Hello crafty friends! I've got a simple but sweet Honey Bee Stamps card for you today. I started by die cutting a circle out of watercolor paper, and a circle frame out of black and cream striped paper. The flowers, sentiment, and bee are all from the Sweet as Honey stamp set. They were all stamped with Archival black ink. Using distress markers, I colored in the flowers and used a water brush to create a watercolor look. The circle panel is attached to the card base using foam tape for some dimension. The base was sprayed with the Tim Holtz Distress Marker Spritzer Tool using Black Soot.

 

So glad you stopped by today! I hope I've brought some inspiration to you!

Nicki
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Flakey Snow Friends - Honey Bee Stamps

Hi everyone! I hope your Thursday is going great! I'm here today sharing a Honey Bee Stamps project.

Living in the midwest, we are accustomed to getting a lot of snow in the winter. But this year has been very mild and we've had very little snow. I'm wondering if we will get a ton in late February or March! The only reason I do want some this year is to build snowmen and take my kids sledding!!

Have you gotten your hands on the newest bundle of stamp sets?! The Flakey Friends Bundle is just way too cute to pass up! Since I haven't been able to build any snowmen yet, I decided to create a card using them! I started with a watercolor paper panel and used an edger die to get the stitched accent on the top and bottom. Then I used Tumbled Glass & Salty Ocean Distress Inks to watercolor the sky. Once it was dry, I flicked some white watercolor paint onto the background using water and a paintbrush.

The sentiment and hearts were stamped in black archival ink, and the hollow hearts were filled with some Stardust Stickles.

Each snowman was stamped onto watercolor paper, along with their corresponding accessories. Using more distress inks, I painted their noses, hat, scarf, and earmuffs. The hearts were stamped last. Then the snow buddies were all cut out using both a sharp pair of scissors and a penblade to get into those tricky spots!

I sure hope you've enjoyed this card! I had such fun creating it, and I'm sooooo happy with how it turned out!
Thanks for stopping by and be sure to visit the Honey Bee Blog tomorrow to see Kim's adorable project!

Nicki
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Supplies:

Stamps: Honey Bee Stamps - Flakey Friends, Flakey Sentiments
Cardstock: Strathmore Watercolor Paper; PTI - Rustic White (card base)

Ink: TH Distress Ink - Broken China, Salty Ocean, Mermaid Lagoon, Squeezed Lemonade, Seedless Preserves, Ripe Persimmon, Cracked Pistachio; Ranger Archival Black; PTI - Hibiscus Burst
Dies: MFT - Die-namics Basic Stitch Lines

Other: Stickles - Stardust

My First Honey Bee Stamps DT Post!

Hello Honey Bee Stamps Fans!!!! I am SOOO beyond excited to be posting my very first Honey Bee project as a new DT member! WOOHOOOOO!! I'm so honored to be chosen for this fabulous team with this FABULOUS company. Looking forward to sharing my ideas and creativity with you ;)

This is the first time I've ever used Honey Bee stamps! They really are excellent quality and I enjoyed working with them.

My card uses two stamp sets: Cherish and Lotus Blossom. I am just in love with the font used for "cherish". Isn't it so lovely? And the lotus blossom...you really can't go wrong with flowers, right?



I started with the background and used watercolor paper, distress inks, and foam blenders to ink up the entire panel (Seedless Preserves, Mustard Seed, and Salty Ocean). Then, using a striped stencil and a baby wipe, I gently rubbed over the stencil to remove some of the ink. I learned this technique by watching one of Kristina Werner's Videos! SUCH an amazing technique, I can't wait to try it again.

Next, I heat embossed each flower, masking as necessary along the way. Finally, the sentiment was also heat embossed, and then a handful of Rainstones were randomly added for a special touch!



Hope you've enjoyed my project today. I can't wait to hear your thoughts and to share the next one!

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Papertrey Ink MIM #153

So this week's Make it Monday finally suckered me into trying water coloring for the first time. I watched Dawn McVey's video and figured it looked easy enough! I made a trip to Michael's and got me some watercolor paints and brushes.

I needed a little inspiration to get me started, so I browsed my Color Palette board on Pinterest, and came across this one....what a beauty, right?!?! I just LOVE LOVE LOVE those colors...

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...and I just LOVE LOVE LOVE how this came out!!! Let me tell you, I never realized how relaxing water coloring is!! As a crafter and artist all my life, I've always gotten such an awesome feeling after transforming a plain, white piece of paper into something so colorful and beautiful! It was so fun watching the colors blend together as I painted each one. I will definitely be doing more of this in the near future!

After embossing the sentiment with clear powder, I started at the top with the lightest paint color and worked my way down, slightly overlapping each color onto the previous color. Once dried, one corner was punched with a corner rounder, as was the card base, and adhered securely to the base. That's it! Easy peasy!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Supplies: 
Stamps: PTI - Think Big Favorites #3
Cardstock: PTI - White
Ink: VersaMark clear embossing ink
Other: Clear embossing powder, Watercolor Paints (Michael's), SU - Corner Rounder punch

Hello Friend

Miss me? I'm back with another CAS creation to share with you. This is one I submitted to a Paper Crafts Magazine call, but was not chosen.

I used one of the designs from PTI's Giga Guide Lines set, stamped in several colors on white cardstock, and punched them out using two different sized circle punches. I then stamped 6 banner tails (from the Banner Builder set) on white cs, trimmed, and attached to the back of the circles. Using dimensionals, I attached all the circles and the sentiment to the card front. To finish it off, white pearl stickers add a pretty touch to the centers of the circles.

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: PTI Modern Basics (sentiment), Banner Builder (banner tail), Giga Guide Lines (decorative motif)
Cardstock: PTI White
Ink: Stampin' Up-Pretty in Pink, So Saffron, Certainly Celery, Bashful Blue, Pale Plum; Ranger-Pumice Stone
Punches: Stampin Up! 1 1/4" circle, EK Success 1 3/8" circle

Reject Blog Hop

You might be confused by the title of this post, but it actually makes me laugh a little bit! Yesterday could have potentially been an extremely exciting day for me, but I didn't get a "Happy Email". What is a "Happy Email" you ask? Well, it's an acceptance email from Paper Crafts Magazine informing you that one of your cards/projects has been chosen to be published in their magazine!! It is one of my goals to be published, and I've submitted 7 cards throughout the past several months, and for this particular Go-to-Sketches Call, I submitted 6. The sketches were just absolutely awesome, and I had such a great time creating for this call! I made a few things I would have NEVER come up with on my own. Well, I sure am not the only one who has cards that were rejected. With 2,760 submissions, and only 288 spots, that leaves A LOT of leftover rejects! So, Amber has been so sweet and kind enough to start a Reject Blog Hop on her blog HERE! I think it's such a GREAT idea! I'm so excited to see what other people created, and see if any are the same sketches that I did! How fun!

As always, I'm grateful to have you spend a couple minutes with me today!

Oh---and yesterday may not have been my Happy Email day, but today is!!
Stay tuned next week for an announcement I can't wait to share with you!! :)

Cardstock: (Very Vanilla) Stampin' Up!; Clear stamp: (Delightful Doilies, sentiment from Mat Stack 2 Collection) Papertrey Ink; Dye Ink (Elegant Eggplant, So Saffron) Stampin' Up!; Accents: (cream button) Papertrey Ink; (natural twine) May Arts; (Doily) Hobby Lobby; Die: (circle) Spellbinders

Challenge: Color Throwdown #91

I found a great challenge site called The Color Throwdown and they have challenges based on different color combinations. I needed to make a birthday card for a very good stamping friend of mine, so I decided to incorporate the colors for the current challenge, and I'm very pleased with what I came up with!  Hope you had a great birthday, Jen!!

Supplies:

Stamps: Stampin' Up - Paisley Background, Simple Friendship

Cardstock: Stampin' Up - Rose Red, Tempting Turquoise, Certainly Celery

Ink: Stampin' Up - Rose Red, Certainly Celery, Cool Caribbean

Ribbon: Stampin' Up - Certainly Celery

Buttons: Masterpiece Studios, Inc.
Other: Marvy Uchida 2" Round Scallop Punch, Spica Marker - Mint, Dimensionals, Sponge