A few weeks ago my husband surprised me with boxes of stamps and craft supplies from a co-worker! This is the thank you card that I made for her, using my stamps from Red Rubber Designs.
Except for the sentiment, which was stamped onto wood using Savvy Sayings, the rest of the stamping was embossed with Distress Embossing Powder (Walnut Stain). On the yellow background I used Speckle Background to mimic dirt. Then I used the Sunflowers stamp to emboss the sunflowers in the watering can, coloring them with Distress Inks, and painting the watering can with silver paint. The larger sunflowers were embossed with the My Sunshine stamp set, and also colored with Distress Ink. For some more texture, I decided to add some brown beads to the centers.
I took my design inspiration from this sketch used for the October Card Challenge @ Scrapbook.com. from Viva La Verve Sketches.
Except for the sentiment, which was stamped onto wood using Savvy Sayings, the rest of the stamping was embossed with Distress Embossing Powder (Walnut Stain). On the yellow background I used Speckle Background to mimic dirt. Then I used the Sunflowers stamp to emboss the sunflowers in the watering can, coloring them with Distress Inks, and painting the watering can with silver paint. The larger sunflowers were embossed with the My Sunshine stamp set, and also colored with Distress Ink. For some more texture, I decided to add some brown beads to the centers.
I took my design inspiration from this sketch used for the October Card Challenge @ Scrapbook.com. from Viva La Verve Sketches.
I'm also entering this into the following challenges:
House of Cards using texture and the colors shown here, except for the brown which I used instead of black.
Crafty Cardmakers and more for challenge #150 Autumn Colors.
Beyond Grey Challenges #72 Anything Goes
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Lovely card. Love the additional sunflower. Thanks for joining us at Crafty Cardmakers and More.
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Beautiful card!
ReplyDeleteThank you for joining us at HOC!
Lilian
The Leaf Studio
I always love sunflowers - they are such special flowers and I love how you added interest and texture with beads! Thanks for joining us at HOC, Jo x
ReplyDeleteDrea, this looks SO AWESOME! I LOVE all the beautiful texture--and those sunflowers are just amazing! Thank you so much for joining us at House of Cards! HUGS! :) Mynn xx
ReplyDeleteA lovely thank you card Drea. I love that you have used beads for the centres of your sunflowers and the watering can looks great painted with the silver paint. Thanks for sharing with us at Crafty Cardmakers and more. Sally.x.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely card! Thank you for joining in with my challenge at Crafty Cardmakers & More
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