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Hello Honey Bee friends!! I had lots of fun getting inky to create my card that features the beautiful Bold Backgrounds: Vines Of Love Honey Cuts!! Read on for how to create these inky backgrounds for your die cuts!

I used two pieces of Neenah cardstock for the backgrounds. I chose three shades of green ink pads (light, medium, and dark) and three of pink ink pads. Then I used Detail Blender Brushes and blended the green inks in spots all over one piece of the white cardstock, blending until the piece was covered in the shades of green. I repeated this for the pink inks.

Next I added some water splatters to each piece. I used my heat tool to dry them. Then I spritzed Fossilized Amber Distress Spritz onto the green piece. For the pink panel I spritzed on Picked Raspberry Distress Spritz. These Distress Spritzes add such a beautiful shimmer!

I die cut the panels with the dies in the Bold Background: Vines Of Love. Using the Layering Guide found in the product description, I used glue to adhere the layers. Then I glued the piece to a white A2 card base.

I die cut the sentiment with dies from the BEE Playful Lowercase Alphabet and the Stacking Hearts dies from the pink inked panel. Then I die cut two more each from white cardstock and used glue to adhere the layers together. Next I added glue to the bottom part of each die cut and sprinkled on some chunky glitter. When the glue dries, I die cut an oval from the Sweet Stacks: Ovals and glued the sentiment to it.

I had a bit more inky fun dying my white ribbon (seam binding) to coordinate with the Vines Of Love. It’s easy to do! Just use a small container/dish and place your ribbon in it. Then add drops of alcohol ink to the ribbon. Add several drops of rubbing alcohol to dilute. I used my die pick tool to move the ribbon around to fully saturate it. Use your tweezers to pick up the ribbon and place it onto a clean paper towel to dry. (I don’t have many alcohol inks, but do have Alcohol Pearl in the color called Intrigue, and this worked quite nicely.)

After I tied the ribbon around the card front, I added foam tape strips to the back of the sentiment to adhere it to the card. I used my scissors to trim off the edge of the oval.

This photo really shows the beautiful shimmer of the Distress Spritzes! This was so fun to make and I hope you are inspired by my card. Thanks so very much for stopping by!

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