Bee Happy by DT Ann

 Bee Happy

By DT Ann 

Hope you all had a lovely jubilee extended weekend .. it definitely put smiles on faces!! Spent some time in the garden watching the bees being busy & decided to create a tag,  using the gorgeous Bee Monarchy stamp set. 

I used : 

Stamps: Bee Monarchy (stamp & die set) / Backgrounds, Textures & Boarders / Ticker Tape 1

Dina Wakley Tag

Inkables: Texture Discs 2 / D’Inkables set 1 & 8

Distress Embossing Pen

Gold Embossing Powder

Versafine Clair Nocturne 

Distress Oxide Inks: Hickory Smoke / Black Soot / Mustard Seed

Ecoline Pens: Yellow no 202 

Blending Mat

https://www.beecrafty.net/

Rub some Hickory Smoke ink onto the blending mat, spritz with water & smoosh a Dina Wakley tag through it several times… 

Add some random chevrons using the Texture Disc & more Hickory Smoke.. 

When dry add some lines using a D’Inkable & Mustard Seed ink… 

Using Black Soot randomly add some hexagons through the Hexagon D’Inkable …

Add some splatters with watered down Mustard Seed ink & a black Posca pen…

I nearly finished there but felt the tag needed something else, using the end of the little dotty stamp & Versafine Clair Nocturne, I stamped so it looks a bit like washi tape… 

Make sure your tag/inks are dry, pat with an anti-static bag so any embossing powder doesn’t stick where you don’t want it to! 

Use the hexagonal D’Inkable again & draw through individual hexagons using a Versamark pen .. sprinkle with gold embossing powder & heat set… 

On a separate piece of paper stamp (in Versafine Clair Nocturne)  & die cut 3 bees using the Bee Monarchy sets. Colour with Ecoline pen 202 ( yellow) … 

On a separate piece of paper stamp the word ‘Bee’ in Versafine Clair Nocturne & the ‘Be Silly’ sentiment from Ticker Tape 1, I only used the last word ‘happy’ .. 

Die cut the word Bee & cut out the word Happy, glue them to the tag along with the bees. Ink around the tag edges with Black Soot Distress Oxide ink… 

Thank you for stopping by…. Ann xxx