Hello! This month, A Colorful Life Designs has some new bee and honeycomb/hexagon-themed stencils. Needless to say, I am a happy camper because I love making bee projects and hexagons are one of my favorite shapes. Today’s card uses the Layered Bees Stencil Set. You get 3 stencils which help you make plenty of adorable bees.
*Some affiliate links are used in this post. That means that if you shop through these links, I may receive a small compensation, at no cost to you. For more information, please see my Affiliates page, where I also have some coupon codes.
I stenciled the bees on a piece of Accent Opaque cardstock. I didn’t go with Bristol this time because I knew I wasn’t doing any crazy ink blending techniques. This is pretty basic, so that AO was fine. I did the layer with the wings first, using just the residual ink that was on my teal/turquoise blending brush. The next layer was done with Maple Yellow Crisp Dye Ink from Altenew. The third layer was done with Black Soot Distress Ink. I recommend doing the black layer last so it doesn’t accidentally smear into the other layers.
My bestie Amber got me a few of Honey Bee Stamps’ stamp and coordinating die cuts, including the Bee-You-Tiful set, which obviously, is perfect for this card. I die cut one of the “bee” words and it’s 2 shadow dies, and heat embossed “a queen” on black cardstock with white embossing powder. Unfortunately, this set is no longer available, but you can probably come up with something fabulous in your stash, even if you just use alphabet stamps and dies to create your own sentiment. I wanted to give the queen a crown, so I grabbed the Critters Ever After stamp set from Lawn Fawn, colored it with a shiny gold gel pen and glued it on. I inked up my card base with Fresh Lemon ink, which is from the same yellow Altenew Ink set I used earlier.
This came out so cute, and it is fast to make. I love all of those buzzing bees! Please be sure to visit A Colorful Life Designs to see the many, many stencils they have to offer. You can use my code, AlFan10 to save 10% off of your regular-priced purchase. Then, show off your creations in the A Colorful Life Designs Fan Group on FB. Thanks so much for stopping by. Have an inspiring day!
Thank you so much for your kind words!