Music From the Heart to Ease Your Worries

I have a family that loves music. I've always loved to sing around the house as I work. As I cut paper for my classes, I have my tunes playing and I sing along (if I'm not counting supplies), my daughters play guitar and sing, my youngest is involved in musical theatre and will be playing the role of Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors in the fall if this lock down comes to an end before then. (Fingers crossed!) My son-in-law is a jazz musician and another son-in-law loves to sing and play guitar. SOOO... all this to say.. the Music From the Heart stamp set was one that I could really use for my family. But it was one of the last ones I picked up from the Mini Catalogue.

I hope you're doing okay now that the lockdown has been just over a month, but I know that the novelty is starting to wear thin for many and the hardship is really beginning to press in! Small businesses are closing for good, parents are slowly going out of their minds trying to look after kids, teach them, substitute for extra curricular activities kids are missing, all the while trying to work from home and do all the regular chores!

My card this Friday suggests that sometimes you just need to "forget your Trebles" and sing your heart out!

• I was going for a slightly avant-garde asymmetrical look to compliment the design of the images in the Music From the Heart stamp set here. The cutaway border is angled, the treble clef is set leaning a little to the left, and the music notes dance on the page. 
• I used a palette of Basic Black, Whisper White and Real Red to highlight piano keys and hearts, to express love and music.
• I used a small strip of striped paper from the Golden Honey DSP. I'm just using up some spare Sale-A-Bration reward DSP that I had left over, but you can't buy it now.
• I coloured in the hearts on the images using the Dark Real Red Stampin' Blends Marker.
• The hardest part was creating the cutaway border with the keyboard stamp. That takes some practice to get right.

Bundles are Back in Stock!!

Several popular bundles have been out of stock and unorderable for weeks now, due to the corona virus, but GREAT NEWS! They are back in stock and you can order them now! But best do it soon, because they are well-loved and you don't want to miss out again! I don't know if there'll be another restock before the end of the catalogue. Shop at my Online Store or message me if you want to get in on it!

Painted Poppies Bundle [153827] $71.00	Peaceful Moments Bundle (English) [153824] $71.00
Grace's Garden Bundle (English) [153789] $63.75	Honey Bee Bundle [153792] $55.75
Bonanza Buddies Bundle [153815] $51.25

 If you live in Canada, and don't have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, I'd love to be yours. I can help you with ideas, get you catalogues and provide you with Stampin' Up products. You can leave a message in the comments or contact me using any of the methods listed in the right side bar at the top of the page. You can shop with me from anywhere in Canada by clicking on the SHOP NOW button in the top menu or clicking on any of products below from my Online Store.

Product List

Music From The Heart Photopolymer Stamp Set [151674] $22.00	Golden Honey Specialty Designer Series Paper [152311] $0.00	Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [121045] $12.00	Real Red 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [102482] $12.00	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100730] $13.25
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $8.25	Real Red Dark Stampin' Blends [147934] $6.00	Black Rhinestone Jewels [144639] $6.50	Paper Snips [103579] $13.50	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $5.50

Honey Bee Bundle for As You See It Challenges

I am almost all finished my preparations for my event on Saturday, my One Day Craft Crop to Aid Refugees. I had to work to squeeze in my As You See It Challenge card for the new challenge this morning. It's a Fill in the Blank Challenge, which means you have to fill in the blank to finish a sentence, and then make your card based on how you filled in the blank. Here's the Challenge Banner, with the idea concocted by Design Team Member, Joanne James!

I decided to fill in the blanks with the words, My favourite type of card to send is birthday cards for my grandkids.

The next grandchild to have a birthday in my family is Cedar and she will be turning six years old in May. I asked her mom, my daughter Kristen, what stamp set she would like and she chose either the Honey Bee set from the Jan/Jun Mini Catalogue or the carried over Nature's Beauty set from the Holiday Catalogue. I chose the Honey Bee set, but now I see that the bundle is not orderable for awhile until the dies are available again. The coordinating paper I used was a Sale-A-Bration reward, but that is sold out now - The Golden Honey Specialty Designer Series Paper. It is possible that some of our supplies may be impacted in the next while by the Corona virus crisis, as China manufactures a lot of our products except for our stamps themselves.

Anyway, without further ado, here is my card:

• The Highland Heather card base echoes the colouring I did on the two embossed flowers on either side of the hive. They were embossed with Black Stampin' Emboss Powder on Whisper White cardstock and die cut with the Detailed Bee dies.
• The hive was embossed with Gold on Whisper White and die cut, while the sentiment and the bees themselves were embossed in Black on Gold Foil and die cut with the same coordination set.
• The striped background paper and the hexagon background panel are both from the Golden Honey Specialty Designer Series Paper that you can no longer get. In fact, the only way you can get it now, is to earn an invite to my exclusive Celebrate Sale-A-Bration Party. To do that you have to have earned at least one Sale-A-Bration reward from me, during the Sale-A-Bration period. I usually hold it in April, with lots of SAB rewards as door prizes. The date may have to be postponed depending on the Covid-19 crisis, but it will still happen, and I do have a pack of that paper to give away to one lucky recipient!      
• I used the Family Party stamp set for the sentiment at the top.

I created another version of this card first using a different design from the same pack of paper for the background, but I realized I didn't like it and made a different design at the last minute for the challenge.  It was just too busy for my liking. What do you think:

Well, have a great weekend! I'll hopefully have lots of things to share with you on Monday after the Craft Crop!

                                        

If you live in Canada, and don't have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, I'd love to be yours. I can help you with ideas, get you catalogues and provide you with Stampin' Up products. You can leave a message in the comments or contact me using any of the methods listed in the right side bar at the top of the page. You can shop with me from anywhere in Canada by clicking on the SHOP NOW button in the top menu or clicking on any of products below from my OnLine Store.

Product List

Honey Bee Bundle [153792] $55.75	Honey Bee Cling Stamp Set [151527] $27.00	Family Party Photopolymer Stamp Set [149379] $28.00	Golden Honey Specialty Designer Series Paper [152311] $0.00	Gold Foil Sheets [132622] $6.75
Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100730] $13.25	Highland Heather 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146986] $12.00	Versamark Pad [102283] $13.00	Highland Heather Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [147276] $12.00	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	Detailed Bee Dies [151526] $35.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $5.50
Snail Adhesive [104332] $9.50	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $7.25	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50

Honey Bee Circular Slider Card

Just a quick post, written last night after my class was over and before bed, to show you another sample of the Honey Bee stamp set and the Detailed Bee Dies, but this time in a Circular Slider Card formation that I tried to figure out how to create on my own.

Of course, I used the gorgeous Golden Honey Specialty Designer Series Paper that you can earn from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure with any $60 purchase* on one order. And I put the Honey Bee bundle to good use to created the Bee Slider! I did make a video to show the action, but I was trying to film it one-handed and the action is a bit stiff on my slider card so it was a slight disaster as far as an action film goes!

• The bee itself rotates around the hive and spins on it's own axis. You can see on all the photos that it is in different positions.
• I made a panel of the honeycomb paper mounted on Gold Foil Sheet and then die cut it with two of the layering circles nested together to get the track for the slider bee.The circles need to be two sizes away from each other to make the track wide enough to work, but the inner circle has to be large enough to fit the bee hive, which I embossed with Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder on a separate piece of Whisper White cardstock, the die cut and glued onto the inner circle. The inner circle is glued to the backing using dimensionals or adhesive strips, arranged to give the maximum clearance space so that the bee can move easily around.
• This panel is backed with Basic Black cardstock behind. A dime is placed behind the slot and two Mini Stampin' Dimensionals piled on top of each other. The bee is die cut and adhered with a glue dot to another dime which is then attached to the dime behind the slot using the mini glue dots. This gives added weight to allow the bee to turn and move around the circular slot.
• The bee is heat embossed in black on Gold Foil Sheet and die cut. The die cut honey comb has been die cut from Gold Foil Sheet which was backed with the retired Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets, so that it would be easily adhered to the front of the project, like applying a sticker.
• The sentiment, from the same stamp set, is heat embossed on Basic Black cardstock with Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder.

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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	Detailed Bee Dies [151526] $35.00	Layering Circles Dies [141705] $48.00	Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets [144106] $13.50	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $5.50
Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108] $5.50	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $7.25