Wow, 600. Hard to imagine. Sabrina gave us a great challenge to use hexagons. I immediately thought of using my ARTplorations Honeycomb delight stencil. I put it down over the kraft colored cardstock and sprayed it with gold shimmer paint. I just barely sprayed it because I wanted it to be subtle. I then took the stencil and a pencil and traced the hexagons on the back of scarps of yellow and gold cardstock. I then fussy cut them out. I also cut out and layered the bees. My amazing friend Pam challenged me to craft today. We added the additional challenge of adding at least one Bee, lace, brads and something funky from our crafting stash. Well... I guess you can tell what my funky embellishment was. Yep, the pop top off of a soda can. I used various sentiments combined to say..."Don't worry, bee happy, drink coffee." This isn't my usual style, and about half way during making this card, I wasn't sure if I would like it or not, but now I like how it turned out. Thanks for taking the time to look at my card and read this description.
Date: Thursday, September 8, 2016 GMT Views: 903
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Stamps: unknown bees, random sentiments, MFP- Oh Beans
Ink: black stazon
Accessories: flower punches, snowflake punch, glitter, ARTplorations (honeycomb delight stencil), gold shimmer paint, brads, lace, cheesecloth, markers, pop top off soda can
Techniques: fussy cutting, hand lettering, punch shapes
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 132012
Thu, Sep 08, 2016 @ 2:22 PM
Love your use of the pull-tab, MariLynn. And your little hexagon patch-style flowers are just so sweet and fun. That coffee cup is so pretty, and I am in admiration of your hand lettering.
Registered: April 14, 2009 Location: San Antonio, TX Posts: 2721
Thu, Sep 08, 2016 @ 6:24 PM
Love your artsy card!!! Awesome!!!
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Registered: January 19, 2014 Location: Central Indiana Posts: 91162
Wed, Sep 14, 2016 @ 5:43 AM
Love the sprayed BG, love the pieced bees, that looks so detailed. Love the small hexagons, oh my to trace and cut those out that is amazing they are so tiny. What a darling card and the added fun embellishment you are so clever.