Stepped Up Digital Stamping with Die Cuts ft. Joy Clair Designs

Extraordinary with Joy Clair Designs

Hello everyone! Spring is here and soon the bees will be buzzing about!  So, today I'm sharing with you a beautiful card made with

Joy Clair Designs

 Extraordinary Digital Stamp Set  

This is such a gorgeous set and the images are quite different than you might expect...I love them all!  Let me show you how I made my card!  I started by composing my image and sentiment in the computer and printing it out onto Neenah 80lb Solar White card stock.

Even before I started to color my image I wanted to die cut it.  I used a pierced rectangle die set.  I chose the die in the set that is 3 1/4" x 4 1/2".  These dies are made by Sizzix.

 There is not a large area to color, so I wanted to make sure my image popped on my card.  I did this by using bright colors.

I used Copic Markers for coloring.  For the bee I used Y02, Y08, Y17, Y38, YR04.  I used 2 different green mixes for the 2 different types of leaves.  I used YG11 & YG63, and YG06 & G14 for the other.  I used Blue Violets for the flowers - BV000, BV02 and BV13.  For the wings I used: B0000, RV00, YG0000, V01.  For just a bit of added brightness to the flowers I glazed them with RV10 and RV63.  I set that piece aside to work on the background.  Using a honeycomb stencil and Mustard Seed Oxide ink and the new Stick & Stamp Mat from Brutus Monroe, I stenciled an A2 size panel.

Once it was dry I used a die from the same pierced set that was 4" x 5 1/4".

To give this piece just a bit of depth, I used a YR21 Copic Marker and shaded the bottom half of each of the hexagons.  This was not deep shadowing, just enough so you know it's there.

Now I was ready to assemble my card.

I adhered the stenciled panel to my white A2 size top folding card base.  I adhered my main panel by adding a piece of adhesive foam the back.  I added shimmer to the wings of the bee and the flowers.

So hard to catch a photo of shimmer!  It's so pretty!  I also added some yellow gems around my image.  And that finished my card for today!

This stamp set is available at

 Joy Clair Designs 

and there are 2 other images included as well!  It's one of my favorites!  

Thanks so much for spending time here today!  I really appreciate it!

Betsy

In my capacity as a design team member for Joy Clair Designs, I do receive the products I use from them. 

All opinions and creative decisions remain my own, and I only work with companies/use products that I love.