{"id":490,"date":"2024-11-08T14:24:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T13:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebeestudio.com\/?p=490"},"modified":"2024-11-08T14:24:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T13:24:13","slug":"blooming-beeday-clearly-besotted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebeestudio.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/08\/blooming-beeday-clearly-besotted\/","title":{"rendered":"Blooming BeeDay &#8211; Clearly Besotted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Im a sucker for bees so when I saw the Blooming Beeday set by Clearly Besotted it was a no brainer, I just had to have it! This set includes 5 super cute bees each holding a flower. I decided to make 2 cards both with a similar design. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I picked 3 of bees stamped them and coloured them using Faber Castell polychromos colouring pencils and then used Gamsol and a blending stump to smooth them over. I used a black Sakura Glaze pen on their eyes to give them some slight dimension and shine. I then cut them out using my Brother Scan N Cut machine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/thebeestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Blog2.2-2.png\" alt=\"Handmade birthday card featuring a bee holding a pink flower.\" class=\"wp-image-507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebeestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Blog2.2-2.png 1000w, https:\/\/thebeestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Blog2.2-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/thebeestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Blog2.2-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/thebeestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Blog2.2-2-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> I used the Clearly Besotted Hive of Activity Stencil with Distress Oxide inks in Squeezed Lemonade and Mustard Seed to create a simple background on both. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One panel is 4 x 5.25 inches and the other is 3.75 x 5 inches, I used just the 1 bee on the the smaller panel and the remaining 2 bees on the slightly larger panel. The sentiment is from the same Blooming Beeday set, I used the same sentiment on both cards white heat embossing it onto black card. The smaller panel is mounted on a white card base and the larger panel is on a nice bright yellow card base. I stamped a sentiment inside with another of the bees and I also stamped one on the envelopes. I love how these look and its a nice reminder that a simple card is just fun and effective!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/thebeestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Blog2.3-2.png\" alt=\"Handmade birthday card featuring two bees holding pretty flowers.\" class=\"wp-image-508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebeestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Blog2.3-2.png 1000w, https:\/\/thebeestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Blog2.3-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/thebeestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Blog2.3-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/thebeestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Blog2.3-2-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for stopping by, I have listed my supplies below<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Supplies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Clearly Besotted \u2013 Blooming Beeday<\/li><li>Clearly Besotted \u2013 Hive of Activity Stencil<\/li><li>Distress Oxide Ink \u2013 Squeezed Lemonade<\/li><li>Distress Oxide Ink \u2013 Mustard Seed<\/li><li>Paper Mill Direct \u2013 Pro Design 300gsm<\/li><li>Paper Mill Direct \u2013 Daffodil Plain Card 290gsm<\/li><li>Paper Mill Direct \u2013 Black Bowston Plain Card 290gsm<\/li><li>Hero Arts &#8211; White Embossing Powder<\/li><li>Versafine Onyx Black Ink<\/li><li>Faber Castel Polychromos Colouring Pencils<\/li><li>Gamblin \u2013 Gamsol<\/li><li>Sakura Black Glaze Pen<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Im a sucker for bees so when I saw the Blooming Beeday set by Clearly Besotted it was a no brainer, I just had to have it! This set includes 5 super cute bees each holding a flower. I decided to make 2 cards both with a similar design. I picked 3 of bees stamped them and coloured them using Faber Castell polychromos colouring pencils and then used Gamsol and a blending stump to smooth them over. I used a black Sakura Glaze pen on their eyes to give them some slight dimension and shine. I then cut them out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[65,22,82,11,33,17,25,83,63,51,16],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-card-making","tag-bee","tag-birthday-card","tag-brother-scan-n-cut","tag-card-making","tag-clearly-besotted","tag-distress-oxide-inks","tag-faber-castell-polychromos-colour-pencils","tag-gamsol","tag-handmade-birthday-card","tag-handmade-card","tag-ink-blending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebeestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebeestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebeestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebeestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebeestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thebeestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/thebeestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebeestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebeestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebeestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebeestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}