Honey Bee Stamps Under the Sea Blog Hop!
Oceans & Mermaids. It’s release day at Honey Bee Stamps and we’re celebrating with a blog hop to celebrate the occasion! Two $50 gift certificates are being given away as prizes, so be sure and comment at each stop (see list below) by Sunday, July 16, for your chance to win! Winners will be announced Monday, July 17, at Noon (PST).
I created a card using the new Ocean Bliss stamp set and coordinating dies. What a fun set! The little mermaid is so sweet!
I cut the main panel using the A2 Double Stitched Frames Dies and then inked the background using Distress Oxide Inks. I stamped the mermaid and sentiment in black ink & then colored with Copic Markers. The mermaid was then popped up the image with foam dots on the main panel. To finish this design, I added a touch of sparkle to the seashell using a Wink of Stella clear brush marker and added three little rhinestones. The finished main panel was then popped up on the card base using foam adhesive.
For my second card, I used the Message in a Bottle set. This set contains so many fun options for inside the bottle!
I stamped the bottle in black twice, once on a piece of white cardstock and again on a piece of window sheet. The water image was stamped on the cardstock in blue and I added some sand along the edge for some texture. I stamped the cork image on a piece of thin cork and cut it out, adhering it to the assembled bottle. The main image was then popped up on a piece of kraft cardstock with foam adhesive for dimension. The sentiment was stamped in black ink.
I hope you’ll come hop along with us! This new release is amazing and the hop is just full of inspiration! Head on over to Nicole’s blog next to keep hopping!
Here is the blog hop order for your reference:
Alanna Moses
Alexandra Stapleton
Amy Rysavy
Angel Rivera
Bibi Cameron
Brenda Noelke
Carrie Bryant
EK Gorman
Emily Midgett
Galina Fillippenko
Hussena Calcuttawala
Jo Herbert
Kaja Vezensek
Kelley Kohout
Lisa Cisneros
Melissa Bickford
Melissa Chipperfield – you are here!
Nichol Spohr
Patricia Lara
Taniesa Vlasak
Tracy Freeman
Vera Wirianta Yates
Yulianna Neginskaya
Thank you all so much for joining us in celebrating our New Release this month. We love our customers and appreciate the continued support!!
Happy Hopping!
75 Comments
Love a simple layout. Great job.
sweet cards – so classy:)
Love the bottle against the craft background!
Adorable cards Melissa!!! The mermaid is just too sweet, and your coloring is beautiful!! The bottle card is so fun as well ?
I like the bottle card- very elegant.
Very cute cards! Great work.
Love your clean and simple style.
Cute cards! I love that pink and purple background 🙂
Love the two-tone blending of the background in the 1st card & also the stitching around the outside. Great cards
Beautiful cards! Colouring and blending in the first card is just perfect. But the second one takes my heart! 🙂 Simple layout and a craft card with a message in a bottle is gorgeous! 🙂
Great cards, love the one with the bottle and your color choices.
they are beautiful cards!
Both your cards are great. I especially love the Adventure Awaits card.
Fabulous projects. Love the colorful sky of your first card. TFS
So pretty! Love the background on the first card.
Love the waves in the bottle
Pretty cards.
thanks for sharing.
Gorgeous designs!!
Beautiful designs.
Great cards and stamps!
Delightful cards. Love the waves in the bottle . So perfect for your sentiment. Thanks for sharing your creativity.
clean and simple. nice.
I love the second card! It inspires a feeling of immense possibilities 🙂
Really beautiful cards. I love how this release has lots of components to compliment each other.. so you dont have to get them all (at one time).
Great cards. Honey Bee stamps and dies are very different from other stamp lines. They are always so creative and different and the new release is no exception.
Your sweet mermaid card made me think of the move, ‘Splash.’ It’s just darling!
Lovely cards. Like how you did a very simple looking bottle one – they are never that simple, but it is very classy.
Very pretty cards love them
Lovely cards. Your mermaid and background is so pretty and the CAS bottle card is so cool on kraft.
I absolutely love your message in a bottle!
Very sweet cards
Lovely cards!
Awesome cards! Love this release! The mermaid is adorable, and I love the bottle… so many possibilities!
Simple cards but there was a lot of work that went into each – you can tell in the fine detail work! Great job!
Both are cute.
Very pretty
I am totally laughing! Love the message in a bottle and the idea of using the acetate for the “glass!” I am laughing because I made a beach themed Christmas card last year for my grands’ “other grandmother” and used actual sand from our Outer Banks vacation on it! (The middle grand helped me do it!) Thanks for the great example, idea, and trigger of a great memory.
Lovely cards.
I LOVE your mermaid card! The background is stunning and make it all very magical.
This release was mer-made for me. I love your cards.
Thanks.
Oh my!!! I’m totally in love for your stunning cards!!!
Neat cards.
Melissa, you have done an amazing job on your cards. Such beautifully coloured images. I am inspired beyond measure! TFS!
Oh!! That bottle card! Love!
Love your cards!
Great mermaid cards!
Lovely card!
These are gorgeous! Love the sparkle on the first one and the 2nd looks fabulous with the kraft background and a little sand…..just beautiful!!! Thank You!!!
I love your bottle card!
Love your bottle card
The addition of the sand to the bottle is fantastic!! Lovely cards.
Great cards!
Your cards are lovely! I like the bottle one. That bottle has so many possibilities! Thanks for sharing!
Love the bottle card! Very nicely done!
Beautiful colors and I like the sparkle on the mermaid card. I like how you added the wave and sand to the bottle.
Very pretty cards, I love the background of your first card and I adore your bottle card.
What gorgeous colors for your sweet mermaid card!
Love the simple design of the second card and the beautiful background of the first. What a great release!
Lovely mermaid card and fun bottle card 🙂
Love the simplicity, yet gorgeous cards!
She’s so pretty.. and that colorful background and love the fun and simple bottle card!
Wow, these are great! I especially like the second card – simple, but so cool and unique!
There’s no way to choose between those two cards …. the first with the astonishing blending job on the background or the very clean and simple but super efficient one with the bottle…. I’d take them both !!!
Very nice! I soooo need that message in a bottle stamp!
Love the use of the kraft card 🙂
Both of your cards are so pretty! I love the background for the first one. It really shows off the beautiful mermaid. I also think the message in a bottle idea is so clever for a stamp set. Your card with it looks great!
Cute cards.
Gorgeous cards. I particularly like the second with the bottle. Just fabulous.
Wonderful cards. Thanks for sharing….
Very cute cards. Clean and simple. Thanks for sharing.
I do love the mermaids, but you are rocking that bottle! Fabulous job!
Sweet cards!! This is a great release!!
Lovely cards! Love the new release!
Soo pretty! Love the sweet card you created.
So classy 🙂
Love your gorgeous cards, especially the message in a bottle card! I just love anything on kraft cardstock!