Fishing Adventures

Popping in to share a card I made for my daughter’s father-in-law’s birthday. The challenge at Simon Says Stamp this week is to use die cuts. All products are from Honey Bee Stamps from the designer paper to the die cuts used on the card. I linked all products to both Simon Says Stamp (left) and Honey Bee Stamps (right) if you care to check any of them out.

One of my favorite things about Lovely Layers dies from Honey Bee Stamps is it allows me to use up those scrap bits of paper; a little bit of ink blending can be added for a bit more dimension. My first reaction when the owl was released was that it looked creepy and I wasn’t a fan of it. After using it, I like it – I think it is the horned owl part that throws me off a bit.

Recipe:

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Dee

The Places You’ll Go

I received a request to make a few graduation cards and I wanted to go the less traditional route from the graduation cap and gown card. I pulled an older Sizzix Tim Holtz die to cut the world and layered it on to a circle colored with Simon Says Pawsitively Saturated Inks. The background is a digitally printed paper and sentiments. Looking in the SSS store, I noticed the World Travel die has been re-released with a lot more design elements – not sure if it is the same scale but if you’re interested, take a look and see if it is something you are interested in.

As a variation to the card above, I opted this time for a brown die to more realistically depict the earth. Do you have a preference?

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Dee

Wise One

I was excited when a niece reached out to me and asked me to make a few graduation cards for her. I’ve been wanting to use the Wise Owl die set from Spellbinders and this seemed like the perfect chance to try it out. I also grabbed an older die from Spellbinders for the mortar board (sorry, I don’t think it is available any more).

The challenge this week at Simon Says Stamp is Stencil It. I used a different background technique on each of the cards; stencil, emboss, diecut background panel, Betterpress plate with foiling and diecut impression.

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Dee

Dust for You

Don’t you just love these adorable dust bunnies…if only they were so cute in my home!

This week the challenge at Simon Says Stamp is Interactive. I like making interactive cards but they are definitely a bit more time consuming and I like to make them for a specific person as they are more special. I decided to pull out a mini wobble to add to the bunny with the duster in her paw for the interactive piece on my card.

Mama Dust Bunny, has an interactive coffee mug that can be swapped out with various stamped mug sentiments…just so stinking cute.

Recipe:

Dust Bunnies stamp and dies – Trinity Stamps

Dir-tea Bunny stamp and dies – Trinity Stamps

Mini Wobbler – Simon Says Stamp

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Dee

Lovely Layers

Some of my favorite dies are the Lovely Layers dies from Honey Bee Stamps. I decided to pull out a few different flowers sets. I die cut the flower pieces from watercolor paper and colored them with Altenew’s Spring Market watercolor markers. I couldn’t resist adding a few more Honey Bee dies as well as stamp sets. I pulled sentiments from my stash to add to the cards.

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Dee

You are Iris-istible

Sorry for the corny pun but I really couldn’t think of anything else to go with an iris 🙂

All this month on the Honey Bee Stamps Facebook page, HBS is sponsoring a sketch challenge. I pulled papers from several HBS paper pads. I kept the papers pretty neutral as I wanted the iris to be the star of the card. I thought the blue tones complemented the iris quite well.

Recipe:

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Dee

Cake, Lots of Cake

If I’m ever stuck for design inspiration, I love to play along with sketch challenges. I don’t know about you, but I can easily get stuck in a rut and use the same layout over and over again for my card designs. Today’s card is curtesy of MFT’s Sketch #691. Whenever a sketch is sponsored by a company, I try my best to use that companies products on my card. Today, I grabbed the adorable JB Kitchen Cuties. So fun and so easy to color! The design papers are from Nitwit Collections Idyllic and the card base is Summer Splash cardstock from MFT.

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Dee