Favourite Tulips with Honey Bee Stamps

 

Hi there!  Of all the flowers out there, I think tulips are my all time favourite.  I love their colour, shape, and how they usher in Spring with vibrance.  I decided to pick up the Lovely Layers:  Tulips Honey Cuts from Honey Bee Stamps because the dies are so realistic and give you 3 options of size of bloom to play with, and cut multiples layers of the flowers for wonderful realism.  

Coral coloured tulips are some of the ones I most gravitate to, so I used a few shade of coral cardstock to cut the layers, then ink blended on the layers to give added depth.  While also adding in a few textural details by adding coloured pencil in the die lines.  I also added in some bluebells from the Lovely Layers:  Wildflowers Honey Cuts, because they make a great contrast in colour to the coral tulips, and their petite size adds extra interest.

The background is ink blended with Blueprint Sketch Distress Ink, with water splatters, and I cut a small section of white lattice for the bottom section of the card for texture.  

The sentiment is foiled and is a Spellbinders Let’s Celebrate Sentiments Better Press set.  

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Favourite Tulips with Honey Bee Stamps

Floral Cake with Honey Bee Stamps

 

Hi there!  I’m back for day 2 of Birthday Cards this week, with another beautiful cake, this time from Honey Bee Stamps.  Its called Wonderful Wishes, and I’ve used both the stencil for the set, as well as the coordinating Honey Cut dies.  I adore the concept of a completly floral cake!  

The stencil produces just beautiful results!  I’ve stenciled and die cut a few extra elements from the set to pop up, and I’ve spritzed it all with glitter spray, so it sparkles.  And isn’t the green glass cake stand pretty?  

To coordinate, I’ve also added an ink blended and embossed background (Spellbinders) with coordinating colours.  

The HUGS sentiment seemed perfect (from the set), and a few sparkly sequins add to the shine and shimmer.  

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Floral Cake with Honey Bee Stamps

Flowers for Ukraine from Honey Bee Stamps

Hi There!  I wanted to do a card this week to honour Ukraine and the ongoing war, as they fight for their country.  So much news is painful isn't it? However, today I wanted to also speak about something encouraging related to Ukraine.  When the war started 3 years ago, our church sponsored a family and their friends, nine people, to come to Canada as refugees.  The father in the family has a life threatening condition and would have died had they stayed in Ukraine.  What has followed has been such a story of restoration and hope.  They are a beautiful family, and have chosen to live a life of influence, reaching out to many other Ukrainian refugees in our city.  This has developed into a significant ministry focus out of our church.  Due to the language barrier, we started an English Language Learner program, which now serves hundreds of refugees from many countries in helping them learn English, Canadian customs, assisting them in navigating the different systems here, and helps them build friendships and community.  It has not only helped the refugees and newcomes, but has dramatically impacted our church culture in all the most beautiful ways. It has made us more intentional, compassionate and joy filled.   They have made a difference in our lives equally as much as we might have had an impact in theirs.  When the news gets discouraging, it’s important for me to remind myself of things like these - and the difference we can make.  

This card was designed to convey that hope.  I started with a lovely set from Honey Bee Stamps called Squared Spring Florals, and the coordinating Honey Cuts Dies.  

Rather than using the stencil that goes with the set, I coloured the image with Copics in the colours of the Ukrainian flag.  I also added some background stamping in white using the set as well.  

Then I turned the center portion of the stamp set into a shaker design for Simon Says Stamp March IG Challenge.  

A few extra holeless mirrored sequins accent the design outside of the shaker as well.  

Great to have you stop by!  

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Flowers for Ukraine from Honey Bee Stamps

Love Letters with Honey Bee Stamps

 

I love looking at stamps and products in a new way!  When the postal strike was on in Canada, my Christmas order from Honey Bee Stamps was delayed well over a month, so the very lovely Floral Noel Honey Cuts and stencils didn’t arrive until Christmas was over.  That felt disappointing, so I wondered if there was something else I could spell with this pretty floral lettering.  And....creativity struck!  I could Valentine the set by adding in a “heart” for the V in LOVE.  Perfect!  

The letters are stencilled, ink blended and cut with the coordinating die set, along with the extra flower sprays.  I also ink blended a ombre argyle die background to look like lattice.  

With some pretty sequins and pearls its fancied up for Valentine’s Day, or a wedding perfectly!  

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Love Letters with Honey Bee Stamps

Trailing Flowers with Honey Bee Stamps

 

Hi There!  Today I’m popping in with a new design from Honey Bee Stamps that captured my heart when I first saw it, it’s a stencil called Squared Spring Florals.  I just love the unique take on a floral set with its trailing flowers, and the squared section perfect for sentiments or other focal point.  It comes with coordinating dies and a Squared Spring Florals coordinating stamp set.  I chose to stencil in some pretty and soft blues and pastel yellows that speak Spring to me.  

The Birthday sentiment fits perfectly, and I’ve splattered some white acrylic paint in spots as well as some light blue enamel dots.  

It makes for such a pretty card front, with so many colour possibilities!  

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Trailing Flowers with Honey Bee Stamps

Honey Bee Designer Birthday Cake

It's a sweet Saturday celebration!  I recently picked up a few goodies from Honey Bee Stamps and am SO delighted by them!  This wonderful designer cake would be one I wouldn’t even want to eat, it’s so pretty!  It’s called Wonderful Wishes Stencils, and let me tell you, I’m so impressed with it!  

Because the stencilling is so detailed, it’s important that all your layers line up, exactly, and these stencils have each layer etched into the heavy-weight stencil so lining up is a dream.  I picked a pretty spring-like palette and added extra popped up layers of some of the posies to give it more dimensions, a little leaf accents the foiled sentiment (Spellbinders).   I even inkblended the cake stand too look like green milk-glass.  

The background layer is a double stripe coverplate from Concord & 9th.  Perfect for a contrast from all the flowery goodness.  

Finished off with a few enamel dots in the cake for texture.  Ready for a garden party celebration!  

 

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Honey Bee Designer Birthday Cake

Nostalgic Irises with Honey Bee Stamps

Not long after we were first married and were living in the US, we bought our first home from an elderly woman in our Church.  She could no longer care for the yard and all that went with it, so when we first moved it I had A LOT of work to do on the yard.  Years of neglect of the flower beds had to be dealt with, but over and over I found wonderful surprises pop up.  One of them was a stunning burgundy iris with the deepest wine shaded petals I’d ever seen.  It’s one thing I miss greatly from that home.  

So, I had the BEST time recreating that Iris with the new Lovely Layers: Iris -Honey Cuts from Honey Bee Stamps.  This die set is so detailed it will delight you.  I cut all the layers and pulled out some of my distress inks to ink blend colour throughout the petals.  Our original iris didn’t have as much warm orange, but it worked on this design to help create a sense of dimension.  

I think there are about six layers of the petals stacked up on each other, and I’ve glued or popped up the layers in sections to really get that 3D look.  I splattered some watered down Lunar Paste for some shimmery shine. 

The golden Spellbinders frame is cut in several layers from Kraft cardstock and then I’ve used Lunar paste to “gild” it in gold.  The plaid background coverplate is from Waffle Flower - Sweet Plaid.  It’s perfect for some textural touches.  

The foiled sentiment is from Spellbinders Slimline Confetti Background with a lovely script.  And then a few gold sequins sprinkled add some accent.  Thanks for joining me today!  

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Nostalgic Irises with Honey Bee Stamps