Hello friends!
If you are a fan of the Honey Bee Animal Stamps I think you are going to love this week's posts as the Honey Bee Stamps Design Team will be spotlighting all their critters.
CARD IDEA
The idea behind my card was to create a birthday party scene where things may have gotten a bit carried away and Mae the Mouse captured a "Selfie" of the best birthday party EVER!
To make it possible to use all these animals I had to make it a slimline card. I planned this card out by gathering all my animal stamps and playing around with their arrangement on the paper until I was happy with their placement. I then figured out which ones I was going to stamp out first because those were the ones I would also have to create masks for. Can you figure out which ones I stamped first?
CARD DETAILS
I started off with a piece of watercolor paper that measured 4.5x 8.5 inches. I then stamped out Pinky the Pig and Penny the Platypus. I then masked them off and stamped out the rest of the animals on the back of the card beginning with Lily the Lamb in the center and then the No Probllama Llama followed by the Feelin Fox on the end. The other Feelin Foxy Fox was stamped onto another piece of watercolored paper as well as the Blah Bunny and Mae the Mouse. On a few other pieces of paper, I also stamped out the party hats and accessories for the party animals.
Once all the images were stamped out I then colored everything in. I used Zig Clean Color brushes and a paintbrush to blend the color out. Once the first layers were done and dry I did go back to add all the detail brush strokes with the Zig markers. Here's a closer look at the first half of the card.
All the images that weren't stamped onto the background were all fussy cut and inked around the edges using a black marker. I could have used the coordinating dies for each animal but I think it would have taken away a little from the scene as these images are fairly large.
I used foam tape to pop up the animals in the foreground, giving the scene some depth and dimension.
As you can see here I only used Mae the Mouse's head as I wanted her to appear to be the one taking the "selfie" photo. Also, proportion wise a mouse is generally smaller than all these other animals and by placing her upfront you are tricked into thinking she much closer than the rest. Speaking of Mae, I gave her some black twine whiskers as I ended up cutting them off during the fussy cutting process.
All Party Animals have party hats so of course, the Llama had the sombrero and everyone else had a colorful party hat. Since I had cut these images out by hand I just cut off the pompom to make cutting easier and added a crystal jewel instead as a way to embellish them. I also used a white gel pen to add highlights to their cheeks and glossy accents to their noses and eyes.
To create the sentiment banner I used 3 stamps sets. Best from Cheerful Sentiments, the Birthday comes from the Ham It Up set and the Ever is actually from the everything stamp that comes from the Friends Like You set that I just masked to stamp only Ever. And for the inside of the card, I used the Happy Birthday from the Foxy Sentiments Stamp set and the Friend from the Friendship set.
And that pretty much sums up how this card was made, linked below are the supplies I used.
To make supplies easy to find, I have linked them below. If something I used is no longer available I will link to a similar product.
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 MAE THE MOUSE Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS |
 LILY THE LAMB Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS |
 No Probllama Shop at: SSS | HBS |
 Honey Bee BLAH BUNNY Stamp Set Shop at: SSS | HBS |
 Feelin' Foxy Stamp Set Shop at: SSS | HBS |
 Friends Like You Shop at: SSS | HBS |
 FRIENDSHIP Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS |
 Foxy Sentiments Stamp Set Shop at: SSS | HBS |
 Cheerful Sentiments Stamp Set Shop at: SSS | HBS |
 Pinky The Pig Shop at: SSS | HBS |
 Ham It Up Shop at: SSS | HBS |
 Penny The Platypus Stamp Set Shop at: SSS | HBS |
 Unicorn Rhinestones Shop at: HBS |
 Strathmore 400 Series Watercolor Pad Shop at: AMZ |
 Tim Holtz Stamp Platform Shop at: SSS | AMZ |
 Tsukineko VersaFine ONYX BLACK Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | AMZ | SB |
 Zig CLEAN COLOR 60+ 80 SET Shop at: SSS | AMZ |
 Faber-Castell BLACK SOFT BRUSH PITT SB Shop at: SSS | AMZ |
 Black Heavyweight Cardstock 110bs Shop at: AMZ |
 UNICORN White Pigment Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | AMZ |
 Arctic White Ultra Powder Shop at: SSS | IO3 |
 STUDIO KATIA GLUE Shop at: SSS | SK |
 Glossy Accents Shop at: SSS | AMZ | SB |
 Sakura 6 WHITE Gelly Roll Set Shop at: SSS | AMZ |
 Double-Sided Foam Tape Shop at: SSS | AMZ |
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Hope this Best Birthday Ever Selfie Card inspired you today. Thank you for stopping by 😊
Until next time... Happy Crafting 👋
