Elegant Bumblebee | By Christina Rannow

Hello, friends! Christina here to share a card using some new additions to the beautiful Block Print collection. I paired the new Block Print Buzzing Bumblebee with the new Honeycomb Plate and added some shimmery gold accents for a simple but elegant card design. Follow along below to get all the details!

My first step was to create the background panel. I die cut the Honeycomb Plate from ivory cardstock and then attached it to an A2 ivory cardstock panel that I splattered with a mixture of gold Perfect Pearls and a very small amount of water- just enough to get the powder moving. With the background completed, I moved on to die cutting the other elements for my card design.

I started with the arched branch from the Rosebud Arch Contour Layers and die cut it from green cardstock. Then I inked the center area with a darker green color for some shading and dimension. Next, I added flowers and berries to the arch. The flowers and berries are from the Abundant Branch die set. I die cut the flowers from ivory cardstock and painted four of them with the same gold Perfect Pearls and water mixture that I used to splatter the background panel. Then I layered the painted flowers with an unpainted flower for extra dimension before attaching all of them to the arch. Then I die cut the berries from eggplant and brown cardstock and added shading to the berries with a Copic marker and highlights with a white gel pen. I tucked these into the arch and then attached everything to the background panel with glue.

Next, I die cut the elements for the bee. I used ivory cardstock for the wings and yellow and dark gray cardstock for the body. The die for the body is one piece, so I snipped apart the stripes so I could alternate the colors on a base layer. Then I painted over the yellow portion with more of the gold Perfect Pearls mixture. Finally, I secured the completed bee to my card design with thin foam squares.

The final details were to add the Hello Scripted greeting that I die cut from more dark gray cardstock three times before stacking them and then securing it with glue to my card design. A scattering of shiny gold pearls for embellishment finishes this simple but elegant card using some of the new additions to the Block Print collection.