I was recently asked by someone to create a card for her mother, a fellow paper crafter, as a surprise. I jumped at the chance to send my work to a fellow crafter--it's so nice to share your work by online and via snail mail!

Her daughter asked if I could create a card based off my lemon bee mixed media canvas Guest Design for Reneabouquets. This mixed media canvas is literally my most favorite project ever to date so I was overjoyed to recreate it in card form.

I used a base of mixed media heavy stock for the card front because it can really take on a lot of wet mediums. I started by applying a layer of 3D gloss gel through a lace stencil onto the card (any texture medium will work for this). Once it was dry, I added a layer of lemon impasto paint to the entire card front.

Once that paint was dry, I layered on Distress Ink Spray Stain and Oxide Spray in fossilized amber, spritzing with water to activate the amazing properties of Distress products. I let the darker sprays collect in the nooks and crannies of the stenciled texture and then gently mopped up the excess with a soft lint free cloth. I then splattered a touch of gold ink by mixing a drop of gold reinker with a drop of water and tapping my loaded paintbrush over the card. 

I sewed on a bit of lace and torn honeycomb embossed paper once the Distress sprays were dry. I cut out a large hexagon from the same honeycomb embossed paper as well as some texture netting dies from white cardstock. I cut up the netting die cut and dabbed embossing ink onto it. I applied Distress Glaze in fossilized amber and melted it with my heat tool. 

I also grabbed a flourish resin piece from my stash (I always cast my resin pieces in big batches and then store all of the cured pieces in a pretty box in my craft room). I painted it with white gesso and once dry, I added the same lemon impasto paint and fossilized amber sprays. When the piece was dry, I dabbed a little bit of Smart Glue onto some of the raised parts of the resin piece. This glue remains tacky once dry so it's perfect for foiling. I burnished some gold foil flakes onto the resin piece.

I then layered on all of my elements. I started by adhering the hexagon die cut with foam adhesive to the base. I then tucked in the netting die pieces, lemon chipboard, flowers, drop leaf lace and garden bouquet lace around the piece. I used heavy body gel for the flowers, lace and resin and foam squares for the chipboard pieces.

To make sure the the lemon bee pops, I placed a large white flower on top of the hexagon. I gently bent the filagree wings of the bee for dimension and then glued her down with some heavy body gel. To finish off the piece, I added a few hearts of glass using glossy accents to glue them in place. I also used glossy accents to add some buttercream glitter glass to the flowers. I hope that you enjoyed this remake of my lemon bee project into a card! Until next time, happy crafting!

Adrienne

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