Wednesday 28 June 2017

Summer wishes


I  have quite a few family birthdays this summer so thought I'd make a start and as the weather is so grotty today dull cool and rainy , typical UK summer weather .

I love these Itty bitty bees from memory box, I find it quite therapeutic to sit and make a whole swarm, I also have some lady birds and they are just as fun too.

I cut them from white card and colour the various bits and add stickles to the wings before putting the parts together. 

I used some of the out cuts from a poppystamps happy birthday background die and apart from the colour in my bumblebee I decided to go for white on white.



I used another Poppy stamps die this bountiful sunflower again cut in white card I love all the details on this flower. I decided to add some summer sunshine or I guess it could be an early evening moon by adding an open studio circle . I hope it suggests that the light from the full moon or sunshine is glinting on the bee and that's why you can see its colour.



I hope that whichever family member I send this to has the same feeling of a late summer evening , warm and balmy just like this card makes me feel. I think it helps  that even though it's dull outside I seem to have got the feel of sunshine with the light shining behind my card.



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

Oddball -anything goes 'spread your wings'


Memory box-birthday celebrations

Addicted to CAS - white on white

Shopping our stash - lazy summer days

The paper shelter - summer birthday



4 comments:

Angie said...

Cute bee and your card has come together nicely. Thanks for joining us for Oddball Stamps Blog Challenge. Best of luck with your entry and hope to see you next month!
Angie DT OddballStampsBlogChallange

stampjournal said...

Wow. What an elegant and beautiful birthday card! Thank you so much for playing in this month's Memory Box challenge.

Donna said...

Lovely birthday card!
Love the wee bee!!
Thanks for joining the SHOPPING OUR STASH crew for our Lazy Summer Days challenge this week!!

Lena said...

beautiful card!! Clean and simple, I love it!!
Thanks for joiningt us at TPS this week! Good Luck, Hug Lena