Kia ora Koutou

I follow WPlus9 Designs on YouTube and I just love how Dawn colours her flowers from Honey Bee Stamps and this card has been inspired by a couple of her cards made using the Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Peony and Wildflowers. I don’t have a lot of Honey Bee Stamps cover dies and the flowers I used were rather too big for a small card so I dug out an old Spellbinders die that I really love called Majestic Labels Twenty-Five to create a very elegant background to my pretty flowers. I really like the stamp sentiment as it can be used on its own or could have a specific sentiment added to them such as a ‘happy birthday’ to personalise it.

My Project.

For my card I have created a side folding 5″ x 7″ base card out of white cardstock. I cut a piece of light blue cardstock 5″ x 7″ and adhered it to the front of the card. I cut a piece of Snowdrift cardstock 4 3/4″ x 6 3/4″ and adhered it to the front of the card.

I cut another piece of Snowdrift cardstock 4 1/2″ x 6 1/2″ and die cut the frame and inner using the outer frame and next size frame dies. I adhered the outer frame to the white cardstock using foam strips and then added the inner die inside the frame. I die cut the label out of Snowdrift cardstock and added it over the centre of the frame. I stamped the sentiment from Beccy’s Place Magnolia stamp set in Tuxedo Black ink to the bottom right of the label as shown.

I die cut the light green leaves using the leaf die from the Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Spring Greenery Honey Cuts and adhered it to create a base for the flowers to the top left of the frame.

I then die cut the leaves and stems from the Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Wildflowers Honey Cuts and added some green ink to create more dimension to the stem and leaves. I used Altenew Shadow Creek ink on the green (Rainforest cardstock) stems from the blue bell flowers and Pink Fresh Studio ink Grassy Knoll and Key Lime inks on the green (Sprout cardstock) leaves for the light blue flowers. I then die cut the flowers using white cardstock and coloured the blue bell flowers with Altenew Crystal Violet and Alpine Aster before adding them to the stem. I adhered this flower stem over the base leaves to the left of the frame.

I die cut the leaves leaves and stems only for the light blue and yellow flowers. I added some Pink Fresh Studio Key Lime ink to the leaves and then added one stem to the base flowers. The light blue flowers were coloured using Pink Fresh Studio Lemon Whip, Crystal Violet, Maple Yellow and Doe inks and then assembled them before added a flower to the stem already on the card with foam squares for dimension. I added a single flower to the left of the foliage and then trimmed the leaves to fit around the flower.

I die cut the peony and bud from the Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Peony Honey Cuts and coloured the pieces using Pink Fresh Studio inks – Ballet Slippers, Bubblegum, Sparkling Rose and Wisteria. Once the colouring was complete I assembled the peony and bud using foam squares for some dimension. I die cut the leaves out of Sprout cardstock and added some shading to create shape to the leaves. These leaves were adhered to the base of the frame with some foam tape on a couple of leaves. I added the peony and bud over these leaves.

To complete the floral arrangement I trimmed another leaf from the Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Spring Greenery Honey Cuts and added them around the peony and leaves.

I added clear Wink of Stella for all the flowers for some subtle glimmer and shine.

To finish I added some light blue gems around the sentiment and flowers as shown.

Products Used:

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift, Glacier, Rainforest

Concord &9th Cardstock – Sprout

Green cardstock from my stash

Heartfelt Creations Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper

Neenah Solar Crest 80 Ib

Beccy’s Place Magnolia Stamp

Spellbinders Majestic Labels Twenty Five

Foam strips and squares

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Ballet Slippers, Sparkling Rose, Bubblegum, Lemon Whip, Maple Yellow, Grassy Knoll, Key Lime, Doe

Altenew inks – Crystal Violet, Alpine Aster, Shadow Creek

Memento ink – Tuxedo Black

Pink Fresh Studio Essentials Blending Brushes

Wink of Stella – Clear Glitter

Bearly Art Glue

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Happy Crafting

Patricia