Bee-utiful

Hello.  Thank you for being here today.

Last week was Jen's granddaughter Lily's 10th birthday.  I made this card for my mum to send to her great-grand-daughter.  The sentiment is made using Altenew's Family Matters and the bees are from Lawn Fawn's Hello Sunshine.

I had this paper in my stash and when I saw it I thought of honeycomb, which is what inspired me to add bees to the card.

To keep in with the theme some masking was employed to add this sentiment to the inside.  The word beautiful is from Simon's June card kit called Beautiful Flowers.

I have Jen to thank for adding the greeting.  She finished it for me while I was at work!  I think it worked out well and was complemented by the extra die cut bees.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

Bee happy

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good weekend. Yesterday was Jude's birthday so we all went out for a family meal at a very nice country pub/restaurant. They gave us a private room upstairs as there was 15 of us and the food was excellent. So a very nice time was had by all. 

Today's card is one I made for Jude from our brother John. I used the bee and cloud from the Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine set and coloured the bees with Copic Markers.

The bee and honeycomb papers are from a Pebbles Inc pad called Garden Party, and I layered them with some orange Coredinations card.

I had my first attempt at a slider card, and I'm pretty happy with how it's turned out. I used a circle frame die from an MFT Stamps Blueprints Dienamics set, and cut the bee papers and card so I had 3 layers.

Then I used 5 pence pieces in the channel as pennies were a little big for this. I used two for each bee and cloud and joined them together with a foam circle. 

Then I raised the outer layer and inner circle on foam tape to create the channel in the centre for the coins to move around. The sentiments came from the Gnome Sweet Gnome Lawn Fawn set and the Simon Says Stamp, Happy and Smile set.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Bee-you-tiful

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. Today is my oldest granddaughters 8th birthday, and this is one of the cards I made for her. Happy Birthday Lily May, hope you have a wonderful day. xxxxxxxx

I started by typing the sentiment on the PC and then printing it with the Laserjet printer. Then I used gold and platinum foil half and half over the words and ran it through the Minc machine. This gives the letters the two-tone look.

I used a Marianne Designs hexagon die and paper from the stash to create the honeycomb pattern. I stuck some of them flat to the card and raised some of them on foam pads.

Then I used an MFT die called Grassy Edges for the grass border and a Lawn Fawn stamp and die set called Hello Sunshine, for the big bees.

I coloured these with Copic Markers and then used a tiny bee from the Hero Arts My Monthly Hero March kit, to stamp here and there around the card.

I did add a granddaughter word under the sentiment before I gave it to Lily, but after I'd took the photos.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx