Bee Happy - Watercoloring with Distress Inks

Oh, hi!  I may or may not be slightly obsessed with these stamps and dies from Honey Bee Stamps.  And, I really stepped out of my comfort zone and did some watercoloring using Distress Inks.

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Here's a video showing the process . . . and a bit of yada-yada on my part.  Yep, I'm still getting used to voice overs.

So, I started out by stamping the Cosmos flowers onto a piece of Canson Watercolor paper with VersaFine Onyx Black Ink.  Then I embossed them with Clear Embossing Powder.

Once I was done with that, I smooshed Distress Inks directly onto my Ranger Craft mat and used it as a palette to pick up color with a wet paint brush.

For the flower petals, I used Mustard Seed and Wild Honey. For the flower centers, I used Spiced Marmalade.  The stems were done with Peeled Paint and the background was done in Broken China and Peacock Feathers.  (pssst . . . Honey Bee has a great price on the Mini Distress Ink Cubes.)

After all the watercoloring was done and completely dry, I die cut it with the second largest die from the A2 Scallop Frame set.

I masked off a portion of the sentiments from the Hi Honey stamp set before inking them up so I could get just the words wanted.  I added a few bees from the Bee Hive stamp set, colored them up using Copics and die cut them with the coordinating dies.

The final step after adhering the bees to the card was to add some Stardust Stickles to their wings.  And there ya have it!  All done.

Thanks for buzzing by today! 

see what I did there?