Honey Bee Cone Flower Birthday

 Hello friends.  I am sharing a new birthday card today.  I finally got the Honey Bee Cone Flower Die and this is the first time I have used it.  

 

 

I die cut the petals from Powder Pink card stock (retired SU) and ink the centers with darker pink ink.  I then glued all the layers together at the top (love the dimension of the flower).  I die cut the cone part from Crumb Cake and inked the top layer with Crumb Cake ink to darken it some.  The leaves are cut from Wild Wasabi (retired) and the edges inked with the matching ink.  I shaped the leaves before gluing them under the flower petals.  I mounted the flower on a panel embossed with an Anna Griffin EF Matelasse, and die cut with a stitched rectangle die.  I mounted this to a thin Wild Wasabi mat.  I glued the sentiment strip across the lower part of the panel and added 2 small green enamel dots.  The sentiment is from a retired SU set.  I cut a thin strip of green and added it for a stem as the die set doesn't have a stem and I like the way it turned out.

I will link this to AAA Birthday Challenge - layer it up.

 

 

also to Darnell's NBUS challenge 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Have a wonderful day.

 

Happy Stamping,

JoAnn