We Bee-long Together

I am not a huge fan of bees, but I love all the hexagons in the "Bee Yourself" kit from Simon Says. For this card, I wanted to combine the TGIF Challenge #220 with Color Throwdown #551. How do you work pink into a card with bees? I debated doing the background with a gold foil paper and pink honeycomb, but I decided to reverse it, because yellow hexagons is more believable. 

I stamped the honeycomb in Tsukineko Galaxy Gold ink. I stamped a few times with the MISTI to make sure the gold came through. The bee-heart is in Memento black over top. I think Staz-on black would have worked better over top of the gold ink, but my pad dried out!! I filled in the bee with Zig Wink of Stella gold pen and a white chalk marker, then I covered it with Glossy Accents. A few filled in honeycomb, and some white hexagon enamel dots completes it all. I really like it, and I hope you do to.

Good Day Sunshine

I remade this card twice. I liked the layout challenge, but for some reason I could not translate it into a card that looks remotely decent. I'm so glad for Un-Du glue remover! I tossed out my original base (it was blue) on which I had tried two different types of washi tape, and decided to go with a white base and a lighter color tape. I think it works the layout, which is what I wanted to do.

The layout is from Freshly Made Sketches #396. Papers and embellishments are from the August 2014 Simon Says kit. I can't remember where I got the washi tape, sorry! 

Celebrating This Life

I wanted to play with the current Fusion Challenge: Triangle. I had this kit from Simon Says that I never really liked, called "Together." I was hoping that the kit would inspire me to do some things I wouldn't normally do. That never happened... until this challenge. I wanted to find a way to use triangles, which there were a lot of in this kit, so it made sense to combine the two. The stickers are foam, and a word of warning, they were SMELLY. I have never experienced that in a paper craft supply, other than glue. I put up two photos because it was hard to get a good shot because there's so much white.

There's Gnome Place Like Home

A friend of mine requested a gnome, so I got the Lawn Fawn Gnome Sweet Gnome set out and paired it with Mojo Monday #519.

Papers are from Avery Elle Everyday Collection. Embellishments from My Mind's Eye.

Kiss the Bride

For this card, I decided to combine Addicted to CAS Challenge #162 - Wedding and CAS(E) this Sketch #329. I felt like a clean and simple wedding card would be a nice thing to have in the stash. A lot of wedding cards, heck, wedding anything, is over the top. 

This card was hard to photograph because of the gold foil. But I will say, because there's no stamping, just paper and embellishment, that it was super easy to make. 

I did add a bit of ink on the edges of all the paper because I generally dislike white edges. 

 

Watercolor Flowers – With Sympathy and Love

This layout is a combo for a few challenges. I wanted to use the layout from Freshly Made Sketches #394, but with the stamps I wanted to play with it made sense to me to center the banner/sentiment area. My real goal was to play along with TGIF Challenge 218: With Sympathy. I knew I didn't have any sympathy cards in my stash so I thought I should get on it in case.

Stamps are from Simon Says kits (two different sets -- Flowers from June 2019 I think, and the sentiment from an older set. I'll update with the name later). Watercolor done with Zig Clean Color brushes. I have a love/hate relationship with watercolor, and the Zig Clean Colors make it easier, however, the color always comes out stronger than I intend.