With warmer weather just around the corner, I decided to make a birthday card with a flower theme. I used a SSS Sunflower Stem die to create this card, cutting it in black, white, 2 colors of green and some water colored paper sponged with 3 different distress inks in Mustard, Lemonade, and Fossilized Amber then spritzed with water. I inlaid the different pieces to give this some depth of color, adding the black outline to make it pop. I backed it with some polka dot DCWV designer paper and added a heat-embossed SSS birthday sentiment banner done with white embossing powder. I thought of adding 3 small yellow gemstones above the sentiment but I think I'm going to leave it the way it is. Sometimes simple is best.
I'm adding this to the Just Us Girls challenge wild week #525 - inlaid diecuts
Also sharing with the Happy Little Stampers March watercolour challenge - which is anything goes with an option of flowers
Thanks for stopping by and make it a great Monday!
Carol
17 comments:
This sunflowers looks amazing with the black outline, wow! Very impressive and stunning! Love your inlay! The card it's so beautiful as it is, without gems or embellishments!
Hugs, have a lovely week!
This looks like an embroidered flower Carol, a beautiful result.
Faith x
Oh so pretty! Love that big flower. It really stands out against that background too. Love!
Lynn
Absolutely gorgeous Carol, I love the die cut flower and the way you sponged and spritzed the yellows gives it lovely dimension.
The black outline of this flower really does make it pop beautifully! The watercolo paper looks so soft and pretty with it too! What a gorgeous birthday card my friend! HUGS
What a beautiful inlaid sunflower Carol. Such soft colours.
With my D hat on thank you for sharing with us over at Just Us Girls and HLS Watercolour Challenge. Ina
I love this. The black outline really make it stand out too!
Pretty sunflower and adding the black outline really makes it the star of the card. I like the subtle shades of yellow you've achieved x
Such a pretty card, Carol! That die looks amazing and I love that you changed out the inlaid colors! Well done! :)
Gorgeous love this sunflower die, xx
A beautiful sunflower Carol, so pretty.
Pauline - Crafting with Cotnob
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Wonderful dimension on your flower! The black outline really made the image pop!
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Love the large beautiful sunflower die -it is just perfect as it is
Carol x
I adore sunflowers and this card! I really love it with the polka-dotted background! Thanks for playing along at Just Us Girls this week!
Wow Carol, this is a fantastic card! I am so loving your sunflower and the way you did it. It all but looks like it was embroidered onto the paper. Loving that background paper too, the black outline of the sunflower really does make it pop right off the paper. The black outline looks like thread outline. Love how this turned out! Hugs, Brenda
The flower really pops on that pin dot background. Very pretty!
Great inlaid sunflower card. Interesting polka dot background paper - totally works! Thanks for joining us at Happy Little Stampers ~ Watercolour Challenge.
sue n.
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