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20 Handmade Cards Featuring Bees

May 25, 2023 by Heather Holbrook

Welcome, fellow crafters and nature enthusiasts, to a delightful journey through the enchanting world of bees! Craft Gossip has curated a captivating blog post dated May 25, 2023, titled “20 Handmade Cards Featuring Bees,” inviting us to celebrate these beloved pollinators through the lens of creativity.

In recent years, bees have become more than just buzzing insects; they have evolved into symbols of environmental importance and biodiversity. The post dives into the buzzworthy world of bee-themed handmade cards, showcasing the craft community’s fascination with these tiny yet vital creatures.

Bees play a pivotal role in our ecosystems, pollinating flowers and ensuring the reproduction of countless plant species. Their crucial contribution to agriculture and biodiversity makes them indispensable for a healthy environment. However, these invaluable pollinators face various threats, including habitat loss, pesticide exposure, and climate change, leading to a decline in bee populations globally.

The handmade cards featured in this post not only showcase artistic expression but also serve as a homage to the significance of bees in our world. Crafting with bee motifs is more than a creative endeavor; it’s a reminder of the urgent need to protect these essential pollinators.

Join us as we explore the artistry behind 20 handmade cards that capture the charm and importance of bees. Let’s not only celebrate the creativity within the crafting community but also raise awareness about the vital role bees play in sustaining life on Earth.

20 Handmade Cards Featuring Bees

Lawn Fawn has just dropped a bunch of products featuring bees, honeycombs, beehives and lots more. Check out lots of card ideas from their design team using the Honeycomb Backdrop die over on their blog.

With Springtime in full bloom soon we should soon start seeing our friendly little pollinators, the bees. I love bees, especially big fluffy bees, they are so cute and so important to our planet! And they are a fun element to add to our handmade cards. Whether they are the focus or just a little accent buzzing around some flowers they can BEE the perfect touch on a card.  

I’ve gathered up a big bunch of cards featuring bees to help inspire you. Beneath each photo will be a link, click it to find products used, tips and tricks and tutorials.

20 Handmade Cards Featuring Bees

Bees mix bee-utifully with butterflies on this stunning card covered with stamped images colored with bright colored pencils. Learn more on the Simon Says Stamp blog.

20 Handmade Cards Featuring Bees

 

These adorable chubby bees buzz around some lovely blooms on this watercolor card. I love the gold splatters to represent pollen floating in the air. (aaachoo!) Take a closer look at this design over on the Hero Arts blog.

20 Handmade Cards Featuring Bees

I love the clean white background on this amazing card showing the honeycomb peeking out from the backdrop accented with little blooms and round fat bees that have glittery wings. Visit the JJ Bolton Designs blog for a closer look.

20 Handmade Cards Featuring Bees

Since bears love honey they are perfect to use on bee cards like this sweet card using products from Pink and Main. That little bear is so cuuute (and sticky!). Visit the Pink and Main blog to learn more about this card design.

20 Handmade Cards Featuring Bees

Bees mix with lots of other insects and some flowers to create a wonder little scene around the edges of this pretty card. Learn more about this card on who else but Honey Bee’s blog.

20 Handmade Cards Featuring Bees

These big happy bees fly around some die cut flowers on a fun box card that folds flat for mailing but pops up to display all the cuteness. Visit the My Favorite Things blog for this and a bee-girl box card design too.

20 Handmade Cards Featuring Bees

The design team at Altenew used a single bee stamp in different ways to create 10 different cards. This really shows the versatility of just one stamp and how it can be used in different styles and combined with other stamps you might already have. Visit the Altenew blog to see all 10 card ideas. 

20 Handmade Cards Featuring Bees

Most of the cards I’ve shared so far have been realistic but this design is very artsy and stylistic with mandalas on and around the large bee stamp and the addition of the beautiful blue color that goes so well with the yellow. Visit the Topflight Stamps blog for more details.

20 Handmade Cards Featuring Bees

Bee cards also take the guess work out of color combos, you can’t go wrong with just black and yellow. Like this card with a large stamped and die cut title on this sweet design with lots of cubby bees buzzing around. Learn more about this card on The Greeting Farm blog.

20 Handmade Cards Featuring Bees

If you’ve watched the wonderful Wednesday show on Netflix then you’ll recognize her friend Eugene who loves bees. This wonderful card uses fun new Wednesday inspired stamps from C C Designs, visit their blog for more details.

20 Handmade Cards Featuring Bees

This cool card features blue bees (and yes, they are apparently a real thing) on a flat shaker design made with a shaker window, stamps, dies and other products from Rabbit Hole Designs. Buzz on over to their blog for more info.

20 Handmade Cards Featuring Bees

This chunky bee is hanging out in the corner of this card with some honeycomb and blossoms on a blue ink blended background. This card has some really nice balance with most of the design in the corner and just the sentiment with a few hearts in the center. Visit the Kitty’s Krafty blog for a closer look.

20 Handmade Cards Featuring Bees

And lastly here’s a wonderful card created with mostly dies of honeycomb corners, a large bee, stamped and die cut sentiments and gold sequins inside the shaker. This rustic style would make a terrific masculine card! Visit the Mindy Eggen Designs blog for all the info.

I hope you’ve BEEn inspired to add some bees to your next card designs and I hope all your flowers and gardens are visited by some wonderful bees!

-Heather

You can shop at some of our affiliate companies mentioned in this post:

Honeybee Stamps

Altenew

Waffle Flower

Hero Arts

You can find Lawn Fawn products here on Amazon and over at A Cherry On Top.

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