More bees buzzing by

My Mum liked the last bee plaque I made and asked if I could make her one to give to somebody who gives her honey. I used the Bee-Lightful digi pack from Nitwits adding some flowers and pearls. I used a stitched circle die from Lawn Fawn for the bees. 

Lovely sunny day yesterday. We went into the city centre for the first time this year. it was so nice to walk somewhere different for a change.  We did some shopping in M&S, got a takeaway drink and had a nice walk in the sunshine. At least we now have a roadmap out of lockdown. Let’s hope infections continue to go down and we can get back to a bit more normality. Graham has a haircut booked for 12th April and we both have back massages on 14th April. My hairdresser isn’t taking bookings yet but they will book people in based on their original bookings so it could be May before I can go there. Sun is shining again this morning. Enjoy your day.

Home is where your honey is

You may have seen the bee plaque I posted the other day. Whilst I was printing out the elements for that I decided to print out a sheet to make a card. The Nitwits collection is called Bee-Lightful. I really enjoy making this style of card as a complete change from colouring images.

Everything apart from the pearls is from the digi kit. I fussy cut, inked the edges and layered using foam pads. I diecut the banners using offcuts of paper from the plaque and MFT pierced fishtail dies. This set must be one of my most used die sets.  I was so pleased that the when I diecut the bee using a Lawn Fawn stitched circle die it fitted perfectly into the centre of the flowered circle.

Bee sweet

Well hello after a week of no blog posts I have 4 scheduled for the next 4 days. I don't do many orders but the lady I made several cards for last year who normally buys at the hospital craft fair as she works there, asked me to make her some. The order kept growing until it got to 9 cards and 3 plaques. I sent her photos of some cards and luckily she chose some I had already made to which I just had to add personalised sentiments. However it left me with a few to make plus the plaques. I finished them on Wednesday afternoon so yesterday afternoon I found time to schedule some posts.

She chose the sentiment which I printed from the laptop and diecut with an old Spellbinders die. As she wanted a bee themed plaque I decided to buy the Bee-Lightful digi pack from Nitwits. I really wanted to use bee themed paper and didn't have any big enough and I thought the pack would come in useful for cards and scrapbooking too. 

I fussy cut the heart and beehive and thought how am I going to cut out the bees antennae so decided to diecut them. I inked all the edges and added some flowers I must have bought when I first started cardmaking 15 years ago.  The grosgrain ribbon is from Craft Label.

Back tomorrow with a card.