Hello 6" card with hand coloured sunflowers for day 80 of my 365 day challenge

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Hello 6" card with hand coloured sunflowers for day 80 of my 365 day challenge 

 Hello Craft addicts!

 Today's card is a hand stamped and hand coloured Sunflower card which is ideal to say hi to someone - once again I have used Hunkydory's For The Love of Stamps range.


 How I made this card:-

  • I took a deckle edged 100mm square white card (from Craft Creations) and stamped the large Sunflower design in the middle of it - the flower is from the Dainty Daisies collection but I have used it as a Sunflower. 
  • I added some clear embossing powder to the Onyx Black Versafine ink as I was going to used alcohol markers and heat set it.
  • I then used one of the smaller flowers and stamped it around the larger one - heat setting a couple at a time with the clear embossing powder.
  • Using various brands of alcohol markers, I coloured them all in (trying to blend the yellows and oranges to give it some proper shading).
  • I then edged it with an orange alcohol marker and layered it on to some black card.
  • For the card itself, I added a border using the scallop edge as a guide with a black fine liner pen and added some masking tape to the inside of it and coloured the space using Tim Holtz Distress Inks - Mustard Seed, Dried Marigold and Festive Berries - blending them all in with the next one.
  • I removed the masking tape and stuck the flower panel at an angle using the border as a guide.
  • I stamped the Hello sentiment again with Onyx Black Versafine ink onto some cream card and cut around it, edging it with an orange alcohol marker.and attached it to the card with foam pads.

And there you are a bright and cheerful card that only uses 2 stamps for the main decoration and a sentiment along with some Distress inks.

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Products and items you may need to make this project
  • 6" White deckle edged/scalloped edged card with envelope
  • Delightful Daisies stamp collection from the For the Love of Stamps range by Hunkydory
  • White or Cream cardstock - I used Lynda Chapman's World of Paper but any would do
  • 100x100mm square panel of white card
  • Various alcohol markers - oranges and yellows
  • Dried Marigold, Mustard Seed and Festive Berries Tim Holtz Distress inks
  • Black fine liner pen
  • Versafine ink - Onyx Black
  • Clear embossing powder (Stamps Away or any other brand will do)
  • Tape pen
  • Cosmic Shimmer PVA glue
  • Foam pads
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