Tell it to The Bees.

Go tell the Bees it's Spring time.  We have seen our first very large bee in the garden this past week along with 4 different species of Butterfly. This card was inspired by me finding the piece of  inked card( I used for the background) in my stash when looking for yellow cardstock for a different project. I think it was left over from a workshop I did years ago (pre Covid at least) and brought home having not used it at the time. 

When I re - found it I immediately thought of bees and honeycomb. I also just happened to have  a bee stamp in my stash of never used stamps  so out they both came. The stamp set is  by Craft Consortium called 'Tell The Bees ' and comes with A Queen bee with a crown, 3 different  Worker bees, some honeycomb and the bee hives.  I used one of the worker bees and stamped him out 3 times plus the bee hives. Coloured using my Graph'it marker pens and my wink of stella brush then fussy cut out.  I also used a Rectangle stitch hole die frame by Crafts-Too PCD98 and hexagon dies by Julie Hickey.  I cut a few small hexagon shapes from the inked backkground  and then backed with yellow cardstock.I die cut a couple of larger hexagon shapes for the sentiment which was computer generated and then  printed out. Everything is raised up on 3D pads for dimension.   Picture below is a close up of one bee showing the wink of stella on the wings.  The bee we saw in the garden was not much smaller! 

Entering into the following challenges:

Try It On Tuesday # Hello Spring.

C.R.A.F.T. #673 Easter/Spring.

All Sorts Challenge #722/723 In  the Spring garden.

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #203 Anything goes.

Country View Challenges # Things with Wings. 

Crafts Galore Encore # 110 Anything goes.

Four Seasons Challenge # Anything goes Spring. 

Pearly Sparkles Challenge #83 All creatures great and small.

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