Rainbow Inspired Birthday Cards | Crafty Meraki

Hello friends and Happy Thursday!

Today I have a couple of colorful rainbow inspired cards to share with you as I recently took part in Crafty Meraki's 2nd Birthday Hop, and what better way to celebrate than with a couple of birthday cards🎉🥳 If you want to join in on the fun and participate in the IG Hop for a chance at winning $100 GC to their shop, click 👉 HERE. Winners will be announced on June 10th.

CARD RECIPE

For this frameless/infinity/edge to edge card, lol... whatever you want to call it 😂 I began with ink blending the CRAFTY MERAKI BIRTHDAY BALLOONS STENCIL using Atelier Inks. Once I had blended the first layer I repositioned the stencil and then blended the balloons out again to create the overlapping effect.

I then used a shaker pocket to create the frameless shaker. I used Assorted Moonshine Sequins to fill the shaker. Then once sealed I glued it onto an A2 card base.

I then stamped out the cute images from the CRAFTY MERAKI MAGICAL DAY STAMP SET out and colored them in with Copics and then added white gel pen details and sparkle glitter to some areas. 

For the sentiments, I just stamped them out in white ink and heat embossed them using white emb. pwd.

For my second card, I used the CRAFTY MERAKI LOVE POTION STAMP SET. I stamped it out onto watercolor paper using Fadeout Ink and then colored the beautiful image using Zig Real Color Brush Markers.

Once the coloring had dried, I added white gel pen highlights and prepped the paper for heat embossing using an anti-static tool.

I then stamped the sentiment using watermark ink and heat set it using gold emb. pwd. I used the same products to add a gold edging around the panel.

To finish this beauty, I added a few Gold Pearls.

Here is another close-up of this beauty!

I hope both of these birthday cards inspired you. Thank you for stopping by and until next time... Happy Crafting!

Ilda 💗💛💚💙💜

Vintage Holiday Release Day 2 Sneak Peeks | Honey Bee Stamps

Hello and welcome back to Day 2 of the Vintage Holiday Release for Honey Bee Stamps.

My card today features the gorgeous new Lovely Layers: Anemone Dies. This is a larger card (A7), simply because I wanted to use all of these flowers together. They would have fit onto an A2 card base but it would have been too small for the sentiment I wanted to use.

Make sure you stop by the Honey Bee Stamps Blog for more inspiration from the Design Team featuring more day 2 product reveals! Please note that ★ links will not be active until the Release goes live on October 14th, 2021 @9pm CST.

CARD RECIPE

Here is a breakdown of what I used to make this pretty wintery card.

Stamps: 

• Bitty Buzzwords: Seasons

Dies:

• ★Lovely Layers: Anemones Dies

• Bitty Buzzwords: Seasons Dies

• Scallop A7 Card Frames

• Sentiment Banner Dies

Paper: 

• Neenah Solar White 110lbs

• Green and Black Heavyweight Cardstock

Stencil:

• ★Crystal Kaleidoscope Stencil

Paste:

• Pure Platinum Embellishment Mousse

Ink:

• Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide Ink

• Intense Black Ink 

• Juicy Ink

Emb. Powder:

• Black As Night Emb Pwd.

Die Cut Machine:

• Gemini Junior SSS | SBC

Adhesives:

• Bee Creative Glue

Embellishments:

• Bubble Bath Mini Domes 
• Sparkle Glitter
• Exotic Onyx Pearls

Other Tools:

• Micron Pens
• Media Spatulas
• Detail Blender Brushes
• Embellishment Wand

Once my Anemone flowers were all die-cut and assembled, I then just had to figure out the background design. I  used the ★Crystal Kaleidoscope Stencil to apply this silver paste to the Scallop A7 Card Frame layer. 

To make these centers pop, I used foam tape in between each layer and added glue to the outside edge of the center layers which were then dipped in sparkle glitter. Before attaching the centers to the flowers, I drew some black lines on the base of the petals. To the end of the lines, I added the cutest little domes to make it look like Stamen. 

Here's a close-up. Check out the dimension. Also, it is difficult to see from the photos but I did blend Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide Ink to the white centers of the flowers to give some extra depth and dimension.

I hope you were inspired by this Hello Winter Anenomes Card. If you have been following me you will know that I love all the Lovely Layer Flowers from Honey Bee and this Anemone did not disappoint. 

Thank you for stopping by and I will see you back here tomorrow for day 3 sneak peeks... Happy Crafting!

Ilda 💗

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Stitched Card Front, Border & Flower Inspiration Projects | Spellbinders DOML - MAY21

Hello friends and hope you are having a wonderful Tuesday! Today's projects feature the Large Die of the Month Kit as well as the Clear Stamp of the Month Club Kit for May 2021.

CARD RECIPE

• Die-cut floral frame from the Large Die of the Month using your Die Cutting Machine.
• Stich using floss or twine. (I would recommend floss as the twine I used got a bit bulky in some spots.)

• On the card base, stamp out the sentiment of your choice from the Clear Stamp of the Month Club.  
• Glue finished stitched piece to the card base.
• Embellish with gems and crystals.

For my next project, I decided to create a rainbow-inspired boolmark using the floral strip from the Large Die of the Month.

To create the bookmark.

•  Stitch each flower using a different color in rainbow order.
• Die-cut another piece and glue it to the back of the stitched area.
• Glue the rainbow floral strip to a bookmark cut to the desired size.
• Punch a hole on the top of the bookmark. 
• Loop through and secure rainbow colors of twine. 
• Embellish flower centers with jewels.

If you are interested in signing up for any of the Kits of the Month click HERE for all the details. Also, if you join Now you can Save 10% Off the purchase of the Glimmer Hot Foil System! *You may add the system at the time of subscription. For more information on the monthly club, kits click HERE.

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

SUPPLIES

Large Die of the Month Shop at: SB	Stamp of the Month Club Shop at: SB	PLATINUM 6 DIE CUTTING PLATFORM Shop at: SSS | SB | SB	MINI MISTI Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS
Oxide Ink Pad WILTED VIOLET Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	CRYSTAL CLEAR Emb Pwd Shop at: SSS | IO3	BEE CREATIVE GLUE Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	EMBELLISHMENT WAND Shop at: SSS | SK

To make supplies easy for you to find, I have linked them above. If something is no longer available I will link to a similar product. Affiliate links may be used depending on the product linked. Please help support my blog by using these links while shopping at no additional cost to you. For more information about the affiliates I use, please visit my disclaimer here. Thanks so much for all your support!

Honey Bee Stamps 5th Anniversary Release Day 1 Blog Hop

Hello and happy weekend friends!

Welcome to Day 1 of the Honey Bee Stamps 5th Anniversary Release Day 1 Blog Hop. I'm am thrilled to be a part of this amazing team and so happy you are joining us today! If you have already begun the Blog hop you will have arrived here from my friend Galina's Blog. I will fill you in on where to go next at the end of the post.

CARD DETAILS

For my card today, I have chosen to do a no-line floral watercolored card using the new FARM FRESH FLOWERS stamp set. If you follow me on Instagram you may have seen a peek of this coloring last week in my stories.

To begin I stamped out the images using fadeout ink and then colored them in using Arteza Brush pens on Bristol Paper.

Next, I die cut my pieces with the FARM FRESH FLOWERS DIES and glued them together then foam mounted it onto the Buffalo Plaid Background I had created for the card front using both the BUFFALO PLAID stamp and the BUFFALO PLAID COVERPLATE.

To the inside, I just added a simple sentiment from the FARM FRESH FLOWERS set.

GIVEAWAY
Make sure to leave a comment below and along each BLOG HOP stop to qualify for the giveaway. Honey Bee Stamps will be giving away a $25 Gift Card for each day of the hop. Good Luck!

BLOG HOP
Your next stop on the hop is to my very talented friend Brenda's Blog. If you'd like to start at the beginning click → HERE

SHOP
The New 5th Anniversary Release →HERE 

I hope you were inspired by this no-line floral watercolored card. I have linked more posts below, featuring inspiration from this release. Thank you for stopping by and until next time... Happy Hopping!

SUPPLIES

FARM FRESH FLOWERS Shop at: HBS	FARM FRESH FLOWERS DIES Shop at: HBS	BUFFALO PLAID Shop at: HBS	BUFFALO PLAID COVER PLATE Shop at: HBS	MISTI TOOL - ORIGINAL SIZE Shop at: SSS | AMZ | SB | HBS
BRISTOL PAPER Shop at: SSS | AMZ	ARTEZA BRUSH PENS Shop at: AMZ	SMALL TIP WATER BRUSH PEN Shop at: SSS | IO3	FADEOUT NO LINE INK Shop at: SSS | IO3	BLACKOUT INK Shop at: SSS | IO3
ATELIER BEE STING YELLOW Shop at: SSS | IO3	GEMINI JR. DIE CUTTER Shop at: SSS | AMZ | SB	STUDIO KATIA GLUE Shop at: SSS | SK	FOAM TAPE - WHITE Shop at: SSS | SK

To make supplies easy for you to find, I have linked them above. If something is no longer available I will link to a similar product. Affiliate links may be used depending on the product linked. Please help support my blog by using these links while shopping at no additional cost to you. For more information about the affiliates I use, please visit my disclaimer here. Thanks so much for all your support

Want to see more inspiration from this release?! Click the links below.

Day 1 Inspiration↓

Day 2 Inspiration↓

Day 3 Inspiration↓

Day 4 Inspiration↓

Day 5 Inspiration↓