Regarding the Bee Happy cards, I can't find one here, and it was a long time ago, but I am pretty sure I just heat embossed on the patterned paper, and colored them with markers. Sorry.
It's the lack of bleeding under the 'stencil', along with the sharp edge around the image (especially on Water Color paper - so much texture!!), Was hoping you had a secret stick to placing your stencil?,,, let me ask this, what cstk/material did you use to die cut the stencil in the first place?