Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Beehive Storage

I can't believe I only have one more month as a VLVStamp Design Team member. This experience has been Bee-yond fabulous. The gals, especially the head honcho DeeDee, are all so talented and I have learned so much from them. I wanted to make something that I could keep in my craft studio - the Beehive - that would always remind me of VLVS.
  
As the EllenBee I have a growing collection of bumble bee ephemera. I had been storing it in a box but waned to display some it and thought that an altered clipboard would be the perfect item to alter. 
 
I started the project by rusting the metal clip with an inexpensive rust kit I found at Michael's. After adding a small bee charm I painted the front and back with yellow bumble bee paint. Next I distressed it with TH Vintage Photo distress ink. I then took out my Honeycomb Pattern Stamp and went to town on the front. To protect the board I added a layer of ModPodge. Last was the bee ribbon I received from a friend that I attached with Miracle Tape.
 
I added the Bumblebee stamp on kraft paper and a simple tag with one of my favorite quotes To Bee Or Not To Bee. VLVStamps has a ton more Bee stamps and I plan on adding more to my growing collection!
 
Full Frontal 
 
 
Backside

From A - Z you'll find whatever stamp you need at Viva Las Vegastamps!

3 comments:

  1. Love what you have done with the clipboard EllenBee! Soooo cute!
    Big Buzzy hugs
    Alyson x

    ReplyDelete
  2. Your project is bee utiful and your stamp collection from Viva Las Vegas is bee yond bee lief!! xx M

    ReplyDelete
  3. hive u noticed how unbeelievably cute that is?? heehee. love it miss ellenbee! thanks for showin it, laura lulu

    ReplyDelete