Sixth Street Sundries

Emily Midgett

pretty poinsettias

Odd Inspiration and No-Line Poinsettias!

Hi there! I’m up on the Honey Bee Stamps blog today with a super vivid and crisp holiday card for you today, which was begun with some inspiration that I found in an odd place! I love when something mundane can be the jumping off point for a project. I recently purchased a shirt from an online boutique, and it had the prettiest cardstock tag hanging from the tag sewn into the shirt-a hexagon that looked as though it had been dipped in rose gold foil. I thought it would be a pretty ground for a sentiment and a big, fluffy holiday bouquet, so I adapted it to some holiday colors of deep garnet red and white. Let’s get started with the details!

I started by stamping several components from the Pretty Poinsettias stamp set that I illustrated last year- I love the massive size of the poinsettias and foliage in this set! So much fun to color. I stamped the images using Honeybee’s No-Line Ink on some Copic-friendly white cardstock. I used my Copic markers to color the poinsettia and berries a deep, intense garnet red, brightened with some bottle green foliage and some cool brown pinecones. I die cut the finished images using the coordinating Honey Cuts.

Next, to create the ground for my holiday bouquet and to create the tag by which I was so inspired, I die cut a white hexagon using the Hexagon Solid Stack dies, as well as a partial hexagon from some coordinating raspberry colored glitter paper. I layered the partial hexagon over the bottom of the full white hexagon, adhering them using liquid adhesive.

On the card front, I heat embossed the new Falling Snow background stamp on a full A2 panel of white cardstock using some glittery white embossing powder. A very subtle backdrop, but I love the hint of texture that this adds to the background! I arranged the bouquet and hexagon on the card front, adhering them with some foam adhesive. For the greeting, I die cut the new Cheers Buzzword die three times from white cardstock, adhering them together to create a dimensional die cut greeting. I stamped the “sending you” and “holiday” from the Cheers stamp set using coordinating wine colored ink. I adhered the greeting strips with some thin strips of foam adhesive on the glittering hexagon die cut. So much dimension and crisp, vivid colors on this card! I always try to make sure that there are lots of textures and dimension on a card that has lots of white to help keep things from falling flat.

Well that’s all for my project today! I can hardly believe it’s almost December… it doesn’t seem possible that the Christmas season is upon us. Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!

Honey Bee Stamps Holiday Cheer Release Blog Hop!

Hi there! This week, Honey Bee Stamps is celebrating their Holiday Cheer release with inspiration coming to you on all of the social media platforms. Today, we have a blog hop for you featuring projects from the latest release. I have four cards and a video for you, so let’s get started with the details!

For today’s video, I did some Copic coloring using my new Pretty Poinsettias stamp set. (Click here to see some more inspiration using this pretty holiday floral stamp set that I illustrated for Honey Bee Stamps!) In this video, I give some tips and tricks on how to get extra depth and dimension from your Copic colored projects.

My next two projects feature the Farmhouse Tree Builder stamps, dies, and stencils. This product group is so gorgeous and so versatile… I love how easy it is to create a beautiful holiday tree!

For my first project, I created a shaker card using the new Farmhouse Tree Details Stencil and the new Snow Globe Shaker dies. I die cut the full sized background for the shaker from a panel of white cardstock, then used the Farmhouse Tree Details Stencil to add a little forest of Christmas trees and a deep blue night sky. I adhered some snowflake sequins on the card base so that there would always be flurries “falling” no matter where the rest of the shaker bits were!

To create the shaped card base, I used a regular A2 sized card base and die cut it with the base die, making sure that the fold line was beneath the top of the die. I filled my shaker with several different kinds of frosty sequins and added a greeting from last year’s Fa La La stamps and dies. I also added some sparkly snowflakes to the front to add some interest to the outside.

Look at how fun the card is open! Love making these shaped cards.

My second project features the Farmhouse Tree Builder stamps and dies. I stamped the tree using two different shades of green ink, then added details using the Farmhouse Tree Details Stencil and some iridescent texture paste. I also heat embossed several of the baubles, garland, star, and gifts from the Farmhouse Tree Builder stamps using silver embossing powder, then colored them in shades of aqua using Copic markers.

For the card base, I did some ink blending using Oxide inks in shades of Blueprint Sketch, Broken China, and Speckled Egg to create a glowing background for my Christmas tree. Once I had finished blending, I spritzed the background with some Iridescent Shimmer Spray to add some sparkle to the background. I arranged all of the die cuts on the card front, finally adding some iridescent gems to the Christmas tree for even more sparkle and texture.

I liked the Oxide Blueprint Sketch, Broken China, and Speckled Egg combination so much that I decided to blend a frosty sky background to use with the new Birch Coverplate Bundle. I die cut the Top cover plate from white cardstock, the Base Cover Plate from sparkling white glitter cardstock. I adhered the sparkling base to the blended card front using liquid adhesive, then added the top plate to the card front using foam adhesive for extra dimension.

I added a greeting from Jingle All the Way and some Moonlight gems to create some sparkling snowfall!

To celebrate this release, Honey Bee Stamps is giving away a $100 gift certificate to their store to one lucky commenter! All you have to do to be entered is leave a comment on each stop on the hop. The more comments you leave, the more chances you have to win! The winner will be announced on Sunday, November 8, 2020 on the Honey Bee Stamps blog. Your next stop on the hop is Brenda Noelke. Thanks

so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!

Honey Bee Stamps Holiday Cheer+Pretty Poinsettias!

Hi there! The Honey Bee Stamps Holiday Cheer release is now available for pre-order, and I’m super excited to have designed a new holiday floral stamp set: Pretty Poinsettias! This new release has so many absolutely stunning new “country Christmas” products, from gorgeous plaid cover plates to snow globe dies to two amazing new truck sets to a fabulous new holiday floral set designed by yours truly! I have a project to share with you today using my new set using the Karin Metallic Brush Marker Pro and some black watercolor paper, so let’s get started with the details!

For this non-traditional card, I began by stamping the images from Pretty Poinsettias on some black watercolor paper using white pigment ink. I was super excited to see how well the white pigment ink disappeared beneath the metallic Karin markers. This bouquet was stamped really quickly, too, because there was little to no masking involved! The metallic markers covered up the overlapped images so well.

Next, I used the Metallic Karin Brushmarker Pro to add color to the images. Not my usual meticulous coloring, but it was certainly fun to try something different. I did add a layer of white gouache to the poinsettia to make sure that I could get some depth on those large flower petals. After the gouache had dried, I laid down some of the purple metallic Karin ink on the petals, then pulled the color out with a damp paintbrush.

Once the painting/coloring was finished, I heat embossed a greeting from Pretty Poinsettias on some vellum using silver embossing powder. I trimmed down the colored panel and added some strips of matte silver foil on either side, then mounted the vellum sentiment strips on the colored panel, folding the edges over the sides and hiding some of the adhesive on the back of the solid cardstock portion, adhering the rest with tiny dots of adhesive. Finally, I adhered the colored section to an A2 lavender card front using foam adhesive.

For my second project, I used the Pretty Poinsettias with my new Holbein gouache to create this super vibrant patterned background panel. I stamped the images again using white pigment ink, then had some fun playing around with the gouache to create this super vibrant, almost velvety patterned panel. Once I’d finished adding color to the images, I used my white gel pen and T-square to add a rectangular frame around the edges.

I white heat embossed a greeting from the new Merry Buzzword stamp set on the coordinating pierced die, also stamping the rest of the greeting on some strips of red cardstock.

I adhered the sentiments to the card front using foam adhesive, finally adding a few Moonlight gems to add some sparkle and extra texture to the card front.

Well, that’s all for today’s projects. I have loooots more to show you, but this is just a little taste! Due to some shipping delays (dangit, Covid, quit messing with our crafty purchases!), the new release will be shipping on or around November 2, 2020. The team is going to be having an inspiration week November 2-6, so be sure to keep your eyes peeled for lots of gorgeous inspiration on Instagram, the Honey Bee Blog, and YouTube channel!

Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!