Happy BeeDay

What kind of card do you make for someone who loves making puns? A very punny one of course!

And what colour must you use on a card about bees? Hello Honey of course! After coming up with the idea for a "BeeDay" card, those other elements fell into place pretty quickly - the Honeycomb embossing folder, the bee stamp from Garden In Bloom, and I thought the Brushstokes background stamp would tie in well with the stripes on the bee. Once I had cut the "happy" and D, A and Y and laid them over the striped background I realised it was a little busy and hard to read, so I cut a piece of vellum to lay over the top and was much happier with the result. Of course I then had to deal with attaching the vellum that I hadn't planned for. While I could pretty easily hide some adhesive behind the words and bee, that left the top and bottom edges pretty free. To avoid possible curling I came up with the idea for some candy dots and was happy with how that came out too! So with all that done the spacing felt a little off, which I fixed by adding some black satin ribbon that I folded over to make a little skinnier.

Here are the colours I used:

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Feeling Special?

Time for another card using thick Whisper White cardstock for the cardbase.

I had thought I would load this one up and really give the cardbase a workout... but ultimately opted for another simple card. The outlines for the flower and leaves were stamped in colour rather than the standard black - or for this card that would have been Early Espresso. I inked up the flowers and leaves in the same colour as their outlines, then lightly stamped them off before stamping on the card to give a little more variation in the colours. To help the sentiment layer stand out I went around the edge with the Lost Lagoon marker.

Today's colours are:

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