Elegant Floral Ornament Shaker Cards | Honey Bee Stamps

Hello, my dearest friends, and Happy Monday!

Guess what!? I got my Christmas decorations up this past weekend. What do you all think? Too soon? For me, it's actually late, lol. Usually November 1st. I am ready but this year, maybe because the snow came later I hadn't been itching to do it. I am happy I pushed myself to do it because now I am definitely in the Christmas mood. Alright, enough about decorations, let's talk about today's cards.

Both of my cards feature the beautiful Elegant Floral Frames. This set also has coordinating dies that give you the option to cut the inside of the ornament like I have to add a shaker element. I chose to heat emboss the stamps and then do some loose water coloring, but there is also an option to color these in using the coordinating Elegant Floral Stencils.

CARD RECIPE

• Stamp images using the new Bee Creative Gold Metallic Ink Pad and heat set with gold embossing powder on Bristol paper.
• Watercolor the images using a medium of choice. I used Karin BrushMarker Pro pens. 
• Die cut using coordinating Elegant Floral Frames Dies.
• Die cut 3 more layers for stacking and gluing together to create the space for the shaker element. You could use thin foam tape strips too if you like. I find this way easier.
• Die cut a piece of acetate to create the window for the shaker by just cutting the outline of the ornament and glue it to the back of the watercolored layer followed by the stacking layers.
• On a die-cut Scalloped A2 Frame create a little pile using your shaker bits and then glue the ornament to the panel.
• Use foam dots to pop the panel onto the card's front layer which was done by applying a layer of the Bee Creative Gold Metallic Ink over the raised areas of the Winter Gems Coverplate and dry embossing the impression into the panel with the die cut machine. The results are subtle but add so much detail.

This next card was done the exact same way only this time obviously using the other ornament and the Plaid Hot Foil Plate was used for dry embossing rather than foiling.

Just to save time I stamped the same sentiment from the Home for the Holidays using the Bee Creative Gold Metallic Ink Pad that I heat set with gold embossing powder and then die cut using the Home for the Holidays Dies.

On the inside, I used another sentiment from the Home for the Holidays set, stamped in using Bee Creative Intense Black Ink. 

I hope you got some inspiration from these Elegant Floral Ornament Shaker Cards. 

Thank you for stopping by and until next time... Happy Crafting!

Ilda 🎅

SUPPLIES

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Winter Gems Coverplate Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	Home for the Holidays Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	Home for the Holidays Dies Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	Bee Creative Acetate Sheets Shop at: HBS
BOKEH LIGHTS Confetti Shop at: HBS	Bee Creative Glue Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	Bee Creative Gold Metallic Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	Bee Creative Intense Black Ink Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS
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National Tea Day Blog Hop | Studio Katia

Happy National Tea Day for all of you that love tea!

Today Studio Katia has teamed up with the Coffee Loving Cardmakers to celebrate National Tea Day with a fun Blog Hop. Make sure you leave comments along the Hop to qualify for a $50 CAD Gift Certificate to the Studio Katia Store.

For my card today, I wanted to create an inviting table scene for someone to enjoy a cup of tea. 

I began this card by stamping out a few of the images from the Sweet Latte set onto Bristol paper and then colored them in using Zig markers. I did a little bit of masking to add the teaspoon to the side of the teacup and fussy cut that out, and then used the coordinating dies to cut out the rest of the images.

Next, I did some dry embossing to add texture to my cardstock using the Mandala Stencil and running it through the Sizzix die cutting machine with an embossing mat. I then took the embossed piece and die cut the piece using the Dotted Pattern Set 3 dies to create a window for my scene.

To the background of what is the card base, I blended out a very subtle glow using Squeezed Lemon Distress Oxide ink and then began building the scene. The first piece I glued down was the patterned paper for a tablecloth and then added all the pieces to the table using foam tape to pop them up. I also stamped the hearts and steam to the background, colored those in and added some glossy accents. Lastly, I added the embossed frame using foam tape to create a window.

For the sentiment, I stamped out the many sweet thanks onto the dotted rectangle from the Dotted Patterns Set 2 and trimmed the edges to slide behind the tea kettle.

Hope you found some warmth and comfort in my card today, have a wonderful weekend and for those of you celebrating National Tea Day with us... 

Cheers to you!

Kristina's Blog is your next stop on the hop. To start at the beginning of the go to the Studio Katia Blog.

Thank you for stopping by 😊

Until next time... Happy Hopping 👋

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