Tag: Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Mum Honey Cuts

A Handbag Style Pop-Up Diorama Birthday Card

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Kia ora Koutou

I was recently asked to do a birthday card for someone special who loved bears in a forest and purple chrysanthemums. I had an idea to do a diorama card that showed a bear in a forest surrounded by trees and woodland animals and I found this design for a handbag style diorama card on YouTube here that had been designed by Sam Calcott from Mixed Up Crafts. This fitted perfectly with what I was aiming to achieve although I did add some extra dimension and depth inside the diorama where I added some trees to create more of a forest feel and of course I had to add lots of sparkly flowers and butterflies and little creatures to further embellish the scene.

I have used a mix of mainly Amazing Paper Grace and Honey Bee Stamps dies to create this card and used a totally different colour scheme of kraft, teals and purples to what I would normally do but it came together very well. I purchased the bear and some of the woodland animals images from Etsy and they worked in well with the different flowers, trees, grass and animal dies to create the look of a forest.

Lots of shine and sparkle were added with glitter, clear sparkles, glitter paper and Stickles as this reflected on the recipient who is a lovely, bright and bubbly person and a joy to be around.

I know this card will always be treasured and I enjoyed putting all my love and energy into make this a very special birthday keepsake.

(Apologies for the photos – they were taken quickly and in poor light and it was really difficult to show how gorgeous this card really was.)

Products Used:

Amazing Paper Grace Postage Edge Rectangles Etched Dies

Amazing Paper Grace With Love Regalia Etched Dies

Amazing Paper Grace Make a Scene Celebration Etched Dies

Spellbinders Bunch of Borders Dies

Spellbinders 3D Embossing Folder – Tufted

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Mum Honey Cuts

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Trees Honey Cuts

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Spring Greenery Honey Cuts

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Dogwood Honey Cuts

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Bugs Honey Cuts

Honey Bee Stamps Celebrating You Stamp Set

Heartfelt Creations Floral Fashionista Dies

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Teal Topaz

Concord & 9th Cardstock – Avocado, Artichoke, Aqua Sky, Ocean Side, Evergreen, Juniper, Peacock, Clover

Gina K Cardstock – Chocolate Truffle

Heartfelt Creations Kraft Cardstock

Pink Fresh Studio Glitter Paper – Ocean Blue

Distress Inks – Shaded Lilac, Dusty Concord, Ancient Mariner, Peeled Paint

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Soft Lilac, Candy Violet

Memento ink – Tuxedo Black

Copic marker E47, YR27, 100 – small bird

CTMH Bitty Sparkles

Small pink flowers:

Ranger Archival inks – Magenta Hue, Candy Violet

Frosted Lace Stickles.

Go Green Prills

Butterfly – Copic Markers – V09.V05, V04, V01, Crystal Stickles

Clear sparkles from stash

DMC Sparkling Dust

Clear Gloss Gel Medium

Foam Tape

It was really hard to take photos of this card to do it justice and so I have made a short video to show you how it works here:

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Celebrating You with Purple Chrysanthemums from Honey Bee Stamps

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Kia ora Koutou

I enjoy creating beautiful flowers using the Honey Bee Stamps Lovely Layers dies and the Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Mum Honey Cuts is just gorgeous and so easy to put together. This card has been created for the August 2024 Honey Bee Stamps/Buzzworthy Challenge on Facebook which is all about sparkle. My card is all about sparkle and shine with glitter paper, sparkly gems and glitter on the flowers and leaves.

To create my card I have created a top folding 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ card out of white cardstock. I watched an interesting video by Jennifer McGuire on how to use vellum in different ways so I die cut the Honey Bee Stamps Cover Plate Burlap die using vellum and then coloured it with some pale green ink to create my background for the gorgeous purple ‘Mums’. I love the soft finish of the vellum that contrasts with the strong vibrant purple flowers.

To create a focal point for the flowers and sentiment I have added a frame in purple glitter paper paper which also coordinates with the purple flowers. I die cut an extra plain frame out of white cardstock and glued it behind the purple frame for some extra dimension to the frame.

The flowers and leaves have been coloured with Copic markers and I assembled it using the instructions and used some foam squares for more dimension and depth with the flowers. For the sparkle I have used the Bearly Art glue to add some dots of glue on the flowers and leaves and then dusted some Sparkling Dust to create the shine.

To finish the card I have added a sentiment from the Honey Bee Stamps Celebrating You Stamp and Die Set that was stamped in dark purple ink on white cardstock before being die cut with the coordinating die. I die cut more plain sentiments and stacked them together with the stamped sentiment on top and then added it over the frame with foam tape to keep the sentiment level over the frame.

To complete the sparkle I have added some Pink Fresh Studio Gems – Glacier around the flowers, frame and sentiment.

Products Used:

Honey Bee Stamps Cover Plate Burlap

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Mum

Pink Fresh Studio Notched Corner Frames

Pink Fresh Studio Purple Glitter Paper

Honey Bee Stamps Celebrating You Stamp and Die Set

Neenah Classic Crest 80 lb cardstock

Neenah Classic Crest 110 lb cardstock 

Copic Markers – V09, V06, V04, V02, R81, G28, G17, G14, G02, Y7, YR18

Rajni Chawla’s Flowerite Vellum

DMC Sparkling Dust

Pink Fresh Studio ink – Opulence, Mint

Pink Fresh Studio Gems – Glacier

Foam Tape

Foam Squares

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Bearly Art Glue

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Patricia