Cards By Carol: Little Pickup Paper Piecing

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Winter Village Scene Christmas Card

Happy Wednesday friends! Are you loving Honey Bee Stamps Make it Merry release as much as I am? It's absolutely wonderful and I couldn't wait to have a play with the new Winter Village Honey Cuts! I've paired the village with an older favorite, the Little Pickup Paper Piecing Honey Cuts.

The steps for this 5" x 7" card are fairly simple. I chose glitter cardstock for the hills and snowy pieces. I used the Horizon Slimline Borders dies to cut out the hills. The die for the snowy layers is in the Winter Village set. I popped up the bottom hill with foam tape and used Bee Creative glue for the top hill. I also added white splatters with white gouache to some light gray cardstock.

I chose various colors of scrap pieces of cardstock from my stash and die cut the Winter Village and Little Pickup. There's a very helpful layering guide that makes assembling your village so easy found in the product link on Honey Bee's website! I used a fine tip glue and my reverse tweezers while gluing the pieces together. You can arrange the wreaths, snow pieces, etc. however you like. It's so fun!!! As you can tell, I also added some white snow splatters to the village and red truck.

I stamped the sentiment from the Home For The Holidays stamp set with black ink and used the coordinating die to cut it out. I adhered it to the card with foam tape.

Do you have a favorite from the Make it Merry release? This Winter Village is certainly up at the top for me. I can think of many cute ways to use it! Thanks so very much for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful, and crafty week!

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Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Little Red Pickup Christmas Gift Tag | Honey Bee Stamps

Hello my friends! Today I'm sharing an adorable gift tag that was inspired by the wooden signs you see so much of at this time of the year! I've used Honey Bee Stamps adorable Little Pickup Paper Piecing Honey Cuts along with the Barn Wood Background stamp in this tag. I've also used some previously released products that work so well with the newer ones!

I'm going to keep my details as brief as I can. I've not wrapped a single present and still have shopping to do! Anyone else with me? LOL!

I stamped the Barn Wood Background stamp first with Pumice Stone Distress Oxide ink and then I tapped on some Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide here and there. I repeated these colors until I was happy with the look. Then I die cut it out with the largest Double Stitched Circles Honey Cuts.

I die cut all of the Little Pickup dies from white card stock. I left them in the negative space to make coloring these with my Copics very easy! I have most of the colors I used listed below. I used Bee Creative glue to adhere the pieces and added foam squares to the back.

I die cut a hill with one of the Hill Border Honey Cuts and then cut it with the same Double Stitched Circle die so it would fit at the bottom.

I used R37 and colored some card stock so the sentiments would be color coordinated. I die cut the sentiments with dies from the Tailgate Alphabet Honey Cuts and Let It Snow Honey Cuts sets. I die cut two more layers for them and adhered them all together.

The greenery is from Lovely Layers: Pinecone and the brighter green pieces are from the Country Wreath Honey Cuts that I had left over from another project. I added a few red gems from the Holiday Cheer Gem stickers to the bright green pieces. To finish I tied some red and some gingham ribbon at the top.