My BIL's birthday is coming up. He took up beekeeping a few years ago, so I decided to make a bee themed card for him. I came across these cool postage stamps featuring a bee on a flower and decided to use them as an interesting art element. To create the card, I stenciled hexagons for a honeycomb background, mounted that on gray card stock cut with a stitched die, and attached that to a black card. The sentiment is black embossed next to the postage stamps, then mounted on a black piece of cardstock. It's pretty simple, but it meets my idea of a masculine birthday card.
This card is entered in these challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- anything goes
Word Art Wednesday #619 -- anything goes
Stencil fun -- use stencils
Double Trouble #150 -- (no patterned paper, flower,, garden insect; plus entered at partner site)
Crafter's Cafe #302 -- flowers
Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2342 -- anything goes
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Fabulous masculine card for a bee keeper!
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Very cute with the postage stamps! Thanks for sharing with us at Double Trouble :)
ReplyDeletePretty Floral card, thanks for joining us at the Crafter's Cafe Flower challenge this month
ReplyDeleteLove how you used the postage stamps, and a really nicely stenciled background! Thanks for sharing with us at Double Trouble.
ReplyDeleteCAS and pretty... like the stenciled back and using stamps were a great idea for your floral. Thanks for sharing with us at Double Trouble and Crafter's Cafe
ReplyDeleteWhat a clever idea! He will certainly love this card. As guest designer over at Word Art Wednesday this month, I just wanted to stop over and say thank you for joining us this time!
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