Monday, April 2, 2012

day 189: "celebrate" bee silhouette notecard

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took inspiration from a beautiful card made on the Simplicity blog.  and just added my bee. :)
stamps are all from Papertrey Ink:  honey bee, text style, happy trails, and botanical silhouettes.  inked in 2 shades of pink (background text is the lighter pink) and stamped on a single-layer of white cardstock.

day 188: "smile" bee silhouette notecard

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took inspiration from a beautiful card made on the Simplicity blog.  and just added my bee. :)
stamps are all from Papertrey Ink:  honey bee, text style, happy trails, and botanical silhouettes.  inked in 2 shades of blue (background text is the lighter blue) and stamped on a single-layer of ivory cardstock.

day 187: bee silhouettes thank you card

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took inspiration from a beautiful card made on the Simplicity blog.  and just added my bee. :)
stamps are all from Papertrey Ink:  honey bee, text style, and botanical silhouettes.  inked in 2 shades of green (background text is the lighter celery green) and stamped on a single-layer of ivory cardstock.

day 186: queen bee notecard

queen bee notecard

used a few of my clear rubber stamps to create this clean and simple bee card.  the bee and sentiment stamps are from Papertrey Ink's Honey Bees set, the crown is by Catslife Press, and the frame is from Stampin' Up's Frame It - Clear-Mount Stamp set.

the bee & sentiment are stamped in StazOn Black, the crown is inked in gold and the frame is stamped in StazOn brown.  i colored the bee in with a simple yellow marker.

day 185: "happily ever after" bee wedding card

"happily ever after" wedding card
the bee stamps are from Papertrey Ink's honey bees set, the top hat is by Catslife Press, and the sentiment is from Papertrey Ink's Botanical Silhouettes set.
all stamped in black, then the sentiment is restamped in yellow, and the bees and hat are watercolored in the same yellow ink.

Sunday, April 1, 2012

day 184: "let your dreams take flight" notecard

"let your dreams take flight" bee notecard

single-layered notecard stamped in black ink utilizing the same random clear cute bee stamp from the last card and the squiggle and sentiment from Papertrey Ink's Happy Trails set.
then i watercolored the bee with my water-pen and yellow and black ink stamp pads.

day 183: captured bees notecard

captured bees notecard

single-layered notecard handstamped with Crescendoh's Little Miss Mason set and a cute bee from another clear stamp set (that i lost the label)....

and very similar to this other card i made last year.

day 182: bee envelopes

made a whole bunch of matching envelopes for the bee themed cards i made.

used plain white envelopes with the bee stamp from the Papertrey Ink's Honey Bees set with the swirl from their Happy Trails set inked in yellow.


bee envelopes

Day 181: bee birthday wishes card

a simple single-layer birthday card stamped on white cardstock.

bee birthday wishes card