Tuesday 4 September 2012

Buzzzzin' Bees

Tom has been harvesting honey in the last couple of weeks, so I thought this card would be an apt one to share with you:

"Buzzin Bees"
Lots of stamps and inks used to create this one.

"Bzzzz"

I stamped an extra bee in archival ink on acetate to cut out a sweet pair of wings.

Ingredients:
Chocolate Baroque & IndigoBlu stamps
distress inks & markers
archival ink
Spellbinders: Carnation Creations, Rose Creations, labels one
cardstock: white 300gsm
acetate
adhesives: PVA, glossy accents, Pinflair dimensional glue

Entered for the following challenge:
Deep Ocean Challenge - Things with Wings
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes, non-square project
Crafty Cardmakers - Winged Things
Simon says stamp - put a stamp on it

On a different note, I thought you might like to see a couple of pictures I took in the back garden. This is one of our wild rabbits:
"Thumper"

And these are some of our band of swallows getting ready to fly back South for the Winter. Not a bad Summer for them, all that rain meant plenty of midges for them to eat and they've more than doubled in number this year.

"Swallows"

Toodlepip, Maddy x

12 comments:

  1. What a beautiful middle step card! LOVE your bees--what an amazing image! And the pictures from your yard are wonderful, too!!! I'd love to see what you create with my tutorial over at Technique Tuesday! :)

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  2. You never disappoint with your wonderful creations Maddy! I love all the different stamps you have used and the way you have put everything together is just fabulous.
    thank you for sharing your wonderful photos too.

    hugs Sue

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  3. Beautiful card. Love it all and such a good idea for a masculine card.

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  4. Love the stepper card. The beehive image is lovely - and I like the acetate wings on your bee!! Thanks for joining us at Crafty Cardmakers this time! Cxxx

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  5. What a fantastic card, love those gorgeous bees and the beautiful design of this gorgeous card and its just perfect for our challenge at Crafty Cardmakers. Thanks for sharing with us.

    Marie

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  6. Oh super gorgeous, I really love love love your card, so delicate and pretty... thanks for joining us at Simon Says Challenge blog

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  7. What a beautiful card, I love all the detail! The colours and images are perfect and I really love the bee with the acetate wings, it's a great finishing touch.

    Thanks so much for sharing with us at Crafty Cardmakers.

    Feebsy
    xx

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  8. Hey Maddy! I love your card! I'm not a card maker...but this makes me think I'd like to try it sometime! :) I wanted to take a sec to thank you for stopping by my blog and leaving such a sweet comment about my altered journal. Your words really made my day...so thank you so very much! <3 Candy

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  9. This is such a beautiful card! So well done! Wow! Thanks so much for playing along with us over on the Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog!

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  10. Beautiful card Maddy, so pretty, I love the cute beehive image and the colours are gorgeous.
    Thanks for joining us at Simon Says Stamp for our Stamptember celebrations
    hugs Mandy xx

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  11. Just seen this, I love how we took very similar photos and we didn't realise - great minds think a like!
    Beautiful photos and great card. x

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