Letter Q

This week is all about

the bee! 

(They've been on the news all week in the UK about there poor plight!)

So as it's the Letter Q this week 

I have chosen Queen Bee as my letter Q.

Thank you so much!

for all the lovely comments last week 

and for sharing some really great tags!

For this weeks tag I mainly used my Silhouette Cameo 

to help me create my tag.

I love this great little machine! It's so useful!

I used it  to cut my own mask this week out of doeflex. 

I used a honeycomb pattern from 
the Silhouette online store and cut it out.

I have never used a mask before 

but I love trying new things and learning new techniques. 

(The way I see it is if it doesn't work you just start again).

So I then created the background using a 

piece on yellow Bazzill card stock and used 

Wild Honey and Fired Brick Distress Ink 

to give it a bit of shading and strong colour. 

I then used Golden's Molding Paste to get some texture. 

Because yes, you guessed it,
I don't have any embossing paste. 

Even I was surprised that it worked :)

(Not sure if it's the same stuff as I haven't used the craft embossing paste yet).

It drys clear and has a glossy finish. 

I normally use it with my acrylic paints and mix them together, 

but as I was using it with a homemade mask 

I used the paste on it's own first and then painted over the top when it was dry.

I love the texture and shine result.

I then cut a large bee out and coloured it in 

using my Spectrum Noir Pens and 

added a few Sparkles to finish her off!

Hope you like it

and

Thanks for looking!

I can't wait to see everyone else's tags.

Jules

xx