What's the buzz?

Over Spring Break I got to play around a little and I start two cards. One I am showing today. The other is for another day, lol. I finished this one Monday night. I decided to pull the cute little bees from There She Goes' Bee Happy set. I wanted to pair the bee with PTI's Hexagon plate so I decided to let that be the focus. Instead of die-cutting the plate I embossed it and the cardstock I used was a glossy one. I chose that c/s just so I could play around with some alcohol inks. I loved the colors I used because it turned out to be like honey (inks were Caramel, Butterscotch, and Terra Cotta). The sketch for the card came from Clean & Simple. The banner was stapled on with Tim Holtz's mini stapler. I stamped the bee onto white c/s and then sponged blue inks onto it to create a sky. A second bee was stamped and colored on scrap white c/s and then cut out and glued over the other one. This is also for the TSG's anything goes challenge.

We Bee-long together

Here is my second card (and another one I had lots of fun making) that I submitted to the publication call. It is a contender as well for the contender blog hop, lol. I put it towards one of the sketches because it was more outside the box instead of a literal interpretation. However, now that I am looking at it again, it might have been better for the scene call. Oh well, live and learn :P

I embossed the base with PTI's hexagon plate because well, bees go with hexagons right. I created the sky scene with some cute little clouds using TSG Day and Night set. After stamping them I coated them with glossy accent so they could dry and then sponged light blue distress ink over it to create the sky color. LOVED doing this and so see me doing it again (in fact, this is the second card I did this with). The bees are Paper Smooches. I took their free digi bee and printed it twice, once a little smaller and flipped to be the girl bee. Before cutting them out I colored them with copics and coated the eyes and wings with more glossy accent. To create the frame I simply created a computer generated sentiment to play on the bees and cut it out. The sky was glued behind it with the heart and bees popped up with some dots. The whole frame was popped up as well to allow for some sweet little handmade banners to peek out from the side. I stamped the hexagon image on the blue banner in a medium blue and then sponged a lighter shade over it for a two-tone effect. The golden banner was simply created by sponged a yellow and orange ink over white cardstock and then taking a white gel pen and adding the lines.

This one might just be my favorite one. After having gone through one publication call I only wish I could get some creative feedback about how I submitted my works. You know, where could I improve: is it in my photographing skills, my write-ups, or even my artistic skills. Since I don't think they do that because they get so many works I will just continue doing my best and having fun. That's the important part anyways!

Paper Smooches fun

I don't have many Paper Smooches stamps (ok, really I only have one, but I have several of their free digis), but I have always loved the cuteness of them and wanted more. I figured since I am trying to watch my budget more I would through caution to the wind and try out for their Guest Designer spot for Novemeber. I really love the little bee and it became the foundation for my card. While looking through their digis I got the brillant idea to see how many I could merge together. Here's my card, can you figure out how many I used?

I used four (did you get it right?). I used the bee twice by flipping it and making the second one a little smaller, the heart came from the I {heart} you sentiment, the word "bee" came for the bee sentiment (and I copied the "b" and then flipped it to make the "d"), and the word "love" came from the Love You Bunches sentiment. I had lots of fun piecing them together. I decided my bees need to flying in the sky so I cut some white c/s and sponged three shades of blue onto it and then flicked water onto it to create my sky. To ground my card I used banners. I used washi tape to create the red banner to pull in the color of the heart, printed my pieced together sentiment onto white c/s, and created the yellow one to mimic the color of the bees with my copics. After putting the banners on I went to my sewing machine and added the zig-zag stitch to anchor them. To add the the cuteness of the bees I added glitter the wings and goggle-eyes for the ubber cuteness. To make sure my little girl bee looked like a girl I added the eyelashes. I then coated the heart with some glossy accent.

I made a second card. Actually this was the first card, but I didn't like how it turned out. I thought I would share so ya'll can see that my first ideas aren't always the best for me :)

A Buzzing Celebration

Here is my last card for last week's challenges over at TSG. I had so much fun stretching my TSG stamps into being used for birthdays. The fifth challenge at TSG was to use three embellies on our birthday card. I loved my sky scene so much that I used it again on this card, and of course I just had to use those sweet little bees from Bee Happy. I couldn't find a sentiment that I like thought I used my computer to create one. The inside says "so we decided to come a celebrate too. Happy Birthday!" The orange is some pattern paper I had laying around. The flowers were sprayed with Perfect Pearl mist: Perfect Pearl to mimic the shine/glitter of the bees wings. The pearl just fit nicely into the flower and made for a nice touch on the card. I am excited to have been able to play along (the three embellies: Flowers, Pearl, Bling: perfect pearl and glitter). The sketch is from Sketch Saturday.