Buzzing Bees Happy Birthday!

DRS Designs has posted their second challenge today on their blog. It's all about paper piercing!

With this challenge in mind, I created this Happy Birthday card. First I stamped the bee image twice, and then the flower ribbon slide. I colored all three of them with my new Bic Markers, and then I cut them out.

I created my card base from yellow cardstock so that it measured A2 size. Next, I took my black cardstock & ran it through my Cuttlebug with my Swiss Dots embossing floder.





Then I trimmed the light blue cardstock so that it fit on top of the black cardstock, leaving a thin border on 3 sides and about an inch on the far right side. Before adhering it to the black cardstock, I put it on a foam cushion so that I could pierce the paper to create the flying trail for each bee, and to add the decor in the upper and lower left corners. Next, I used a black gel pen to doodle dashes along the edge of the blue cardstock.


I adhered the blue cardstock to the black cardstock and then slid the flower ribbon slide through the yellow ribbon and adhered it to the underside of the black cardstock. I positioned each bee in place with Pop-Dots and added Stickles to their wings.



While the stickles were drying, I stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment on yellow cardstock. I trimmed the cardstock around it and adhered it to black cardstock, so it left a black border around the sentiment. I adhered this to the open space between both bees.


The DRS Designs Team would love for you to play along with us in this challenge and/or our previous one (inchies). There is no time limit...just post a direct link to your project in the appropriate challenge post so we can come take a look at it. If you upload to SCS please use keyword: DRSC2.

• Stamps: All stamps by DRS DEsigns-Happy Bee, Happy Birthday, Single Flower Ribbon Slide
• Ink: Versafine Black Onyx
• Paper: Smooth cardstock by Paper Reflections.
• Accessories: Bic Markers, Making Memories Paper piercer, Cuttlebug, Cuttle bug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, Crystal Stickles by Ranger, Black Gelly Roll Pen, Pop-Dots

Smiles,

Jennifer