Honey blending

An experiment for me and definitely out of my comfort zone. I am trying to combine my stamps and new love affair with dies. The dies are from Memory box and I love these Itty bitty bees and the honeycomb too.                                                                                 I have been seeing a lot in blog land about distress inks and though I don't have any I have some dye based inks that have almost dried up but tried blending them (never realised it was so messy) to age the card. I added some sheen using some blending gold chalk that I have had for ages ,it was a magazine freebie and I never got around to using it.

I used a brown promarker to add depth to the honeycomb by drawing around 3 sides of the hexagons. 

I completed the front of the card  by stamping a Graphicus stamp (again neglected for some time) in cocoa memento ink and used burgundy promarker to water colour the petals.                                                                 The background to the honeycomb I used sleigh bells promarker on another piece of card and again used the gold blending chalk to add a sheen.

I wanted more depth so used thick sticky tape to allow for a gap between the two layers before adding to a white base card.                                                                  The finishing touches a hand tied bow and burgundy ribbon and two Itty bitty bees.

Again no sentiment as yet and although I thought it was just a pretty card my son says its a nice man's card even with the bow that adds to it.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges;-

Hiding in my craft room - blending

RRR - welcome spring

Chocolate coffee cards - use ribbon

The ribbon girl -any image

IDIC -square or rectangle cards

Craft your passion - always anything goes

crafting from the heart- anything goes

lemon shortbread - anything goes

Aurora wings - anything goes