Sunflowers and Sunshine

Hello there fellow crafters!  It's Kristina again and I've got a heap of sunflower cards to share with you!  My cards all use the new Harvest Blessings Deluxe card kit from Scrappy Tails Crafts.  You can buy all of the pieces individually except for the pearls.  In fact, I made SIX cards!  Let's take a look.

I was inspired by the May 2022 Sheetload from Call me Crafty Al.  Her sketch was in a vertical layout but horizontal worked better for me.  

I started by stamping one of the sunflowers from the Wild Sunflowers stamp set with black ink onto watercolor paper.  I stamped it six times.

Then I grabbed some Distress Inks.

I squished the ink pads onto my media mat and spritzed lightly with water.  Then I used them like watercolors and applied with a paint brush.

After I dried them with the heat tool, I splattered all of them with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.  I'm loving splatters so much right now!

Next I cut out all of my card pieces and gathered them together.  All of the patterned paper is from the Harvest Blessings 6x6 paper pad.

As I started putting my layers together, I decided to ink around the edges of the sunflower images with the Walnut Stain Distress ink.  I also added foam tape to the sunflower layers before adding to the card panels.

And here's a close up look at each of the six cards.

You can see in the pictures that I decided to add a sentiment after I put the cards together.  I stamped the sentiment from Wild Sunflowers with Versamark ink.  Then I sprinkled with gold embossing powder and melted it with my heat tool.  I adhered them with liquid glue to the panels.

I should mention that I couldn't decide on my card base color so three of them are on a natural color and three of them are on dark brown.  I did splatter the bases with gold paint before adding all of the card layers.

And I can't let you go without a close up of the sunflowers.  I was so pleased with how the watercoloring turned out!

Thank a bunch for stopping by today!

~Kristina

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