In Honour of Honey Bee Day

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Last month there was a day called International Honey Bee day.. and that was the theme for my monthly swap card...

I used an old set of stamps from a now defunct company, Layers of Color. 

The focal image was embossed in gold and painted with water colour paints..

Clear Kindy Glitz was added to the wings of the bee.

The background started as a 'mop-up' piece of card  that I had mopped up gold ink on. It was not sparkly enough,  so on went a layer of gold glimmer mist... it still looked a bit blah, so then I placed a honey comb stencil over it and brushed through Memento Dandelion ink...ah, better, but the final touch was the random  over stamping using a small bee from the set, in Memento London Fog ink.

The end result has a gorgeous, but subtle sparkle to it, which I could not pick up with the camera.

All this happened over several days, I might add 🙂

I embossed the sentiment from the same set, then mounted the main panel over a blue splattered and sprayed piece of paper with 1mm foam tape, and mounted both onto a gold toned card base

I inside, which I forgot to photograph, I think trimmed it with a strip from the front panel,

The envelope had one edge stamped with a row of the same wee bees.

I am linking this to:

Crazy is onr Name - Stencils are our Game Sept Challenge - Nature or Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks # 714 + 715 - Anything Goes

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #500 - Dies and/or stencils

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge #2535 - Anything Goes