Bee Card (Kitty Bee Designs Spotlight)

Happy Friday! :o)

On Wednesday, May 29th, 2019, was my turn to be on the spotlight over at Kitty Bee Designs and I made this mini square Bee Card. :o)

For my card I used an ADORABLE Kitty Bee Designs 'Bumblebee Cutie' digital image. This is a third card I made using this image. You can find first two one here and here. :o)

How I made my card....

I printed the bumblebee on a watercolor paper and left it dry through the night to prevent ink smearing while coloring.

Next day, I colored the bumblebee in watercolor technique using Distress Inks. After drying, I fussy cut the bumblebee and traced edges with a black marker.

Then I ink blended a white square cardstcok panel with Distress Inks Mustard Seed and Fossilized Amber. I splattered the panel with water, dried it and repeated the process (ink blending, splattering). I completely dried the panel and printed the bumblebee on the panel.

Next up was die cutting. I went with inlay die cutting technique. I used a honeycomb die and die cut two pieces in a white cardstock paper. Then I die cut two honeycombs in the panel.

With all parts ready, I assembled the card. I glued the panel on a white top folded square card base. Then I glued all die cut pieces in place. I drew lines that I cut away with a black fine liner and glued watercolored pieces on the panel, over the bee printed on it (paper piecing).

As a finishing touch, I drew white dots on bumblebee's wings and panel with a white pigment ink and my card was finished. :o)

Card measurements: 86 mm x 86 mm (3 3/8" x 3 3/8")

List of supplies:

• Kitty Bee Designs 'Bumblebee Cutie' digital image
• white cardstock paper
• 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
• Mitsubishi Uni Pin 0.2
• Uniball Signo White Pigment Ink
• UHU liquid glue
• printer
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• Sizzix Big Shot
• Your Next Stamp 'Honey Drip and Honeycomb Combo' die set
• Ranger Mini Ink Blending Tools
• Range Heat It Tool
• Marabu rounded fine paint brush no. #0
• scissors
• paper towels 
• water
• Crystal Katana

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) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Anything Goes
This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

2) Uniko, Challenge #53 - Anything Goes
This is my 6th entry to this challenge.

At the end of this post...
There is couple hours left to join the blog hop I'm hosting on my blog and to enter a giveaway: To Bee or Not To Bee Blog Hop. Giveaway (Inlinkz) closes today, May 31st, 2019, at 11:59 PM, CEST (UTC +2). :o)


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

Milka