What’s Old is New Again – Honey Bear circa 2000

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Lately I’ve become obsessed with vintage Stampin’ Up! stamps. I adore the images and have been trying my hand at coloring them.

Do you know what I found when I goggled ‘Honey Bear’? Nothing. Not one image of this stamp stamped and colored. So sad 🙁

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Here he is a bit closer up. I used Stampin’ Blends for all of the colors:

  • Light Crumb Cake for the Bear with touches of Dark Crumb Cake and Bronze. Ivory was used for the pads of his feet.
  • Several coats of Light Daffodil Delight were used for the flowers as well as some Dark Daffodil Delight and a touch of Light Pumpkin Pie.
  • The bee hive was colored with Light and Dark Daffodil Delight
  • Bear’s bandana and the patch on his foot were colored with Light and Dark Pumpkin Pie
  • The grass was colored with Light and Dark Old Olive with a touch of Light Crumb Cake on the grass clumps
  • I wanted the leaves to be green, but not the same as the grass so I colored all of the leaves with Light Daffodil Delight before going over them again with Light Old Olive. I shaded with a bit of Dark Old Olive.

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  • The Fence is Light Smoky Slate. I used my Smoky Slate Stampin’ Marker to color along the grain of the wood to bring just a bit of detail to them.
  • The birdhouse is Light and Dark Crumb Caked the bird is Light and Dark Pool Party with a smudge of Light Bermuda Bay.
  • All of the bees are colored with Dark Daffodil Delight and their wings touched by a bit of Light Smoky Slate. I dabbed a bit of the color in the center of the wings and then used the color blender to spread it, giving the wings ever so slight color to them.
  • I colored the sentiment with my Crumb Cake Stampin’ Marker as that was the only tip fine enough not to bleed.
  • I’m not sure if you can see it, but all of the flowers, the bees, and the bird have been touched with Wink of Stella so they sparkle 🙂
  • A triple loop linen thread bow adds to the country charm.

I used a non-SU die to cut out Mr. Bear, backed him with some fresh and fun Tutti Frutti DSP and popped everything on a card base of Crushed Curry.

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I masked the sentiment stamp to add a few bees to the interior of the card…they are SO cute!

So what do you think of this 17 year old stamp set? I would love to hear your thoughts! As I have purchased a number of vintage Stampin’ Up! stamp sets, I think this will be a regular feature on my blog. So pull out some of your old favorites and stamp along!

Thank you for ‘buzzing’ by!!!

 

 

3 comments

  1. Rosanne Mulhern says:

    This is just the sweetest card, Shannon! I, too love vintage SU and have many dating back to 2000 when I first discovered SU. Sadly they don’t get much love anymore. I love that you gave this set such a fresh and modern vibe. I’ll look forward to more of your “old is new again” posts..that’s sounds like a great idea!

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