Honey Bee 3 Crafting, Card making, Scrap booking

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Jun12

Washi tape thank you card

by Michelle on June 12, 2013 at 8:00 am

Hi everybody!

I am back! It was not intentional to stay absent from my blog for three weeks, but mom was visiting and we got really busy enjoying her here.

So, for my project today, I would like to share a thank you card I made for Pampering/ Decorating team members at GEMS. We finished a great season last May and I wanted to let my team know how grateful I am for each one of them and I am very excited to plan this next season.

thank you washi tape card

The design is really simple, using the super cute washi tapes I had at home which turned out to be great for all kinds of things, not only just for card or scrapbook. Pinterest has tons of ideas for washi tape use and you can find tons of great designs at the craft stores.

And speaking of GEMS….

For our last gathering of the season, we decided to make a giveaway for the ladies. I was allowed to get a few Bath and Body Works gifts and got a few handmade goodies from some very talented ladies at our church. It was fun! For the pampering, one of the ladies made some very cute adjustable bracelets (in a very tight budget of $1,50 each!) and I packed them. Here how they looked like:

GEMS BRACELET

And here some of the handmade gifts for the giveaway:

pouch

{Beautiful pouch handmade by Svetlana Sotak. You can check her blog here.}

towels

{Beautiful decorated towels made by Erin Crofford.}

Very excited to try and have a Christmas giveaway next season!

Hope you all have a great week!

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May10

Mom, you are awesome card

by Michelle on May 10, 2013 at 3:30 pm

Posted In: Cardmaking

Hi everyone!

Sorry for not posting last week. I was just having a busy week.

Mother’s day is coming and we are very happy and excited to have my mom coming to visit. She will arrive this weekend which happens to be Mother’s day too (how convenient! )! So, besides cleaning and getting everything ready for her, I also made a card to place with her gifts.

you are awesome card

I just loved the card for 4 reasons:

1 -I just love to use my Silhouette machine;

2 – I wanted to use my very cute Doodlebug Designs bird stickers;

3 - I loved the new Technique Tuesday stamp set (Incredible by Ali Edwards);

4 – The Lawn Fawn mini stamp set (Bee Mine) became one of my very favorites stamp sets!!

So, there it is! A card made with lots of love, for an awesome mom!

I wish you all a great weekend and a great Mother’s Day celebration!

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Apr26

Get well soon card

by Michelle on April 26, 2013 at 11:30 am

Posted In: Cardmaking

Hi Everyone! Happy Friday!

April is almost over and spring cleaning is still going on in our home lately! So much to clean, separate, donate, organize….remove that “winter feeling” to welcome the warmer weather!

For my post today. I would like to share a card I made last year for a friend who passed through some hard times. Sometimes it’s hard to say something that can bring comfort, but it’s always good to know that are people that cares for you!

{Papertrey Ink - Stamper’s Select White Cardstock , Bazzill Basics – Ocean Breeze Cardstock , Bazzill Basics – Natural Cardstock , Sn@p Studio – Sn@ap! Stickers , Queen & Co. – Trendy Tape Chevron Blue , band aid designed by me using Silhouette cameo}

Have a great weekend!

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Apr10

Spring cleaning – using paper scraps for a card set

by Michelle on April 10, 2013 at 1:15 am

Posted In: Cardmaking

Hi everybody!

My project (+ a semi tutorial) today is a combination of office spring cleaning and work on a set of cards.

So, I needed to make 30 birthday cards with a budget of around $1.30 each. I took longer planning how to make them than actually working on them and after a light bulb lighted up in my head last week, it was simple. Don’t worry, it’s not a trick, it’s just a simple trick.

Over the years I made projects and was left with a ton of scraps and I didn’t want to go to waste. I am talking paper scraps (bigger than 3″X3″), stickers, embellishments, etc… that I knew one day I was going to use somehow. I gathered everything in two big piles:

tutorial 1

tutorial 2

Then, I chose to work with the hexagon die and stamp set (one of my favorites sets!):

stamp and cut hexagon

{Hero Arts Stamp and cut}

And turned those paper scraps into these:

tutorial 4

After it was cut (which took me a little while to cut over 150 hexagons with one die), I had a pile of hexagons with different patterns and colors to mix and match together:

tutorial 5

When I finished stick them into the cards, it was time to stamp the cards. I use the outlined hexagon stamp from the same set and picked an adorable “Birthday Wishes” saying to stamp on them.

{Hero Arts – It’s your day Stamp Set}

tutorial 9

Finally, I took the pile of stickers and embellishments and picked one or two for each card according to the colors and patterned of each card. And here are the results:

tutorial 6

tutorial 7

tutorial 8

So that’s a way you can make 30 cards using the same design and tools and have different results!

Hope you had fun with this post!

Have a great week!

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Apr05

Gifts and a trip to a # 1 birthday party

by Michelle on April 5, 2013 at 9:00 am

Posted In: Cardmaking, Other crafts

gems march

{GEMS March gathering decoration/pampering – Early Easter celebration with goldfish filled “carrots” and chocolate eggs}

Happy Friday Everybody!

Hope you all had a great Easter celebration! We sure had here, specially with a beautiful (but windy!) afternoon at the park.

Seems crazy, but one year ago, one of Megumi’s “BFF”s was born and these two are adorable playing together! They had a birthday party for her that turned out to be a birthday bash, since little Miss Charlotte will be spending her birthday with Mickey Mouse & Cinderella

For their birthday bash, I made cards for all of them: One for Chris & Erin, One for Charlotte and One for Adeline.

erincupcakecard

{Chris & Erin’s card: Using one of my all time favorite embellishments!}

happy3

{Charlotte’s one layer card: Based on her ladybug bedroom!}

youare1

{Adeline’s card: based on the scalloped gift I made for her}

For Adeline, I decided to make something different for her. So, since they will be in FL this month, I was thinking to try it out the Silhouette Cameo’s fabric ink stencil. You make the design, cut in a special paper and adhere to the fabric. The results are just great!

adeline onesie