HoneyBee Showscase ~ Christmas in July

Happy Wednesday!  It's HoneyBee Showcase day, and it's Christmas in July!!  Are you ready for some cooler breezes to blow your way?  Perhaps a fresh idea or two to spark your imagination will be fun, too.  We have some cool ideas for you this week, and hope you will be joining right in with us.

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Hello, Welcome to HoneyBee Showcase.  Wow! Didn't HoneyBee Judy do a great job on Monday!!!!  I've really had lots of fun with Christmas In July!  This week I made this adorable little Pyramage Penguin.  I just love working with Pyramage.  It gives it such new dimensions.  You can find it over on Digital Delights.  The next card is one I did last Christmas.  I just wanted to share it with you.  It's one of my Fav's

Wanda

Have a wonderful week!  Huggles

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Beth Ullman

 It's so nice to post this week... it seems like it has been forever since I have shared here at the hive........Sorry HoneyBees but I think my mojo had flown south for the summer and my grandkids helped me find it today! We have been in my craft room all day creating.

I followed Judy's lead with the snowflake.  Wonderful tut, Judy, and I made mine using the Stampin' Up small and large tag punch and a tutorial from the Technique Junkies newsletter.......the sweet little image is one of Linnie's at Whoopsi Daisy Designs ... love love love snow people.

Now we want to see your Christmas in July....your turn.

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Rosemary

Happy Wednesday!! With the weather in the upper 90s, I guess doing Christmas cards should cool one down a bit..lol..Truth is, living in Florida we can have temps in the 90s even in December. Oh yeah, it's happened and if not, it sure feels like it..lol..

I would like to thank Betty for giving me some really cute Loralie Design fabric that just happen to be Christmas designs! I added a little Stickles to make her 'Christmas Glittery'..!!

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Betty Brett

Sometimes it is said that "necessity is the mother of invention"...

Well, most of you know that I am traveling, and don't have much with me in the way of supplies,

so this shows that even with NO Christmas supplies at all, you can pull off a CAS card :)

I do have my Gypsy with me, so I have cut out a layered ornament from some aluminum foil glued to a piece of cardstock.  The Cuttlebug embossing folder might not be the one I would choose if I were at home, but the idea is there.  The red part of the ornament is colored with a red Copic marker, and there is some sparkly Stickles for bling, and the center is a great silver dome... I wish it showed up as pretty in the photo as it is in person.  Add a strip of silver and red stamped sentiment, and a bit of red cording,,, and it carries a cheerful  Holiday message.

Now it's our turn to be dazzled by your designs!  Link up your cards, layouts, projects and posts below!  We also have an email address if you want to send us info, and we will post for you.  We love hearing from you!!

Happy creating!

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HoneyBee Showcase ~ Punches

Today's HoneyBee Showcase will give you a couple more ideas of ways you can use punches to create great projects.  We hope you are inspired!Happy Wednesday!!!

Rosemary

Thank you, HoneyBee Judy, for your awesome array of 'punch' cards!!! For my card, I used the Martha Stewart anywhere heart punch.  I wanted to try something different and thought I would work with making a flower using hearts.  Now, I must say, I knew in my head what I wanted, put never made this flower before.  I envisioned attaching hearts and folding one half to give it dimension.  As I started gluing the tips together, I saw it coming together and felt so proud that I designed this myself!By not attaching any sentiment on the front, this card can be used for just about any occasion.(Sorry, the Stickles were still wet when I had to take the photo.)

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I made my card with layers of black and white Cardstock punched with a MS Flower punch.  The large flower is made out of fabic using a Sizzix Die.  I received it at a Swarm (isn't it gorgeous?) 

 The little butterfly is silk.  I can just imagine giving this to one of my BFF's for their BD...

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Betty Brett

My punchy projects are seasonal, and quite fun to build for adding a lot of personality to your card creations.  They were inspired by Dawn Griffith a couple of years ago, and are still favorites of mine.

 This is Frankie-N-Stein, and he is a standard A2 size card, with 1 3/8 and 1 inch circle punch eyes, eyelids, and nose.  Ink generously, and use dimensional for layering.  Hand cut his hair. 

His friend, Snow-E-Mann, is done the same way, only with a few additonal punches with a paper punch for the mouth, and a holly leaf punch for the decoration on his hat.  Lots of glitter or Stickles dress him up nicely.

We hope you have fun with this challenge, and will give a punchy project a try. 

The comment section below would love to hear from you **wink, wink**..

Then link up your card, layout, paper piecing, home decor, altered item, or other punched item to the INLINKZ button below, and we will come and visit your blog!  If you don't have a blog, you can send your project to our email, and we will post it for you.  We LOVE hearing from you!!

Happy creating ~

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HoneyBee Showcase ~ Food, Glorious Food!

Happy Wednesday, and welcome to the HoneyBee Hive!  There are some mouth-watering morsels to share with you today!  A Recipe, A Layout, A couple of Cards, and plenty of Eye Candy to inpire!!  Bring a cold, refreshing lemonade and sit a spell!
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This is my version of Queen Bee Betty's Monday Motivational.

This is a Recipe Swap I was part of at  the Cricut Website.You can get the recipe on my blog.

Judy Ford

Another of our summer time favorites is Tropical Angel Lush!

These cuties are going to be consumed tomorrow by my mother's Sunday School class at their weekly luncheon!

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When I think of food, sweets pop into my mind first. On a hot summer day, I crave watermelon or ice cream. I perused my Cricut cartridges for a food item, and I found this ice cream sundae. I added the sentiment, which seems especially appropriate today. Today is my 20th wedding anniversary!

June Houck

Here is a close-up so you can see the embossing and glossy accents a little better. More details on my blog :)

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Hello Everyone!!

Once again, when I read what our challenge was this week, I knew what I wanted to do. I totally slipped with getting my layouts done of Joey and Elizabeth's wedding and this was a perfect time for me to finally get the cake layout done. As some of you may remember, they had their wedding on October 31 and though it was formal, there was some fun Halloween thrown in.

The flourish on my layout was cut using Accent Essentials.

                                        I love their cake, but more so, the cake topper!!

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Okay girls, I got a little lazy this week. (Besides that, I was having a touch of creators block......so this is the best that I could come up with  As you all know, I have been into the berries lately, making delicious jams and cobbler, so what did I chose to work with, but an image from Stampin'-Up! called "Fruit Stand".  The sentiment is also from Stampin'-Up! and that is the Yummy set.

If my image looks a little rough, it is suppose to, as I did the Cracked Glass technique and distressed my label.  I hope you will share a recipe or something with us this week pertaining to food.

                                                                       Beth Ullman

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Now it's your turn to share something fresh, delicious and yummy!  Create a project of your choice featuring "Food, Glorious Food" in some fashion, then link a post from your blog or gallery, or send us an email and we will post it for you.  We know blogger has been a bit difficult regarding comments lately, but we do appreciate you trying!

Happy creating!

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HoneyBee Showcase- Pinwheels

Happy Wednesday, and welcome to the HoneyBee Showcase!  On Monday our HoneyBee Court gave us a great tutorial on how to make a pinwheel, and they are hot, hot, hot this summer!  The HoneyBees have come up with some delightful creations to share and inspire you!
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June Houck

  Pinwheels are so cool! I followed the tutorial that HoneyBee Courtney posted on Monday.  I cut a 3" square, then attached it with a mini brad.  My papers are Echo Park "a walk in the PARK" and my sentiment is a Punnylicious sentiment by My Pink Stamper.

  Pinwheels are hot right now...right up there with chevron patterns, seam binding, and baker's twine.  I hope you will give this a try.  They make a fun summer card! 

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 Beth Ullman

I love pinwheels and so do my grandkids.........so for mine I used a sketch from Techno Stamper. She has a Monday Lunchtime Sketch every week.  I haven't played for awhile, but this sketch seemed perfect for a PinWheel.......all papers are CTMH, MS punch, and bling from Wal-Mart.

Well that's it for me and I am on time for a change! My life is getting back to normal.......Hope you will join us this week.  We would love to see your pinwheels and leave you some love.

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Rosemary

 

When I found out our theme was going to be 'pinwheel', I knew exactly what I wanted to do!..I am so far behind on my layouts and thought a pinwheel design would give the layout an interesting block look to it. Of course, once I did Nina, I thought why not do Ian too! Using 12x12 doublesided cardstock worked out perfectly!

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Judy

For pinwheels I went back to my quilting roots and dug into my old patterns. I used a bee stamp from Nature Walk set from Stampin UP. and randomly stamped two different background colors. Then I took my 1 1/4" square punch and punched out 8 squares of each color. These squares I cut point to point and reassembled on a background square for my paper pinwheel quilt. I added some freehand "bee fly trails" and some stick pins made with shrinky dink material and a Betty Bee Bow Maker BEEutiful Bow and tada "Just BEE Cuz" card is done!!!

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Betty



I have made quite a few pinwheels for summer decorations, and what is more fun than having festive decorations for the Fourth of July?!  How about a Headband?!

Theses are 2 and 2 1/2 inch pinwheels.  The red and blue ones are Core'dinations paper that have been embossed with a Sizzix stars folder, then sanded to allow the inner core color to shine through.  The center one is edged in Gold Lame' Smooch ink. The medallion is from K and Co.'s Americana collection.  Add star brads, and you have an easy wearable decoration so you can show your colors the holiday



Show us your creations with a pinwheel.  It can be a card, layout, home decor piece, altered item, party piece.... what can you come up with?

 ane the HoneyBees

HoneyBee Showcase - Chevron patterns - June 8th

Happy Wednesday, and welcome to the hive!  Today's challenge is inspired by PaperCraft Magazine's layout on Chevrons... and Judy gave us a good kick start on Monday with her Motivational... so here are some more goodies from the HoneyBees to sweeten your day!
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 I love this tone-on-tone orange chevron paper from Echo Park's "a walk in the PARK" collection.  (Cut sizes and all materials listed here.)

My card was created with My Mind's Eye "Quite Contrary" papers.  These papers are double-sided, have a light texture, and are a nice weight. I loved working with these papers! They emboss beautifully too.  I used a chevron pattern for her umbrella, and polka dot patterns for her rain coat, the sentiment, and other backgrounds.  I also used my Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder by Provo Craft on the large polka dot pattern paper.

Other supplies:
My Favorite Things Pure Innocence "My Umbrella" stamp set
copic markers: YG95, E00, E21, E29, C3, G28
Spellbinders Nestibilities circles & squares dies
SU word window punch, label punch, and dimensionals
paper piercer
Bazzill card stock
Brief tutorial: I cut a 12x12 sheet of dark green Bazzill card stock into 4"x12" (I made 3 cards like this one). Score at 4", 6", and 8". Create a mountain fold in the center. On one side of the mountain (2"x4" rectangle), place some strong double-sided tape. I like to use photo tape or red-line tape. Adhere down. Now decorate as desired!

You can alter the dimensions. If you have 8 1/2" x 11" card stock, try cutting it in half (4 1/4" x 11"). Then score at 4 1/4" and 6 3/8".

Now give it a try!

June Houck

  Do you have chevron patterns in your stash?  I had more than I realized.  But you can also create your own with a sewing machine (zig zag stitches).  Another idea is to use a decorative corner punch:  arrange punch outs in a mountain/valley pattern across your paper.  I am enamored with chevrons now :)

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Rosemary

You would think with the hundreds of papers and cardstock I have, I would find a chevron design!  Nothing even close, except I did find in my ColorBok Punch-Out Pack a ric-rac border that I thought would make a good substitute. This is a Father's Day card for my son, Jeff.  I am so proud of him for being such a great dad to Nina and Ian.

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My chevron was handmade with this striped paper set from the Happy Day (2008) paper pack by Imaginisce.  I cut the 12 inch strip of paper, and then laid it on my paper trimmer at the angle I wanted, and cut the ends, making sure to flip the paper over so I got alternating points.  Touch the edges together and tape on the  back.  VOILA'... a chevron!

Add a couple more embellies from Imaginisce, and it's ready to bring a smile to someone's face!



Betty Brett

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Look who sneaking in the backdoor ........me of course.....sorry HoneyBees.
I chose to do the Zig-Zag technique from Technique Junkies on my card this week, just added a simple sentiment so as not to hide the pattern.
Used Stampin-Up card stock, striped paper K&CO, stamp Autumn Leaves.

Beth Ullman

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Now it's YOUR turn!  Pull out your paper, and look for those jaunty angles, cut squares to make those points, or find a super stripe, and create your own... then create a card, layout, home decor piece, altered item, or whatever you are inspired to design... and share it right here!  These pieces are HOT, HOT, HOT!!!
 

Wanda

I made my card with regular striped paper cut on the diagonal both ways to make the Chevron pattern.  I added little rhinestones on the points and stamped your number one.  I'll be giving this to my Dad.  He checks my blog often so I won't be posting this card until after Father's Day..  I really want it to be a surprise for him...

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