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 🙁
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.
- 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.
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!!!
Such a cute card! Love the sweet bear. Clever little inclusion of the bees on the inside!
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!
Well done! Look forward to seeing you revisit older sets.