Welcome to the first day of Spring with my Spring Honey Bee Card. I am so ready for the nicer weather to arrive! I knew that I wanted to create a Spring vignette where you are looking through the flower frame from the Petal Labels Dies towards the beehive from the Honey Bee Bundle. By sponging the Spring like colours of Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green, Calypso Coral and Gorgeous Grape with a dauber onto the flowers, I created my Spring scene. Such bonny colours to welcome Spring! For the hive, I created dimension with two different colours of Daffodil Delight and the sponged Calypso Coral on the edges. Love the Gorgeous Grape bee as a accent! Unfortunately, the Golden Honey DSP is not available anymore, but you could use the honeycomb die from the Honey Bee Bundle instead. Let’s get started!

Supplies:

Stamps:  Honey Bee Cling Stamp Set (151527)

Inks: Granny Apple Green Stampin’ Pad (147095), Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin’ Pad (147094), Calypso Coral Classic Stampin’ Pad (147101), Gorgeous Grape Classic Stampin’ Pad (147099)

Paper: Granny Apple Green (146990), Whisper White (100730), Gorgeous Grape (146987), SAB Golden Honey DSP (retired)

Accessories: Petal Labels Dies (149635), Honey Bee Bundle (153792), Stitched So Sweetly Dies (151690), Stitched Shapes Dies (152323), Sponge Daubers (133773), Metallic Pearls (146282), Stampin’ Dimensionals (104430), Bone Folder (102300), SNAIL Adhesive (104332), Mini Glue Dots (103683)

Measurements: 

• Granny Apple Green: 8 ½” x 5 ½”; scored at 4 ¼”
• Whisper White: 5 ¼” x 4”, 2 ½“ x 2” (hive) and the scrap leftover from the Petal Labels floral frame for the sentiment
• SAB Golden Honey DSP : 3 ½” x 2 ½” 
• Gorgeous Grape: 1 ¼“ x 2 ½” 

Instructions: 

1. Fold the Granny Apple Green card stock in half to create the card base.
2. Centre the Petal Labels Dies in the middle of the large piece of Whisper White and die cut out.
3. Taking a sponge dauber, sponge Granny Apple Green, Daffodil Delight, Calypso Coral and Gorgeous Grape onto the flowers and leaves that were die cut out of the Whisper White.
4. Ink up the hive in Daffodil Delight and then using a sponge dauber, sponge the edges with Calypso Coral. This gives a soft look to the edges. You could use the rock n’ roll technique instead, but the edge between the two inks wouldn’t be as soft.
5. Die cut the hive out with the Detailed Bee Dies.
6. Taking the scrap from the Petal Labels floral frame, stamp the sentiment in Gorgeous Grape. This will save you some card stock…and we are all about getting the most from our card stock!
7. Die cut the sentiment out with the second smallest Stitched So Sweetly Die.
8. Die cut the SAB Golden Honey DSP with the largest oval from the Stitched Shapes Dies.
9. Using the Detailed Bee Dies, die cut the detailed bee from the Gorgeous Grape.
10. Using dimensionals, center the floral frame on the Granny Apple Green card base.
11. Centre the SAB Golden Honey DSP in the open floral frame and adhere with SNAIL.
12. Using SNAIL Adhesive, center the hive onto the SAB Golden Honey DSP.
13. The Gorgeous Grape bee is affixed with glue dots to the hive. Bend the wings up to give it dimension.
14. The sentiment is affixed with SNAIL on the right side and a dimensional on the left side.
15. Three Metallic Pearls tie in the gold from the DSP and add a bit of sparkle.

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Hope you like my Spring Honey Bee Card!

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