I Love Bumblebees!

Yes, I have to admit - right up there with my butterfly addiction is my love of bumblebees.  (Always said if I got a tattoo it would be a bumblebee and it would be on my shoulder!) As soon as I saw this stamp - it went straight to the top of my wish list!  Can you believe it - 1 stamp from the set of 15 had me that easily. However, I must say - I think the rest of the set (Touches of Texture) is pretty good as well. This only arrived today and I had to have a play, check out what I did below.  I also used the new Layering Squares Framelits and the Peekaboo Peach ruched ribbon.  I used Early Espresso and Peekaboo Peach ink for the flowers and Memento Black for the bee coloured with a Hello Honey marker. Early Espresso cardstock for the main card and mats. When I decide what I will use it for, I'll attach a sentiment over the ribbon - until then, I'll just sit and admire it...

A Sneak Peek for You

How exciting, my demonstrator preorder has arrived! I chose two new in-colours to work with, Peekaboo Peach and Emerald Envy. I used my blender pen to colour one of the new Floral Affection.TIEFs and ran it through the Big Shot with Very Vanilla cardstock. This is a deep folder and the card did crack a little, but I've shown you how to fix this with a sheet of tissue or paper, however as I wanted the colour, I just worked with it. For the Emerald Envy card, I have used the Playful Palette DSP stack in the background, trimmed close to the coloured image and mounted on Emerald Envy and attached some (gorgeous!) Peekaboo Peach ruched ribbon. The greeting is from Balloon Celebration - "let us celebrate"... seemed appropriate. The Peekaboo Peach card has the greeting from Rose Wonder stamped in Emerald Envy. The image has been fussy cut and popped onto a scrap piece of Emerald Envy, then raised on dimensionals.  Same image initially - two quite different outlooks.  

Below shows the simple embossed Vanilla liner...  and those sheets you see in each of the backgrounds are from the Pop of Pink Specialty DSP pack. Nice.