Honey Bee Blossom (by Julie)

Hello, today I have two Spring themed cards to show you.

My first is a DL card that I have stamped with Honey Bee. I started by colouring the Foxglove style rubber stamp with a pink watercolour pen and then before stamping it onto water colour card, I gently spritzed it with a fine mist of water. The water helps to loosen the ink and give it a water-colour painting feel. After stamping the first image I spritzed the stamp with water and stamped twice more, so the image gets more faded with each press of the stamp. I added more colour to the petals with the water colour pen before stamping the bees and the honey combe background. I added a touch of yellow and orange to the bees and finished off with a sentiment from Birthday Words. 

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My second card is stamped with Essence of Nature.

I inked up the naked tree with Sepia Versafine and stamped twice onto my stamping card. I made a wash of greens and greys for the foreground and a pale blue for the sky and when dry I stamped around the edge of the card with the branches of the stylised tree using grey Versafine. 

The blossom was created by applying pink and white acrylic paint with a torn sponge and I darkened the edges with Hickory Smoke Distress ink.  

Thanks for popping in and please call back for more daily Design Team inspiration.

Julie xx