration to think about those die sets in a different way!  Don't forget to shop the 20% off all of Honey Bee's branded products sale!  Thank you so much for stopping by!

Celebrating Your Wedding Card, Honey Bee Stamps

Happy Thursday!  I'm over on the Honey Bee Stamps blog today with this elegant wedding card.  It always seems that major events run in cycles for us and the remainder of this year has three weddings coming up!  I love how so many of Honey Bee's stamps and dies are totally timeless and still look fresh and new!

For my card today, I've used the Spring Blossoms stamps and Honey Cuts, Celebration Sentiments stamps and Honey Cuts; and the beautiful Hexagon Cover Plate Honey Cuts.  (FYI, you can also purchase these separately to get just one or two layers.)

To begin, I used my MISTI and Versamark clear embossing ink to stamp the flowers, and some leaves, from the Spring Blossoms set onto heavy weight vellum.  I heat embossed them with WOW Metallic Silver embossing powder.  While I had my embossing supplies out I die cut the word "celebrating" from the Celebration Sentiments Honey Cuts.  Keeping the die cut word in place, I smooshed the Versamark ink all over and heat embossed with the silver embossing powder two times.  I die cut the word two more times from 110# Neenah Solar White and adhered each layer with glue adding the silver embossed one on top.

For my card base and hexagon layers, I used some beautiful pearlescent cardstock. I die cut the base, middle and top Hexagon CP dies, adhered them together with liquid glue, and placed a large heavy stamp block on them to dry.  The card base is an A2 top-folding card.  Once the hexagon layers were dry, I glued them to the card base.

After that, it's just a matter of arranging the flowers and leaves and adhering them.  I used tiny drops of glue behind the center embossing so the glue wouldn't show.  I used Ranger Multi Medium Matte to adhere the sentiments.  The "your wedding" is also in the Celebration Sentiments set and was heat embossing in the silver onto a strip of the pearlescent paper.  (The tiny tiddle for the "i" ran away and hid in spite of my best efforts to not lose it!  So, I used a tiny drop of Silver Lining Nuvo Crystal Drops!)

I LOVE the dimension of these cover plate dies and I hope you've been inspired by this elegant wedding card.  Now that I've made this one, it'll be a snap to make a couple more!  Thank you so much for stopping by--I always so appreciate it!  Have a wonderful, crafty weekend!  Carol :)

Supplies:

Honey Bee Stamps Spring Blossoms stamps and Honey Cuts

Honey Bee Stamps Hexagon Cover Plate Honey Cuts

Honey Bee Stamps Celebration Sentiments and Honey Cuts

Craft Perfect Pearlescent cardstock

WOW Silver Metallic embossing powder

Versamark embossing ink

Neenah Solar White 110# cardstock

NUVO Silver Lining Crystal Drops

MISTI Original

Sweet Bees Notecards with Box

Oh my sweet bees!  I'm so excited to share this first post as a member of the Honey Bee Stamps Social Media Design Team!!  I'm so very honored to be a part of this team of talented ladies!

All of my Honey Bee posts will be on Instagram (click on link to the left, if you'd like to see all of them).   I am going to try to be sure and share my creations here with more details too.

In all of my excitement, I kind of went over the top for this first project.  I created four notecards with a matching box to hold them.  I've listed all of the Honey Bee Stamps and Honey Cuts I used below.

It's been so very cold here (at least for our part of Texas) and I wanted something that makes me think of warmth and spring!  These adorable bees and flowers were just right!  I made four notecards that are smaller than an A2 card at 3-3/4" x 5" in size.  I think this set would make a great gift for someone special!

You know that die cuts can make a great stencil, right?  I used the top layer of the Honey Bee Honey Cuts Hexagon Cover plate die to cut a stencil for the box.  Then I used some Distress Ink through the stencil.  Before I assembled the box top I embossed it with the Hexagon Stipple Layer.

I made the bee double sided by mirror stamping it so that I could glue a tab between the two layers.  I cut a slit in the box top and inserted the tab so the bee will stand up in his little bunch of flowers!  :)

You can shop for all of these wonderful Honey Bee Stamps supplies here.  Thank you so very much for taking a look!

Honey Bee Stamps and dies used:
Sending You Sentiments
Ray of Sunshine
Build-A-Bee
Bee-You-Tiful Sentiments
Hexagon Bunches Honey Cuts

Other supplies:
Distress Ink: Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed
Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers
Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen in clear
Glossy Accents

Honey Bee Just for YouI

I really, really like these bees and all the goodies that go with them from Honey Bee Stamps!

I had an "out of the box" idea to try by weaving ribbon through two of the Hexagon Cover Plate dies (also from Honey Bee Stamps).  I used the bottom and middle layers.  Here are a couple photos of the process:

I added tape runner along the bottom, folded the ribbon over & trimmed the ends.

I turned the middle sized die cut "upside down" to have the small slits to weave the ribbon.

I die cut a white and black circle to have a base for the flowers and sentiment (& also to break up the busy background some).

Thanks so much for looking!

Supplies:
Honey Bee Stamps, dies:  Hexagon Cover Place bottom & middle layers; Busy Bees; Build-A-Bee; Sending You sentiments
Spectrum Noir alcohol markers
Glossy Accents
yellow ribbon from my stash