My Self-Designed Honey Label

So, I sat down to update this blog and add some pictures of what I've done with the bees so far this spring, and I got sidetracked by designing a label for my honey. I must say, I feel that it turned out very well. I didn't really find anything to inspire me. I started with a close up picture that I'd taken of a worker bee on the stones on the ground by my beehives. I then used Adobe Photoshop Elements to design the label. I cropped the picture, applied the Ink Outlines Filter and adjusted the levels. I then chose a font, and filled the font with a matched color from the bee. I used a hexagon clipping mask to further clip the picture to the shape of a honeycomb. I then looked up the requirements for honey labels from the National Honey Board (www.honey.com). The rest was adding text drop shadows and stroke outlines.

Let me know what you think!