Ingenious Inkling

Welcome

Today I had an request to make a masculine welcome card to give to a new employee.  I searched through my stamps to find one that said "welcome" ... but found none (other than a few "welcome little one" stamps for baby cards).

So what's a person to do ... Honey Bee Stamps Bee Bold Alphabet Honey Cuts to the rescue.

 

I die cut the letters from black cardstock & combined them with some masculine designer paper for a slimline card.  

 

 

I'm linking-up at the Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies Challenge.

STAMPlorations Snark

I just returned from a long crafting weekend with friends (post to follow once I get the group photo), and I tried to plan better than I did last time (bringing fewer things I didn't use and focusing on things I can do while visiting).

I chose to use markers and watercolor paints to create some backgrounds.  I also used my watercolors to paint some ATC sized prints from STAMPlorations.  I paired them with the coordinating sentiments by Chris Dring for STAMPlorations.

For the first one, I'm linking-up at Make My Monday which is P is for ... in this case, P is for Paradise & Painting.

 

The second card is another painted ATC and sentiment pairing ... she needs to apply a bit more sunscreen I believe.  I added a few PinkFresh Studio Ombre Glitter Drops.  

 

 

The final one is the same painted card & sentiment combination.  I added some Honeybee Dogwood Blooms Embossing to the card base for texture.

 

 

I was happy to get all of these done during my creative escape.

Gnoel

The November Honey Bee Buzzworthy Challenge is to use a stencil.

 

 

I used the smallest of Honey Bee Stamps Polka Dot Background Stencils with green glaze on a piece of Honey Bee Grain and Grunge Designer paper taking my inspiration from the white wood grain background in  the current Fusion Card Challenge.

 

 

Next I colored one of the Gnomes from Honey Bee Stamps Gnome Place Like Home using colors from the inspiration image & my Graph'It Markers.  I just got some new Pentel glitter pens and I love how the gold one looks.

 

 

I flipped the Fusion Card Challenge Sketch and used another piece of the wood grain paper from the paper pad inspired  by the dark wooden shelves in the image.

 

 

I die cut the sentiment from the Honey Bee Stamps Gnome Place Like Home Dies using the white paper from the background to die cut the base.  I finished with the tree from the Gnome Place Like Home set paper pieced with some polka dot paper to coordinate with the background and a punched star on the top.

I'm also joining The Holly and the Ivy Challenge where the theme is Anything Christmas.

Vroom Valentine

There's a Valentine Challenge in the Honey Bee Stamps Facebook group.  As I looked through my stamps, I thought it would be fun to feature the fabulous (and un-inked) Honey Bee Car Show Stamps.

I started by created a plaid background with the Honey Bee Watercolor Lines Stencils (affiliate link on sale for $5.00).  I did Purple with the small lines a light blue with the wide lines going the other direction.  It didn't feel quite Plaid enough, so I flipped the small lines and shifted them slightly to ink them in red.

 

 

I stamped the Honey Bee Car Show car in the same purple, stamping multiple times with my MISTI to get a slightly darker hue.  

Next I used Honey Bee Bee Bold Alphabet to die cut my sentiment from black cardstock.

I finished by adding some red Honey Bee Gems to the tail lights on the car and adding some glitter heart sticker I found in the children's craft section at the craft store.

 

I'm also joining the Plaid Challenge at Just Us Girls.

 

 

And at the Make the Cards Challenge they are creating Valentines.

Sock Monkey Birthday

This afternoon I had some Sock Monkey Sticker fun with images from {a vintage girl} & her daughter (discount code GNOMIES2021 gets you 20% off your order - mention my name in the comments).

 

 

With those party hats, they seemed perfect for a birthday card.  I realize it's a big of a stash, but I believe a sock monkey qualifies as a non-human companion, so I'm linking-up at Shopping Our Stash.

 

 

I started with some Honey Bee brown designer paper that reminded me of the stitched sock-monkey texture.  Next, I used the layout from the TGIF Challenges and added lots of cute little Sock Monkeys to the squares (the middle one is one of my Gel Press Prints with Metallic Paints).

 

 

I added some of the flowers from the sticker set (with enamel dot centers) and the uber-cute Sock Monkey Balloons before finishing with a birthday sentiment from Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Flowers.

 

Platypus Happy Birthday

The current Honey Bee Stamps Buzzworthy Challenge is all about Birthday Cards.

 

Only one problem ... no birthday stamps in my Honey Bee Stamps stash. 

I saw that the adorable Penny Platypus had a gift accessory, so that's what I went with.  When I searched for Platypus colors, I saw Perry the Platypus from Phineas & Ferb, and decided I liked the fun cartoon color hue.

 

 

I die cut Penny the Platypus Paper Piecing Honey Cut from teal & gold cardstock and added some inking to the tail.  I stamped & die cut the gift from the Penny the Platypus Stamp Set and added some Spectrum Noir coloring to the bow. 

The black & white paper is from the Honey Bee Stamps Farm Fresh Holiday Papers.

 

I flipped this week's Fab Friday Sketch for my Layout and finished with googly eyes, sticker sentiments, and some enamel dots.

Let It Snow

The current Challenge at Honey Bee Stamps is all about Winter Wonderland.

 

 

Since we had some snow falling today in Iowa, I broke out the adorable Snowman Stamp from Honey Bee Stamps Let it Snow and used the three shades of blue cardstock from the Just Us Girls Challenge (I thought my ink was a bit closer to my dark blue cardstock, but I'm going with it).

 

I used every snowflake in the Honey Bee Let It Snow Set and finished with the die cut sentiment.

 

 

With my four layers of cardstock, I'm also Layering It Up with Simon Says Stamp.

 

I also took inspiration from the colors and that adorable snowman at Hand Stamped Sentiments Inspiration Challenge.

Ho Yo Yo

We're celebrating Something Old and Something New at Jingle Belles for our first prompt of 2021.

For the beginning of our 11th Year, we're asking you to  break out an item (or two) that Santa brought you, or something you acquired in those awesome Black Friday sales...  (Alternately you can use NIMBUS items; aka things you've had for a bit, but not used yet) ...and combine your new goodies with something older from your stash. We can't wait to see what you make.

I couldn't resist breaking out my new Simon Says Stamp Santa The Man Dies.  I combined Santa with new sentiments from Simon Says Stamp The Man, The Myth. 

 

The OLD in my creation is the Gina K. Designs Double Stitched Circle Die for Santa's Face, the Adhesive Felt for the mustache, beard & cap, and my beloved Puffs with Vicks Tissue Box for the reflective lenses in the Santa's Ray Bans. 

The background paper is also new from Honey Bee Farm Fresh Holidays.

Let it Snow

This week's Atlantic Hearts Sketch is another layout that just cried out to use more Washi Tape. 

This time I combined DoodleBug White Christmas Snowflake Washi with this gorgeous Glitter Star Washi from Eyelet Outlet.

 

 

I die cut Honey Bee Layering Snowflakes from Glitter Paper (combined with a larger punched snowflake) and added some Eyelet Outlet Snowflake Bling.

 

 

I'm also joining the Let It Snow Challenge at the TGIF Challenges.

 

 

The sentiment is from Honey Bee Let it Snow.  I'm also linking-up at the Honey Bee Stamps Buzzworthy Challenge which is Anything Goes.

Tiki Happy Soul

We have several things that we collect and display in our home ... and one of them are Tikis.  We're always on the hunt for a fun new one to add to our collection, so when I saw the Luau Stamps from Honey Bee Stamps, I had to have them.

The current Honey Bee Buzzworthy Challenge is to use Patterned Paper, so I decided to combine the two.  Of course after I made that decision, I discovered that all but one of the Honey Bee Sentiment Stamp sets were Christmas, so I had to get a bit creative with the sentiments from Honey Bee Stamps Kindness given the layout I wanted to use.

The Designer Papers are both from Honey Bee Stamps Back to Basics Paper Collection.

 

I also used a new-to-me Color Challenge called Color My Heart Color Dare #421 where the challenge was to use at least three of the colors - I managed to use 4 - Paprika, Sundance, Sage & Mint.

 

I also used the sketch from this week's Freshly Made Sketches.

 

 

Here are a few of my favorite Tikis.  We display them on the edges of the metal ceiling beams in our loft ... love looking-up to see them smiling back at me.