Bee mine

Hello lovely people,

Merry Friday everyone, and here I am again with my weekly Dies to Die For DT card.

Now, this is pretty unusual for me...I went back for another play with a stamp set that I used only recently; that doesn't happen often because I am usually too eager to move on to playing with other new stash!
However, these bees are just too cute and I really wanted to make a shaker card with them.

I've heat embossed the hexagon background in white then inked the panel with Distress Oxides.

I stamped the heart trail on the full panel, then die cut the hexagon shape and stuck that to the card front.  I added the plastic pouch to the aperture, piled up my sequins on the hexagon stuck to the card front, and attached the panel over the top, lining it up with the hexagon on the card.

I could have just put the plastic pouch on top of the inked panel and covered the edges with the frame, but I wanted the plastic pouch to be sitting right at the bottom of all the card layers because then it sticks out less and I think it looks neater.

The sentiment is computer generated because the stamp set didn't have the words I wanted!

If I've tempted you with any of the lovely supplies I've used then you can go straight to the individual products via the links at the end of my post or just pop over to Dies to Die For and have a little browse around!

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Copic colours;
Yellow stripes: Y15, Y35, Y17
Black stripes / face: T3, T4, T6
Wings: C00, T0

Lovely things I've used from Dies to Die For;
Meant to Bee stamps - My Favorite Things
Meant to Bee dies - My Favorite Things
Honeycomb background stamp - My Favorite Things
Hexagon shaker window and frame - My Favorite Things
Hexagon shaker pouches - My Favorite Things

Other ingredients;
Lemon sherbet sparkly shaker mix (no longer available) - Little Things from Lucy's Cards
Distress Oxides in ...Fossilized amber and Spiced marmalade

Bee Happy!

Hello lovely people,

Well, I've only worked 2 days this week (yesterday and today) and I'm ready for the weekend already, but before we get to that, I have a Dies to Die For DT card for you and I've been making punny cards again :-)

These sweet little bees were the only thing I splashed out on from the latest MFT release...I know, that's un-bee-lievable!

Now, I will just point out that pretty much every cartoon bee EVER has a yellow face...but real bees have black faces, so I tried both and decided that I liked the black better...well, as close as I could get to black whilst still being able to see his eyes!

I have a straight stitch line die which I have never used but suddenly realised how useful it could be to add the horizontal stitch lines on the yellow DP here.  I cut those first, then cut the strip with the large rectangle die to get the vertical edge stitching.  One tip though...you have to be careful that you don't get the stitches in the corner lined up such that they cut out a tiny square from your panel!

I think you can just see in the photo that I heat embossed the trail and the bee is popped up on a foam pad.

If I've tempted you with any of the lovely supplies I've used then you can go straight to the individual products via the links at the end of my post or just pop over to Dies to Die For and have a little browse around!

I hope you have a bee-yoo-tiful day!

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Copic colours;
Bee body: Y15, Y35, Y17
Bee face: T3, T4, T6
Bee wings: C00, T0, blender

Lovely things I've used from Dies to Die For;
Meant to Bee stamps - My Favorite Things
Meant to Bee dies - My Favorite Things
A2 stitched rectangle STAX 1 - My Favorite Things
Itsy bitsy polka dots pastels 6x6 paper pad - My Favorite Things 
Blueprints 13 by My Favorite Things (for the single stitch line)