Bees in a Box for Mother's Day

Several years ago I started making handmade cards for my Mother for Mother's Day .  They started out fairly simple but, as these things do, got more elaborate each year.  The last pre-COVID card (2019) was pretty fancy (maybe I'll post it eventually).  Last year's card was something I could put in an envelope since I didn't want to stand in line at the post office to mail it.  This year I was planning to drive to see her.  So I could make and take anything I wanted - but I could not think of anything that seemed special enough.  I was resigning myself to something more simple and hopefully elegant when I came across an Elizabeth Craft YouTube video the weekend before I left of a pop up in a pizza box shape.  I didn't have the stamp set that the demo included, in fact I didn't even have the die for the box itself, but a pizza box is a fairly simple shape and I have so many bee stamps since I am a little obsessed with bees and hexagons right now.  The results are below.

I made three cards altogether.  One each for Mom and MIL and one for me to keep -- 'cause obsessed remember? The two Mother's Day cards swap in a Happy Mother's Day sentiment but of course I didn't get around to taking pictures of those.

Colored with Copics, little bees flying out on bits of scrap acrylic packaging.

All images are from two old Darice stamp sets. The paper is new: Tell the Bees by Hackney & Co.

  

Card top: old Prima flowers (I love old Prima flowers!) on a square die cut with "beading" holes and  ribbon woven through.