
Hello crafty friends! Christina here to share this golden beauty featuring some of the new things in the shop. I combined the Honeycomb Stencil and the Honeycomb Cut Out to create a golden, glittery backdrop for the busy Block Print Buzzing Bumblebees.
I started by stenciling the honeycomb pattern on a white cardstock panel using a trio of yellow inks. I concentrated the darkest ink color around the edges of the panel and gradually blended the medium and then the lightest shade of ink, moving towards the center. Next, I aligned the Honeycomb Cut Out die with the stenciled honeycomb pattern and ran it through my die cutting machine. Finally, to finish up my background panel, I layered it on a piece of gold glitter cardstock so it would peek through the cut out and then added a few glittery honeycomb pieces (die cut with the Honeycomb Cut Out) randomly on the stenciled pattern.

With the background panel done, I got to work on the other elements of my card design. First I die cut the bumblebee bodies from yellow cardstock, and then, to create shading and dimension, I inked the edges with a darker yellow ink. To create the stripes for the bees, I die cut the bodies a second time, but this time from black cardstock, and then snipped them along the debossed lines left by the die. I attached the stripes and the antenna to the yellow bodies and then finally added the beautifully detailed white wings.

To finish things up, I hot foiled the Celebrate Today with black foil to coordinate with the bumblebees and then die cut it with the coordinating die before attaching it with foam squares to my card design. Lastly, I adhered the bumblebees buzzing around the sentiment with more foam squares and added a little sparkle to the wings with a glitter brush pen.

Thanks so much for reading about my latest card making project featuring some of the beautiful new additions to the Block Print collection. See you again soon!

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