To bee or not to bee

Hello Friend,

I am so excited to be part of this amazing blog hop initiative - 'To Bee or not to Bee'  by Milka in honor of The World Bee Day to celebrate 1^st World Bee Day, to support bees and to raise public awareness of the importance of bees and apicultural products.

Let's see why we are celebrating Bee day.

Bees are some of the hardest working creatures on the planet, and because of their laborious work ethic, we owe many thanks to this amazing yet often under appreciated insect. A third of the world’s food production depends on bees, i.e. every third spoonful of food depends on pollination. 

Over the past 50 years, the amount of crops that depend on pollinators (i.e. fruit, vegetables, seeds, nuts and oilseeds) has tripled. Bees play an important role in relation to the scope of agricultural production. Effective pollination increases the amount of agricultural produce, improves their quality and enhances plants’ resistance to pests.

Cultivated plants that depend on pollination are an important source of income to farmers, especially smaller farmers and family-owned farms in developing countries. They provide jobs and income to millions of people. 

But of late, Bees have become increasingly endangered. There are various factors affecting their population such as  viral or mite infection of bees, use of pesticides, pollution, urbanization etc. Needless to say this poses a great threat to global agriculture. Recently,  United Nations (UN) officially declared May 20th a World Bee Day.  

 There are many artist around the world joining this hop and there are I think 17 or 18 prizes to win including one sponsored by me...:).

First, let's see the card I made.

Bees are around for  thousands of years. Yes, it is true...they have evolved quite a lot to survive but now they need our help so let's make the Bees strong again...:)

I have used the cute stamp by one of our sponsor Gerda Designs  and colored it with copics.

You can check what I made last year for the same hop HERE.

Here is the list of prizes and sponsors:

Dies to die for, ₤15 Gift Certificate to the Store

Gerda Steiner Designs, $15 Gift Certificate to the Store

Hannah Rosengren Studio, Bumble & Honey Bee Patch

Happy Little Stampers, $20 Gift Certificate to the Store

Honey Bee Stamps, $40 Gift Certificate to the Store

Jane’s Doodles, 2 Stamp Sets (in stock) of winner’s choice

Kitty Bee Designs, 1 Digital Image of winner’s choice

Lawn Fawn, $25 Gift Certificate to the Store

Little Miss Muffet Stamps, $10 Gift Certificate to the Store + freebie

Neha of Periwinkle Creations, $20 Gift Certificate to the Simon Says Stamp Store

Paper Smooches, ’Bee Mine’ Stamp Set

Power Poppy, $25 Gift Certificate to the Store

Power Poppy, ‘Bee Kind Toile’ Clear Stamp Set

Pretty Pink Posh, $25 Gift Certificate to the Store

Sasayaki Glitter, 1 Digital Image of winner’s choice

Uniko, Clear Stamp Set (in stock) of winner’s choice

Milka is also giving away Jane’s Doodles ‘Garden Friends’ stamp set to two lucky winners.

Barbara from Little Miss Muffet Stamps is also offering a freebie for next 36 hours, as long the giveaway will be open. It’s adorable ‘Polka Dot Pals Xara’ digital image.

‘Bee Kind Toile’ Clear Stamp Set from our sponsor Power Poppy is a brand new stamp set released to the store TODAY.

Blog hop list

Milka Gubo   

Alice Wertz

Amy Tsuruta                      

Barbara Sproatmeyer      

Beverly Brown                   

Birka Reinitz                       

Kaja Vezensek                   

Kathy Curry                      

Kylie Purtell                        

Neha Bhatt    (that's me!)                    

Samantha Mann               

Sonja Kerkhoffs                

Sue Hastead                     

Tina Pavlovic                     

Zrinka Beric                      

Ksenija Rizova                 

Milka Gubo (Inlinkz)

How it works :

For your chance to win, hop along blogs of the participating designers and leave comment on each blog hop stop. After commenting, return back to Milka’s blog and add your name to Inlinkz, but prior you do, please read Blog Hop details, terms, giveaway rules and privacy policy which are shared in Milka's blog post below Inlinkz.

Inlinkz closes tomorrow, May 21^st 2018, 11:00 PM CEST. Winners’ names will be announced on Milka’s blog next day.

So, Hop along there is too little time to win ...:)

I hope you enjoy this post ! Happy Bee Hoping or Bee Happy Hoping....:)