Okay, so here's my little bee challenge card, finally! My sweet friend, Beate, sent Lori (<=== click on their names to see their challenge cards) and me packages with printed paper, ribbon, Primas, and stamped Stampendous bee images and challenged us to create a card with these supplies. What fun to have almost all of the details of your card already worked out for you!
Since I tried that great sketch challenge yesterday (posted this morning in the article below) and loved it, I thought I would use it again and have ALL the decisions made for me! Since we needed teacher appreciation cards for my youngest's last day of pre-k today <sniff>, this was a perfect, quick solution!
This gorgeous gold paper is Daisy D's Gypsy and the dotted is Scenic Route's Harvest Call -- perfect colors for bees. I believe Beate purchased them from Eclectic Paperie. That Bee-ate (pronounced and sounds like the car, Miata) sure knows how to pick colors (sorry, I couldn't resist!). I faux stitched the gold paper, using my paper piercing template, pad & tool from Stampin' Up! (these things are attached to my body, I adore them!) and then connected the dots with a chocolate chip marker. The paper is attached to the card base with Making Memories' copper metallic flower brads.
I copied Beate and used the sentiment from SU's Cute as a Bug -- it was perfect for a teacher thank-you card. I punched it out with SU's small oval punch and then matted it in chocolate chip cardstock punched with the large oval punch. Then I trimmed the large oval with scalloped scissors.
The little bee is watercolored with an Aqua Painter and classic dye reinkers: cocoa and summer sun. His little wings are covered with dazzling diamonds glitter, using Zig's 2-Way Glue pen. I used the Coluzzle circles to cut around the bee, leaving his flower sticking up out of the circle intact (it's under the Prima flower). He is popped up on dimensionals.
Thanks for the fun challenge, Beate. I still have a lot of bees, ribbon & Prima flowers left over, so you'll probably see these cute little bees popping up again! Have a wonderful weekend, everyone, and I'll be back tomorrow with some exciting news!
