Buzzing Bees Art Journal Page

Hello friends! I hope you are well! I had minor surgery last week and have taken it easy since then, but it went well and is now luckily getting better.

This week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog we have an Art Journaling theme. If you have never done art journaling before, I hope you will try it out. It is a really fun and free form of creating. If you don't have an art journal, don't worry, you can also do lose pages and bind them later, or glue them into a journal later on. Don't miss the gorgeous art journal page by our October guest designer Jo, with her blog Let's Art Journal.

I made a nature-themed page in my 8 x 8 Dylusions journal, with lots of texture, but almost no bulk. I continued to use Tim Holtz's Abandoned Paper Stash, all the papers in the pack are great for art journal backgrounds. The particular one that I picked has a texture that worked well together with the bee theme. The bees and flowers come from the Darkroom Door Buzzing Bees set. My sisters are both beekeepers, so bees are popular in our family. 

Stamp the bees on cream paper.

Color them with colored pencils. I used Prismacolor pencils, and also added just a little bit of gold.

Give the wings some glimmer with a Zig Wink of Stella pen.

Stamp the flower and angle the stem in different ways, for variation. Color with pencils.

Add some marks with a black pen, to increase the sketch look of the flowers. Add highlights with a white gel pen. I added some white gel pen marks on the bees too.

Stamp and gold emboss the honeycomb pattern from the Buzzing Bees set on the background. Be careful when heat embossing and do not touch the melted powder until it is completely cool.

Cut the bees out and glue to the background.

I also smeared embossing ink around the edges and embossed with the gold powder.

Here's a close up of the flowers. They will look pretty in almost any color.

The sentiments come from the Nature Walk Darkroom Door set, stamped on Simon Says Stamp Glimmery paper.

I also die cut a flower border with the SSS Bixby Arch die, from glimmery paper, and some flowers, both from patterned paper and from peach glimmery paper.

It is hard to photograph the soft shine on the wings, but you can maybe see it slightly here.

I hope you will join us this week in our Art Journaling challenge. As always, you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until next Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

Don't forget to follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram, they post great stuff daily. 

Do you use Instagram? If so please add #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too.

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog today!  

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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