HoneyPop Flower Card

On recent visit to Archiver's, I learned of a new way to use the HoneyPop paper pad.  In a demonstration, they cut a piece of the paper, expanded the honeycomb into a long piece and swirled that piece around a circular adhesive dot.  Cutting different shapes of the honeypop paper result in different styles of flowers.

Front:
Precut Folded Notecards - purple with white interior
Cardstock: white
Cuttlebug: Swiss Dots
HoneyPop Paper: Pink
Embellishment: white button
Colorbox ink - Eggplant
Glubers Adhesive Dot



Above is my very first honeypop flower and I learned that I do not have a steady hand at swirling delicate paper around a very sticky adhesive dot.  Even tho I had to trim the pitiful pieces that were sticking out, over all I thought my little flower still turned out well.

Below is my second honeypop flower.

I used a the Rainbow HoneyPop paper, a Gluber adhesive dot and a little gemstone to cover the mess that becomes the middle as the paper meets itself.
In an attempt to get the alignment a little more even, I decided to draw a swirl directly on the Gluber adhesive dot.  Basically, I created a guideline to follow and it worked out beautifully.

Showering Mom with Love

Wishing my mom the happiest birthday, I made her a 3D card.  Venturing away from the Inky Antics HoneyPop stamp sets, I am trying to figure out what other shapes I can make with the honeycomb paper on my own.

Front: 

Precut 5x7 cream card

Cardstocks: pink, blue, cream

Embelishments: cream grosgrain ribbon, blue ribbon

Versa Black ink

Happy Birthday stamp

Silver embossing powder

Inside:

Cardsocks: black, blue, light blue, pale yellow, pink

Cartridge: 3 Birds on Parade - Rain pg30

Pink HoneyComb paper

Heart paper punch

Cut and assemble the Rain bird on page 30 except for the umbrella.  Cut the umbrella off the black base at the very top of the handle and set aside.  While you will not need all layers of the umbrella, you will still cut Layer 2 in order to get the rain boots.

Cut the top piece off the black umbrella cutout that was set aside.  Take the umbrella and fold it in half.  Trace that half shape onto the honeycomb paper and cut it out using very sharp, sturdy scissors.  I bought the Tim Holtz Micro-serrated scissors for this purpose, my other much cheaper scissors were sliding around making sloppy cuts.

Using a tape runner, I glued the umbrella into my double scored card (you have to double score the center of the card to allow for the extra thickness).  Since I am using paper instead of a stamp, I had to place the little bird slightly askew so that the umbrella stem was not directly in the fold.   Glue the little piece at the top of the honeycomb umbrella at the same slight angle.  I placed the little rain drops on the card and added extra pink heart "rain".

I did not have a great stamp so I wrote the sentiment with an ink pen.  While that changes the "feel" of the design, the card is going to my mom, so I think she will like that handwritten touch.

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.