In The Garden Of Life, Friends Are The Flowers

Hello crafty friends! Today I'm sharing my spring themed card that features several of Honey Bee Stamps previously released products! I'm loving the opportunity to pull out several of these "older" sets to use to make my card.  Honey Bee has lots of spring themed stamps, dies, and stencils.  Check them out here!

I've used these sets to create my card:  Lovely Layers: Branch and Leaves, Lovely Layers: Spring Birds, Lovely Layers: Nest, Whimsical Spring Flowers, My Favorite Flower stamps and Honey Cuts, and Horizon Slimline Borders (to make a cloud stencil).

I wanted a cloud background for my scene, so I used the cloud die from the Horizon Slimline Borders to die cut printer paper and create my own cloud stencil. Then I used a blender brush to ink light blue ink along the edges of the cloud "stencil". I trimmed it 4" x 5-¼" and glued it to an A2 card base.

The layers of the Lovely Layers: Branch and Leaves are die cut with two shades of green cardstock and white cardstock. I inked the branches with Gathered Twigs and Ground Espresso Distress Oxide inks.

All available cardstock colors are in the list below.

Next I die cut one of the flowers from the Whimsical Spring Flowers Honey Cuts from white cardstock and die cut the flower centers from yellow cardstock. I used a darker yellow Copic marker to color the center of the flowers, then I glued on the die cut yellow centers.

I glued the leaves and flowers to the branches, then adhered them to the card with glue and a few foam squares near the branch tips.

I die cut the Lovely Layers: Nest from white cardstock and inked on more of the brown Distress Oxide inks with a blender brush to color it. I wanted the eggs to have a speckled look so I sprayed some Distress Oxide Sprays onto small pieces of Bristol Smooth cardstock. I used these sprays: Villainous Potion, Salvaged Patina, Saltwater Tarry, and Kitsch Flamingo. When the pieces were dry I die cut the eggs with the die included in the Lovely Layers: Nest set. Then I glued them into the nest.

Yes, I realize that birds would not have a nest of assorted colored eggs. But, hey, it's almost Easter! Haha!

I die cut the sweet bird from the Lovely Layers: Spring Birds from colored cardstocks and glued the layers together. I used foam dots to adhere it to the card.

The sentiment from the My Favorite Flower stamp set is stamped with black ink and cut out with the coordinating die. (I love this sentiment!)  I used foam strips to adhere it to the card.

You can kind of see the sparkled from the clear sparkle pen I added to the eggs and flower centers. I love to add sparkles any time I can!

What older spring themed sets do you have?  I hope I've given you inspiration to get them out and show them some love!  Thanks so much for stopping by!!!

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Whimsical Spring Flowers Birthday Card

Happy Wednesday crafty friends!  Spring has sprung and I was in the mood for flowers!  I used Honey Bee Stamps Whimsical Spring Flowers Honey Cuts to create my card that's perfect for a very special person's spring birthday!

First I created my card base.  I die cut the Garden Lattice Cover Plate Top and Base from 80# Neenah and adhered them together and then to an A2 card base with Bee Creative glue.

Next, I took a piece of 80# Neenah and inked it up with Detail Blender brushes and Dried Marigold, Saltwater Taffy, and Abandoned Coral Distress Oxide inks.  I spritzed on some water drops, let it dry, then added white paint splatters.  While that was drying, I inked up another card panel with Rustic Wilderness, Mowed Lawn and Bundled Sage Distress Oxides.

I used all of the dies in the Whimsical Spring Flowers set and die cut my flowers and leaves.  There is a great guide of layering ideas for the flowers on Honey Bee's site HERE.  I adhered the flower layers together with Bee Creative glue.  Then I added a bit of shape to the flowers and leaves with the stylus tool from a flower shaping kit.

I played around for a bit with the arrangement of my flowers and leaves.  When I was happy with it, I took a photo to reference while I adhered them in place.  I used foam dots on some of the flowers and Bee Creative glue on the other flowers and the leaves.

Next I stamped the sentiment from the Miss You Big Time set with clear embossing ink.  I added black embossing powder and heat set it.  I die cut the sentiment with the coordinating Honey Cut.  Then I die cut two more from white cardstock and adhered them together.  I added it to the card with foam dots and some glue.

Birthday cards must have sparkle, at least I think so!  Haha!  So I added sparkle to the flowers and around the sentiment with gems from the Hugs and Kisses Gem Sticker set.

Thank you so much for stopping by--I appreciate it so very much!  Have a wonderful, crafty day!

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