Merry Christmas Eve Honey Bee friends! For this special day I’ve made a card to celebrate the season using the beautiful Northern Star Cover Plate die along with the Joy stamps and coordinating Joy Honey Cuts. I absolutely love the layering word dies that Honey Bee has! Be sure to keep reading to see how I used the Christ Is Born set for the inside of the card.
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I love how quick and easy this card was to make! To begin I die cut a piece of dark blue card stock with the Northern Star Cover Plate die. I trimmed it to 4″ X5-¼”. Then I used two Background Blender brushes to ink some Blueprint Sketch and Black Soot Distress Inks around the edges. Next I adhered the blue panel to a piece of gold glitter card stock using Bee Creative glue. I love the gold sparkling stars! I adhered this to a top folding white A2 card base.
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I used the same card stocks to die cut my layers of the Joy Honey Cuts. I die cut the white top layer three times from Neenah Solar White 80# card stock for extra dimension. Then I adhered all of the layers together with Bee Creative glue. While the layers were drying, I stamped “to the world” from the Joy stamp set with Versamark, sprinkled on some gold embossing powder and heat set it. I layered some blue card stock behind it and die cut it with a Sentiment Banners Honey Cut. I waited until I finished the inside of the card before adhering this to the card front.
I don’t usually finish the inside of a card, but I thought that this beautiful image from the Christ Is Born set went perfectly with the front of the card.
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On a separate piece of Neenah 80# card stock I stamped the manger from the Christ Is Born stamp set in Versamark, sprinkled on some gold sparkle embossing powder and heat set it. I used the coordinating Honey Cuts to die cut Mary and Joseph and the star. I adhered the pieces above strips of blue and gold glitter card stock with Bee Creative glue.
To finish off the inside, I used a sentiment that’s in the Christ Is Born stamp set and heat embossed it with gold embossing powder.
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Thank you so much for stopping by today! No matter how you celebrate this season, I am wishing all of the joy, peace, and happiness for you now and into 2021!
2 responses to “Joy To The World”
Beautiful card. Love the gold glitter with the blue panel.
Thank you so much!! I hope the new year is off to a good start for you!