Hello friends! Welcome to the start of a new week for mid-September! I think Summer actually DID come back to us as we’ve set record high heats for this time of the year! I think I’m ready for those cooler temps to come back! Ugh! I know it won’t be long now and we can start enjoying trips outdoors as we look forward to picking apples and all Autumn festivities that we do!
Today is time to share a new challenge over at Sparkles Monthly and we have the theme of “USE A SNGLE FLOWER (floral image)” this month. Flowers seem to be everyone’s favorite. Here’s what I came up with:
Mine is a single sunflower image. My husband planting them in our backyard this year and they were so pretty! Of course, I forgot to take a photo of one before they died off.
The items I’ve used came from an older card kit from Simon Says Stamp including the stamp set called Sunflower Fields. There is a single sunflower image that I thought would be perfect for this challenge, plus I can use more items from my stash!
For the size of the flower image, I wanted it to stand out, so I used a tag and twine from the kit and decided to make this a mini slim card size.
For the background: I used a piece of watercolor cardstock and gold heat embossed the “Romantic Script” background stamp (retired) from My Favorite Things and then used some oxide inks swiped on glass with spritzed water to make a “smooshed” background. I also used these same colors to watercolor my flower with. (except the green, I only used that for the flower) I also used some gold watercolor to splatter over the tag. I only splattered the tag because I didn’t think it would show very much over the card background.
I cut the smooshed watercolor panel to fit over a kraft side folding mini slimline card base. I die cut the flower and the sentiment to attach over the tag, added some twine and then used foam tape to pop it up over the ink smooshed background. Lastly, I’ve added some yellow sequins to finish it off.
I hope you will take some time to pull out a single flower and join us in the challenge this month! Looking forward to seeing your creations! Thanks so much for dropping by!
Challenges:
- Creative Inspirations – #30 Anything Goes
- Ellibelle’s Garden Party – #7 Anything In or From a Garden
- Creative Fingers – #307 Anything Goes
- Lil’ Patch of Crafty Friends – #261 Anything Goes
- Penny’s – #605 Anything Goes Using Paper
- Love to Craft – #88 Anything Goes
- Crafts Galore Encore – #139 Anything Goes
Gorgeous colouring of the beautiful sunflower. I love your background!
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lovely sunflower tag on a card! I too am looking forward to cooler temps and sweater weather.
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So pretty! The sunflower is one of my favorite flowers. I love that you’ve used it on a tag to embellish that gorgeous card! Love it!
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Beautiful colouring on the fabulous sunflower tag and stamped embossed background , a wonderful card Vicki, Hugs Meg xx
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Beautiful card. Thank you for joining us at Penny’s Paper-Crafty Challenge. Greetings Sylvia DT.
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Loving all the sunshine-y yellow you created with that background, highlighting your pretty single sunflower perfectly. It’s weird, our weather is overall a little bit cooler but that daytime sun is still hot! One good thing is the humidity has been down but it can come back in a moment’s notice down here. Hope you get consistent cooling soon! xoxo
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I love the yellow Vicki and such a pretty flower nestled on the the tag and love the text background, gorgeous card..
luv CHRISSYxx
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Such a stunning card! I love this fabulous tag design with its script background and gorgeous sunflower!!
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Stunning card, beautiful script background and nice sunflower!
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Love your slimline card and beautiful sunflower on the tag, love the embossed script background too.
Carol x
Thank you for joining us at Love to Craft.
Carol DT x
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This is really beautiful Vicki and it looks perfect for September. You used some lovely details too. I especially like the tag and the embossed words on the background. Hope all is well with you. I’m still away but wanted to stop by since I had some downtime this morning. hugs-Erika
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This sunflower card is absolutely radiant—such a perfect nod to late summer turning into fall. The gold embossed script adds a touch of elegance, and I love how the ink smooshing gives the background a dreamy, organic feel. The tag element makes the flower pop beautifully. A lovely way to celebrate the season and the challenge theme!
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Thank you for sharing with us over at lilpatchofcraftyfriends.~ Maria DT
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Beautiful card and image, Vicki. So appropriate for the start of Fall. Lovely. Hugz
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The sunflower is one of my favourite blooms and this one is fabulous. Looks amazing against that beautiful golden sunny background.
Marie
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A beautiful tag Vicki. The image and background are gorgeous.
Thank you for joining in with the <a href=”
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“>Crafts Galore Encore </a> September Challenge “Anything Goes”. Good luck! x
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Wow, this is stunning! I love sunflowers too and the golden background you created for this one is amazing – so beautiful ❤️. Happy wishes and sorry I haven’t been around lately, life seems to just get in the way sometimes 😊. Hugs, Jo x
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Absolutely beautiful! Love the gold embossing and the sunflower is gorgeous! It’s so great to see you at my Garden Party this time. Hope you’ll stop by again soon!
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The gorgeous autumnal background colors perfectly complement the embossed gold text. It creates a stunning backdrop for the tag and this beautiful flower. A beautiful autumn card, pouring warm sunshine into my heart.
xx
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