Escaped Bunny Gang & Honey Bee Birthday Party + Giveaways

I happen to be with a small gang of some crafty friends as I type this, and I just want to tell you how important it is to hang out with your gang.

Rent a room, pick a date and just do it.

You'll store up a year's worth of laughs and hugs in a weekend, and go away with more ideas than you can count.

Don't wait for someone else to do it - YOU do it and gather your tribe. It will turn into a tradition before you know it, and it will greatly improve your quality of life, I promise.

Now what you can't ask me is if I actually got any crafting done, because I can assure you by the end of the weekend, the answer will still be no.

But I did get some done before I left, and I have to say, the ENTIRE time I was making this card, as you'll hear on the video I made, I cracked myself up.

This is a new set from Honey Bee stamps - and the owner - Melissa Hewitt - is here with me this weekend, as well as her partner in crime - Lisa Cisneros. I love these two ladies to the moon and back. And of course, I adore everything Melissa makes.

So of course, I had to take her new bunny from Heaven Sent and apply my twisted mind to it for today's card. I'm still laughing. The whole thing was inspired by the sentiment set - Small Gang.

I stamped the images first in fadeout ink so the lines would disappear, and then used Daniel Smith Watercolor - just two colors, one from the mixing reference guide listed below - to paint the little bunnies into a gang - a CHAIN GANG! Ha!!

Small Gang Stamp Set [ HNB ] Heaven Sent [ HNB ] Heaven Sent Honey Cuts [ HNB ] Smile | 4x4 Stamp Set - Honey Bee Stamps [ HNB ] Smile | Honey Cuts | Steel Craft Dies... [ HNB ] Sequins | Galaxy - Honey Bee Stamps [ HNB ] Marvy Uchida JEWEL PICKER Tool 91GRC [ SSS | ELH | MFT | ART ] Ranger .5 Oz. MINI MULTI MEDIUM MATTE... [ SSS | ELH | MFT | ART | SBC ] Fadeout No Line coloring Detail Ink [ INK ] Tsukineko VersaFine Clair NOCTURNE... [ SSS ] Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors [ BLIC ] Fabriano Artistico 140 lb. Cold Press... [ AMZUS ] Amazon.com: MEEDEN Empty Watercolor... [ AMZUS ] Da Vinci Cosmotop Sable Mix F Brushes... [ BLIC | ELH ] Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock by... [ SUP ] MISTI Stamping Tool [ MSW | HA | SSS | ELH | MFT | SBC ] Lawn Fawn STAMP SHAMMY Cleaner LF1045 [ SSS | ELH | CST | ART | SBC ] Rotatrim Professional Series Cutter -... [ BLIC ] Multipurpose Liquid Glue by Stampin' Up! [ SUP ] Nesting Porcelain Bowls - BLICK art... [ BLIC ] The Ultimate Mixing Palette: a World... [ BLR ]

Now for the real stamp image, he's wearing pajamas, and not prison stripes. But come on - this is funnier. Those gorgeous black and grey Galaxy sequins are from Honey Bee too. The matching dies for this stamp set are here.

Then I started behaving myself with another new stamp set. Well - I SORT OF behaved myself. The gorgeous flower in this Spring Blossoms set looks to me like my dogwood tree, but I decided to paint it in the color scheme of a pansy, because I wanted to make a point about complementary colors.

You know how people are constantly giving you rules about art and color theory... well my rule is - ignore all the rules.

People brainwashed me for so long about "mud" that I nearly got to the point of no return and believed it.

I avoided using them together like the plague, because I was terrified of the imaginary mud.

And then I had enough. I started shading my green leaves with purple and red, and suddenly my green leaves came to life like nobody's business. For a great example of this - click here.

So this card is to prove to you that defying the myth of mud can be a beautiful thing.

Behold, the pansy colored dogwood, where purple and yellow do NOT, in fact, make mud, but instead just make a pretty card. See the purple in the green leaves? And the orange? And where the purple and yellow blend? You don't need rules. You need rebellion in your heart, along with some good watercolor paper and some pretty images. The big smile sentiment makes me happy. I stamped the image in the magical fadeout ink before I painted it. All watercolor is Daniel Smith. (If you are into watercolor, I have a private Facebook group where I split tubes of Daniel Smith watercolor so that people can buy them for a LOT less than the tube price. Click here for info on that.)

Spring Blossoms Stamp Set [ HNB ] Spring Blossoms Honey Cuts [ HNB ] Fadeout No Line coloring Detail Ink [ INK ] Tsukineko VersaFine Clair NOCTURNE... [ SSS ] Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors [ BLIC ] Fabriano Artistico 140 lb. Cold Press... [ AMZUS ] Amazon.com: MEEDEN Empty Watercolor... [ AMZUS ] Da Vinci Cosmotop Sable Mix F Brushes... [ BLIC | ELH ] Elegant Eggplant 8-1/2" X 11"... [ SUP ] 8 1/2 x 11 Bright White Linen... [ PPR ] MISTI Stamping Tool [ MSW | HA | SSS | ELH | MFT | SBC ] Lawn Fawn STAMP SHAMMY Cleaner LF1045 [ SSS | ELH | CST | ART | SBC ] Rotatrim Professional Series Cutter -... [ BLIC ] Scor-Pal MINI SCOR-BUDDY Scoring... [ SSS ] Multipurpose Liquid Glue by Stampin' Up! [ SUP ] Nesting Porcelain Bowls - BLICK art... [ BLIC ] The Ultimate Mixing Palette: a World... [ BLR ]

The card base is a white linen cardstock that I get cut and scored and corner rounded from this website. I love the convenience of that. Just stick it in your Scor-Buddy, crease and you're done!

So as promised, here's the video where I cracked myself up with my jail bunny. Watch below or click here to watch it in HD on YouTube.

So these cards are for a blog hop today celebrating Honey Bee stamps birthday and their spring release! If you leave a comment on each blog in the hop, you will have a chance to win the Honey Bee giveaway - two winners will receive a $50 gift certificate. There will also be four winners of the Bee Organized Prize Pack. Winners will be announced on this page on May 5th.

So to get started, here is the list. Next on the hop after me is my uber talented sweet friend May Park.

Here is the full list:

Honey Bee Stamps

Carly Minner

Jennifer McGuire

Jo Ann Danchik

Kathy Racoosin

Kristina Werner

Lisa Cisneros

 YOU ARE HERE >> Lydia Fiedler << YOU ARE HERE

May Park

Vera Yates
Wanda Guess

So hop along and have fun!

Loveyameanitbye.