To Bee Or Not To Bee Blog Hop!

Hello and Welcome to the:  To Bee Or Not To Bee Blog Hop!  I'm so excited to have been invited to take part in this hop to support bees and to raise public awareness of the importance of bees and apicultural products.  We are also supporting the initiation of the Slovenian Beekeepers' Association.  May 20th is declared World Bee Day by the United Nations (UN).

Prizes!  Here are all the fantastic companies and artists that are supporting this blog hop with their incredible generosity:

Crafty Sentiment Designs, 3 Digital Images of winner’s choice

Create a Smile, 25€ Gift Certificate to the Store

Gerda Steiner Designs, $15 Gift Certificate to the Store

Happy Little Stampers, $20 Gift Certificate to the Store

Jane’s Doodles, 3 Stamp Sets (in stock) of winner’s choice

Kitty Bee Designs, 1 Digital Image of winner’s choice

Lawn Fawn, $25 Gift Certificate to the Store

Little Miss Muffet Stamps, $10 Gift Certificate to the Store

Paper Smooches, ’Bee Mine’ Stamp Set

Sasayaki Glitter, 1 Digital Image of winner’s choice

STAMPlorations, $20 Gift Certificate to the Store

Sue Hastead of Tanglemouse Cards, 6 x 6 paper pad

Uniko, Clear Stamp Set (in stock) of winner’s choice

Milka is also giving away a prize: Jane’s Doodles ‘Daisies’ stamp set.

14 prizes will be given away to 14 winners.

For your chance to win, all you have to do is hop along blogs of the participating designers and leave comment on each blog hop stop.

You can enter the giveaway until Saturday, May 27^th (12 AM, CEST +2 UTC).

Milka will announce winners on her blog on Wednesday, May 31^st. Winners have to confirm prizes in a week. Unconfirmed prizes will be redrawn. 

You should have arrived here from the Uniko blog, that is where  the awesome Beverly Brown is sharing a project!  The fun starts at Milka Gubo's blog, a big shout out to Milka for coordinating this fun event!   You'll want to leave comments along the way for a chance to win!

I couldn't wait to get started and decided to combine the Hero Arts Busy As A Bee set with the Color Layering Poppy set.

To really let that bee be the star of the show, I surrounded him with reds, making his yellow POP.  I inked up the Honeycomb Stencil with Distress Oxide Fossilized Amber.  The Color Layering Poppy has been inked up with:

Raspberry Jam  •  Red Royal  •  Mulled Wine

Can you spy the smidge of glitter on the bee wings?  This card has been been narrowed to 3.75 inches by 5.5 inches.

Here are a couple fun bee facts:

Honeybees are responsible for pollinating approx 80% of all fruit, vegetable and seed crops in the U.S.

Bees communicate with each other by dancing and by using pheromones (scents).

Honeybees never sleep!

I was inspired by:

Tag You're...it!

Next up is the wonderful Kathy Curry!

Hero Arts CM146 Busy as a Bee	Hero Arts Busy as a Bee Frame Cuts	Hero Arts CM144 Color Layering Poppy	Hero Arts Color DI356 Layering Poppy Frame Cuts
Hero Arts Tag Infinity Dies	Hero Arts Snow Layering Paper	Hero Arts Blush Mix Layering Papers	Hero Arts SA097 Honeycomb Stencil
Hero Arts Raspberry Jam Mid-tone Shadow Ink	Hero Arts Red Royal Mid-Tone Shadow Ink	Hero Arts Bold Ink Mulled Wine

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