My Heart Belongs to You...

Good morning!

I had some time over the weekend to make a few cards and this is one of them - I love the non-traditional colors this one turned out to be, but honestly it was work getting it all together! I had a few elements that I really wanted to add and do with this card, but they didn't seem to work - so I pulled them off and started over!

I am a stubborn card maker (that's the only area where I'm stubborn... lol!) so I kept working at it until I was happy. And, now I love it! Isn't it funny how that is sometimes. So, I guess this is a labor of love card....

I used GinaK's adorable Whimsical Valentine stamp set - look at how cute that little bee and dragonflies are. The sentiment is also from the stamp set and I thought it looked so cute like a flag coming out from the flowers. We all know how much bees love flowers, right!? Doesn't he look like he's bringing a valentine to his favorite flowers? Yes, I know that I'm a little crazy.... lol! Stubborn and crazy...

I used some Stampin Up papers for this card - Basic Gray for the card itself, Brushed silver for the main heart and last years In Color Purely Pomegranate. The designer paper and buttons are from Basic Grey's Ambrosia collection. There are so many beautiful gray papers in the Ambrosia paper pack, so that's why I chose it for this card.

I decided to color the bee body in with a Copic T5 sketch marker, the heart with a R37 ciao marker and highlighted the rest of him with Sakura's Glue pen and Doodlebug's glitter. Since he's a boy bee, the majority of his body is grey - not yellow.

Here's a close up of my little boy bee....

I did the same thing with the dragonflies...

Thanks for stopping by and don't hold my craziness and stubborness against me, okay? lol! I hear those two qualities are fairly common in papercrafting circles - at least the craziness! *wink*

Jessica