Hello crafty people. If you have been waiting for the release of Honey Bee Stamps July release event, wait not longer. It if officially time too…
Swim along with the New Release – Under The Sea with Honey Bee!
If you are traveling along the Honey Bee Blog Hop, you should be coming from Carrie Bryant‘s page. If you need to start from the beginning of the hop sneak back over to Honey Bee Stamps Blog page and get hopping!
Also, it is exciting to note, that all the new stamps and dies are available for purchase today in the Honey Bee shop HERE.
So let’s Shellabrate with some fintastic sweet prizes!! Honey Bee Stamps will have TWO winners that will each receive a $50 gift certificate to purchase new goodies in the Honey Bee Stamps Store.
All you have to do to win is comment on the Honey Bee Stamps blog and again at each one of the designers’ blogs by Sunday, July 16th. Winners will be announced on Monday, July 17th at Noon PST.
And just in case you get lost somewhere along the way, here is a complete list of all those on the blog hop!!!
Alanna Moses
Alexandra Stapleton
Amy Rysavy
Angel Rivera
Bibi Cameron
Brenda Noelke
Carrie Bryant
EK Gorman (you’re here)
Emily Midgett
Galina Fillippenko
Hussena Calcuttawala
Jo Herbert
Kaja Vezensek
Kelley Kohout
Lisa Cisneros
Melissa Bickford
Melissa Chipperfield
Nichol Spohr
Patricia Lara
Taniesa Vlasak
Tracy Freeman
Vera Wirianta Yates
Yulianna Neginskaya
Now onto the new release! I have two fun looks to share with you today featuring two of the new stamp sets.
Up first is the really fun Ocean Borders stamp set. I stamped out the long Ocean Border and colored it in with my copic markers using the colors BG05, BG07, and BG09. I added a bit of white gel pen to add some highlights, and then fussy cut out the stamp. I also
stamped out a couple other images from the stamp set and colored them in with my copics as well. The clam shell and fish I used YR00, YR04, and YR09. The coral and the star fish are colored in with R20, R22, and R24. The two different sea plant are colored in with BG72, BG75, and BG78. I fussy cut out all the images and set them aside.
I grabbed a piece of white card stock and build up a layered of Cornflower Nuvo Embellishment Mousse using a heavy thick bristle wash brush. Then I blended the right side of the card stock with some Old Navy Nuvo Embellishment Mousse. I then grabbed the Honey Bee Hexagon Layering Background Stencils and spread with a platte knife a thick layer of the Cornflower Mousse. I just adore how this mousse is metallic and reflects light in such a stubble way.
I glued the ocean boarder onto the card stock with some dimensional tape to pop it off the page and then added the images, adhering them flat. Finally, I pulled out Honey Bees’ Happiness sentiment stamp set. I had to doctor the stamps a little to get the phrase I wanted, but all the words came from the set none the less.
The other card I have to show off today features the mermaid from Honey Bees’ new Swimming By stamp set. Isn’t this mermaid just too sweet! I colored her up using my copics. The markers I used were as follows:
Tail and Bra Cup: G00, BG23, BG15, and BG18 (plus white gel pen)
Skin Tone: E000, BV000, E02 and R20
Hair: Y17, YR16, and YR09 (plus white gel pen)
I fussy cut out the mermaid and added an Action Wobble behind her. Yes, I had to trim the plastic sticker a little so it wouldn’t show behind the mermaid. I set aside the mermaid and grabbed a sheet of white card stock cut to an A2 card frame size. I pulled out Zen Floral stamp set and stamped it out along the edges of the card. I pulled out my copics again and simply colored in the floral images. I used G00, BG07, BG09, BG13, Y17, YR00, YR02, YR07, and YR09.
In the center of the card stock I colored it trying to look like ocean water below I used BG70, BG10, and BG13 plus a bunch of colorless blender. I added the mermaid to the ocean water, and then stamped out the sentiment and fussy cut that out. I added the sentiment to the card using some 3D tape and called this card done.
If you are continuing along with the Hop, you should be heading to Emily Midgett‘s page from here.
Don’t forget to leave a comment for a chance to win one of two gift certificates! And don’t forget to check back on Monday over at Honey Bee Stamps Blog Page to see if you have won one of the prizes!
Honey Bee Stamps Products:
Cornflower Nuvo Embellishment Mousse
Old Navy Nuvo Embellishment Mousse
Hexagon Layering Background Stencils
These are soo amazing !!! LOVE them !!
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I have GOT to get this set! I love your color combo of the teals, aquas and corals! Zen Ocean and Ocean borders are my favorites in this release! both your cards are awesome!
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Love the borders on your beautiful cards, and that sweet mermaid!
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Beautiful projects!
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Beautiful colours! And I think you succeeded in achieving the look of the ocean waters behind the mermaid – I love it!
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Love the scenes and textures and bless you for all the fussy cutting.
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I love your entry. Wish I could have gotten the ocean border stamp. After seeing how you used it. Thank you for sharing.
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Love the watery you stamped the edges of the Zen stamp around the card, andvusing a wobblevbehind the mermaid makes it so cute!
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This release was mer-made for me. I love your beautiful cards.
Thanks.
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Very nicely done. I love that you used the ocean border vertically–so interesting. Thank you.
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Beautiful release!
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I love both of your cards. The first one really makes it seem that your at the bottom of the ocean with the fabulous blues that you used. The second card is completely magical! Love that you used a small color palette which gave such a HUGE impact to your design.
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Love your background & colors.
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Holy SMOKES! These are just AH-MAZING! Absolutely fabulous work!
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Love these cards ! Great job
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Love this whole release! So pretty!
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Love both of your cards!
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Great Release! AWESOME CARDs, I especially love Where ever you go card!
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Clever use of the zen floral stamp! Turned out great
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I enjoyed looking at your fun mermaid card she looks like she is having fun.
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Your cards are beautiful! I love the use of that mousse, it is so different and it looks great! Your second card is really beautiful as well, love your coloring!
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Love the coloring!
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Lovely cards! I really like the ocean border with the honeycomb. It looks fascinating!
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Love the ocean border and how you used it!
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Wonderful cards. I like the ocean border and honeycomb on the first card.
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Live both cards, the beautiful borders and frame added so much to them!
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What a fabulous pair of cards! Cool borders on the first and I love how you did the water among the flowers on the second!
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Wow! Love both cards! Each one is stunning!
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Fantastic cards 🙂
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love the mermaid
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Oh EK! Such gorgeous cards! Love how colorful the 2nd is… and that first multimedia card.. fantastic! I need that ocean border… both are so wonderful!
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Both of your cards are fabulous! I love the look that the Ocean Border’s adds to the first card and framing your second in flowers is gorgeous!
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Love how you added the hexagon element to your card! So pretty.
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Wow, these are amazing, love them both!!! That second card with the mermaid totally made me gasp loud!
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Both cards are great but I love the texture and the border on the first one.
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Great cards
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Wow, fantastic details! I’ll bet they are both more gorgeous IRL!
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Awesome cards!! Love your coloring and layouts!!
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Awesome cards. I like the flowers.
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Really fabulous cards. I love the colours you used.
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Such awesome cards. Thanks for sharing….
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lovely cards, love that ocean border!
Susan
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Two very diffeent cards and both lovely. Thanks for sharing.
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Love mermaids. Beautiful cards.
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Beautiful colors & cards!
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Great cards! I like the background using the mousse, very gleamy. The coloring on the zen floral is lovely.
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What gorgeous cards! I am in love with this new release!
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enchanting
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