~ Simply Because ~
January 30th, 2010 by Holly McMillen
Good morning, friends 🙂
It’s been a whirlwind week here in the McMillen household. Â We went from DH being indefinitely laid off to him going back to work this coming Monday. Â My nerves can’t take much more of this back and forth stuff!
My sleep patterns are all messed up, too.  I had been sleeping pretty much ok, then I did something stupid to my ears and ended up rupturing my ear drums.  Not to worry, though, I am told they will heal on their own within a week to ten days.  In the meantime, I can’t hear a thing.  Good thing I don’t need to hear in order to stamp! 🙂
I woke up quite early this morning and since I was awake, I figured I may as well take on this week’s Inspiration challenge. Â Our challenge this week comes from a site called ESPE. Â I chose this image for inspiration:
https://www.espe.ca/product/products_accessories.html
I was inspired by the colors and the simplicity.
For the bee, I used a 1/2″ circle punch.  I first punched a yellow piece. Then I punched a black piece and cut strips to make his body stripes.  Then I punched another black for his head and two punches on vellum to form his wings.  I trimmed the vellum circles to a teardrop shape. Then just a little sliver of black for his stinger.
The final step was to paper pierce his flight track.
Here are my deets:
Stamps: There She Goes‘Â Bloom
Colors: Taken with Teal, Summer Sun, PTI White, Basic Black, Vellum
Ink: Versafine Black Onyx, copics
Accessories: bracket border punch, paper piercer, scissors, dimensional
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Thanks for stopping by! Â Tune in next week for some exciting news!!
Hugs,
Holly
This card is adorable, Holly. Fits right into the bottom right hand purse 😀 Love how you created your bee too! I used to avoid inspiration challenges until Amber started having them as inspiration for our weekly Verve Sketch Challenge and now I love them LOL! SO glad Don is working again – God is good!! Blessings 😀
Super sweet! I love the colors and attention to detail!
Love your work. I have to check it out frequently.
I ruptured an eardrum about 50 years ago. They do heal. The only difference is that I think I’m talking loud and others say they can’t hear me. That is something I’ll probably never get used to. I never had another problem with the ear though.
I am agree with your agreement.