Spring Nest Mother's Day Card | Honey Bee Stamps

Hello friends! 

With Mother's Day quickly approaching, there's no better way to show your love and appreciation for your mom than with a handmade card. Honey Bee Stamps offers a wonderful selection of Spring dies and paper pads to help you create a heartfelt card for your mom this year.

For this particular card, I decided to leave off a sentiment on the front, creating a bit of mystery until the inside is read. It's a fun and unique way to make a card, and I may have to try it more often!

CARD RECIPE

To create your Mother's Day card, start by die-cutting the Lovely Layers: Nest Dies and Spring Birds Dies in your favorite colors of cardstock. Layer the different pieces to create a dimensional scene on your card. For some interest, I added white gel pen details and glossy accents on the bird's eye and beak. I also used Bee Shimmery Liquid on the eggs for sparkle. Then set the glued scene aside to work on the card base. 

Use the largest frame of Spring Vine Layering Frames to die-cut the card base using the partial die-cut method. Place the plate edge just before the end of the die, lining it up to the fold of the card base. This will create see-through corners on your card. Then die-cut another layer and glue it onto the card front to finish the scalloped edge at the fold.

Using a few more of the frames from the Spring Vine Layering Frames, die-cut the background layers for the card front. The pattern piece comes from the Simply Spring Paper Pad that I mounted using foam dots. For a coordinating envelope, I used the remainder of the pattern piece of paper to line the envelope, this time using the reverse side. (See the last image) Also not pictured here, I created a coordinating wax seal to complete the envelope.

Glue the rest of the die-cut elements onto the card front. For an added touch of interest, I used a thin ribbon and looped through the piercings of the center frame.

On the inside, I stamped the Mother's Day sentiment from This One's For The Girls using Bee Creative Intense Black Ink.

Finally, I added some embellishments stickers to the card's front corners to add sparkle and texture. I love how this card turned out and your mom will love hers too! I'm sure she will appreciate all the time and effort you put into creating a beautiful and heartfelt Mother's Day card just for her.

Thank you for taking the time to read about my card-making process. I hope you found it helpful and inspiring for your own projects. Happy Crafting!

Ilda 🐦🥚

SUPPLIES

Lovely Layers: Nest Dies Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	Lovely Layers: Spring Birds Dies Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	Spring Vine Layering Frames Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	This One's For The Girls Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS
Simply Spring Paper Pad Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	Simply Spring - Wax Products Bundle Shop at: HBS	Bee Creative 1" Wax Seal Stickers Shop at: HBS	Bee Creative Bitty Buzz Cutter Shop at: HBS
Detail Blender Brushes Shop at: SSS | HBS	Bee Creative Intense Black Ink Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	Stamping Pressure Tool Shop at: HBS	White Foam Dots With Tab - 1/2" x 1/8" Shop at: HBS
Bee Shimmery Liquid Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	Die Release Tool Shop at: SSS | HBS	Happy Hearts Gem Stickers Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	Honey Bee Reverse Tweezers Shop at: SSS | HBS
Bee Creative Glue Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	Platinum 6 Die Cutting Platform Shop at: SSS | SB | SB	New Mini Misti Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	Neenah Solar White 110lbs Shop at: SSS | AMZ | HBS
Atelier Ink Bee Sting Yellow Shop at: SSS | IO3	Copic Sketch Markers Shop at: SSS | AMZ	White Gelly Roller Pen Shop at: SSS | AMZ | SB | HBS	Glossy Accents Shop at: SSS | AMZ | SB | HBS

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Spring Floral Fox Shadow Pop-Up Frame Card | Honey Bee Stamps

Hello friends, 

It's been a little while since my last post. To be honest I needed a little crafting break, have been feeling a bit burnt out recently and my mojo was gone. It took me forever to decide what I was going to make to share today 😕 But thankfully once I started looking at the products from the Happy Hearts release, ideas started flowing, pheww😅 So let me tell you how this came together. And for those of you who like visuals, I will post a process Reel on my IG page.

CARD RECIPE

• Stamp out the Friendship Frame Stamp using Bee Creative Silver Metallic Ink Pad, then heat set it with silver emb. powder.
• Add a light layer of blended rainbow colors to the flowers (I used 3 atelier inks, see below in the supply list).
• Use the Friendship Frame Stencils to build the colors and add dimension to the flowers. Use the same colors as the base color to keep on building the intensity or blend the colors to create new variants.
• Die cut the floral frame using the Friendship Frame Dies.

• Die cut and piece together the fox from the Heart Hugs Dies.
• For the foxes bouquet, I stamped out the flowers from the Just for you Stamps using the same inks and embossing powder as I had done previously, and then just colored them in with Copic markers.
• I then used the Just for you coordinating dies and glued them to the fox.
• Now it was time to glue the fox to the floral frame.

• Next, I created 2 pop-up springs that I scored from a 2-inch piece of pattern paper from the Gingham Happy Hearts Paper Pad at every 1/2"inch until it folded into an "M"
• I then added double-sided tape on one side of the spring and glued it to the back of the floral frame. Next, I glued the other side of the spring to a panel I had glued onto the card base with the same paper.
• For the sentiment, that comes from the Just for you Stamps, I stamped it in Bee Creative Brilliant White Ink Pad and heat set it with white emb. pwd. I then used the Just for you Dies to cut it out and glued it to the front of the pop-up panel.
• At this point, I thought I was done, but then I thought it needed a little extra to fill in the space and that is when I added the cute little bees from the Bee Hive.

• To add extra dimension and make the bees look like they were hovering above the frame I cut thin strips of acetate and on one end I created a "Z" fold. 
• I then glued the bees to the top of the Z fold and then attached the otherend of the acetate to the inside of the floral frame (see image above and below).
• To finish this card off, I added Happy Hearts Gem Stickers to the center of the flowers and added white gel pen highlights. (This last step might have been easier to do if I had thought about it before I assembled the pop-up frame).

• As you can see despite all the dimension, the card still fits nicely flat inside the envelope.

I need to give credit to Jennifer Mcguire and Yasmin Diaz as they were the ones who introduced me to this pop-up technique. So fun!

I hope you were inspired by this Spring Floral Fox Shadow Pop-Up Frame Card. I am sure I will be making many more of these😁

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

Ilda 🦊🐝

SUPPLIES

Friendship Frame Stamp Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	Friendship Frame Dies Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	Friendship Frame Stencils Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	Heart Hugs Dies Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS
Just for you Stamps Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	Just for you Dies Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	Bee Hive Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	Bee Hive Dies Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS
Gingham Happy Hearts Paper Pad Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	Background Blender Brushes Shop at: SSS | HBS	Detail Blender Brushes Shop at: SSS | HBS	Bee Creative Silver Metallic Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS
Bee Creative Brilliant White Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	Bee Creative Intense Black Ink Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	Bee Creative Acetate Sheets Shop at: HBS	Bee Creative Bitty Buzz Cutter Shop at: HBS
Stamping Pressure Tool Shop at: HBS	Tear Tape XL Roll | 1/4" Shop at: HBS	Bee Creative Glue Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	Honey Bee Reverse Tweezers Shop at: SSS | HBS
Die Release Tool Shop at: SSS | HBS	Happy Hearts Gem Stickers Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	Neenah Solar White 110lbs Shop at: SSS | AMZ | HBS	New Mini Misti Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS
Platinum 6 Die Cutting Platform Shop at: SSS | SB | SB	Atelier Ink Sweet Petunia Shop at: SSS | IO3	Atelier Ink Bee Sting Yellow Shop at: SSS | IO3	Atelier Ink Peacock Blue Shop at: SSS | IO3
Magic Powder Bag Shop at: SSS	CHROME EMB PWD Shop at: SSS | IO3	Arctic White Emb.Pwd. Shop at: SSS | IO3	Copic Sketch Markers Shop at: SSS | AMZ
White Gelly Roller Pen Shop at: SSS | AMZ | SB | HBS

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!

Watch how this card came together👇

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