Honey Bee Circle Card (Kitty Bee Designs Spotlight)

Hi everyone! :o)

Today is my turn to be on the spotlight over at Kitty Bee Designs and I made this Honey Bee Circle Card. :o)

I CASEd my own card that I shared last year here on my blog. I went with same design, layout, background and color scheme, but I used different bee image. You can find my CASEd card here.

For my today's card I used a SUPER CUTE Kitty Bee Designs 'Honey Bee' digital image. This is my second card I made using this image. You can find the first one here. :o)

How I made my card....

I printed the bee three times, twice on a white cardstock paper and once on a watercolor paper. I left images dry through the night to prevent ink smearing while coloring.

I die cut a wonky stitched circle in the white cardstock paper with the bee printed on it. I cut two black circles in a black cardstock paper, glued them together and created a card base. Then I glued the white wonky stitched circle panel on the card base. I colored the bee on the panel in black with a Black Stabilo Fiber Tip Pen. I also colored the other bee printed on the white cardstock, in black, fussy cut it and traced edges with the Black Stabilo Fiber Tip Pen.

I colored the bee printed on the watercolor paper in watercolor technique using Distress Inks. After drying, I fussy cut the bee (I cut away antennas) and traced edges with the Black Stabilo Fiber Tip Pen. Then I glued images together: watercolored bee over the black one. I did this because the watercolor paper I use is thin and I needed thicker image. I glued some 3D foam on the back of the bee image and glued the bee on the card, over the another black bee. I did this to add extra shading to the image.

As a finishing touch I drew white highlights and dots with white pigment ink pen and my card was finished. :o)

Card measurements: d = 83 mm  (3.25")

List of supplies:

• Kitty Bee Designs 'Honey Bee' digital image
• white cardstock paper
• black cardstock paper
• thin white watercolor paper
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks:
• Mustard Seed
• Fossilized Amber
• Tea Dye
• Hickory Smoke
• Black Soot
• Stabilo Fiber Tip Pen (Marker) 68/46, Black
• UHU liquid glue
• 3-D foam squares, 5 x 5 x 2 mm
• printer
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• Sizzix Big Shot
• My Favorite Things, Die-namics Wonky Stitched Circle STAX
• EK Success circle cutter
• Xcut Self Healing Cutting Mat A4
• Marabu rounded fine paint brush no. #0
• scissors
• paper towels 
• water

I hope you'll like my KBD spotlight project for this month and get inspired. For more inspiration and cute images jump over to the Kitty Bee Designs Etsy Store, Kitty Bee Designs Blog and Kitty Bee Designs FB. :o)

I'm linking my card to following challenges:

Note: bold text and challenge badge (if any) are direct links to the current challenge and blog badge (if any) is a direct link to blog or challenge home page.

1) Digi Choosday Crafting Challenge, Week 17 - Anything Goes

This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

2) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Anything Goes

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Enjoy and smile! :o)

Milka