Friends

A day without a friend

is like a pot without a single drop of

honey  left inside.     

                              ~Winnie de Pooh

I decided to use it on a card.

And i want to sharewith you how i did it.

As i do not have a stamp with this sentiment,

I went to my word program and typed

the sentiment and used different lettering

until I was satisfied and printed this out.

You are welcome to copy my sentiment from

the top of the page to use for your own cards.

Or just type your own lettering.

You can even try to do it by hand if you are

good with calligraphy.

I started my card with a honeycomb stencil ( from Michael Strong)

 and one of Tim Holtz new colors called fossilized amber.

Hold down your stencil with a few bits of washi tape.

I don't like the background to be even, so I did 

not put the same amount of color everywere.

Here you see the finished background.

I did this directly on my folded card.

I cut the sentiment, added some ink all around and matted

it to a piece of shiny dark brown paper.

Then I stamped some sunflowers and colored

these with the fossilized amber marker

and vintage photo ink that is diluted with water.

Next I added these bees. The are from a Michael Strong Stamp set

 called Hannah's Busy Bee and you find it here.

The wings are accented with glitter glue.

The honey pot is the Michael Strong cloisonné pot stamp

embossed with copper on the same paper I used behind 

the sentiment. The pot is cut out with scissors.

Now when I finished doing the pot and wanted to add

it to the card, it was just way to big! Now what to do?

Luckily Mike als has a small pot stamp here.

So on this card I added 2 smallpots that i did the same 

way as the large pot.

So as not to waste the large pot, I just made another 

card. This time i started with the pot stamp and 

printed a smaller sentiment to fit this card.

Using Michael Strong's cloisonné flower stamp

and the Busy Bees completed this card.

On both cards I drew a line all around the card by 

hand with a black marker and added a few sticky

gemstones for some bling.

Hope you will come back again tomorrow,

when there is a Create with TLC Blog

Hop with lots of digital freebies!

I want to enter my cardfor the following challenges:

Cut it up Challenge Blog: Word

Crafts4Eternity: Stencil/mask

That's Crafty:Stencil/mask

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a creative day!