Saturday, September 8, 2018

Anniversary Sunflowers

I needed a couple of anniversary cards for this month and after seeing lots of advertisements for nearby sunflower farms, I decided sunflowers would definitely be good for this time of year.  I found this Unity stamp stashed away - Windswept Petals.  I don't know how long I've had it and after some pretty extensive searching I was only able to come up with one example of how it was used so I had to come up with my own thoughts on it.  The flowers themselves were pretty easy, but the background needed a little extra thought.  As you can see, I added green to the open areas and blue to the rest of the background.  The only thing that I did not like was part of the stamp itself.  See where the petals extend past the frame?  I don't like that they left the line from the frame visible in those petals, so after auditioning this sample, I used an Exacto knife to cut out those lines from the petals on the stamp.


I also used my Susan's Garden sunflower die to make a paper sunflower, complete with leaves to add to the final card.  I trimmed around the image and mounted it on a chocolate chip card base layered with some birch bark paper first.  There's also a length of burlap-like ribbon on that panel.  Then the paper sunflower was added.  Can you see the petals are clear of that line now?


One for a 40th anniversary, one for a 41st anniversary, and one for a future occasion.


And here is the updated faux succulent planter.  I took the paper succulents off the reindeer moss and added some Spanish moss before gluing them back down and I think they look much better.  And the ladies loved them!


3 comments:

  1. The windswept sunflower stamp itself is very creative. Beautiful cards and cute finished planter!

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  2. Of course the ladies loved them...starting at the bottom of your post first.

    The sunflowers were what caught my eye when I was going to my feed to pick up the link to a radio quiz we listen to. They are beautiful. With the dark background they doubly remind me of Van Gogh. And yes, I think that line through the petals would have annoyed me too. The birch bark (is that the wrapping paper) makes a great setting for them. And the added 3D one looks great paired with the stamped image.

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  3. I'm sure you could sell your succulents - people would love them. You could easily sell your cards too!

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