Celebrate with Honey Bee Stamps

Hello Stamping Friends!

It's my day once again to post on the Honey Bee Stamps Blog!!

I wanted to have some fun today and extend my use of my stamps!

I grabbed the Brush Grunge Alpha set, as the brush stroke really caught my eye in this set! I already love this set for the beautiful alphabet and the endless sentiments and titles you can create, but I visioned a Christmas tree with this set, perfect with the holidays right around the corner!!

You can see my complete tutorial on the Honey Bee Stamps Blog!

Here is the card I created:

 How cool is this Christmas tree?!?!
It was created using the brushstroke, which is part of the Brush Grunge Alpha set!

It's so much fun to look at your stamps differently and get more uses out of them!!

Close-up:

With an added star, also from the Brush Grunge Alpha set, and some rhinestones, you have a lovely Christmas tree!

The "celebrate" sentiment is part of the Life Right Now set.

"Bee" sure to check out all the lovely products Honey Bee Stamps has to offer!

Happy Stamping!!




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Honey Bee Stamps Products Used:

Brush Grunge Alpha



Life Right Now

November Feature Day with YNS

Hello Stamping Friends!

It's Feature Day at Your Next Stamp!!

Feature Day Theme...
Christmas

With that in mind I decided to pull out one of my favorite sets from YNS called Winter Wishes, as I am a sucker for snowflake sets!

The beautiful large sentiment and larger snowflakes are from the Winter Wishes stamp set!

The tiny snowflakes are part of the beautiful Little Darling Winter stamp set!

I decided to create two, as I wanted to make one in non-traditional colors and then another in more traditional Christmas colors!

So another look at the non-traditional Christmas colored version:

I just love it!!

On both card I heat embossed the sentiment with glittery embossing powder!!

I LOVE it!  The sentiment sparkles so much!  Perfect for the holiday season!!

And then my traditional colored version:

So beautiful and elegant!!

Be sure to visit the YNS Blog and leave a comment, you have a chance at winning a stamp choice of your choice!!

Be sure to check out all of the lovely products at Your Next Stamp!!
You'll love them!!

And check out this amazing SALE:


Happy Shopping!!!

Have a lovely day!



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Products Used

Winter Wishes


Little Darling Winter

Love Hearts with TSOL

Hello Crafty Friends!!

I have a fun card to share with you today using some awesome products from The Stamps of Life!!

I used the brand new Love Hearts Dies on this card!!
I absolutely LOVE these new dies!

They will be great for Valentine's Day cards, Anniversary cards, cards to let someone special know you love them, etc.

The card dies from TSOL are so amazing!  If you haven't tried them yet, I really recommend you do!  You'll love them!  They help make card making so much fun!! And easy!!   

I used the Sizzix Kind Sentiments Step-ups Die set!
On the side panels I added some swirls from the swirls2build stamp set and some sentiments and hearts from the minis4circles stamp set!
Be sure to check out all the lovely products from the The Stamps of Life here!!

Have a lovely day!!

 

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Products Used:

Love/Heart Dies | The Stamps of Life	Love Story Collection Patterned Paper Pad	swirls2build	minis4circles	Storm Cardstock
Guava Cardstock	Strawberry Cardstock | The Stamps of Life

YNS Challenge #27

Hello Stamping Friends!

Have you joined in the current challenge at Your Next Stamp??
Click here to find the current challenge!

Here's some inspiration for you:

A card sketch....



and photo/colors to find inspiration from....



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I used the adorable Freezy the Snowman!!

Isn't he sweet?

The sentiment is also from the Freezy the Snowman stamp set!

Be sure to join in for your chance at winning!!

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Be sure to check out all of the lovely products at Your Next Stamp!!
You'll love them!!

Have a lovely day!

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Your Next Stamp Products Used:

Freezy the Snowman

Let it Snow with Honey Bee Stamps

Hello Stamping Friends!

It's my day once again to post on the Honey Bee Stamps Blog!!

For my card today I decided it would be fun to grab the awesome Brush Grunge Alpha stamp set!!

This set in my opinion is a must have, it really has won my heart over!  I love that you can create ANY sentiment you wish!

Here's my card:

I love how it turned out!

I also thought it would be perfect to use the Beautiful Life stamp set, to use one of the confetti stamps to make it look like snow falling around the sentiment, a perfect addition in my opinion!

Like I mentioned above, I used the Brush Grunge Alpha stamp set to create the sentiment!

Shaker cards are so much fun to create!!!

"Bee" sure to check out all the lovely products Honey Bee Stamps has to offer!

Happy Stamping!!




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Honey Bee Stamps Products Used:

Brush Grunge Alpha


Beautiful Life

Bubbly Flip-It Fun with The Stamps of Life

Hello Crafty Friends!!

I have a fun card to share with you today using some awesome products from The Stamps of Life!!

TSOL just released a new flip-it card die set!!
I seriously love creating flip-it cards and TSOL makes it so easy with their fun dies!

They just released a new one called...
Bubbly Flip-It!!

Love it!!

Here's a card I created with it:

If you haven't tried these flip-its out yet, you really should!  They make cardmaking so much fun!!  There are a ton of different ones to choose from, check them all out here!

The "You Are Beautiful" sentiment is part of the awesome crazy4daisies stamp set!

I also used the fun hi die, I really like that the top of the "i" forms a heart!!!

Be sure to check out all the lovely products from the The Stamps of Life here!!

Have a lovely day!!

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Products Used:

crazy4daisies	Sizzix Bubbly Flip-its Card Set	hi Die	Licorice Cardstock	Chocolate Cardstock
Candy Cardstock | The Stamps of Life	Smiles Collection Patterned Paper Pad | The Stamps of Life	Licorice Ink Pad and Refill	Triplits Flowers 3 | The Stamps of Life

Christmas Tree Fun with IBS

Good Morning Stamping Friends!!

I am on the Inspired By Stamping Blog today, featuring a fun alteration of a stamp I like from them!!

There is a fun "swash" in the Friends Forever stamp set, that I thought would be cool to use to create a Christmas tree!!

So first, here is my finished card:

Isn't the tree fun?

Here's how I did it....
I started by collecting my supplies:

 Inks (Brown, Gold/Yellow, Green, Red)

Stamps

Paper

Rhinestones

You'll especially need the Friends Forever stamp set, as I mentioned above!!   The possibilities are endless with this accent "swash" piece!  I seen a Christmas tree with it!!

 Above is a picture of just the "swash" inked up!

I know you may be thinking I'm crazy, but keep scrolling!!

I start by inking just one end slightly, as seen below, with brown ink.  Which will become our tree trunk.

As seen below.... 

 Super fun, don't you think?  And we've just begun!!

So when beginning with the tree, I don't ink up the entire stamp.  When I begin with the bottom, I do half, as seen pictured below...

Above is for the left obviously, and then below is for the right...

As you get closer to the top of the tree, you will be inking a lot less of each side.

Here is the first layer stamped:

I took this picture quickly, so you can still slightly see where the stamped "swashes" over lapped.

 You can see the tree really starting to form at this point!  So exciting!!

 

Now on the 3rd layer I was able to stamp the entire image.

But now as you go further up you will need to ink even less on each side.

 

Keep stamping until you are happy with the top.

 

Here's a look at my finished top:

Now it is time to embellish and finish!!!

 

Again here is my finished card:

Isn't it beautiful?!  I really like how it turned out!

The sentiment is part of the Holiday Tags stamp set and the cute star at the top is part of the Build A Stocking stamp set!!

  

I hope I've inspired you to look at your stamps differently!!

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Be sure to check out the Inspired By Stamping Blog for more wonderful inspiration!!

Check out the Inspired By Stamping Store to see all the lovely stamp sets!

So many beautiful sets to choose from!!

Have a lovely day!

Happy Stamping!

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Friends Forever



Build a Stocking

Holiday Tags