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Happy Saturday!! AND! It’s World Cardmaking Day! Today, we celebrate that hobby that brings us joy and bring us all together: making cards. The Honey Bee Stamps and the Chibitronics Design Teams are bringing you a special collaboration blog hop today to celebrate! You should have arrived here from Eiko Uchida’s blog and your next stop is Kelly Kohout’s blog. To find the whole hop list, click here.

For my card, I chose to work again with that darling little girl and her kitty from Hey Pumpkin. I wanted to use those fabulous lights to create a twinkling night sky behind her! Because I wanted to have the night sky and the die cut of the girl look fairly seamless, I die cut and stamped her on some dark purple card stock using Versafine  and added clear embossing powder. I then colored the image with Prismacolor pencils and trimmed the bottom, beneath the treeline.

After I had colored the image, I blended some dark purple and navy blue ink towards the top of a dark purple A2, then die cut some tiny little stars from the Let It Snow die collection. To add the lights and circuits from Chibitronics, I laid the “night sky” panel on my A2 card base, then marked where all of the die cut stars were. I used that as a guide to help create my circuits. I created the circuits using the Chibitronics Starter Kit and the tropical light kit. I backed my stars with some vellum, then adhered the panel with multiple layers of foam tape.

I then adhered my main image die cut and added a sparkly, heat embossed sentiment. Finally, I added a few Bokeh Lights sequins and some Mercury Glass Stickles to create even more twinkly stars.

Here it is all lit up…. please excuse my non-manicured fingernails! The Chibitronics lights are so cute and so festive. They are a bit more work, but totally worth it for a special occasion!

Now, for even more hop fun!

Honey Bee Stamps is giving one lucky winner a $25 gift certificate, and Chibitronics is giving another lucky winner a Chibitronics Starter Kit. All you have to do to be eligible is leave a comment on each stop on the blog hop! The winners will be announced on Monday, October 9, 2017. You should have arrived here from Eiko Uchida’s blog and your next stop is Kelly Kohout’s blog. To find the whole hop list, click here.

Hope you have something fun planned for World Cardmaking Day! My little town has not one, but TWO fall festivals planned, so I don’t know how much time I will get to celebrate getting inky today, but I am definitely going to try! Have a marvelous day, friends!

Good morning! The challenge for A Blog Named Hero this month is Calling All Critters! We are partnering with Lawn Fawn this month… who better for a critter challenge, amirite?

I started by stamping that sweet Lawn Fawn foxy on some Toned Gray paper using white ink, then colored him with Prismacolor pencils. I heat embossed the greeting in white from Hero Arts Holiday Greetings. I added some Hero Arts snowflakes in white pigment ink, then added a few die cut silver glitter snowflakes from Lawn Fawn. Finally, I die cut the penciled panel using some stitched rectangle dies and added a few swipes of white pigment ink around the edge of the die cuts to give it a really frosty look.

And that’s it! I can’t wait to see the submissions to the challenge. Remember to read all of the rules before you submit your project… we’ve had projects that were disqualified from winning our prize because they didn’t follow all of the rules. We have a prize from our fabulous sponsor, Lawn Fawn, up for grabs!

Hi there! I have a special project for you this evening…. Honey Bee Stamps is collaborating with Simon Says Stamp to bring you the final special release for this year’s Stamptember, called Remarkable You! Honey Bee Stamps is known for their beautiful sentiment builder sets… they’re SO versatile and those fonts cannot be beaten. I chose to pair it with one of the new sets from Honey Bee’s latest release: Gather Together! 

The sentiments in Remarkable You can be used for SO many different occasions; I don’t know that I’ve ever seen the word “remarkable” as a focal sentiment for a stamp set before, so I wanted to work with it. I thought the little family of different animals…. a “remarkable” grouping, if you will…. would be the perfect pairing for this greeting. I started by stamping the sweet little critter family from Gather Together onto some card stock made for colored pencils (but plain white card stock works just as well!) using black ink, then colored all of the critters with my Prismacolor pencils. I have discovered that I love using pencils with the critters, because you can really control the depth and level of of detail with pencils in all of those little nooks and crannies.

After I had finished coloring my little critter family, I cut a 5.5″ square card base, then blended some Spiced Marmalade Distress Oxide ink using one of the sun ray stencils from the Ocean Scene Builder stencil set, turning it at an angle to create sun rays in the corner of the card front. I stamped the greeting using black ink on some white card stock, then trimmed them out and popped the greeting and the critter family up with foam tape. Finally, I added some Indian Summer sequins (a new mix from the latest Honey Bee release!) to add some sparkle.

And that’s all for this card! If you like the looks of Remarkable You, I’d suggest purchasing it ASAP, because these Stamptember sets are limited edition!! I hope you’ve enjoyed all of the Stamptember festivities…. so much inspiration and fun new sets! Have a marvelous weekend, friends!