Hi everyone. It's been 2 Tuesdays already, so it's time for another new challenge at Try It on Tuesday.
Before I introduce our new challenge, thank you everyone who joined our Circles challenge. And thank you very much Sarah for being our guest designer for that challenge. ❤
Our new challenge for the next 2 week is Flying High: Anything that Flies.
I made a journal that incorporates a tag I made awhile back as well as some honey bees. You might know that I am a hobby apiarist with 2 hives of honey bees so when it came to flying I decided to go with the bees.
I started with a white journal page that I lightly used some yellow watercolor paint on. Then I splattered it with some blue watercolor to match the tag that I was going to attach.
The tag was made by stamping and embossing the numbers and then adding 2 flower stickers as well as a butterfly sticker. I stamped the quote and added a couple little confetti pieces. If the tag looks familiar it's because it is not new, and I shared it over at Tag Along (and ATC's too) a while back.
Lately I've been adding older tags and ATC's to some of my journal pages just because it's a safe place to put them. Since this tag had a butterfly (which flies) and makes me think of my garden, I decided to add all the bees to finish off the page.
The die I used to make all the bees and flowers is from an old company called Die-Namites. The original die had 3 bees and 3 flowers all connected by these swirling lines. You can see I snipped and attached several die cuts together to make all the bees and flowers. I cut these from black paper and then glued them down. I then cut some more out of some mostly pink scrap paper to get the flowers. I also cut them a third time to from white paper to get the centers. It was a lot of cutting, but I like the effect. Plus I ended up with some extra bees and flowers for other art. 😏
Our Flying High challenge runs for the next 2 weeks, and I hope you're inspired to join us.
5 comments:
Erika. If this were a fabric to sew with I'd buy it on the spot. Just got some bee fabric recently however your add of the flowers, is WAY better than what I picked up. Love the pops of the flowers. Makes my heart smile. Happy Crafting indeed.
So pretty! Bees, flower pattern and colour combination..everything comes together seamlessly.
...bee well and happy!
Love it, Erika! The critters are just wonderful, and the colors so cheerful. I like how seamlessly integrated your tag is in your page. I find it hard to incorporate older projects in mine unless I tear them up first, lol... Hope your month has been good so far. Anita xx
This is just what we need for Summer - blue sky, sunshine , bees and butterflies. We are promised this by the weekend! Great idea to use the tag and top marks for the patience required for all that cutting!
Hubby mending well and now without leg brace.He is hoping to start driving next week! HUgs, Chrisx
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