Because of her nickname I am persistently drawn to all things 'bee' when it comes to Lisette's birthday. Although, in truth, there are so many attractive things about her generous nature which I could focus on, like her love for her family, her adoration of Christmas, her natural affinity with good food - especially afternoon teas ...... and she is a brilliant cook herself, I find myself drawn to the bees.
So sticking to my 'bee' theme, here is the card I made for her this year.
The bee images are from Digital Delights - Queen Bee and Barnaby Bee. I coloured Queen Bee with Promarkers and used Glossy Accents to highlight parts of the crown, wings and antenna.
The card and papers are from my stash and the embossed gold paper was from Stamin' Up; it is such a shame that the camera cannot show you just how lovely that paper really is. The large gold and pearl bee came from ebay and the unreadable sentiment is from Craftwork Cards.
Barnaby Bee went on the inside of the card and I coloured him with some metallic Derwent pencils, unfortunately they did not cover very well, and I had to go over them with some other pencils, so the end result looked a little scratchy.
I am still kicking myself because, right at the very end, I managed to dab a bit of the peach ink from the Stampin' Up 'Happy Birthday' sentiment in the foot of Barnaby Bee. So annoying!
Dionne
Beautiful card and LOVE the Bees! Can't expect a worker Bee to have clean feet now can you lol
ReplyDeleteCarol x
Te he Carol, thank you so much for making me laugh at my frustration, I feel so much better now.
ReplyDeleteI guess Lisette isn't the only one to have a little thing about bees, for a start there is also you and me - now you know why I love your Chocolate Baroque stamp so much. It felt good to be making a birthday card again but I was horrified at how long it took me. Clearly I need more practice.
Dionne xx
lol amazes me how sometimes a card takes ages and other times seems to make itself -we should all love the Bees we need them! Got my pic sorted too deleted it then added it again!
DeleteCarol x
Welcome back, it is good to be able to see you again.
DeleteI completely agree with you about the bees, the loss of our bees worries me.
Dionne xx
I'm so glad you were able to share this on your blog so that everyone can enjoy and admire what I am lucky enough to have. 😁 the beautifully coloured image alone would have been great but the mats and layers set it off beautifully and the embellishment is the icing on the cake. The further surprise of the insert the cherry on top. I love it and will treasure forever. X
ReplyDeleteI am so pleased that you liked it so much. It was a pleasure to make for you and it has got me back into making a few cards, which was so nice, although I have got so very slow.
DeleteIt is sad that the photgraph does not really show off the embossed papers, they really are lovely, as you know.
Have a great day.
Dionne xx