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Honey Bee Stamps Buzzworthy Challenge Bells Will Be Ringing

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Kia ora Koutou

Here is my second card for the Honey Bee Stamps Buzzworthy Challenge on Facebook. The challenge for this month is to use stripes and I have made another Christmas card that is so festive with the traditional colours of gold, reds and greens with a diagonal stripe in red sparkles

I have hot foiled the Pink Fresh Studio Diagonal Plaid Press Plate in red glitter foil for the striped background. I have also hot foiled plain cardstock with the same red glitter foil and the Aura foil and die cut the bells, the ribbon and the berries from this coloured card. The bells really sparkle and all the gold is so shiny and the decorative elements harmonise well together. The matted layer of gold behind the striped layer is also hot foiled using the Aura foil and was left after die cutting the gold frame out.

I have used the Honey Bee Stamps Pierced Fancy Flakes A2 Cover Plate on white cardstock and die cut it out with the medium plain edge die from the Pink Fresh Studio Notched Corner dies. For the frame I have hot foiled the Pink Fresh Studio Notched Corner dies with Aura foil and then die cut a frame with the coordinating dies. This was added to the pierced white base with foam tape for dimension.

Once the bells and the bow had been assembled I added them to the top left corner of the frame using foam tape. I then added foliage cut from various green and brown cardstocks plus the red berries using the Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Winter Greenery die set over the top of the bells as shown.

The bird has come from the Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Spring Birds and is nestled among the greenery.

The sentiment is from the Pink Fresh Studio Foiled Sentiments 4 Holiday Pack and has been added to the card using foam tape.

To make the red sparkles I used a red Copic marker to colour clear sparkles which were then added to the card around the sentiment and on the bow for extra sparkle.

Products Used:

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Layering Holiday Bells

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Spring Birds

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Winter Greenery

Honey Bee Stamps Pierced Fancy Flakes A2 Cover Plate

Pink Fresh Studio Notched Corner Frames

Pink Fresh Studio Diagonal Plaid Press Plate

Pink Fresh Studio Foiled Sentiments 4 Holiday

Spellbinders Foil – Aura, Speckled Red, Red

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Rainforest, Fern

Concord & 9th Cardstock – Mushroom, Cayenne, Pebble, 

?House of Cards Cardstock – 

Gina K Cardstock – Chocolate Truffle

Distress ink – Scorched Timber, Mowed Lawn

Clear Sparkles 

Copic Marker – R46

Foam Tape

Foam Squares

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Bearly Art Glue

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Patricia

Honey Bee Stamps Falala Christmas Card

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Gee I can’t believe we are into September already and Christmas is coming whether we like it or not! Today I have used the Honey Bee Stamps Buzzworthy Challenge on Facebook to get some more Christmas Cards done. The challenge was to make a project using stripes and they were perfect for my cards.

For my card I have created a top folding 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ card out of white cardstock. I made the stripes for the background using the Pink Fresh Studio Plaid Press Plate on my Glimmer machine using Prism foil on Hammermill cardstock for a more holographic finish to the background. This was trimmed to 4″ x 5 1/4″ and matted to silver cardstock before adhering to the card front. I added a circle frame using the Amazing Paper Grace Hemstitch Oval dies – I have embossed the white circle die cut and added a silver shadow before adding to the top half of the card using some foam strips for more dimension.

I added foliage to the bottom half of the circular frame using the Honey Bee Stamps:Lovely Layers – Winter Greenery Die set – branches, pine leaves, and mistletoe.

The gorgeous poinsettia is from the Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Poinsettia Honey Cuts and I have coloured the flower with pink inks before assembling together using some foam squares for more dimension and I used some silver glitter card for the centre of the poinsettias. The poinsettia was then adhered over the foliage using foam squares. The leaves were coloured with green inks and then added under the poinsettia as shown. To finish the poinsettia I have added some sparkle by using a fine tip on my adhesive bottle on the flowers and sprinkling Sparkling Dust to create some subtle sparkle without being over the top.

The robin is from the Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Spring Birds Honey Cuts and was perched above the poinsettia on the left of the frame.

I was feeling lazy and added a sentiment from the Pink Fresh Studio Foiled Sentiments 4 Holiday Pack in silver to the top right of the frame with foam squares in the centre to keep the sentiment level. (Actually to be fair I do not have many Christmas sentiments that can be hot foiled).

To complete the card I have added some silver pearls around the sentiment and around the frame.

Products Used:

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Poinsettia Honey Cuts

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Winter Greenery Honey Cuts

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Spring Birds Honey Cuts

Amazing Paper Grace Hemstitch Circles Etched Dies

Pink Fresh Studio Plaid Press Plate

Hammermill Cardstock

Pink Fresh Studio Foiled Sentiments 4 Holiday Pack

Spellbinders Foil – Prism

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Rainforest, Fern, Portobello

Close to My Heart Colonial White Cardstock

Crafter’s Companion Pearl Cardstock

Concord & 9th Cardstock – Cayenne, Nutmeg

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Silver Cardstock

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Ballet Slipper, Sparkling Rose, Peach Fuzz, Warm Buff

Pink Fresh Studio Silver Glitter Card

Altenew inks – Aloe Vera, Matcha Tea, Oak Moss

Neenah Classic Crest 80 lb cardstock

Pink Fresh Studio Silver Pearls

Fine Black Pen

Foam Tape

Foam Squares

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Bearly Art Glue

DMC Sparkling Dust

Sending Big Hugs and Irises With Love

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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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