Crafty Secrets April Linky Party......and I almost missed it (again!)

I made another wall hanging and it's  is going in the mail to surprise (shhh!) a wonderfully generous friend, Donna of Lizzie Bee & Co She sells fresh honey and honey based products like yummy lotion soaps, so who better to give a pretty Queen Bee hanging??

It uses another favorite (I know, I know, they're ALL my favorite! ha ha) Crafty Secrets image from the Creative Scraps collection. This pretty bee image is now also available as a digital stamp ; those digital stamps are so cool because you can print it over and over in varying sizes and then you can color it however you wish. It's also fun to print black imagery on colored or lightly patterned paper.

 

I used my Spellbinders scalloped circle die to cut out the bee image and I layered it on top of another scalloped circle in blue, as well as a lacey edged circle in red paper from the Crate Paper Little Bo Peep 6 X 6 paper pad. Next, I cut two strips of light red paper with Martha Stewart's Garden Trellis deep edge punch and lined them up bottom to bottom edge, creating a very wide lattice patterned strip to put down the middle of the pennant.

 

The blue dotted paper from Webster's Pages is mounted on a Maya Road scalloped pennant shaped piece of chipboard. I added a piece of pink silk ribbon on top of my punched trellis pieces, pop dotted the bee image and then edged everything in French Blue Cat's Eye Chalk Ink and then again in Silver Stickles. The bottom points are accented with large pearl embellishments. For the hanger, I wanted to continue with the soft delicate look of pearls and pastels so I created a beaded hanger of pink and white "pearls" strung on wire and attached to the pennant. 

 

 

I can't wait to get this one in the mail, but for now I need to go link up with Crafty Secrets....don't forget to check out this this month's linky party entries, as well as the latest pretty projects from the Crafty Secrets design team. What a talented group of ladies!! Hope everyone has a great week and checks back in with me soon.

Be blessed and be a blessing!!