Hello, My Sweet Friend - English Cottage

Handmade card featuring a colorful illustrated English cottage with a winding garden path.

Hello, Honey Bee friends!! Brenda back with you today!! I finally had time to sit and color the English Cottage Stamp!! I love all the detail achieved with this red rubber stamp!!

You are so special to me card with a colored stone cottage, garden path and flowers on a black mat, Honey Bee Stamps.

I stamped the English Cottage Stamp onto a panel of white cardstock with Bee Creative Intense Black Ink. I used my Copic markers to color in the scene. Here's a little tip...if you find that you've lost your highlights, add some details back in with a white gel pen, then color over them with Copics. That's what I did when I realized I had lost some of the details and contrast in my coloring.

Front view of the stone cottage card with ivy, a winding brick path and lavender, Hello sweet friend, Honey Bee Stamps.

The panel was die-cut with the second largest die in the Sweet Stacks: Rectangles Die Set. I also die-cut a panel of black cardstock with the largest die in the same die set and adhered the two panels together with Bee Creative Glue.

Angled view of the English cottage card with a thatched roof and green lawn on a black mat, a Honey Bee Stamps project.

The sentiments are from the So Special Stamp Set. There are so many great sentiments in this set!! I find myself reaching for it again and again!! They were stamped onto black cardstock with Bee Creative Embossing Ink, embossed with white embossing powder and cut out with the Coordinating Dies. They were both popped up with foam tape and this card was finished.

Tilted close-up of the colored cottage garden with purple flowers along the path, made with Honey Bee Stamps.

That does it for me today!! Thanks so much for stopping by!! I'll see you next week!!

Brenda

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