Just ‘buzzing’ in to say hello with my first DT project for May for Country View Crafts and Challenges on Facebook. The theme this month has been set by the lovely Claire and its ’Bugs and Bees’.
The challenge is open worldwide and you can join the group here where you will find information on how to enter:
You must use products from brands that Country View Crafts stocks and please list them in your entry. You can enter 5 times each month with different projects. We’ve got a fabulous £20 prize voucher that one randomly selected winner will win this month.
Beeing (😁) that I haven’t got all my craft stuff to hand but I do have the essentials, I thought I’d make a 3D scene of Beehives, made with the Tim Holtz Sizzix Paper Village 664741 die set.
I cut the 3 houses out in plain white card and then cut them out again in the Distress Holiday Woodgrain card.
Lining them up, I cut these into segments to look like a layered beehive and glued them back onto the plain white card. I also made a little hole in the top of each one for the ‘bees to get in and out’.
I cut a piece of MDF for my base to the size 15cm x 21cm and painted this with Distress Paint Rustic Wilderness.
I cut up some green grassy moss into a finer blend and added this to my base with Matte Mod Podge.
With a hot glue yellow glitter stick, I blobbed the glue onto my craft mat to make some honey.
I coloured my Idea-ology metal bee with Black Soot Distress Paint and Wild Honey. I added some Finnabair Lavender wax to the wings and added him to the top of a 0.9mm twisted wire which I threaded through a hole I'd made in the base. I wanted him to look like he's buzzing around. I then placed my beehives on the grass.
And here’s my beehive scene for this month’s theme. This was a bit of a challenge for me to make but I enjoyed coming up with the idea - I hope you like it and may be inspired to try something like this for yourself.
And please do head on over to our group on Facebook to take a look at what my Design Teammates have been making - they’re so inspiring and I’m sure you’ll love seeing what they’ve come up with, as well as the fabulous entries from our group members. It's only the 12th of May, so you've got plenty of time to enter.
Thanks for stopping by my blog.
Hugs
Carol xx
You can find the products I used here:
(If anything is out of stock you can always contact Brenda at Country View Crafts to see if she can order it in for you, and she ships overseas too).
Tim Holtz Sizzix Village Collection
Tim Holtz Distress Woodgrain Cardstock
Tim Holtz Distress Paints
Tim Holtz Idea-ology
Tim Holtz Mini Distress Ink Pads
Ranger Glossy Accents
Finnabair Art Alchemy French Lavender Wax
Mod Podge (I used the Matte version but this would work just as well)
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