Oh my goodness, these bees are just too cute!! Bee's have been so on trend this year, everywhere I look I see lovely items decorated with bees!
Over the next week and a half I'll be sharing the cards I created for a great challenge set by the Pinkies team leader, Michelle Last and fellow demonstrator Catherine Carroll. It was truly wonderful to see everyone in the team get involved. For me personally (and others too), it kick started my creativity.
For this challenge, we were given a 4 x 4 bingo grid, in each box was a different technique or challenge. We had 2 weeks to make cards featuring these techniques to win a variety of prizes. You could tick off 2 squares with each card so this card was my entry for 1) an inked background and 2) retiring product.
I must confess, inked / stenciled backgrounds are not really my cup of tea but I really love this effect on this card. To achieve this look, I die cut the honeycomb shape using the Detailed Bee Dies and then used it as a stencil. After a few attempts, I got the desired effect by using a dauber very lightly with So Saffron ink. It was definitely a case of less is more with this look! I moved the stencil several times to extend the size of the honeycomb shape and I wanted it to fade out from the middle so it was lighter on the edges.
I stamped and die cut 3 bees, added the yellow stripes using a Stampin' Write marker and then popped them up onto the card using adhesive foam pads. After adding the sentiment, I felt the card was still missing something so I die cut the black hearts (also from the Detailed Bee Dies) and stuck these down with some liquid glue. Perfect!
I'm so sad this set is retiring so soon. At the time I write this, it's still in stock in my Stampin' Up! shop. If you buy the bundle you get 10% off !
Honey Bee Stamp Set & Detailed Bee Die Bundle
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Handmade cards using Bird Ballad Designer Series Paper
Thursday, May 21, 2020 Sandalwood Ride, Bridgwater TA6 6FF, UK
Well, how did that happen? It's been 3 years since I last posted on this blog, 3 years!! I must admit, I stopped crafting for a while but I am back and have fallen in love with being creative all over again!
With a lot of my favourites retiring from Stampin' Up! in a few weeks time, I thought I'd better showcase them now, before the new crowd comes in!
The beautiful birds that feature on all of these cards have been cut out from the lovely Bird Ballad DSP which retires on 2nd June. I never used to be a fan of fussy cutting but I have been using this technique a lot more recently and strangely, I find it quite therapeutic.
I've paired the birds with patterned paper backgrounds that coordinate with colours in the Bird Ballad paper, with just enough white space to make the birds pop!
There are so many of my favourite Stampin' Up! colours in the Bird Ballad DSP - Basic Black, Basic Gray, Bermuda Bay, Calypso Coral, Crumb Cake, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Petal Pink, Pool Party, Smoky Slate, Soft Suede & Whisper White.
I will certainly be sad to see this one go! Luckily, I have plenty left over so I don't need to buy anymore.
Bird Ballad Designer Series Paper
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Congratulations on your Wedding Card & Top 10 winners blog hop hosted by Kylie Bertucci
Tuesday, May 9, 2017 Somerset, UK
Hello and a very warm welcome to my blog Handmade by Kim! My name is Kim Price and I live in the UK and I am a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.
Today I am taking part in a blog hop with the other top ten winners from Kylie Bertucci's International Blog Highlights, how exciting! Our theme is the same as the highlights and is cards for weddings.
I am absolutely thrilled to be taking part in this blog hop alongside super talented Stampin' Up! demonstrators from all around the world. To view all of the amazing projects they have made, please scroll down to the end of this post and click on the links to visit their blogs.
I'd like to say a massive thank you, I wouldn't be featuring in this blog hop today without all of the blog readers of all of the demonstrators who showcased their work in Kylie's International Blog Highlights and who took the time to cast a vote.
I decided to go for muted tones for this card. I have used Crumb Cake cardstock for my card base and coordinating patterned paper from the Falling in Love DSP. I used my clear Wink of Stella glitter pen to sparkle up the edge of the card and also the matt for the sentiment inside. You can see this better in the first image on this post. I think this looks lovely and coordinates with the image on this paper and just brings a special touch to this card.
The sentiment I have used is from the Floral Phrases stamp set which I have stamped in Crumb Cake ink onto Very Vanilla cardstock.
For each butterfly, I die cut 2 shapes out of vellum and one out of Very Vanilla cardstock. There is a vellum butterfly under the Very Vanilla and then I layered another vellum butterfly on top of the Very Vanilla butterfly. The very top butterfly has also had the Wink of Stella treatment. The subtle sparkle is just lovely but is hard to see in these photos.
Next I die cut the sentiment Congrats 6 times using the sentiment from the Sunshine Wishes Thinlit Dies and adhered them on top of each other using Tombow glue, this just adds the right amount of dimension and for the sentiment to stand out from the butterflies. I used my Wink of Stella glitter pen on the sentiment to add one last bit of sparkle to the card. Can you tell it's been a while since I last used my glitter pen?
I hope you like my wedding card, thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog - don't forget to let me know you were here by leaving a comment, we all love to receive them!
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To order the products I have used to make this card, please visit my online shop which you can find a link to in the menu at the very top of the page. All of the items I have used are listed under the labels below but if you would like any help, please don't hesitate to get in touch with me through any of my social media channels. Unfortunately, the DSP is sold out in the UK however you can still make this card using your favourite DSP in your favourite colours from the annual catalogue.
Here is the list of the other winners in the top ten.....why don't you grab a cuppa, put your feet up and go visit their blogs to see what lovely things they have made.
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