One of the first stamp sets in Stampin’ Up!’s new Annual Catalog that caught my attention was Celebrate Sunflowers from the Flowers For Every Season Suite (pages 10-13). Sunflowers make me smile so I knew I needed this stamp set bundle in my life.
Today is Monday and I had intended to do a Make It Mine Monday post where I take someone else’s card and switch it up a bit and call it my own. I started with really good intentions after viewing Mary Fish’s beautiful card below.
I love the way she die cut the Early Espresso for the center and outline of the flower and layered it over the Bumblebee cardstock to make her flower. Don’t get me wrong, I love her entire card but when I finished my rendition that was about the only similarities that our cards have.
I like my card and I’m very pleased with the way it turned out but other than the sunflower itself and maybe the Whisper White layered on Early Espresso, our cards are not that similar. I was definitely inspired by Mary’s card but the card I created is definitely my own. And that’s okay.
As you can see from the picture, I didn’t adhere the entire outline die to the solid sunflower. I just used adhesive on the center of the outline piece. The outline is very fine so you’d have a hard time even using a glue pen to add glue. I could have used an adhesive sheet when I die cut the image but I wanted mine to pop up a little on the edges.
Are you wondering about that fun background on the Whisper White cardstock? I used the Old World Paper 3D Embossing Folder on it. It’s from the Old World Suite in the catalog and you can find it on pages 24 and 185. I can see myself using this new folder a lot.
The ribbon is the 1/4″ Faux Suede Trim from that same suite. You can find it on page 24 also as well as page 161. It’s really soft. Even though the ribbon and the embossing folder aren’t in the same suite of products as the Sunflower they sure do work well together!
Did you notice that I decorated the inside of my card as well as the envelope with the sunflower stamp? No naked envelopes! It’s always fun to try to add an image or some decoration to your envelope.
Be sure to contact me if you’d like the dimensions and/or directions for this card.
Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping! Smile!