{"id":512,"date":"2021-04-10T11:40:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T11:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lovenotesbyjess.com\/blog\/?p=512"},"modified":"2021-04-10T11:41:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T11:41:35","slug":"sss-bee-yourself-beeutiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lovenotesbyjess.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/10\/sss-bee-yourself-beeutiful\/","title":{"rendered":"SSS – BEE Yourself BEEutiful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have MANY hobbies, one of which I love watching videos of people decorating cookies. Some day, I will take a chance a try my hand but I have followed a beautiful decorate called SweetAmbs<\/strong><\/a> for years. And while browsing one night, I cam across one of her beautiful cookies and I was totally inspired! It was her Decorated Bee Cookies<\/a><\/strong>. So I had to make a card inspired by these regal and delicious looking treats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started by using SSS Cardstock in Soft Navy<\/a><\/strong>. I then had a stitched square die that I cut out two sizes to use as a layer. Once I had enough cut out, I went to work using the Tonic Nuvo Gilded Flakes.<\/a><\/strong> Have you ever worked with these? While they are BEAUTIFUL, they sure are a mess! I like to work in an old cardboard box to help contain the easily blown away gold. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to adhere the flakes, I got out my Ranger Sticky Embossing Powder<\/a><\/strong>. This works just like a embossing powder in that you use versamark ink<\/a><\/strong> (or any clear sticky inky), sprinkle the sticky embossing powder onto it and heat it. It will remain sticky until you re heat it or let it dry over time. I laid the larger of the squares down and began pressing my ink pad onto them. Once I had them dusted with powder and heated, I laid them in a shallow box (I love using SSS card kit boxes, they are the perfect depth!). Then I got to work. very slowly and making sure not to heavy breath I pinched flakes out and pounced them into the sticky inked squares. I then used my finger to press the flakes all over until completely covered. It took me about 15 minutes to complete this part. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I then used some Square Foam<\/a><\/strong> to pop up the smaller blue square onto the gilded square. I then used SSS Small Hexagon Die<\/a><\/strong> and cut out a few using a light blue cardstock. After that, I began to assemble my card, trying to create that geometrical pattern of a honey comb. (I didn’t have hexagon dies handy other wise I would have used that shape over square). I then glued the die cuts on to add more dimension. Lastly, I used the SSS BEE Yourself <\/a><\/strong> stamp and used Princess Gold Ranger Embossing Powder<\/a><\/strong> on the Soft Navy<\/a><\/strong> cardstock. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I really love being inspired by things outside of cardmaking! It makes it so fun! How about you, where do you find inspiration?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have MANY hobbies, one of which I love watching videos of people decorating cookies. Some day, I will take a chance a try my hand but I have followed a beautiful decorate called SweetAmbs for years. And while browsing one night, I cam across one of her beautiful cookies and I was totally inspired! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[55,79,22],"tags":[78,15,4],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-55","category-affiliate","category-simon-says-stamp","tag-affiliate","tag-die-cutting","tag-simon-says-stamp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t