Kia ora Koutou
Today I have a card made for a very special person. She loves yellow and purple and was an avid gardener and taught me so much about gardening although I definitely do not have green fingers!! Her gardens were a riot of colour with the most amazing flowers including irises. This card is also my submission for the Honey Bee Stamps Buzzworthy Challenge for sparkly cards on Facebook.
The Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Iris Honey Cuts were perfect for this card. The irises look so real and are very easy to assemble even without the instructions. I have used purple and yellow inks to colour the irises and then added some yellow pollen to the centre of the flowers and some Ultrafine Crystal Glitter on the outside of the flowers for some sparkle. The leaves have been coloured with green inks before assembling with the flowers.
For the background to the flowers and foliage I have embossed white cardstock using the Honey Bee Stamps 3D Embossing Folder – Sandie’s Garden which is just lovely layered with purple glitter cardstock.
The background foliage are leaves from the Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Winter Greenery Honey Cuts which have been die cut from a light green cardstock and ink blended with green ink.
No garden is complete without bees and I have used the gorgeous bee from the Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Bugs Honey Cuts made from black and yellow cardstocks. The wings have been die cut out of vellum, coloured with a pale purple alcohol marker and then finished with some Perfect Pearls – Pearl for a luminescent finish.
The ‘With Love’ sentiment is from the Amazing Paper Grace With Love Regalia Etched dies and has been die cut out of purple glitter cardstock and stacked with another two layers of white dies before adding to the top right of the card. I have stamped the sentiment from the Honey Bee Stamps Mini Messages Stamps in dark purple ink on white cardstock and then die cut with the coordinating die. This was then matted with purple glitter cardstock and then added to the centre of the sentiment die with some foam squares.
Products Used:
Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Iris Honey Cuts
Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Bugs Honey Cuts
Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Winter Greenery Honey Cuts
Honey Bee Stamps Mini Messages Stamps and Coordinating Dies
Honey Bee Stamps: 3D Embossing Folder – Sandie’s Garden
Amazing Paper Grace With Love Regalia Die Set
Pink Fresh Studio Candy Violet Glitter Paper
Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Peridot, Rainforest, Black Onyx, Chamomile
Pink Fresh Studio inks – Mustard, Lemon Whip, Marigold, Opulence
Distress Inks – Mowed Lawn, Squeezed Lemonade, Sheer Lilac, Dusty Concord, Twisted Citron
Art Glitter Crystal Ultrafine Glitter
Foam Tape
Foam Squares
My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press
Bearly Art Glue
Rajni Chawla’s Flowerite Vellum
Copic Marker BV02
Perfect Pearls – Pearl
Flower Pollen – Yellow
Neenah Classic Crest 80 lb cardstock
Neenah Classic Crest 110 lb cardstock
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Patricia