CTD153 & SC344

Yesterday I was playing around with some vintage elements I bought at my LSS and realized they fit the Color Throwdown challenge this week, so I went with it!  It also uses yesterday’s sketch challenge 344 from SCS:

I am not sure you can actually see the sketch for all the elements, though!  Here you go:

I really enjoyed making this card, seeing all the “B” items I could come up with:  bees, baby carriage, bow, button, Bingo, believe, and B-day!  Here is why I had bees on the brain:

We discovered this hanging near our driveway a few days ago!  Yikes!  Thankfully it is up fairly high so the hornets aren’t bothered by us, or us by them!  It’s really fascinating to see, but I’ll wait until winter to get a really close-up look!  Meanwhile, here are some closer views of the card:

AND, I’ve been doing some sewing!  I found this pattern yesterday while perusing Gwenny Penny, and dug into my fabric drawer, got some Mary Engelbreit material I had stashed away and made my wee one a “bapron”:

Very helpful for those messy meals!

And guess what’s on the bias tape?  Yep, BEES!  

And in case you’re wondering why her hair looks funny:

Thanks for visiting today!  If you have any questions about the products I used in my card, just shoot me an email!