Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Crafty Friends: Honeybee Stamps and a Discount!

Hi everybody! How are you all today? Well, I'm happy to be here because I am hopping along with my Crafty Friends. Today we are featuring the fabulous Honey Bee Stamps! Melissa (the owner) has generously offered an exclusive discount code for us to share with you! The code is at the bottom of my post (make sure you shop through the link provided) if you are interested.

I've made a ton of cards today because once I got going I just couldn't stop. For my first two cards I used this gorgeous floral stamp set called Everything Wonderful. It's designed by the talented Emily Midgett and I jus love it. I stamped the image onto Arches cold pressed watercolor paper in Hero Arts INTENSE-ified black ink.
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Then I used my Karin markers and a paint brush to watercolor the image.
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After watercoloring I used my cool cray copic markers to add some drop shadows. I enhance the shadows by adding scribbles and dots with a fine-tipped sharpie.
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I cut the image out with the Honeybee Stamps deckled edge dies and adhered it to a black card base using foam adhesive. The finishing touch was to add a few subtle sequins.
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My next card features the same stamp set, Everything Wonderful. This time I stamped the image off the edge of the watercolor cardstock to get a different look.
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 I watercolored this piece with my Daniel Smith watercolor paints. 
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I heat embossed the sentiment in white onto black cardstock and cut out the sentiment by hand. This Sympathy sentiment set does have fantastic coordinating dies but for this card I wanted a really close cut so I decided to do it by hand.
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After adding the sentiment I added some Nuvo Dream Drops in Cloud Nine to add some subtle but gorgeous embellishment to the card.
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Here's a side by side look at both of these cards. It's amazing how different you can make the same stamp set look just by stamping or coloring it differently.
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For my next two cards I used the same Candle Cover Plate die. On this first card I ink blended a piece of white cardstock using Distress Oxide inks. Then I used the die to cut both the ink blended piece and a solid black piece of cardstock. I pieced all of the colorful candles into the black background.
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I used the Birthday stamp set and honey cuts to create my sentiment and I love how sparkly it looks in that silver glitter paper. The sentiment is all popped up on foam for some fun dimension and of course I added a few sequins to bling my card out a little bit.
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For my second card I used the extra pieces from my first birthday card. I took the ink blended background, pieced in a few of the black candles for some contrast and added a sentiment.
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The sentiment is from the Wish stamp set and matching honey cuts. I love these combo sets as they are so versatile and useful.
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 Here's a look at both of my birthday cards side by side.
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And, that is it for me today folks! Before you go here's that awesome discount that Melissa is offering to you. It's a 20% on anything in the store at Honey Bee Stamps from now through May 21st. All you need to do to get this discount is use my link (CLICK HERE) and use the code CRAFTYFRIENDS20 when you check out. Enjoy and please thank Melissa if you order because she is super amazing to offer this to all of us!

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I hope you all have an amazing day! If you'd like to continue on the hop please head on over to my friend Becky's blog. There's a list of all blog hoppers below if you'd like to follow the list.

If you want to check out any of the products that I've used today I am adding them to a list below so that you can find them easily. Enjoy!

Bye for now!
Maria


 CRAFTY FRIENDS BLOG ROLL:
Sara Sherlock
Lydia Fiedler
Jill Hilliard
Jen Timko
Amy Kolling
Jenny Hall
Tanya Boser
Ilina Crouse
Maria Willis: You are Here.
Becky Roberts: Next
Sandi MacIver
Sue Plote



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7 comments:

  1. Sandi MacIverMay 20, 2020 at 5:52 AM

    wow, your cards are fabulous and your color choices are always top notch. I would love to sit and watch you watercolor one day

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  2. Lydia FiedlerMay 20, 2020 at 6:41 AM

    DANGGG these are amazing! Your coloring always takes my breath away. Beautiful cards.

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  3. Inking IdahoMay 20, 2020 at 7:26 AM

    You did some serious overachieving there and I love it! I think when you look up WOW in the dictionary, the definition will be Maria Willis. Seriously gorgeous cards!!

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  4. Tanya BoserMay 20, 2020 at 10:45 AM

    Wow, lady! That is some serious crafting. I am in love with your flowers.

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  5. Amy KollingMay 20, 2020 at 7:13 PM

    WOW! Those floral cards are stunning!

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  6. Mrsfish02May 21, 2020 at 3:09 PM

    So many wonderful cards. I love the deckled edge die, need to check it out. Also the card with the birthday candles could really be a fun surprise. Thanks and job well done!

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  7. Jenny HallMay 24, 2020 at 9:23 AM

    So so so pretty!

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