Slimline Birthday Card with Hydrangeas | Honey Bee Stamps

 Happy Wednesday friends!  Today I'm sharing a slimline birthday card I made using Honey Bee Stamps gorgeous Lovely Layers: Hydrangea die set.  I love these layering dies and this made for a fairly quick card!  Read on for the details.

First I created my card base by scoring a piece of 8" x 9" 80# Neenah at 4".  After I folded it, I added a coordinating layer of purple card stock.  Then I die cut 80# Neenah with the Slimline Sentiments: Blanket die and adhered it to the purple layer.  All of the layers are adhered with the fantastic Bee Creative glue. (All products are linked below.)

Next I die cut all of the pieces of the Lovely Layers: Hydrangea from 80# Neenah.  I die cut five leaves.  Then I colored all of the pieces with my Copic markers.  For the flowers I used: BV17, BV04, BV13, BV02, BV31, G14, YG41, and YG11.  I colored the leaves with G28, YG17, YG25, and YG03.

I adhered the layers of the hydrangea together with thin foam squares.  OK, I'll admit to being pretty nervous for this next step, LOL!  I took my Tim Holtz scissors and cut the flower down a line I drew with my pencil.  These scissors were able to easily cut through the layers and the foam squares too!

I adhered the leaves and the flowers with Bee Creative glue.  Then I used a sentiment from the Bitty Buzzwords stamps and Honey Cuts, stamped them in black ink, and used the coordinating die to cut out "birthday".  The Bitty Buzzwords is such a fabulous set and one I will always keep!  I added thin foam strips to the back to the sentiments and adhered them to the card.

Thank you so very much for stopping by!  Have a wonderful, and crafty, rest of your week!

Links to the products I used:

Hello Sweet Friend Slimline Card | Honey Bee Stamps

 Happy October 1 my friends!  It's finally feeling like fall here in Texas and I was inspired to use the beautiful Darling Dahlias set and Honey Cuts to create my fall feeling card!  Did you know that this set, and many others, was designed for Honey Bee by the oh so talented Emily Midgett?  She's our teammate and such an amazing artist!

I began by creating my slimline card base and layer.  I die cut the Slimline Sentiments: Blanket from 80# Neenah card stock.  Now here is where I had so much fun!  I love "getting inky" and used the Background Blender Brushes and the NEW Hexagon Palm Blender Brush to ink up the die cut.  This was my first time to try out this blending brush and I love it!  The flat style of the brush bristles makes it very easy to use and hold.  If you wipe it off onto a towel between colors, you can use it for many different colors.  I used these Distress Oxide Inks:  Rusty Hinge, Dried Marigold and Scattered Straw.

Next I added some fun spatters to the background.  I diluted some white gouache and some black acrylic paint with water and used a #6 paint brush to splatter on the dots.  I always need some sparkle so I added dots of Yellow Gold metallic paint from the Gansai Tambi Starry Colors set.

I stamped the Darling Dahlias flowers and leaves with Copic safe ink and colored them with my Copic markers.  I used these Copic markers:  YR12, YR21, Y32, YR000, G29, YG67, and YG25.  I added more shadows in the nooks and crannies with a Mineral Orange Prismacolor pencil.

Let's talk about the sentiment!  I die cut the Hello (in the Darling Dahlias Honey Cuts) four times from black card stock.  I die cut the shadow from the piece of card stock where I had tested my Distress Oxide colors.  I adhered all the Hello die cuts together and then adhered it to the shadow.  I did NOT like it!  LOL!  So I doe cut a white Hello and adhered it on top.  I think the black layers look great and now I like it much more.  Next I stamped "To my sweet friend" and die cut it with the coordinating Honey Cut.  I fussy cut the "to my" from the stamped sentiment and adhered it to the card layer with the Precision Tip Glue.  Because I wanted more bling, I added some matching gems from the Hot Tropics Gem Stickers pack.

I love how this turned out and can't wait to send it to a sweet friend!  I sure hope I've inspired you to try out this beautiful stamp set!  Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Darling Dahlias stamps & Honey Cuts

Slimline Sentiments: Blanket

Background Blender Brushes

Hexagon Palm Blender Brush

Hot Tropics Gem Stickers

Bee Creative Precision Tip Glue