Spring Bee Cards by Jami Steiger
Welcome, Watercolor Weekend friends! We have had so much snow here in Ohio that I am thinking of bees and spring flowers. The same stamp set, 5925-Honey Bee, was used to create the next two cards. For the flying bees card, I started by punching out 1-inch hexagons from the 6012-Basic Yellow Paper pack and a "bee" paper pack I had on hand. I used a round paper punch to cut out the leaves for the flower. Next, I stamped the adorable bees onto watercolor paper using an Archival Ground Espresso stamp pad. I painted the bees with the following Tombow markers: N25, N45, N55, N65, 772, 025, 933, and 993. Next, I die-cut the bees using the coordinating dies in the stamp set. I hand-cut the "grass" for the bottom of the card, then glued down the paper pieces to make the flower. I stamped the sentiment onto yellow paper from the yellow paper pack and attached it to the card with foam dots. Before adding the bees, I stamped the honeycomb onto the gray paper with Versamark to g...