Sunflower Days

When I get in a groove, I really get in a groove. I went back to AC Moore and got more paper to match the stickers I got for this card from last week. The whole collection has been on clearance, so I think I'll pick more up this week when I get paid. I really like the gold and brown and green in this set -- they seem like such perfect colors for August.

I made two new cards with the papers. In this first card, I used floral paper from the set for the side and sanded the edges. Then I punched a flower from cream cardstock and a French biology book and used ribbon for leaves, punched a brown flower for the middle and put a button with thread on top of that. I drew the beeskep on cardstock, drew lines and inked the one side to give it dimension; then I punched a circle from gold cardstock, drew black lines and punched a small dot from black cardstock. I drew the wings and the line. Finally I punched a heart from red card stock and drew stitches.



The second card was made from another floral paper in the set. I cut it to fit a square black card and sanded the edges, then punched a circle from black cardstock. I punched more flowers from cream cardstock and the French biology book and put a cranberry circle in the middle of the flower, then a button with black thread. Finally, I drew stitches around the edge of the card and around the circle.

Mom's Birthday, Take 2

Okay, I really wasn't thrilled with the card I made for my mom's birthday, so I decided to make a new one. Once again I went back to the well that never seems to run dry -- flowers. I printed a picture of a vase of sunflowers that I found online and mounted it on black cardstock. Then I put a page from a French textbook as a background and glued punched sunflowers on the top. Finally, I wrapped some DMC linen floss around the picture and mounted that on top of the French text.



I also made a card for my sister-in-law's birthday, again with a sunflower kind of theme. (Blame it on the time of year.) I found some rub-ons and stickers that were on clearance at AC Moore so I used them as my starting point. The "happy" is individual rub-on letters, as are the flowers. The "DAY" is cardstock stickers. I cut a strip of grey paper with pinking shears and smudged brown ink on the edge of the light yellow and brown pieces. I mounted them all on sunflower yellow cardstock and drew stitches around everything. Finally, I punched two flowers out of cream cardstock and glued a button with DMC linen floss tied through the middle, then mounted it on the card.



I don't usually show the inside but I like the way this turned out. I stamped "Happy Birthday" in black ink and a circle of dots in brown ink. Then I punched a small flower out of cream cardstock and a small circle out of sunflower yellow cardstock and mounted them inside the circle. I threw in a pink heart because I thought it was cute.