Sunflower Cards

Card trio

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 [Image ID 1] A trio of portrait cards all featuring sunflowers. All 3 cards have a colourful marbled orange, yellow and green background.[description end]

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I was fortunate to win the Sunshine & Sunflowers stamp club set in the Tonic Studios’ monthly stamp club giveaway. I used the set to create this trio of cards. The backgrounds were created with distress oxide sprays, I then sprinkled shimmer powder on top whilst the spray was still wet. The mica in the shimmer powders gave an interesting “marbled” finish by putting it on whilst the spray was wet.

 

1st card

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 [Image ID 2] Close up of the middle card. It has 3 paper sunflowers with light stems and leaves. The centres of the paper sunflowers are sparkly and textured, which is especially noticeable on this card.[description end]

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The sunflowers are cut from thin yellow paper then ink blended around the edges and shaped to give them more ‘life’. The centres are cut from kraft paper but I added glimmer paste on top for more texture.

 

2nd card

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 [Image ID 3] Close up of the left hand card. It has a single paper sunflower with a dark stem and leaves which enables the veins in the leaves to be seen. There are brown and yellow Nuvo drops (small round dots) in several clusters on the background.[description end]

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The sunflowers are constructed the same for all the cards, but I tried to vary the other design choices. For this card I stuck to a limited colour palette of just brown and yellow.

 

3rd card

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 [Image ID 4] Close up of the right hand card. It has a single paper flower in the bottom left corner with shiny gold sunflower outlines behind and 2 brown stamped bees.[description end]

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In this final card I used more of the stamps. The large corner stamp is heat embossed in gold, and the bees stamped with brown ink. The background of this card differs from the other two as I used the oxide sprays on Kraft paper.

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Sunshine & Sunflowers stamp & die set - Tonic Studios

Distress Oxide Sprays (Peeled Paint & Crackling Campfire)

Nuvo Shimmer Powders (Solar Flare & Golden Sparkler) - Tonic Studios

Distress Ink (Spiced Marmalade, Wild Honey, & Vintage Photo)

Nuvo Glimmer Paste (Rich Cocoa) – Tonic Studios

Nuvo Drops (Lemon Cello & Honey Gold) – Tonic Studios

Embossing powder (Metallic Gold & Metallic Copper) – WOW

Distress Embossing Glaze (Vintage Photo)

Paint Pen (Gold) – Posca

Versafine Clair Ink (Acorn)

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