It’s time for my second DT project for May for Country View Crafts and Challenges on Facebook. The theme this month has been set by my lovely teammate 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: https://www.facebook.com/groups/164920247712393.
There’s a fabulous £20 voucher to be won for a randomly selected winner.
What better than to make a lovely card bursting with bees for spring. In fact I made a few to have on hand.
I die cut the Gridiron die from Seth Apter Paperartsy and painted this with Tim Holtz Distress Paint Weathered Wood, added some Ranger Distress Texture Paste to grunge it up a bit, sprayed on some Distress Walnut stain and then rubbed over some Rusty Hinge Distress Paint making sure to blend everything over the texture paste.
I then coloured these in with my Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Pencils and fussy cut out.
I prepared my card background using Tim Holtz Distress Sprays in Ground Espresso, Cracked Pistachio, Walnut Stain and Fossilised Amber, and stencilled over this with the Tim Holtz Hive THS105 stencil using Distress Oxide Mini Fossilised Amber.
I added the background to a border and then onto my main card base.
Then I layered up my elements with the flowers and bees protruding from Seth’s Gridiron die cut, and added a bit of fake moss in between this. (I raised the bees up on some foam dots so they were a little bit elevated).
I stamped out the sentiment words from the same Alison Bomber stamp set and placed this on the finished scene of one, and I also added a die cut Happy Birthday to another as I’ve got a friend’s birthday coming up soon. I left one blank to add a suitable sentiment as needed.
I love how pretty this looks and hope you do too.
Don’t forget, the challenge runs till the end of the month so there’s still time for you to join in.
Thanks for checking out my blog.
Have a great day
Hugs
Carol x
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).
Seth Apter Gridiron Die
https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/667051---sizzix-thinlits--die-set-1pk---gridiron-by-seth-apter-185724-p.asp
Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Mini Ink Pads
https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/distress-mini-ink-pads-859-c.asp
Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paints
https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/distress-paints-436-c.asp
Tim Holtz Layering Stencil (I used Hive but Honeycomb would look just as good)
https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/ths005-stampers-anonymous-tim-holtz-layering-stencil---honeycomb-24439-p.asp
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Texture Paste
https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/ranger---tim-holtz---distress---texture-paste---opaque-matte-176434-p.asp
https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/watercolor-pencils-1598-c.asp
Alison Bomber Paperartsy Coneflowers
https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/paperartsy----e-alison-bomber-49-coneflowers-edition-a5-set-on-ez-179364-p.asp
Lavinia Stamps Bumble and Hum (currently out of stock) https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/lavinia---clear-stamp---lav892-bumble-and-hum-175127-p.asp
An alternative bee stamp set could be this one from Carta Bella https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/carta-bella---honey-bee-small-die-set-welcome-to-our-hive-180737-p.asp
Or you could use chipboard accents from Carta Bella https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/carta-bella---honey-bee-12-x-6-chipboard-accents-180435-p.asp
WOW clear embossing powder
https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/wow-embossing-powders-15ml---clear-gloss-regular-t-171662-p.asp
Archival Black Ink Pad
https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/ranger-archival-ink-pad-jet-black---90mm-x-62mm-1609-p.asp
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