Bee Mine!

Here we are starting off the first Saturday of the 2009 year with a fun sketch from Jen's weekly SFYTT challenge. I think the sketch offers a great chance to combine some of that fun patterned paper that we all just had to have...kwim?!

I chose papers from Basic Gray's Urban Prairie collection which coordinate perfectly with Kim Hughes' The Birds and The Bees set available through CHF. Darling paper--darling stamps! The buzzing bee was first stamped on white and watercolored with So Saffron on the body and a bit of Cool Caribbean on the wing tips and then covered with another bee stamped on acetate. I love the acetate layer, but it does take away from the intensity of the watercoloring a bit. I added a machine stitched flight line and a bit of ric rac to break up the straight lines of the sketch. The ric rac is actually playing two parts today, the other being a major "cover up" of some machine stitching gone way bad! Ü

It would "bee" just terrific if you played along with the sketch, so remember to use the keyword: SFYTT if you upload to SCS, and/or leave a link to your blog in the comment section of Jen's blog. Last but not least, take pleasure in a bit of inspiration from the rest of the SFYTT gals and give a warm welcome to Jen's January Guest Designer, the Kirsten DuBosque!

Jen/Kirsten
Amy
Carole
Shannan
Susan

Thanks for stopping by and a happy first Saturday of 2009 to you!

Card deets
Stamps: Kim Hughes The Birds and The Bees (CHF)
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, So Saffron, Cool Caribbean
Paper: Basic Grey Urban Prairie 6x6 pad
Accessories: sewing machine, glitter brads, ric rac (Offray), black hemp, SU! hearts set dies