Last Chance Products and New Starter Kit Deal in June

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!

Wonderful Moments in Living Colour (and White)!

For our Technique Nights this month, our theme is techniques with ribbon and one of the techniques we're going to explore is dying ribbon. The card we're making using this technique is one that uses the Wonderful Moments Stamp Set because it has the stamp with the image of the Bride in it. What if you could create a wedding card for the bride that would incorporate her wedding colours in it and have elegant ribbon to go along with it.

Well, as long as Stampin' Up! has a Stampin' Blends alcohol marker that approximates that colour, you are in luck. Let's say that the bride had coral as her wedding colour. All you would need to do is to get out your Calypso Coral Stampin' Blends Combo and you could not only colour around the image of the bride, but you could also take some white ribbon and use the Stampin' Blends to dye the ribbon as well! So easy! Here's how it turned out:

• I used the Subtle 3D Embossing Folder for the background. The Heirloom Frames Dies and 3D Embossing Folders were used to create that elegant frame around the image of the bride.
• The ribbon used is the Silver Metallic Edged Ribbon, which was coloured with the Calypso Coral Light Stampin' Blends Marker, using the brush tip. It dries so fast, due to the alcohol base.
• The bride image is stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and I used the So Saffron Stampin' Blends Combo and the Calypso Coral Stampin' Blends Combo to colour it in.
• The sentiment is from the same stamp set and is stamped in Calypso Coral ink.

• The same design in Mint Macaron, only this time the Scripty 3D Embossing Folder was used for the background panel, and the Mint Macaron Stampin' Blends Combo instead of the Calypso Coral Combo.

• And the same card, only using the Highland Heather Stampin' Blends Combos.

This way you could totally coordinate the wedding card with the wedding colours of the bride!!

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

Wonderful Moments Photopolymer Stamp Set [147529] $33.00	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock [140272] $11.25	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100730] $13.25	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $8.25	Highland Heather Classic Stampin' Pad [147103] $10.25
Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad [147101] $10.25	Mint Macaron Classic Stampin' Pad [147106] $10.25	Highland Heather Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [147276] $12.00	Calypso Coral Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [144045] $12.00	Mint Macaron Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [147283] $12.00
So Saffron Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [149557] $12.00	Silver 3/8" Metallic-Edge Ribbon [144213] $9.50	Scripty 3D Embossing Folder [149634] $14.00	Subtle 3D Embossing Folder [151775] $14.00	Heirloom Frames Dies And 3D Embossing Folder [152325] $39.00
Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $5.50	Snail Adhesive [104332] $9.50	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $7.25	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50