Unconventional Bees

Unconventional Bees is my next new band name, what do you think?  As it happens, I have two cards to share today with unconventional bees.

It irks me regularly that we don't have Coastal Cabana Stampin' Blends.  I know we have Bermuda Bay, but it is just not the same...I colored the bee's wings with a regular ol' marker and then I covered them with lots of Wink of Stella to draw attention away from how the marker coloring looked :p  I was inspired to ink up the long-retired Pun Intended stamp set thanks to the Paper Players theme challenge:

I like to check out a bunch of challenges at once and sometimes multiple challenges get stuck together in my head, which is how I ended up with a bee with colors not found in nature.  I found this combination in the Global Design Project color challenge:

I love these colors together and I thought they'd make a fun and different bee card.  This is actually the second card I made for these two challenges, but I wasn't sure how much I liked my first card:

For one thing, my Night of Navy ink pad is ridiculously juicy right now so these images weren't quite as crisp.  I still need more practice with the blending brushes, too.

That's it for me today, y'all.  Have a good 'un!

Supplies, first card:
Stamps:  Pun Intended
Ink:  Night of Navy, Coastal Cabana, Polished Pink, Polished Pink Stampin' Blends
Paper:  Coastal Cabana, Night of Navy, Thick Basic White, Coastal Cabana DSP
Accessories:  Hippo & Friends dies, Dimensionals, Wink of Stella

Supplies, second card:
Stamps:  Pun Intended
Ink:  Night of Navy, Coastal Cabana, Polished Pink Stampin' Blends
Paper:  Coastal Cabana, Thick Basic White
Accessories:  Circle punch, Dimensionals