I wanted to make something using the retiring in-colors. I started looking at my Designer Series Papers and settled on English Garden. I contains two of the five colors: Hello Honey and Mossy Meadow.

I used the bee paper design for the card front. The sentiment is from the Garden in Bloom stamp set. I stamped it on Whisper White card stock and cut it with the Decorative Label Punch. I cut a piece of Tangelo Twist card stock (another of the retiring colors) with the same punch, cut it in half, and backed the sentiment with it.

I stamped the bee image in Soft Suede ink onto Tangelo Twist card stock and onto a blank space on the DSP. I fussy cut it’s body with my Paper Snips, then adhered it over the other one with a Stampin’ Dimensional. This made this one “special” bee stand out.

The DSP is matted with Soft Suede card stock, and that’s glued to a Hello Honey card base. This card is note card size (3-1/2″ x 5″) so it would fit in a Mini Treat Bag.

For the bag, I cut more English Garden DSP with the Mini Treat Bag Framelits. I made a belly band with Soft Suede card stock.

I cut Hello Honey and Mossy Meadow card stock pieces with the Butterfly Thinlits Dies and the Bold Butterfly Framelits Dies, adhered them together, then onto the bag. I added a Pearl Basic Jewel as the head. The bag took all of maybe 5 minutes.

Here’s what I used:

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