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Sunday, August 17, 2025

Just Bee-cause

Good afternoon Sunday!

Hope your weekend has been going well. Gorgeous sunny day with low humidity here at the riverbank. I was going to spend the entire day crafting, but the sun and scenery beckoned out for a while to soak it all up. So now I have a card to share!

Back in June, I was suppose to go for a crafty day at Bonnie's to spend with her and our mutual crafty friend, Nancy Kern-Leppek, who was visiting NC, but then my mother got ill and I had to go to SC and missed that day. If you saw this post then you know my mom passed away a couple weeks later. When I finally got home three weeks later, I had many sympathy cards waiting for me, including one from Bonnie and one from Nancy. Nancy's also included a few envelopes with various die cut cuttings. One of these were these adorable bees and bee hive from Pixie Dust. So when I saw this challenge the other day, I knew I had to use them. Luckily I had included them in the crafty stash that made it to the river house with me.

For Following Challenges:

Double D Challenges - Bee Happy

Card Supplies:

Stamps: Sentiment - Hi Honey (Honey Bee Stamps).

Paper: Neenah Solar White 110lb cardstock

Ink: Midnight, Goldenrod(CP Inks)

Extras: Bee, bee hive, hexagon dies (Pixie Dust Designs); Hexagon Cover Plate (Honey Bee Stamps); gold gems.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you come back soon!

“To practice any art, no matter how well or how badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. So do it.” – Kurt Vonnegut

Nance

Monday, March 6, 2023

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #564 - Bees

Hello again!

It's the first Monday in March! Time is marching on and at least here in the south, the weather is feeling very springy. And had to pull out my allergy meds since that wonderful greenish-yellow pollen has arrived in North Carolina! 🤧 🌸🍃

Today is a new challenge over at Cupcake Inspirations.

Our theme this fortnight is BEES. I guess that's pretty fitting for the present conditions here at least with the pollen. I have seen quite a few bees buzzing around the last few days as the plants begin to bloom again.

We also have a sponsor, Pixel Paper Prints, who has been very generous in giving us the cutest digital images. My card (above) is using about five different images - the two bees, the adorable honey dripped heart and the heart shaped lines. I created my little scene placing the bees nose to nose on top of the heart. I colored them with copics and placed them on a patterned paper background.

Our sponsor:

PIXEL PAPER PRINTS

There will be 2 lucky winners this challenge

Prize 1: 4 Digital stamp sets from Pixel Paper Prints, 50% Coupon on a single order with no limit on the number of items) and Permanent 25% off discount to my shop.

Prize 2: 2 Digital stamp sets, 35% Coupon on a single order with no limit on the number of items) and Permanent 25% off discount to my shop.

*(Be sure to read and follow our Rules to be eligible to win)*

Stop by the Cupcake blog and check out the rest of the team's inspiration and then come play along showcasing bees on your project.

Monday, March 3, 2014

Best Journeys

Good Monday Morning! It's early! <yawn> But I'm finally playing at Muse again! And I had a lot of fun "musing" this challenge! I guess you could say I pretty much cased it too. I loved the design and color of Lisa's card.

I've been wanting to use this sentiment stamp for a long
time now. It's a bit large as you can tell. So I thought this was the perfect card for it. And I don't use my butterfly and dragonfly stamps enough so I thought a dragonfly went great with the sentiment. I chose a chevron pattern at the bottom of the card also to go along with the "not straight lines" of my sentiment. I decided to "reverse" the polka dot theme in the muse sample by using polka dot washi tape on either side of the sentiment. Oh and I forgot --- I put the dragonflies on springs so they can "fly"!

SPIES:

STAMPS: Dragonfly (Inkadinkadoo); Sentiment (Momento).
PAPER: White card base; DP - Basics Brights & Pastels (Die Cuts with a View).
INK: Bahama Blue, Paris Dusk (Momento).
EXTRAS: Scallop circle die (Sizzix Framelit); Black polka dot washi tape.

For Following Challenges:

Muse #56

Muse Inspiration by Lisa Haines

Monday Muse Blessings!

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Monday, February 24, 2014

Under The Weather?

Happy Tuesday!

Time to be {PIN}spired

with another

{PIN}spirational Challenge -- #96

This is our inspirational photo:

We have three great sponsors this week

each providing a nice prize for one of three lucky winners!

Stamp Art Design by Kathryne

Prize: 5 Digis

Delicious Doodles

Prize: 4 Digis

Scrapper's Delights

Prize: 3 Digis

And here is my project using

Bee Digi #5

From Scrapper's Delights

I brightened up my photo and did a close up so you can see the black scallop frame I used and some other detail that gets lost in photographing.

I was actually stumped with this project not knowing really what direction I wanted to take. I had some yellow beehive pattern paper and some with bees, but once I used the honeycomb pattern emboss folder I tossed those papers out of the mix. Since the bee is standing under a flower, I chose a rainy/ill theme and stamped and fussy cut the clouds. I cut out the top part of the flower to fit it on top of the frame (I should have printed out a smaller image but sometimes I refuse to admit defeat). LOL

The raindrops are pale yellow flat sequins from Pink Posh. I sparkled them a bit with some Stickles as I also did the flower middle. Of course, sitting and blogging I thought to myself that I should have Stickled the bee's wings also. Oh well.

SPIES:

STAMPS: Digital bee image (Scrapper's Delights). Sentiment & clouds (Taylored Expressions).

PAPER: Black and white cardstock; DP - part of my stash from Taylored Expressions kits.

INK: Tuxedo Black and Summer Sky (Memento). Copics for digital image.

EXTRAS: Chain link square die (Spellbinders); Honeycomb emboss folder (Cuttlebug); Bow die (Taylored Expressions); Pale yellow sequins (Pink Posh); Stickles; black enamel dot.

Feel Better Blessings!

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