Paper Players with Sunday Stamps: Now and Always

I'm using a couple of new stamp sets, one of which is a set to create plaids so I had to go out and hunt down the prettiest color challenge that I could find - The Paper Players.  Then I wanted a simple sketch to show off the stamped plaid - Sunday Stamps.

The plaid set is very fun to work with.  A few of the stamps are single stripes and a few come in groups so it doesn't take long to put together a plaid background.  I have a lot of patterned paper but more often than not it seems overwhelming to page through it finding a match.  Now I can make my own!!

I had some exciting news yesterday - I get to guest over at Paper Smooches in September.  This just proves that NBUS works (thanks Darnell) because what really happened is that I had gotten a large order from Paper Smooches a couple of weeks ago and swore that I would use them all before they went into "the box" so the last few weeks have been heavy on Paper Smooches on my blog!!  Of course, and this won't surprise the truly addicted, I have another new order coming from Paper Smooches because I had to buy lots more stuff that would help me make great cards with the sets that I am getting free!  Sad, isn't it??

• Stamps: My Favorite Things Grand Greetings, Plaid Background Builder
• Paper: white
• Ink: Stampin' Up Strawberry Slush, Crisp Cantaloupe, Pear Pizzazz
• Accessories: Papertrey Ink buttons: Raspberry Fizz, Melon Berry, New Leaf

Absolutely Thinking of You

This is my second post today.

I am having a very good day.  I turned in the final projects for my classes yesterday and now I have a two week summer break!  (The next break is a week-long fall break and they don't even have a Christmas break - so I am going to take full advantage of this break with a lot of time in my craft corner!)  I had a plan today to catch up on some Operation Write Home sketches, tutorials and throw-downs.  I got sidetracked by the great sketch and bold colors at the Fusion Card Challenge and then I realized that it would really well with windows which is the OWH tutorial this week!  Check out the cute little owls peeking out of their holes!!

I fused the two challenges.  Obviously, I used the sketch.  Then from the inspiration, I got the owls, the flowers, and the rich browns and teals with pops of bright colors.

The window are quite easy to do.  Punch or die-cut your window shapes out of post-its.  Line them up on the cardstock.  Then use your punch (upside-down) or your die to cut each shape.

• Stamps: Stampin' Up Love Bandit, Simon Says Stamp On Edge
• Paper: Stampin' Up Early Espresso, Island Indigo, American Crafts Soho Garden 6x6
• Ink: Stampin' Up Early Espresso
• Accessories: Simon Says Stamps Absolutely die, Stampin' Up Island Indigo twine, Papertrey Ink wood impression plate, misc heart gems colored with copics

CASology: One Day I'll Be Queen

I was thrilled a few weeks ago when I was asked to be a guest designer at CASology.  But I learned a hard lesson - always ask the theme for your guest week before you say "yes".  CASology is full of wonderful challenges - recently the Cue Word has been "bloom", "hexagon" and "care".  This week, however, is out of my comfort zone.  The cue word is....

It really threw me for a loop.  I don't have a stash of princess or queen stamps.  I do have one frog prince but he looked a little dated.  I thought about going diva with a crown - I know I have seen dozens of funny diva stamps, but I searched all over online and couldn't find anything.   I'm sure there are "royal" flowers.  I even toyed with using royal blue or royal purple.  (So now I have made up for my whining by giving you lots of ideas!!!)

I ended up going for a "royal" butterfly.  There are "queen" butterflies and "monarch" butterflies and even "viceroy" butterflies - all very royal!  Ancient Greeks considered butterflies royal because they were the souls of those who passed away.  I didn't put my butterfly in a "royal" setting but beautiful butterflies can sit on a weed and be spectacular!!

I did start out thinking kings and queens, and my first attempt went in an entirely different direction than butterflies.  Even though I am not entirely satisfied with this card (it leaves me flat and I just can't figure out why), I thought I would show you anyway. I used pennants - thinking castle decorations.  I stumbled upon the top of my sentiment panel by accident.  I had a few scraps of the gold cardstock left that matches my diagonal stripe.  I measured, cut and border punched - but I used my border punch on the wrong side.  I didn't have any more CS left - so I just used it on the top.  It looks like castle turret - I think it works!!

I really am looking forward to seeing what other "royal" ideas you come up with!!

My heart and prayers are with all of us who have experienced

such loss and devastation in the last few days.  I pray especially for

those parents whose children are still missing this morning.
May our Lord provide miracles today, strength in the days to
come and healing for the future.

Royal Butterfly

• Stamps: Stampin' Up Papillon Potpourri, Verve Amazing Wishes
• Paper: white
• Ink: Memento black, Copics
• Accessories: Papertrey Ink cloud dies, Quickutz Goosebumpz (old 2x2 embossing folders - I don't think they are even sold anymore), Stampin' Up Butterfly Punch, misc sequins

Royal Princess

• Stamps: Lizzie Anne Once Upon A Time
• Paper: Stampin' Up Primrose Petals, American Crafts My Girl Paper Pad, Simple Stories Snap Color Vibe (the diagonal stripe)
• Ink: Memento Black
• Accessories: Cuttlebug Embossing, MFT Fishtail dies, My Mind's Eye Ginger Relax Twine, misc buton

Cheer UP with Casology

There is nothing new about this card - you've definitely seen it all before because I jumped on every trend out there.   Die cut letters on a shelf, baker's twine, scallops and even sequins!  The only thing that I didn't use, that I would have used had I owned what I thought I owned(!), is a wood veneer arrow for the up part.

I am playing along with this week's CASology Cue Card: Up.  I was a little worried about whether the sentiment was obvious, so I asked my fairly clueless husband and he didn't even hesitate before he said "cheer up...but it has too much bling" (that's his usual analysis of my cards - my clean, simple, basic cards!!)  I also added a little scallop to the "shelf" because I am always inspired by the challenges at Less Is More!



I really wasn't going to jump on the sequin trend.  I had myself totally talked out of it when I realized that the stores/brands carrying the really nice sequins had each color bagged separately.  I would have had to spend $60 and owned about 5,000 sequins to get a complete collection from any of these stores - because, you know, I have to have complete collections!  I do like some of the cards that I have been seeing, so I popped into Etsy and found some collections of iridescent, metallic and satin sequins at Endless Inkabilities - just enough in a bag so that I could play along with the trend!

iPad Users: The iPad/iPod tab at the top of my page has been updated.  Mostly just removing a lot of clutter - but it's MUCH easier to use!

An Amusing Google Reader Update:Just a reminder that I defined the situation here (no, you won't lose your followers) and I gave a tutorial on Feedly here (my choice for a Google Reader replacement).
Feedly is now saying they have 3,000,000 new users.  Wow!  And the other service being used by cardmakers is bloglovin' - you can't read card blogs without seeing the button popping up.
It really makes me wonder what Google was thinking when they canned the Reader.  And I'm not the only one who thinks that.  Last week, Google announced a new note-taking tool called "Keep".  Tech bloggers and news people are warning against it.  One headline said "Google Keep just went live, and watching the media warn people about it is remarkable".  Other techie people have said it might even be better than what's already out there, but they say "fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me twice, shame on me" - they won't use it because they had been Google Reader users and no longer trust Google.
The big flaw that Google missed is that they not only annoyed a legion of crafts and cardmakers (!), they killed something that was used loyally by techies and journalists - the same people that they need to promote their products.  One techie blogger said, "It's a public relations nightmare that I'm sure is being discussed in a dimly lit office right now."
(This all has nothing to do with cardmaking and I'm sure none of you care - but I'm currently in a marketing class - and this whole move violates Marketing 101 - so I have been following in fascination!  Thanks for listening!)

• Stamps: none!
• Paper: Papertrey Hibiscus Burst CS, Simple Stories dsp
• Ink: none!
• Accessories: Papertrey Ink Headline Alphabet and Get to the Point dies, Trendy Twine Tinkled Pink, Stampin' Up scallop border, sequins from Endless Inkabilities

Day 4: Online Class Pattern Play

This is my second post today!!

Yesterday in the Pattern Play class, we learned many, many ways to alter patterned paper.  I thoroughly enjoyed their ideas and tips, but I found myself thinking that I don't even do well with the basic paper, let alone altering it and making it even fancier!!  So I didn't make anything yesterday but when I woke up this morning and looked out my window at an incredibly dreary and drizzly day - I had an idea!!

The technique on this was to score your patterned paper and then to sand at the scores to give it a little extra pattern.  
That's all I have to say on this - because today's online videos went up half an hour ago and I am ready to play!!
I used the sketch from Pals Paper Arts.  It's a great sketch for playing with patterned paper!!

• Stamps: Papertrey Ink Scattered Showers
• Paper: Pebbles Seen and Noted
• Ink: Memento Black and Copics
• Accessories: Scalloped border punch, misc gems

WPlus9 Mood Board

This morning was one of those reminders that I need every so often to stay true to my style.  I wanted to play along with the WPlus9 Mood Board.

I had so much out on my desk to make this work.  Layers of patterns, canvas textures, clips, ribbon, etc. but it was taking such a huge effort.  I spend a lot of time on my cards, but it's not necessarily work.  A recent commenter called me meticulous.  I wasn't initially sure that I liked that, but the more that I thought about it - it does describe my cards.  I take a lot of time on each card - even the simple ones - because the colors have to match and the ribbon has to be tied right and everything needs to be straight. So my first effort for this mood board was swept into the trash can - and I went much simpler...

I stuck with the colors, a flower, a little country with the quilt, just a few patterns - and I am much happier!!

• Stamps: WPlus9 Mother's Day Bouquet, Heartfelt Mix
• Paper and Ink: Stampin' Up Midnight Muse, Real Red, Lucky Limeade
• Accessories: WPlus9 Quilt die and heart die, Stampin' Up Limeade twine, misc pearl

Hang in There!!

This is my second post.  The TAWS 

blog hop is just a post away!

I love this week's sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch!  I had so many ideas swirling around in my head - having multiple ideas from which to choose is quite unusual for me.  I hope you like the direction that I went...

As usual, the rest of the design team has a wide variety of inspiration for you  - head over to the CAS(E) this Sketch! blog to see how amazingly different and creative each card is!

Hope to see you play along this week!

• Stamps: Simon Says Stamp Like Your Style (from the February kit)
• Paper: Glitz Hello Friend dsp and various CS (also from the kit)
• Ink: Stampin' Up Soft Suede
• Accessories: Maya Road Vintage Love Hanger (from the kit!), Papertrey Ink Sweet Blush button

Always Praying for You

It's time for another sketch at CAS(E) This Sketch!  I do love these sketches but I have to admit to really struggling with this one.  I tried and discarded a number of ideas.  I kept having to remind myself that it's a "challenge" for a reason!!

The light bulb came on for me when I was organizing some supplies.  I saw this wooden word and realized that the sentiment didn't have to be ON the panel - it could BE the panel!!

I sure would like to see what each of you come up with for this one!

• Stamps: Simon Says Stamp Always & Forever
• Paper: Stampin' Up More Mustard, Baja Breeze and Naturals White, Pink Paislee Prairie Hill Hilltop
• Ink: Stampin' Up Baja Breeze
• Accessories: Simon Says Stamp alterable wood word, Martha Stewart butterfly punch, misc pearls

LIM: Black and White plus One

Less Is More is having one of my favorite challenge types:

BLACK and WHITE 

with a touch or a splash, a hint or suggestion, a dab or a  patch of 

a colour of your choice!

Over my first cup of coffee this morning, I was reading your blogs and someone said (sorry, don't remember who), that they were two weeks behind in using supplies out of their box of new supplies.  Two weeks??!!  I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.  My box of new supplies-that-won't-be-put-away-until-they-are-used keeps getting bigger and bigger and BIGGER.  I've never, ever been within two weeks of using them all.

So, before I even saw the LIM challenge, I knew I was reaching into that box for this morning's card.  On the very top were heart bling, a set of Sizzix embossing folders and a new set of stamps from Verve.  Here they are...

This came together in FIVE minutes!!!
Now...continuing on my thread from yesterday...I am losing huge blocks of my time because on Monday I am a full-time college student again!!  I WILL continue making cards - but one of the things that I realized was that I simply wasn't going to have time to make and re-make until I felt they were deserving of being posted.  My new focus will be to post the card that I create - but also tell you what I would like to have re-done.  I think this could be a good learning time for all of us - a here is what works and what doesn't work feature.  For example, I don't dislike this card, but in my old life, I would have re-done it.

IF I COULD DO IT OVER...
The sentiment does not stand out enough.  I thought the fun font would give it enough interest, but it still gets lost.

This could be solved in two ways:
1. If I wanted to keep that sentiment, I could add it on a label die.
2. I could try a bigger and/or bolder sentiment.




Knowing myself well - I would imagine this feature will be a regular part of my blog posts as I can always finding something that I would do differently!

• Stamps: Verve Treasured Words
• Paper: black and white
• Ink: black
• Accessories: May Arts Gingham ribbon, Marthat Stewart butterfly punch, misc heart gem, Sizzix Vine and Garden Textured Impressions

BE Inspired Reminder!

Last week, on The Alley Way Stamps (TAWS) blog was BE Inspired week with the inspiration being these photos/colors/pictures...

I just wanted to remind you that it's a two week challenge and YOU still have time to play along.  It does require a TAWS image, but they have free digis - check out this lovely butterfly from this post.

I took inspiration from the branch in the upper left corner.  It worked perfectly with the new set Trees Company.

That's a little bit of clear Stickles in the corner of each flower so it has a nice shimmer in real life!

• Stamps: The Alley Way Stamps Trees Company, Talk to Me
• Paper: Stampin' Up Creamy Caramel (retired)
• Ink: Stampin' Up Creamy Caramel, Pink Pirouette, Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Papertrey Ink Fine Linen and Spring Moss
• Accessories: corner rounder, misc twine

Cloud9 plus WPlus9

It's time for the monthly Cloud9 challenge for fans of WPlus9 stamps.  This month's challenge is to use this inspiration picture...

I was immediately attracted to the cascading bird cages.  I have the MOST darling WPlus9 bird house dies and decided to use those for the "cascade".  I have to tell you that these dies come with a sweet little roof.  Having seen the roof, I feel like my bird houses are missing something - but the card was just too full with three little roofs so I've convinced myself that they can stand alone!


I had wanted to add the pop of color with the flowers, but I am loving the colors at Stampin' Royalty this week so decided to stick with those.

I have an update on yesterday's "love 'em most of the time" story with particular emphasis on the cat that woke me at 4 a.m. and the little lost leaf die.

This is the cat...

Can you see the devilish gleam in her eyes?
She is a particularly annoying creature, but she has one redeeming quality...she thinks she is a dog and LOVES to fetch.  She scampers after her "toys", then comes back with this jaunty walk - bow-legged and broad-shouldered - "Look at me, Mom, I got it!  I got it!!"  
As I was making this card, I notice she's standing there in her tough, I-got-it pose, so since it's early and we were the only ones up, I started a conversation.  "Whatcha got girl?...your favorite peppermint candy? (she loves chasing anything wrapped in cellophane)...your nerf dart?...or (my personal favorite to the chagrin of my men)...a tampon?? (the crinkly wrapper is so much fun!)."  
She dropped her conquest at my feet.
Can you guess what it was?...The missing itty bitty leaf die!!!
I have no idea where she came up with it given we spent an hour and a half looking for it...but she is now officially forgiven for the early morning wake up call.
(And I have just spent the last half hour finding new ways to store my dies given she clearly has a new favorite toy!)
I'm also entering this at Simon Says Put a Stamp On It.

• Stamps: WPlus9 Love Birds (sentiment)
• Paper: Stampin' Up Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Pool Party
• Ink: Stampin' Up Soft Suede
• Accessories: WPlus9 Folk Art Floral Dies, Darcies embossing folder, crochet thread

Less Is More: Brown and Pink

This is my second post today.

It's brown and pink week at Less Is More!!  Love these colors because you could go bright and funky or sweet and gentle.  I am still working hard on swaps as I have an exciting weekend coming up as a friend's guest at the Stampin' Up Regional convention!!  I did want to use the new butterfly punch - so I went for a very gentle thinking of you card...


I think that I can make quite a few of these for swaps.  My swap card that I showed you yesterday had way too much going on - I got bored of die-cutting by the 5th card!!

• Stamps: Stampin' Up Thoughts and Prayers
• Paper: Stampin' Up Pink Pirouette CS and dsp, Soft Suede dsp
• Ink: Stampin' Up Soft Suede
• Accessories: Stampin' Up Elegant Butterfly Punch, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Adorning Accents Embossing Folder and Edgelits, Pearls

keepin' a float?

I am so grateful to all of you who have come up with ideas over the last few days.  I've never had to look for options for my cards and I am amazed at the variety of needs!!  One comment did force me to look close to home.  She told about a family tradition of sitting down on Sunday with her children and figuring out who needed some attention - then they create and send cards.  What a wonderful, caring family!

So today's card is still focused on all of those hurting in relation to the problems at the church.  I hope it will bring a smile!

The fish were inspired by this week's CAS-ual Fridays challenge:

The layout comes from Pals Paper Arts:

• Stamps: The Alley Way Stamps Sea Mates
• Paper: Stampin' Up Pacific Point
• Ink: Memento black, Copics
• Accessories: Washi tape: Queen and Co. Trendy Tape, gems colored with Copics, Papertrey Ink Impression Plate, Ranger Glossy Accents on eyes

CASology Cue Card: Green

This week's CASology Cue Card is "green".  That keeps the option pretty wide open!!  I do so love green.

I was feeling inspired to make a card dedicated to those affected by the troubles at the church (see yesterday's post).  So many families have left that church and so many others are still there but are hurting.  I saw these leaves and this sentiment - which is clearly directed at autumn leaves - but I thought it made so much sense in this situation.

I spent some time playing with the leaf - multiple colors, crumpling, "sueding", etc., but the simple fact is that the detail on it allows it to stand alone.  It is die cut and I slightly rolled the edges.  It does have three inks on it including some gold on the edges although that isn't real clear from the photo.

I want to thank everybody who responded yesterday via comments or email.  So many good ideas!

I also realized that I forgot to say "thank you" to all of my blog friends and all of you who don't even know that I rely on you.  With all the church troubles, I have been very bad these past few weeks at commenting.  But I do read your blogs and it never fails that I smile, laugh and ooh and aah through your posts!!!

• Stamps: Sweet 'n Sassy Season of Change
• Paper: Papertrey Ink Ripe Avocado, white
• Ink: Papertrey Ink Ripe Avocado, Stampin' Up Old Olive, Delicata Golden Glitz
• Accessories:Sweet 'n Sassy Season of Change dies, misc gold cord

Dynamic Duos: Subtle Prayers

It's subtles week at Dynamic Duos.  I am always need of Praying for You cards for the church ministry and this week's very gentle colors seemed perfect.

I used this week's sketch from technostampers.

Check out all the other cards by the design team.  Then try it yourself and link up over at Dynamic Duos.  We look forward to seeing your creations.

The Dynamic Duos Challenge Blog

Allisa Chilton

Anne Marie Hile

Anika Lerche

Bronwyn Eastley

Kim Singdahlsen

Lesley Croghan

Lisa Elton

Melissa Chipperfield

Paige Grabau

Sue Joyce

• Stamps: Stampin' Up Simply Soft, OCL Prayers and Blessings
• Paper: Stampin' Up Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink
• Ink: Staz-On Black, Stampin' Up Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink
• Accessories: waterbrush, Stampin' Up pink ribbon, Spellbinders Lacey Circles

CASology Cue Card: Bird

This week's Cue Card over at CASology is "Bird".  I love all of the bird dies from Memory Box - they are so sweet and gentle - that I decided to use a bird in a praying for you card...

• Stamps: Our Craft Lounge Prayers and Blessings
• Paper: Stampin' Up Wisteria Wonder, Vintage Violet, Lucky Limeade, Baja Breeze
• Ink: Stampin' Up Vintage Violet (long retired!)
• Accessories: Cuttlebug dot folder, Spellbinders circle and inverted scallop dies, Memory Box Perched Reed Bird, Twigs and Berries, Tender Leaves dies (note: the Twigs and Berries die comes with leaves but I wanted smaller leaves so used the Tender Leaves die)

A Soft and Subtle Dynamic Duo

This week's Dynamic Duo Color Challenge is a "Subtly Yours" pairing - Pink Pirouette and Baja Breeze.  I immediately envisioned a gentle silhouette scene.  I wanted it to be very small - I have lots of silhouette stamps, and the smallest and daintiest of all of them is a set by Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps called Nature Silhouettes.



I added a quick "swoosh" of pink dots to to add interest, sponged the edges a little, a simple sentiment - and done!!!  This is why I love a starting point for my cards - and a two-color color challenge like Dynamic Duos is perfect!!

Here's all of the other design team members for your inspiration.  I hope you play along!!  Create your card and head back to the Dynamic Duos blog to link it up.  We love seeing your creations!

The Dynamic Duos Challenge Blog

Allisa Chilton

Anne Marie Hile

Anika Lerche

Bronwyn Eastley

Kim Singdahlsen

Lesley Croghan

Lisa Elton

Melissa Chipperfield

Paige Grabau

Sue Joyce

• Stamps: Sweet 'n Sassy Nature Silhouettes and Thinking of You, Stampin' Up Itty Bitty Backgrounds for the "swoosh" of dots
• Paper: white
• Ink: Stampin' Up Baja Breeze and Pink Pirouette
• Accessories: White crochet thread, Stampin' Up Twitterpated Button Collection, Crystal Stickles

Sweet 'n Sassy YOU

This morning, I needed to make a masculine Thinking of You - and, as fate would have it, the Clean and Simple challenge at splitcoaststampers was to use Navy, Olive and White.  I can work with that!!


Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps has a very versatile set simply called You.  It includes a name tag size label (the flourish is a second stamp), a variety of "You's" in different styles and a variety of words to go with the You's, e.g. "thinking of...", "I {heart}...", "...can do it" and about a dozen more!  It's VERY useful for creating very quick, yet unique and interesting cards.

• Stamps: Sweet 'n Sassy You
• Paper: Stampin' Up Old Olive, white
• Ink: Stampin' Up Old Olive, Night of Navy
• Accessories: EK Success border punch, misc pearl colored with a copics, corner rounder, Divine Twine Blueberry

Bird of Hope

I know an incredible family from church.  They are very blessed financially, yet the father uses his time to run a local food bank as a full-time "volunteer".  They are also very busy keeping up with their five young children (including a set of triplets!).  But no one's life is ever as easy as it may look...the mother has just been diagnosed with breast cancer and has undergone a double mastectomy.  My heart and my prayers go out to this family.

I created this simple little card to let them know that people care and are praying...



This is definitely not a great photo - but I wanted to keep the shadows on the card to highlight the subtle embossing. 
I used the sketch from retrosketches and, as I wanted to keep it cheerful, I played along with the CAS-ual Fridays challenge to use bling.

• Stamps: unknown "Hope"
• Paper: white
• Ink: black
• Accessories: Cuttlebug large border embossing folder (done one way, then flipped and embossed the other way), bird and swirl stickers (they say "White Blossom" which I have never heard of, but I found them at one of the big box stores - there's a sheet of the birds and another sheet of the swirls), Quickutz tag, crochet thread

Black Tie Week at Dynamic Duos

It's the third week of the month, which means the theme for this week's Dynamic Duo is Black Tie.  Black Tie weeks mean that the pair of colors is black with one other color, plus a dessert.  For this week, the other color is Daffodil Delight and the dessert is embossing.

I took a fairly easy route and went with the obvious...a bumble bee...but from there, I had a lot of fun.  Hexagons seem to be a big thing right now and I just got a set of nested hexagons.  I used them to create a little hive - and then I tucked the bumble bee inside the hive.  Do you see him hiding inside there?



You see him better when the card is closed...

I embossed the black hexagons to give it some added interest.
I hope you play along with us this week.  Just create a card using black, Daffodil Delight (yellow) and, if possible, a little dry embossing.  Head on over to the Dynamic Duos blog to link it up.  I am looking forward to seeing what you create.

For some amazing inspiration, be sure to check out the creations by the rest of the design team:

The Dynamic Duos Challenge Blog

Allisa Chilton

Anne Marie Hile

Anika Lerche

Bronwyn Eastley

Kim Singdahlsen

Lesley Croghan

Lisa Elton

Melissa Chipperfield

Paige Grabau

Sue Joyce

And...if you need another reason to enter the Dynamic Duos challenge...my card from last week (pool and saffron) won a $20 prize package from the CAS-ual Fridays challenge!!  Thanks to Dynamic Duos for the inspiration!

BIG NEWS: The downloadable Stampin' Up Copic Chart on my sidebar

has been updated for Copic matches to the brand new in-colors!!!

• Stamps: the sentiment is a digi from The Wax Fruit Company.  They also have a wonderful bee, but I didn't think my digi skills would allow me to accurately line him up inside the hive.  I used an old Inkadinkado stamp for the bee.
• Ink: Memento black, copics
• Paper: Stampin' Up Black and white, Daffodil Delight CS and dsp
• Accessories: Lifestyle Crafts Nested Hexagons, Papertrey Ink Sunshine Impression Plate, Smooch Pearlized Top Coat (on wings and the word "bee")