Garden Apron Shaped Birthday Card | SCT Magazine

Hello, my crafty friends!

Recently my card was featured in the Scrapbook and Cards Today Magazine. 

If you didn't get a copy you can still see the Summer Issue online for free, just click HERE or the link above. Here is my card on pg. 34. How cool is that!

This birthday card is perfect for the gardener in your life, change up the colors if the gardener is a male to make it more masculine. It also makes a great card for mom or GrandMa. Change up what is in the pockets for a baker or a chef, the possibilities are endless! Just check out the Honey Bee Blog for more inspiration featuring the Apron Dies. Let's take a look at all the details as I have more pictures to show you that you didn't get to see in the magazine.

CARD RECIPE

Here are all the ingredients for this card recipe broken down into their parts.

Patterned Paper: Funfetti Birthday Paper Pad 

Patterned Envelopes: Funfetti Birthday A2 Envelopes

Stamps & Dies:

• Hello and Friend - Bitty Buzzwords Stamps and Coordinating Honey Cuts
• Bee - Bee Hive Stamps and Coordinating Honey Cuts
• Hugs - Mae the Mouse Stamp Set
• Happy Bee Day - BEE-You-Ful Sentiments (inside card)
• Apron - Apron A2 Card Honey Cuts
• Garden Tools - Apron Garden Tools Add-on Honey Cuts

Ink: Bee Creative Intense Black Ink 

Stickers: Funfetti Birthday Gem Stickers 

Adhesive: Bee Creative Precision Tip Glue 

Thin 3D Foam Squares (Scrapbook Adhesives)

How cute are all the little garden tools in this pocket. Love all the dimension!

To the inside of the card, I added a pocket for a gift card on the backside of the front panel and stamped the birthday sentiment on the right, leaving enough space for a handwritten message.

I hope you love this card as much as I do and are inspired by it. Thank you  Scrapbook and Cards Today Magazine for including this in your Summer edition.

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

Ilda👋

SUPPLIES

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BEE HIVE DIES Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	MAE THE MOUSE Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	BEE-YOU-TIFUL SENTIMENTS Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	FUNFETTI BIRTHDAY GEM STICKERS Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	FUNFETTI BIRTHDAY PAPER PAD Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS
FUNFETTI BIRTHDAY A2 ENVELOPES Shop at: HBS	BEE CREATIVE GLUE Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	Intense Black Ink Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	NEENAH SOLAR WHITE 110 Shop at: SSS | AMZ | HBS	SILVER SERVICE Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS | TS US | TS UK
New Mini Misti Shop at: SSS | SB	GEMINI JR. DIE CUTTER Shop at: SSS | AMZ | SB	FOAM SQUARES Shop at: SSS | HBS

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Making Multiples - 1 Design 5 Holiday Cards | Honey Bee Stamps

Hello friends and Happy Monday!

This week the Honey Bee Stamps Design Team is showcasing Clean & Simple Christmas Cards and simple ways to mass-produce them for the Holidays. CAS is not my forte, but I think these came out beautifully.

CARD DETAILS

To start, I trimmed card fronts using patterned paper to 4.25 x 5.5 inches, from the LOG CABIN Paper Pad. I then glued them onto the front of the A2 sized card bases.

Now, let me show you my process in pictures so you can see how easily these cards were made. For the sake of variety, I changed the sentiments, but you could totally keep the same sentiment to simplify things even further and use the same paper too. Refer to the number in the picture below for directions.

1. Load the card into the stamping tool and stamp out the sentiment directly onto the patterned paper.
2. Line up the coordinating die with the stamped sentiment.
3. Die-cut the sentiment from the top panel of the card front and place it back into the stamping tool.
4. Stamp the sentiment out again. This time it will stamp directly onto the inside of the card. 

SO simple and easy right!?! You can leave them as is now, or take these a step further like I did.

To this card, I added some crystal drops, twine, and a button. This is a great way to use up all those embellishments I know you all have been hoarding in your craft room like me 😝

This next card, I added some more crystal drops, twine, and another button. When was the last time you added a button to your card?!

To this pink beauty, I added some of the CRYSTAL PRISM GEM STICKERS that I glued on top of a few BLIZZARD CONFETTI and the snowflakes from LOG CABIN Sequins. I also used washi tape, ribbon and again a button!

To this winter snowflake beauty, I added a few CRYSTAL PRISM GEM STICKERS, twine and you guessed it, another button!

This last card, I even did a little gold embossing. The only reason I did that was because the coordinating die did not cut out the leaves, and black ink on black paper is barely visible. Since the ink I used was slow drying I added a little embossing powder to the wet ink to heat set it and make it pop off the black paper. To the bottom of the card, I just added some more washi tape and gold gems to the center of the snowflakes.

If you are looking for easy ways to mass-produce your holiday cards I hope you try out this technique. Hopefully, I have inspired you to use up your patterned papers and embellishments that I know you all have been holding on to!

Thank you for stopping by, have a great week 😊

Until next time... Happy Crafting 👋

SUPPLIES

LOG CABIN Paper Pad Shop at: SSS | HBS	SEASON TO SPARKLE Shop at: SSS | HBS	SEASON TO SPARKLE Honey Cuts Shop at: SSS | HBS	CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS Shop at: SSS | SBC | HBS	CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS Honey Cuts Shop at: SSS | HBS
WHITE GEM STICKERS Shop at: SSS | HBS	RAW HONEY GEM STICKERS Shop at: SSS | SBC | HBS	CRYSTAL PRISM GEM STICKERS Shop at: SSS | HBS	BLIZZARD CONFETTI MIX Shop at: HBS	LOG CABIN Sequins Shop at: HBS
NEENAH SOLAR WHITE 110 Shop at: SSS | AMZ | HBS	Gemini Jr Die Cutting/Embossing Machine Shop at: SSS | AMZ | SBC	VersaFine ONYX BLACK Ink Shop at: SSS | AMZ | SBC | HBS	MINI MISTI Shop at: SSS | AMZ | SBC | SK	Gold Rush Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS | IO3
Scor-Tape 0.25 Inch Shop at: SSS | AMZ | HBS	White Gloss Nuvo Crystal Drops Shop at: SSS | AMZ	Shimmering Rose Crystal Drops Shop at: SSS | HBS	STUDIO KATIA GLUE 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!