HoneyPop Birthday Bird

A friend's birthday gave me the opportunity to try a new 3D card concept.  When I saw the HoneyPop product line on my very first trip to a store called Archiver's, I found it completely jaw dropping irrisistable.

Since this card was a new concept for me, I decided to take strong inspiration from the card design on the Inky Antics website that demonstrated the Cupcake Birdy stamp set from the HoneyPop Collection.

Front:
Precut cream colored 5x7 card
Cardstock: light pink, dark pink, light purple, yellow, light blue, white, black, DCWV Animal Crackers-blue polka dot paper strip
Inky Antics - Cupcake Birdy stamp set - Happy Birthday
Distress Ink - Faded Jeans

Cartridges:
Create a Critter - bird pg65
George and Basic Shapes - ovals cut at approximately 4.75" and 5"
Wall Decor and More - duck flourish leftovers from another card

Embellishments: white ribbon, blue ribbon, pop dots

I started off giving my card a double score in the spine to make sure the 3D effect of the honeycomb paper works properly, just like the instructions state.  Plus this would change the width of the card and I wanted to be aware of the minor adjustment when sizing the white and pink base frame cardstock.

Cut and assemble the little bird and all of her layers from the Create a Critter cartridge at 3" and placed the pop dots to the back for the added demension.  Plundering my scraps, I found a leftover flourish from another card where I cut the Wall Decor and More Duck.  By luck it was the same color as the larger oval so I added it to the card.  Covering the edges of the blue polka dot paper strip with the ribbons, I finished assembly, but did not attach to the card yet.  The Happy Birthday stamp barely fit, however it was a must.

Inside:
Distress Ink - Faded Jeans
Inky Antics - Cupcake Birdy stamp set - with a cherry on top, cherry, bird
Inky Antics Honey pop collection - Brown honeycomb paper
Inky Antics Honey pop collection - Pink honeycomb paper

I stamped and cut the cupcake parts from Brown and Pink honeycomb paper.  Note to self, but sure to use strong, sharp scissors, this paper requires a clean cut and dinky scissors will not do the job properly.

Stamped and colored the cherry on top, while this seems out of order, you need to do this part first on the inside so that you have room for your hands, the acrylic block, etc., going for clean contact with no slips.  Then using normal glue runner adhesive, I attached the cupcake parts to the center of the card.  Wow.  It was as spectacular as I remember from the store!

Added the rest of the inside stamps, and affixed the card front to the card face.

I am absolutely thrilled with the result.