Hi Crafty Friends!!
The Honey Bee Stamps Cheerful Love Release is now available in the store. To celebrate the new release, we are having a two day blog hop called Cheerful Love. So please hop along with us both days to be inspired!
Be sure to visit each blog & leave a comment to be entered to win!!! We will be giving away two $50 gift cards to the Honey Bee Stamps store, one from each day. The winners will be posted on our blog Tuesday, February 27th.
You should have arrived here from Emily Kohout’s blog. If you get lost along the way, there is a complete line-up over on the Honey Bee Blog.
Isn’t this release adorable? So many great images & sentiments!! Both cards I have to share with you today are Congratulations cards…but each one is for a totally different occasion. The first being a graduation card.
I began by stamping the sentiment from Congrats Graduate in the center of a panel of Bristol cardstock with Versamark Ink, then heat embossing with white embossing powder. Next, I blended Black Soot Distress Oxide Ink onto the panel. I splattered it with water and blotted up the excess with a paper towel. Then I mixed some Perfect Pearls with a little water and splattered that also. I trimmed the panel down slightly and adhered it to a top folding note card. I stamped several of the graduation caps from Penny the Platypus onto Neenah cardstock with Momento Tuxedo Black Ink, colored with Copic markers and then fussy cut them out. After figuring out the placement of the caps, I popped them all up with foam adhesive onto the black panel. Carousel Lights Confetti Mix was the perfect finishing touch!! I LOVE this confetti mix…the Bokeh Lights Confetti Mix is one of my favorites, so I love having the colored option!!!
My next card is a way to stretch your stamps…
I turned Penny the Platypus into Daphne the Duck for this cute shaker card…perfect for a new baby or baby shower!! I stamped the platypus, balloons and heart images from Penny the Platypus with Momento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored them all with Copic markers. Then I fussy cut all the images, cutting off the tail…gasp!! An alcohol inked panel made the perfect background. I cut a frame from white cardstock with the A2 Double Stitched Frames Honey Cut Dies. The Celebration Sequin Mix creates the shaker element. Next, I cut the Congratulations sentiment with the Hooray Day Honey Cut Dies from white & black cardstock. I colored the white sentiment with Copics to match my balloons, and placed the black portion on top. All of the elements were applied to the front of the card, some popped up with dimensional adhesive. A black Sharpie was used to draw the strings from the balloons onto the transparency. Lastly, Ebony Black Crystal Nuvo Drops add some shine & dimension to the eyes.
Thanks so much for hopping with us today!! You’re next stop is the oh-so-talented Melissa Bickford!!
Be sure to leave lots of love along the way for chances to win some great prizes!!!
That grad card is so much fun…LOVE the shaker card!!!!
Such good cards. Thanks for the inspiration.
Oh my! Both your cards are so beautiful!!! I’m totally in love for your cutie platypus!!!
Such fun, happy cards!
Great cards, thanks for sharing!
Oh I love that shaker! I love that you can use the platypus for a duck if you want… super cute!
Love the depth and movement on the
graduation card. Popping all of the
caps off the card is a great idea.
The little platypus is darling.
So sweet. thanks for sharing
two wonderful cards.
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I like the background for the colorful graduation caps and the shaker is so cute and colorful.
Love the shaker card!
OMG! You totally turned Penny into a little Duck Brenda! I think I like Penny the Duck better, lol! Both awesome cards!!!
Love these cards! The platypus is soooo cute!!!!!
Love the graduation cards! Who ever going to get those will be super happy bout it. The platypus is awesome too. He or she is so cute. You did a fabulous job on your cards and I loved them. Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful weekend.
OMG Penny the Platypus !!! So awesome!
I love shaker cards in any shape, size, color, etc…your shaker is particularly cute!
Loving all the brightly colored caps, and that background.
AND the Penny card.
So colorful and cheerful.
Amazing.
Awesome cards and love how you created multiple graduation hats for your first card!
Love your cards! Great for graduations, but nice that the stamp sets are so versatile – just a fantastic Release from
Honey Bee!
love both of these colorful cards – the designs and creativity are so impressive:)
OH these are so great! I LOVE those grad caps and the platypus in yellow is fantastic!
Loving the depth and dimension on your graduation card – spectacular presentation. And PENNY!, oh my goodness, your color choices are spot on. Have to say, the part in her hair is so sweet! Awesome card.
Wow! What wonderful cards! The graduation card has a great celebratory feel to it!! And I love the two-color “Congratulations” greeting on the second card.
I love both of your cards. I couldn’t choose a favorite if I had to! Thank you for sharing them.
Love these fun cards. Love th bright colors and randomness of the grad card and love th cuteness of th platypus shaker card. Thank you so much for the inspiration – it’s been such a great blog hop over the last two days x
Daphne the duck is darling, such a great change! Both cards are beautiful and so cheerful.
Your cards are great. Daphne the Duck is So cute. Love the shaker.
Wonderful cards!
Love the creative ways you used this set! Thank you for the details on your grad BG, I’m going to try that soon, I love it!!! And your little DUCK is adorable!
I don’t have a graduation card in my stash but I like this design!
Great cards! Love your graduation background and your shaker – especially the sequin mix you chose!
Adorable and fun!
Two great cards. That’s what I call thinking outside the box changing Penny to Daphne!
Hats off to the fabulous platypus shaker… it’s gorgeous and fun!!
Super fun grad card!!
Love your cards! Thanks for the inspiration!
Loved both of your cards. Your shaker card is adorable and the graduation card very colorful.
Great job of doing “paper surgery” on the poor little Platypus!! You are right, it makes a darling duck and can be used in so many different scenes. Nice work on both cards.
Love the confetti and sequins!!
Two incredibly fun cards!
What a fantastic grad card. And the platypus shaker is adorable. Thanks for you great ideas.
What a fun card!!
Your cards are so fun! I just love the platypus 🙂
Awesome cards! Love the background and colors of your graduation card, and that adorable platypus shaker card too! Very fun and festive!
I can rarely envision what I need to transform animals, so I’m super impressed with your Penny to Daphne surgery! It looks fantastic and the coloring is spot on. I also really like the bright colored caps against the black soot background. That’s a really fun design. Thanks so much for sharing with us!
Both cards are so adorable. Love the Platypus shaker card. Thanks for sharing….
Fun cards and great new products! I love all the colors!
Wonderful cards and great idea to turn the platypus into a duck.
What a cool graduation card, love this! Your shaker\platypus card is cuteness overload!
sweet cards! Cute little duck 🙂
Adorable platypus card. Love it’s a shaker and love the bright cheery color.
Beautiful cards, both of them! The first card is really fantastic – great design and colours. And the second one – soooo cute, I love your colouring and what you did with the sentiment!
Both cards are amazing however, the shaker card is my favorite. So colorful, I absolutely love the sequins!
Awesome cards, I love how you made the platypus a duck, Super cute!!!!
Super fun graduation card! Penny is just adorable too!
Both are fab congratulations cards, the student version is lovely and bold with all those popped up hats. Your transformation from platypus to duck is so sweet, I’m just concerned about the amputation but Penny doesn’t seem bothered lol. Thank you for reminding us to stretch what we have.x
Beautiful shaker box! I love your choice of shaky bits inside. 🙂
Love this release by Honey Bee.. The playtus and foxes are my favorites
I love the stretching of a platypus to a duck! Clever!!!
Cute and so fun! Love them both ♥
What awesome cards! Love them both, especially that shaker card!
Great cards! I love your creativity. I never would have thought to turn the platypus into a duck, but you’ve clearly shown that it works!
Great congrats cards! I think Penny looks just ducky as Daphne! Adorable shaker card!
Wow I love both cards and I’m such a sucker for shaker cards, wow!
Two great cards! Love the graduation hat card — great background and colors!
I just love those colourful grad hats! Such a great card, and the duck/platypus shaker card is soo cute!
Lovely cards! Each one is unique and beautiful 🙂
Loved your card with adorable Platypus…. Thank you so much for the inspiration!
your cards looks adorable! I love them!