Hello ~ Happy Monday!
I'm Guest Designing at CottageCutz by the Scrapping Cottage and it's my turn to host the blog where the design team is showcasing the NEW Strawberries & Bees release!
Having a daughter living clear across the country... for the 5th year in a row is super hard, so she is definitely one of my regular card recipients and today's card is just right for dropping a sweet hello! I've used the Bee Phrases and Flowers dies.
How I made it:
1. I cut a piece of thick white cardstock 11" x 4-1/4" and scored it at 5-1/2" to make a top folding card.
2. I cut a piece of black/white striped paper from my stash at 5-1/4" x 4" and adhered to card base.
3. I cut a piece of yellow (Daffodil Delight) cardstock at 5" x 4" and adhered to the black/white striped piece so that the stripes appear at top and bottom.
4. I cut a piece of kraft (Crumb Cake) cardstock at 4-3/4" x 3-3/4". I mixed a bit of white acrylic paint with water and with a paint brush, I spattered white ink all over and set it aside to dry.
Here's a closer up shot of that.
5. While the paint was drying, I die-cut and assembled my pieces from the Bee Phrases and Flowers out of white and yellow cardstock. I then colored the 'Hello', bottom pieces of the bees & wings, the honey spoon, the top layers of the honeycomb, and the flower with Copic markers and assembled them.
6. For the dripping honey, I added some liquid pearls in a golden color to the yellow die-cut and let it dry.
6. Next I adhered my white-spattered cardstock onto the middle of my card front.
7. I then attached my die-cuts, gluing everything down, except the flower blossoms and bees in which I popped up with foam dots.
8. I noticed I smudged my white paint spatter just above my honey spoon and it looked bad, so I added a golden bee charm there and another in bottom right corner just to make it look cohesive.
That's all! This was fairly quick and simple to put together. I hope something I've done today inspires you to create with this ADORABLE release! ☺
PRODUCTS I USED:
Here's the whole awesome release!
Hope you have a CRAFT-astic week!!
~Kristine