Oh it's Monday and I'm already ready for a nap it seems. LOL just one small issue after another.
However - that said - Honey Bee had a HUUUUGGGGEEEE release this month - like HUGE. It's their 4th "BEE"day and they definitely wanted to celebrate in style!!!
You can check out the release HERE <---------click!! See what I mean? I do have plans to do a Release & Review video but I'm just waiting (impatiently b/c they're fabulous and I want them) for the patterned papers to arrive first. I've had a lot of requests for a video showing everything and it most likely will end up being either one LONG video or I could split it up into multiple parts/videos - what do y'all think?
Anywho - I made a whole bunch of cards with some of the new release:
I was stencilling and splattering and spraying up a storm with all of these lol! I originally meant to create 4 backgrounds using some of the new stencils and making 4 cards from them. That turned into 8 cards and then I got an additional 2 made from some of the "leftover" butterflies and sentiments I had - so 10 altogether!
I created the backgrounds using the new Hexagon Patterns and Diamond Patterns stencils along with Distress Oxide inks. I combined those with the new Hexagon Patterns and Diamond Patterns stamp sets on one each of the backgrounds. The other backgrounds I layered the stencils as each set comes with 2 stencils in different sizes. The stencils aren't meant to be layered (as in that's not how they were designed - they were designed to go with the stamp sets) but I thought why not plus I was curious to see what would happen!
I used Honey Bee's Double Stitched Diamonds and Hexagon Solid Stack wafer dies to die cut out the backgrounds I'd stencilled and stamped on. That gave me two pieces of each to use on multiple cards. The other backgrounds where I layered the stencils I just cut up with a paper trimmed to get multiple cards.
For all of the butterflies and sentiments I used the new Fluttering By stamp set and coordinating die set. I white heat embossed the butterflies onto Distress Watercolor card stock, then sprayed them liberally with Distress Oxide Sprays. After they were dry I painted over the butterflies with Tonic's Glitter Gloss Aqua Shimmer pen to give them a ton of sparkle and die cut them with their coordinating dies.
For the "extra" last 2 cards I had some butterflies and sentiments left over and didn't want to waste them. So I took the stencils again and just lightly sponged the same Distress inks over them directly onto the card bases. I added a bunch of splatter from the Oxide Sprays and then adhered the butterflies with foam tape and glued on the sentiments.
To finish off the insides of the cards I stamped the butterflies with the same Oxide inks I used to create all the backgrounds. I then stamped the sentiments from the Fluttering By sets with black ink and that was it!
To see how these cards came together check out my video below:
Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-------click!
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