buggy: adjective

infested with bugs

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I'm entering my little "busy bee" pencil holder into Fantabulous Cricut's

Challenge Me Monday #114 - Don't Bug me :)

where you are to make a project using some sort of bug.

base of pencil holder - wide ribbon spool

Really Reasonable Ribbon

stickles - Black Diamond

gemstone

cartridge- Doodlecharms

pop dot

A little mini tutorial on the wings, they were very easy to create. First I started with the base of the bee's body. You can see in the picture below, the white wings as you would have cut them out from the Cricut. At this point the body is not attached to the wings, just laying on top so you can see what it would look like if you made it "straight" Cricut.

So I clipped his wings so to speak, leaving the "square" shape that fits his body, and placed a pop dot in the middle of that. Next, took some see through mesh ribbon ( this ribbon has an iridescent quality about it, perfect for wings! ), looped it over and sewed it closed. make 4 of the loops.

Then adhere all 4 loops to the square:

Then attach the bee body to the pop dot and you're finished. I really like taking a simple Cricut cut and embellishing it to give it some dimension.

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Don't kill the honey bees please

Starting in late 2006, commercial migratory beekeepers along the East Coast of the United States

began reporting sharp declines in their honey bee colonies. Because of the severity and unusual

circumstances of these colony declines, scientists named this phenomenon colony collapse.

Honey bees are the most economically valuable pollinators of agricultural crops worldwide.

Scientists at universities and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) frequently assert that

bee pollination is involved in about one-third of the U.S. diet, and contributes to the production of

a wide range of fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, forage crops, some field crops, and other specialty

crops.