Bee Kind

For my DT card this week with Imagine That Digi Stamps I used a sweet image, sentiment and little bees drawn from two digi sets named Bee Girl and Bee Boy.  [You can find them HERE]. Plus, designer/owner of Imagine That, Kris Breach, provides her DTs with a coupon code that allows any friends a discount on their next digi or der. If you stop by the shop I know that you'll find lots of digis that you'll want to add to your collection.

I colored Bee Girl with Spectrum Noir and a Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen, fussy cut her out and set her aside. I next created the background by punching hexagons with a Fiskars punch to create a honeycomb pattern. When I laid the Bee Girl image atop the honeycomb she was a little overwhelmed with the background so I added a piece of yellow vellum to separate the two. Finished the card off with the sentiment from a digi set and perched a little bee digi from one of the digi sets top the sentiment. For the inside of the card, I used another sentiment from the set, another little bee, and scraps of paper and vellum.

  

Entered into: 

Outlawz Challenges- Monday Greeting Challenge- Wings, Butterflies, Bugs            

The Sisterhood of Crafters- Three B's (birds, bees, butterflies - use any or all)       

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Fridays                                                                    

Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge- June                                       

Had fun making this simple card scraps of yellow papers and a free sunrays template that I found HERE. I sketched a simple sunglass frame onto a scrap of colored cardstock, cutting the lenses out with an Exacto blade. I made the black lenses with a scrap of black cardstock. Adhering it to the backside of the sunglass frames and trimmed the excess with a sharp scissors. The sentiments are computer generated using a fun font named Jokerman.

 

Entered into: 

Outlawz Challenges- Songs and Rhymes- Saturday in the Park

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #392-#393 Anything Goes                    

Di’s Digi Stamps Include a Sun                                                                              

Wanted to make a card to enter into Power Poppy's new Challenge "Background Check." The instructions noted- "It's as simple as making sure your background really sings and helps give depth and dimension to your stamped image. We want to break out of our background boxes and make sure the color we add is for a reason and has a purpose in bringing our image to life!" I used a bold striped paper for the background in a pretty light blue which reflects, and provides a nice base, for the stripes on the beach bag. I created the bag with a scrap of paper, sketched the handles on black cardstock and cut them out. Punched two circles from scraps of black paper and folded them on the top of the bag to make bases for the handles, attaching these to the bag with silver brads, then slid the handles in place and taped them in place on the underside of the bag. Wanted to add a pair of sunglasses, but the ones made for the other card on this post didn't seem like quite the right shape. So I sketched a bit more feminine shaped frames onto a scrap of red cardstock, cutting the lenses out with an Exacto blade. I colored the lenses to be a translucent grey by lightly sponging black ink onto a scrap of vellum, cutting two small rectangles that I adhered to the underside of the glasses and then carefully trimmed the excess with a sharp scissors. Sketched a "temple" [I had to google to find the name of this part of the sunglasses that securely hold the glasses on the wearers head] on a scrap of the red paper, adhering it to the inside of the sunglasses and then attaching the sunglasses to the bag. [The other temple would be slid inside the bag, holding the sunglasses in place. Needless to say, I didn't make that one!]  The final touch was the sentiment, which is computer generated. Am entering the card into several other challenges that require patterns, summer or beach themes as this card fits all of those requirements. I do want to explain why I am entering the card into the Simon Says Monday Challenge, "Transport It."  I usually think of vehicles when discussing transporting things. However, a beach bag is essential when transporting sunscreen, lip balm and other items for a day in the sun. 

Entered into: 

Simon Says Monday Challenge- Transport It

Power Poppy- Creative Confetti- Background Check  

The Paper Shelter- #388 Stripes and/or Dots

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge- Travel/Vacation                                    

Double D’s Challenge- Pick A Pattern [photo]                  

Cute Card Thursday- #587 Summer

Outlawz Challenge- Twisted Thursday- [TWIST –Beach Babe]