Monday, April 13, 2009

Fun with Bees!

Good morning! I hope that you had a great Easter weekend. We sure did! I had some time to make a few cards besides my Clear Dollar Stamps May Sneak Peeks this weekend, and have several birthday cards to make for April. Which is what I'm sharing today...one of the April birthday cards that will go out this month to a friend.

I hadn't inked up these Stampendous bees for a very long time, so I had an idea for a layout and color scheme when I grabbed the stamp. I used my Scor-Pal to create the lattice-scoring on the bottom half of the card. It really gives it great texture along with the Cuttlebugged "Dots & Spots" Embossing Folder that I used on the upper half of the card. I wanted to create a clean, crisp and cutie pie type card. Here's the deets:

Stamp Sets Used: Stampendous "Bee Happy" Stamp Collection
Cardstock & Papers: K&Co. Remake "Berry Pinks" Mat Pad, Colormates Cardstock, Paper Trey White Cardstock
Inkpads: Memento Black Ink
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities Regular & Scalloped Oval Dies, Cuttlebug "Spots & Dots" Embossing Folder, Scor-Pal, Stampin' Up! Slot Punch, Karen Foster Click-It Hole Punch, Adhesives, Stampin' Up! Dimensionals, Making Memories "Button" Brads, Offray Satin Ribbon. Copic Sketch Markers: Y15 Cadmium Yellow, YG03 Yellow Green, RV23 Pure Pink
Coloring Medium: Watercoloring
Special Techniques: Basic Stamping, Dry Embossing, Scoring, Paper Tole

7 comments:

Linda Anderson said...

Good morning Linda! Such a super sweet card!! I adore those bees!!

Linda

Chef Mama Lori said...

Linda, this is a sweet card! What fun to have all your sneak peeks done early & get to do some other fun cards!

Stacy Morgan said...

Very cute, love the white space and great scoring.

The Minister's Wife said...

This card ids too cute!! I love those little bees. Maybe it is bee-cause you made it!! And I am glad yyou have all those sneak peeks done early!!

Shawne said...

How cute, fresh and springy, love how you did the dry embossed background!

peggysue said...

Those bees are so cute! Very nice! I like the color scheme you thought of.

Traci M said...

Oh, Linda, I don't know how I missed this...it is bee u ti ful!! You always make me smile so big with your card creations...I love all the texture on your card, and the bee colors are awesome, as well as those tiny buttons!! What a cutie pie card this is! Thanks for sharing...