* AALL & Create: Protect the Bees

Hello!

I am delighted to announce that I have been invited to join the AALL & Create Team as Guest Designer for three months. It is a huge honour and I hope I don't disappoint them.

For my first project, I made a mixed media MDF tag:

Thank you to my lovely Facebook friend Janet for the tag she gifted to me.

1. I applied crackle texture paste through the Enchanted Garden (#93) stencil and used watered down PaperArtsy Fresco Inky Pool and Teresa Green to colour the front of the tag. Splats were stamped using the Splodge #362 and white paint splatters were added.

2. The beehive, bee, flowers and snail were stamped onto white card, coloured with Inktense and/or Polychromo pencils and fussy cut. 

3. The beehive (#330 Honeybee) and flowers (#332 Birthday Blooms) were stamped onto the tag background.

4. A piece of corrugated card packaging was cut and painted to represent the ground.

5. The beehive and flowers were adhered to the tag. The hive was shaped and natural sisal fibres were place beneath it. The word Bees was stamped onto calico and adhered to the bottom of the hive.

6. Two layers of flowers were adhered, the top layer was only glued in the centre to give some dimension. A small Art Stone was placed in the centre of each flower. 

7.  Florists' Moss was adhered to the cardboard to emulate grass.

8. The whimsical snail (#326 Garden Tools) was adhered.

9.  I decided I needed some white, so I ran Versamark around the edges of the tag and heat embossed in white. A small amount of gold paint was run around the edges in places.

10.  The 'garden' word (#320 Plant Your Dreams) was printed onto white card, then triple embossed with clear powder to make a label. This was adhered to the top of the tag.

11. The bee (Honeybee #330) was given double wings and its body shaped and adhered.
12. White acrylic ink was splattered over the tag.

13. Yellow ribbon was threaded and knotted through the top of the tag.

Stamps and stencils used:

Splodge #362       Plant Your Dreams #320     Garden Tools #326       Honeybee #330   

            

   
        Birthday Blooms #332         Enchanted Garden  #93 

             

You can find lists of approved stockists here

That's all for now.

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

* Creative Knockouts  Tag Time 16/07

* Creative Moments #194 AG 20/07

* Ellibelle Wednesday Summertime 01/08 TOP PICK

* Lets Craft and Create #161 AG 01/08

* Paper Funday #19 Great Outdoors 02/08

* More Mixed Media AG 02/08

* Creative Inspirations In the Garden 04/08

* Creative Craft Cottage #131 Flowers 04/08

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