Sunflowers For A friend

Hello again. I have a card to share from a very messy play time:

I first created the background panel by using stencil and grit paste onto water-colour card, so I could set that aside and let it dry.

I then ink smooshed some brown and orange Distress Inks onto different Distress White Heavystock panels and set those aside to dry.

I then found a piece of yellow and green paper, created during a gel plate session using either water-colours or acrylic paint (I can’t remember which), so I used that panel to die cut the flowers, and layered with another white die cut piece of card to add some stability.

Once dry, I die cut the layers from Honey Bee Stamps ‘Lovely Layers Sunflower‘, placing my dies where I wanted to add to get some white areas, solid areas, and some splattering from the ink smooshing.

The brown centres were die cut from some grey ink smooshing, but they were too grey, so I added some ink blending with brown Distress Oxides.

The next thing to do was stick everything down – I had forgotten what to use to glue things down onto the grit paste. My normal wet glue didn’t work, and I couldn’t find my gel medium – I must have a few containers stored ‘safely’ somewhere – so I used glossy accents….that seemed to have done the trick.

I then added the foiled sentiment and some gold facetted gems, stuck down with a drop of glossy accents.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – stencil fun

FarmQuest Challenge – sunflowers

My Time To Craft – In The Garden

We Love 2 Create – anything goes mixed media

Ellibelle’s Corner – anything goes

Die Cut Divas – layered die cuts or layer die cuts

Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge – anything goes mixed media – use at least three mediums

11 thoughts on “Sunflowers For A friend”

  1. Unknown's avatar

    What a beautiful layered card, clean simple but stunning use of messy play and distress die cuts. Such a lovely flower is the sunflower even more wonderful for a friend. I especially love the addition of the gem stones, glossy accents is a real workhorse for us crafters. A very pretty creation, Thank you for sharing with us @ Creative Artiste and joining our October challenge.
    Good Luck and Creative wishes Tracey (DT)

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  6. Ellibelle's avatar

    This is absolutely beautiful! Love how you created the background with paste and the flowers are gorgeous. Really wonderful design! Thank you so much for sharing this month at my Crafty Wednesday challenge!

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  9. heartsandfarmquest's avatar

    Lynda: FARM-tastic!!! I love the vibrancy of the colors, textures, and depth you built on your card! The sunflowers are terrific and their artistic look is amazing! Thanks for sharing at FQCB! (And since I manage MTTC, I will also say we appreciate your participation over there, too! ) –Becca

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