I am in need of encouragement cards to send to Foster Kids Charity, which gives out snack bags to foster kids while they wait in court. For this challenge, I had the idea of a bee's stinger as my sharp object.
I cut a piece of cream cardstock to 5.25x4". I stamped the lower 2 honeycomb circles (from "Circle Friends") in Cantaloupe ink, using my MISTI so I could double-stamp. I stamped & cut a mask for the bee, minus the antennae & bee trail. I stuck that to my panel, then stamped a third honeycomb circle over that. I removed the mask, & used my Stamp-a-ma-Jig to help me position my bee stamp. (That particular stamp is cling rubber, so I didn't want to go to the trouble of trying to line it up with my MISTI.) I used Black Shimmer ink for that, since all bees deserve to be shimmery!
There were a few spots where the honeycomb didn't stamp cleanly around the bee mask, so I just took a Tombow marker and filled in those bits around him. I also used markers to do some quick coloring on the bee's body, head, & wings.
I stamped my greeting onto a scrap of Bazzill Marshmallow cardstock with Squeezed Lemonade Oxide ink. I heat embossed it with clear detail powder, and cut it into a banner shape. I inked that with Black Soot Distress ink, then buffed the excess ink off the embossing. I adhered that to the top of my panel.
I matted my panel with a narrow black mat, & mounted it to yellow cardstock that I'd adhered to a white card base. There seemed to be something "off," though, and after looking at it, I decided the honeycomb circles needed a bit more contrast & grounding. So I took a Micron 01 pen and just drew a double row of dashed lines around each circle. That finished this card off!
Date: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 GMT Views: 320
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