Welcome to Ink N Scrap Habits!
I've created this blog to share my life & love of paper crafts with others. You will read bits and pieces of what goes on in my world and be able to see my paper craft creations! Please leave me a comment if you see something you like. I'd love to hear from you!
Ha! There's a Birds and the Bees challenge posted on the DRS Designs Blog this week, and no, you don't have to be afraid to run over and check it out, LOL! I promise it's all G rated! ;-) DRS Designs has some new Spring stamps that fit the bill perfectly for this challenge and I'm showing some of them off today.
I know this card doesn't look like much, but I've used quite a few stamps on it:
Spring Bee Happy Greeting (367E)
I started my card front with light blue cardstock and stamped the Leafy Tree Branch and the Beehive branch so that it was emerging from the left side of the card front. The bee was first stamped on white cardstock, colored and then adhered in the empty space in the upper right corner with it's flying trail. After coloring them all with Copic Markers, I hand cut the tree trunk from brown cardstock and then embossed it with the wood grain embossing folder by The Paper Studio. It was adhered in place and then the sentiment was stamped at the bottom as shown. Finished card size is A2-4.25" by 5.5." I hope you like it!
Smiles,
Jennifer
Hi Stampers!
Here's a card I made for my Sister. She recently moved into her own condo after living with a friend for many years. The newest Bee-themed stamps from DRS Designs were perfect for her "new home" card:
The hive image was colored with Copic Markers and cut out with a Nestie die. Then I cut a Post-It Note mask and sponged blue ink around the edges while it was still in the die. It was matted on a black scallop. The black card base was cut and folded to make an A2 size card. I stamped a yellow piece of cardstock for the card front with the Honeycomb design using yellow ink and then split the "Our House To Yours" greeting and stamped it as shown so it would fit around the image. Black grosgrain ribbon was tied across the lower portion of the card front and then the matted image was placed in the center. Next I stamped, colored, and fussy cut the Bitsy Bee and adhered it to the upper portion of the hive image using dimensional tape. The final stap was to stamp the Bee Trail to make it look like the bee had just flown into place on the card front. For the most part, this card was pretty simple to create.
My Sister really liked this card and has it displaying on her mantle. I hope you like it too!
Have a great day!
Smiles,
Jennifer
There's a new challenge on the DRS Blog this week. The "I Get Around" theme is all about circles. I saw a similar layout on Pintrest and gave it a try for this card. I like how the circle cut-out frames the sentiment.
Smiles,
Jennifer
DRS Designs is sponsoring the challenges over at the 365 Cards blog this week. The theme for today is "Throwback from 2011." We can pick any theme they featured in 2011. I've used Day 277, "Pick 3," to use any three scrappy items on your card. I've used glitter, markers, and banner dies.
Each of the small Bitsy Bee images were colored with Copic Markers and fussy cut. The larger Happy Bee was stamped directly on to the yellow cardstock and colored with Copic Markers. Then I stamped it again on white cardstock and paper pieced the wings. Once all of the bees were in place I added some stickles to their wings to dress it up a bit. Finished card size is 4.25" x 5.5."
Thanks for stopping by!
Smiles,
Jennifer
After what feels like forever, I'm finally trying to get back to participating at the Stamp Shack. I've joined a few swaps and one of them is "The Flood." Every month 2 names are drawn from the participant list and they get "flooded" with cards from everyone else. Over the course of the month those selected receive 24 hand stamped greeting cards! I can't wait until it's my turn!
Here is the card I sent out to each of the January "Flood-ees."
I got the idea from a card on Splitcoast to use the Large Octagon Nestie dies to create the honeycomb look of a bee hive. I thought the look of a bee hive would be cute with the Bitsy Bumble Bee (1020A), the Happy Bee (561C), and the Latest Buzz sentiment (621D). I tied a little yellow and white twine through a tiny black button for the embellishment on the sentiment tag.
The bees were dressed up with glitter wings and then adhered with foam tape for dimension. I really like how they turned out and really hope my flood partners like them as well!
Thanks for stopping by!
Smiles,
Jennifer
