Golden Honey Bee Tribute

One of the stamp sets I was attracted to right off the bat when I opened the new Jan. - Jun. Mini Catalogue, was the *Honey Bee stamp set. The reason it caught my eye, besides how attractive it is, was because my middle daughter, Kristen, is a beekeeper and makes all sorts of products from both the honey and the beeswax from her hives. In fact, she's kind of obsessed with bees and I know she'll love any card I can make here with this stamp set and it's coordinating dies, the *Detailed Bee Dies, as well as the coordinating *Golden Honey Specialty Designer Series Paper that you can get as a free reward from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure. In fact, once Jan. 3 rolls around, if you were to purchase the *Honey Bee Bundle plus some Snail Adhesive Refill, you would have enough to earn the beautiful *Golden Honey Specialty DSP for free for Sale-A-Bration!
*These products are from the upcoming 2020 Stampin' Up! Jan. - Jun. Mini Catalogue and Sale-A-Bration Brochure and won't be available for customer purchase until Jan. 3/20.

 These are some of the products Kristen makes with her beeswax and honey.

 Lately, she's been doing some amazing digital art work using her IPad and Apple Pen.

Let's take a closer look at the card and see how I made it:

• On a Basic Black card base I added a piece of the *Golden Honey Specialty Designer Series Paper, which also has a Basic Black base, with a metallic gold honeycomb pattern.
• On top of that I added an embossed oval, created with the Heirlooms Frames Dies and 3D Embossing Folders.
• I stamped the beehive in Versamark ink on some Whisper White cardstock and embossed the image with Gold Stampin' Emboss powder along with the sentiment arch, "Wishing You Sunshine and Happiness". I die cut the hive with the coordinating die from the *Detailed Bee Dies and I used two of the circles from the Layering Circle Dies, nested, to die cut the sentiment.
• I embossed one large and 2 small bees as well as two flowers on a Gold Foil Sheet, with Black Stampin' Emboss Powder and die cut them with the coordinating *Detailed Bee Dies. I also used the honeycomb die to die cut a bit of a honeycomb from Gold Foil backed with a Multipurpose Adhesive Sheet, giving it a sticker-like quality so it can be just peeled and stuck on the project you want it on.
• The flowers and sentiment were adhered with glue, while the hive and bees are popped up with dimensionals.

*These products are from the upcoming 2020 Stampin' Up! Jan. - Jun. Mini Catalogue and Sale-A-Bration Brochure and won't be available for customer purchase until Jan. 3/20.

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today.   

Product List

*Honey Bee Cling Stamp Set [151527] $27.00	*Honey Bee Bundle [153792] $55.75	*Golden Honey Specialty Designer Series Paper [152311] $0.00	Gold Foil Sheets [132622] $6.75	Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [121045] $12.00
Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100730] $13.25	Versamark Pad [102283] $13.00	Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder [109129] $8.25	Black Stampin' Emboss Powder [146956] $6.75	Embossing Buddy [103083] $8.25
Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053] $41.00	Layering Circles Dies [151770] $48.00	Heirloom Frames Dies And 3D Embossing Folder [152325] $39.00	*Detailed Bee Dies [151526] $35.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $5.50
**Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets [144106] $13.50	Snail Adhesive [104332] $9.50

*These products are from the upcoming 2020 Stampin' Up! Jan. - Jun. Mini Catalogue and Sale-A-Bration Brochure and won't be available for customer purchase until Jan. 3/20.

**These products are retired and no long available from Stampin' Up!