Tag: Honey Bee Stamps

Challenges, Crop & Create Delivered, Stencils

Day 4 of my virgin product challenge

Anne S

I forgot to post this card on the weekend – but oh boy it makes me chuckle … as soon as I saw this sentiment by scrapbook.com I knew I wanted to use a stocking stamp or die with it.

Lots of firsts with this card – the tartan paper, the sentiment stamp and the fireplace stencil. The Mama Elephant stamp was from a class at Crop & Create Delivered – it’s actually a crumpled up tissue, but I thought it’d work perfectly as lumps of coal … it worked out so much better than I expected! I just love this whole card so very much!!

Supplies used:

  • Fireplace stencil by Honey Bee Stamps
  • Stockings die by Stampin’ Up!
  • Red and white velvet specialty papers by Stampin’ Up! (I ink blended the white paper with green ink for the stocking cuff)
  • Feel Better stamp and die set by Mama Elephant
  • Naughty and Nice stamp by scrapbook.com
  • Jolly Christmas paper by Memory Box
Class projects, Crop & Create Delivered

Crop & Create Delivered – Honey Bee Stamps

Anne S

Last but not least – our final class of the weekend event, with Mari Clarke and Honey Bee Stamps. I’d only ever made one shaker card prior to this, and that wasn’t very long ago. I’m now a lot more confident making them, and I really love these cards. Once again, it goes to show how simple designs can be so effective and will have totally different looks just by changing out the papers and colours used – I’m looking forward to making more. I own a couple of Honey Bee products already, but this has really expanded my collection beautifully as I own nothing like these dies from any other companies.

Some things I loved about this class:

  • Some really fun and versatile dies in layering sizes that are super useful not just for shakers.
  • The fun collection of papers we got to choose from – I never thought of using patterned paper with sentiment dies 💙
  • The awesome shadow layer sentiment dies – I need to buy more of these, they’re amazing.
  • I’ve only ever made one shaker card before so this helped give me more ideas and built my confidence.
  • I really love sentiments that have the option of matching stamps or dies for the word – love love love it.

The inks I used were Gina K Designs Dusty Rose, Sweet Corn and Powder Blue.