Bee Yourself
By Beverley Brown
The background was created by first painting the whole tag white. Once dry, I sponged
on pink, yellow & turquoise acrylic paint using white to blend them together. I continued
this process until I had achieved the look I wanted. While the tag was drying, I used
Distress Oxide inks on watercolour paper to create a lovely sunset effect. I lightly
stamped the French Script background in grey ink over the top before die cutting the
piece into an hexagonal background. Before using the die cut background to adhere
hexagons to the tag, I stamped it with the silhouette foliage image from Just Because.
It created a beautiful shadow effect as the ink merged with the painted background.
I added some stamped and layered bees, the top layer is stamped and embossed on
vellum. My idea behind this was to create movement as if the bee was buzzing around. I
added some simple uplifting sentiments and lots of my favourite Nuvo Drops to finish!UNIKO
Beverley Brown, owner and designer at Uniko creates
some stunning projects inspired by her love of nature!
Materials
Stamps Beverley Used...
• Uniko – Bee Happy; Just
Because; Large Background
French Script
Other materials...
• Funky Fossil Designs MDF Tag
• Claudine Hellmuth Studio Acrylic
Paint – Blank Canvas; Painterly
Pink; Classic Teal
• Jenni Bowlin Malted Milk Acrylic
Paint
• Nuvo Drops – Duck Egg Blue;
Bubblegum Blush; Buttermilk;
Liquid Mercury
• Stampin’ Up! Hexagon Hive
Thinlits Die
• Altenew Ink – Industrial Diamond;
Silver Stone
• VersaFine – Onyx Black
• WOW! Embossing Powder –
Metallic Silver
• Distress Oxide Inks – Scattered
Straw; Mustard Seed; Worn
Lipstick; Picked Raspberry;
Peacock FeathersMeet the Retailer,
Uniko“Beverley Brown is the owner and
designer of Uniko clear stamps and
paper crafting products, a small
family run business.An avid paper crafter and stamp
addict for many years, with a BA
(Hons) in Textiles & Surface Design,
Beverley decided back in February
2012 to combine her passions and
launch her own range of stamps,
designer dies and digital paper
collections.The superb quality photopolymer
clear stamps are made here in the
UK and are thicker than ‘standard’
clear stamps to minimise the
chance of tearing and damage.”Explore their products online:
http://www.uniko.co.uk