STAMPtember® Feature: Honey Bee Stamps!

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Hi friends! Happy STAMPtember® 20th! Thanks for hanging with us all month and joining in the celebration! We still have lots of fun surprises in store!! Today we are so happy to be featuring this super sweet Honey Bee Stamps! You can now use code honeystmp to take 15% any in stock Honey Bee Stamps branded product(s)! Shop early for the best selection! We’re so honored to have first time guest Taniesa Vlasak on the blog today to inspire you with Honey Bee products! She made this DIY Papercrafter’s Coloring Book and it is just oh so fun, be sure to read on!

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Happy STAMPtember!

I am super excited to be representing Honey Bee Stamps on the Simon Says Stamp blog today. I have three projects to share with you, and a video that walks through all three of them.

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I will be listing all of the supplies used in my projects at the end of this post. Today I will be highlighting some of the brand new products from Honey Bee Stamps!

Zen Floral and Zen Bouquet were inspired from the popular adult coloring book trend. Both sets have matching dies and the large bouquet is almost 6 inches around. I thought that these would be perfect to show off today’s project share.

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You can make a diy coloring book so many different ways, so I didn’t want to bore you with a step by step tutorial. Instead, I will walk through this project on camera and talk about several possible ways you can make your own custom coloring book with supplies you may have on hand already.

This coloring book measures approx. 5×7. To make this particular cover size, you will need two pieces of 5×7 chipboard, two pieces of cover paper measured at 5 ½ x 7 ½ , and two pieces of patterned paper that will go on the inside. Cut these slightly smaller than the chipboard. Mine measured 4 ¾ x 6 ¾. I adhered all of the pieces together with Scor tape but you can use your favorite adhesive. You can even skip covering the chipboard or paint it with acrylic paint.

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I chose to decorate my cover with the Honey Bee Stamps Zen floral border stamp and die. I also used the Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember stitched scallop die and the Honey Bee Stamps Color my world stamp set and die. I did some simple ink blending with distress inks then went over the letters with my Sakura black Glaze pen. I even added a little shimmer inside the letters with my spectrum noir glitter marker.

I made the inside pages slightly bigger than a standard A2 card base with a bit extra at the top for binding. The inside pages are 4 ½ x 6 ½ . I have pre stamped some card bases for my recipient to color. Pages/ bases are all on Tim Holtz watercolor cardstock, Neenah solar white, or Strathmore bristol paper. This is a great way to get more use out of your stamp collection. Consider stamping several pages in one session to make multiple books or card bases ready to color.

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Another fun product that I have included is the Simon Says Stamp exclusive Suzy’s doodles. These are printed on Tim Holtz watercolor paper. I adhered each to a page in the book with temporary adhesive. This way they stay put in the book for coloring but when you’re ready to take it out and make a card it comes off easily.

I stamped each of the Honey Bee pages twice for each design. The top piece being the watercolor cardstock and then using temporary adhesive I glued that to the other stamped panel on Neenah solar white. The Bristol paper is embossed and is a separate sheet.

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As a finishing touch to the coloring book I made a cute removable pallet that can go in and out of the book. I used a pack of Peerless watercolor sheets and although you can just cut these in small squares or rectangles I thought it would be fun to use the hexagon die from Simon Says Stamp perfect shapes dies to arrange the paint in a fun “Honey Bee Stamps” sort of feel. I arranged the little paint hexagons in a gate fold pallet. The pallet base is created by using a 6×9 piece of Tim Holtz watercolor paper, 6×9 piece of printed paper and a piece of heavy acetate. The acetate protects the watercolors from running into each other should the pallet be put away damp, it can also be used as a mixing surface. Each end of the paper was scored at approx. 2 ¼ inches. I created a simple belly band to keep the pallet closed using a strip of the same patterned paper using the opposite side. I die cut a circle and stamped a floral from the Zen Bouquet stamp set to tie it all together.

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I bound my coloring book using the We R Memory Keepers CINCH binding machine. There are other binding machines out there but I have only used this one. You could also punch some holes with a and bind using mini album rings, or tie together with ribbon or twine. You could even use an old planner or traveler’s notebook… SO many possibilities to create a coloring book for friends or for yourself to color on the go.

I am giving this coloring book as a gift, so I placed my coloring book in a mesh bag along with a waterbrush and chamois.

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I also made a card that coordinates with the album. I used the huge Zen Bouquet stamp which I have cut down partially, I used my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers to do the coloring and added little touches here and there with my glitter marker and glossy accents. I used the Simon Says Stamp A2 curved card edge die and layered striped patterned paper behind it. For the sentiment I cut apart a sentiment from Honey Bee Stamps Happy everything (You Make Me) and added the new SSS Inspire die cut in the middle instead of “make”. For the final little accent I added the bee stamp from Honey Bee Stamps Sweet as Honey stamp set and die.

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  1. Taniesa, your coloring book is just amazing! It looks like so much fun! It would be a fun gift to make for any of the many card making friends I have. Thank you for sharing your beautifully designed book!

  2. WOW
    WONDERFUL stamps, FABULOUS colouring book and BEAUTIFUL card, SO CREATIVE – LOVE IT ALL – THANK YOU for sharing!!!

  3. I love this idea… I’ve thought about stamping single sheets to color but your follow through to create a set that includes something to color with and put together so thoughtfully is fantastic! Thanks for encouraging me to take the next step. Happy Stamptember!

  4. Wow that is a fantastic idea & love how you even included watercolors for the recipient to use! Thank you so much for sharing!

  5. I love making my own books and have thought a while about making a coloring one. I love this post because I can now incorporate some really cool ideas into my original one!!
    Love your book Taniesa, so awesome!!

  6. This is such an awesome gift idea. I have three nieces (& maybe one of my nephews, too!) who would love this. Beautiful stamps, gorgeous card!

  7. so many wonderful ideas – love th coloring book idea with the removable water color paper to reveal the neenah stamped images – very clever and cool:)

  8. I have just recently found Honey Bee stamps and love what I have seen so far! I really love the Zen Floral and Zen Bouquet stamps and making a coloring book is a great idea!! You could make an entire book using just those two stamps by only stamping parts of each one! OOOOOO! now my mind is racing with ideas and I am putting these two stamps at the top of my wish list!!! TFS!

  9. What a fun idea to create a coloring book as a Christmas gift for artsy friends. I especially like the idea of the Peerless watercolor sheets being cut into hexagon shapes. Someone was thinking!

  10. Gorgeous Honey Bee Stamps! Love how you used both watercoloring and gel pens to color the images in! So creative!!! I can’t wait to get my hands on some of the Honey Bee products! Thanks for sharing :)

  11. Wow! Absolutely gorgeous card and such a fun gift (and the stamps are fabulous)–the lucky gift recipient will surely enjoy it :)

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