Honey Bee Simon Says Stamptember challenge:

I had a lovely creave session with Nina this weekend, ONLY card I managed this weekend, no regrets as I got a day away with my handsome Mr.  Nina pointed me to this challenge for STAMPtember at Simon Says Stamp

and as I have some lovely Honey Bee stamps I managed to whip up a card (pictured above the STAMPtember ad)   I Stamped the Thank You on thick bright white cardstock then die cut it with a Simon Says rectangular stitched diecut.  I stamped the Honey Bee  “I CAN’T” and “ENOUGH”  and pretty butterfly.  I used Tim Holtz  distress inks (birthday gift from my sweet Sis) in dusty concord and victorian velvet on all things stamped.  I used a diecut for the sentiment tabs and fussy cut the butterfly.  I added some Gelly Roll on the butterfly for a bit of soft glitz.  I mounted everything on the card, adding a Studio Katia gem for the butterfly’s head and sprinkling a few sequins around the rest of the card to draw your eye around. 

I love how this butterfly looks as if it hovering on my card, ready to take flight. 

Thanks for stopping by! 

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A BEE-utiful Birthday Card

I had such a sweet time making this card.  I saw this challenge for Seize the Birthday for January 19th and decided it would be amusing to try this one with some stamps I had in mind. 

The Seize the Birthday challenge calls either to make this a simple birthday card and/or make it one including Doodles or Dashes – I chose to hit it on both points!

I chose the base to include lots of white space by embossing a slab of white columns cardstock using a Cricut Cuttlebug Chicken Wire embossing folder.  (I thought the shapes suggested beehive hexagons)  I then stampedall the senitments on – the “buzzing by to say” and the hexagons and the bee and doodles are all from Honey Bee Stamps (oh how I LOOOOOVE my HB Stamps!!!)  Used bright yellow cardstock for more “hive” which I fussy-cut and bumped out with foam tape.  I shaded each segment using my tombow markers using a graduated wash of deep burgundy.  I matched up a bright yellow tombow to accent the bee then after everything was placed I used Diamond Glaze to adde dimension to the hive and bee. 

The Happy Birthday sentiment is a Studio G.

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I want to share with you a thought that if where you are, like where I am, is the dullest, darkest time of the year, know there are snowdrops waiting just under the snow, even though you can’t see them.  Take advantage of this time to tackle some projects about the house indoors.  Read books, burn a candle, have warm baths.  Don’t let the gloom get ahold on you.  You can’t change the weather but you can think sunny! 

 

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