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Celebrate Sunflowers

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Sunflowers are very popular right now because of the war in Ukraine.  Their country flower is the sunflower and it has become a symbol of strength and support throughout the entire world.  It also happens to be the favorite flower of a friend of mine who needs some lifting up right now so I decided to use the sunflower for a card for her.

Stampin Up has a beautiful stamp set called Celebrate Sunflowers.  There are also Sunflower dies to coordinate with this set.  I actually did not use the stamp set at all on this card.  I used only the dies.  They are so pretty by themselves that I felt I didn’t need the stamps this time.

To make this card I first cut all all the pieces of the sunflower and leaves using Daffodil Delight, Soft Suede, Granny Apple Green and Garden Green cardstock.  I love how you can cut out the shape of the flowers and leaves and then cut out the details to put on top.  I was going to just leave it like that but decided to add the extra strips of card stock behind the flower.  I used Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green and Pacific Point card stock for these.  Lastly I stamped the sentiment in Pacific Point Ink.  The sentiment is from the stamp set called Waves Of Inspiration.  I thought it fit perfectly for this card.

 


Product List

Celebrate Sunflowers Cling Stamp Set (English)

$24.00

Sunflowers Dies

$33.00

Waves Of Inspiration Cling Stamp Set (English)

$23.00

Celebrate Sunflowers

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Stampin Up Celebrate Sunflowers

The stamp set called Celebrate Sunflowers and its coordinating dies called Sunflower Dies is another bundle from Stampin’ Up!® that is on sale for 20% during the month of March.  This stamp set is beautiful but also it also has a world-wide meaning right now.  The sunflower is the official flower of Ukraine so everyone is posting cards, artwork, banners, etc in support of the Ukrainian people.

Also during the month of March, Stampin’ Up!® has released a new suite called Waves Of The Ocean.  This suite includes the Waves of Inspiration stamp set, Waves Dies, gorgeous Waves Of The Ocean Designer Series Paper, Blue Foil and Rhinestones.  I decided I was going to pair some of the products from the Waves Of The Ocean Suite and the Celebrate Sunflowers Bundle.

I cut the sunflower using the new Blue Foil Papers.  It is hard to see in the photo but the foil is just beautiful.  The pack includes a navy, turquoise and silver piece of foil.  I used the navy foil for the inside of the sunflower and the turquoise color for the edges.  I did the opposite on the leaves.  Here is a close up of the flower where you can see some of the shine.

Stampin Up Sunflower Dies

After cutting out the parts of the sunflower, I adhered them together using Multipurpose Glue.  I find this works best when using foil.  I layered the flower on a piece of the Waves Of The Ocean Designer Series Paper.  In order to save some of your gorgeous paper, I took the piece of the navy foil that I had cut the sunflower and leaves out of to use it behind the Designer Series Paper.  You can tell there was something cut out of it at all.

I foiled the sentiment using a hot foil die from Pinkfresh Studio.


Product List

Celebrate Sunflowers Bundle (English)

$45.50

Waves Of The Ocean Suite Collection (English)

$79.25

Waves Of The Ocean 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper

$11.50

Blue Foils 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Paper

$10.00

Multipurpose Liquid Glue

$4.00

Celebrate Sunflowers

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A couple of weeks ago Rob and I went to Old McDonald’s Farm with my son and his family.  Old McDonald’s Farm is a local farm that added a terrific attraction for families to go to.  There are goats, cows, a camel, chickens (all the farm animals you can think of), tractor rides, bounce house, pony rides, etc.  It is such fun to go there with my grandchildren.  One of the things they have is a giant sunflower garden.  I think they might do a maze through it later in the season but when we went the sunflowers were gigantic and beautiful.  This made me want to get out my stamp set called Celebrate Sunflowers.  This stamp set coordinates with the Sunflower Dies.

This was a pretty simple card to make.  I first stamped the flower in Daffodil Delight ink and then colored it with my Daffodil Delight and Soft Suede Blends.  Then I stamped the leaves in Old Olive ink and colored them with an Old Olive Blends.  I cut both of these images out using the coordinating dies.  I adhered a Paper Lattice piece using Multipurpose Glue.  These are in the 2021 July – December Mini Catalog.  I love these because they add so much to a card.  You can color them with your blends too (although in this case, I did not do that).  Lastly I stamped the sentiment in Memento Black Ink.

Here is a photo of my son David, his wife Brittany and sweet Olivia in front of the sunflower garden.  David is 6’2″ so those sunflowers are huge!

Product List

Celebrate Sunflowers Cling Stamp Set (English)

$24.00

Sunflowers Dies

$33.00

Paper Lattice

$6.00

Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

$9.00

Soft Suede Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

$9.00

Old Olive Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

$9.00

 

Celebrate Sunflowers

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Celebrate Sunflowers

I have a very good friend of mine that loves sunflowers.  She has a huge field of them and when they are in bloom, they are so beautiful. I wish I had taken a photo of it.  Therefore, I decided to use the Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set with the coordinating Sunflower Dies to make her this simple card.  I have to admit I made this card for her a few months ago so one of the products I used is retired but I have sure you can still recreate this card using your current products.

To make this card, I first cut out the sunflowers in Daffodil Delight card stock using the Sunflower Dies. Before I cut out the outline die, I put a piece of Adhesive Sheets on the back.  This is really the. best way to adhere a thin cut  piece of card stock onto another without making a mess of glue everywhere.  I also did this with the leaves using Garden Green card stock.   Then I cut out the centers of the sunflower using Early Espresso card stock and layered everything together.  The Designer Series Paper I used is called In Good Taste.  I love this DSP because it makes the background look a little 3D.   The sentiment is from Here’s A Card which, unfortunately is retired.

 

Product List

Celebrate Sunflowers Cling Stamp Set (English)

$24.00

Sunflowers Dies

$33.00

In Good Taste Designer Series Paper

$21.00

Adhesive Sheets

$10.00

Celebrate Sunflowers

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Flowers For Every Season is a suite in the Stampin’ Up!® 2020/2021 Annual Catalog.  This suite includes two different stamp sets, one with a matching punch and one that has dies, as well as Designer Series Paper, ribbon and embellishments. One of the stamp sets is called Celebrate Sunflowers.  This stamp set has coordinating dies called Sunflower Dies and you can save 10% by purchasing them in a Bundle.  The other stamp set in this suite is called Jar Of Flowers and it has a coordinating punch.

I love sunflowers.  During the day, the young sunflower will follow the path of the sun to receive the most light for photosynthesis.  At night they turn back to the east in anticipation of the sun rising the next day.  There was a random Facebook post about how sunflowers face each other if there is no sun to give each other strength, but unfortunately that is not true.  It is a nice thought though!

To make this card, I first randomly stamped the smaller sunflowers in Memento Black Ink on Whisper White cardstock.  Then I stamped the larger sunflower and the leaves and cut them out too.  I colored the sunflower using Daffodil Delight Blends and the leaves in Old Olive.   The sentiment is from the stamp set called Here’s A Card.  I punched that out using the Label Me Fancy Punch.


Product List

Celebrate Sunflowers Bundle (English)

Here's A Card Cling Stamp Set

Label Me Fancy Punch

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack

Old Olive Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack

A Color Challenge

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Hello everyone and welcome to another Stamp Off Challenge with Buffy, Jackie and me.  Today we have a color challenge.  I like color challenges because, well, they are a challenge! Sometimes, when one of the other amazing ladies in this group gives us a color challenge, they are colors I don’t usually use.  That is good way for me to expand my use of color.  Here is the color challenge for today:

Luckily, these are colors I use so it wasn’t too hard for me this time.

Stampin Up Celebrate Sunflowers

You have probably noticed that I have been doing a lot of strips (whether diagonal, vertical or horizontal) in my cards lately.  I love the clean look of them.  This time I decided I wanted to try a technique that an Australian Demo, Kylie Bertucci posted.  Well, actually her husband, Bruno did the video but Kylie is the actual Demo.  I am not sure what it is called, but I thought it was fun.

It is super easy to make this card.  You just have to randomly cut various pieces of cardstock at an angle.  It doesn’t matter if they are all the same size so some of mine are thicker than others.  The only thing you have to do is space them evenly apart.   I used Bermuda Bay, Granny Apple Green and Crushed Curry.  I adhered these pieces onto a Basic Black cardstock.

The sentiment is from the stamp set called Celebrate Sunflowers which is in the Stampin’ Up!® 2020/2021 Annual Catalog.

Let’s go see what Jackie and Buffy did with these colors.  This is my favorite part of the bi-weekly challenges we do together.

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Celebrate Sunflowers Bundle (English)

Celebrate Sunflowers

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Stampin Up Celebrate Sunflowers

Stampin’ Up!® has really upped their game with their stamps and dies the last few years.  All companies sell stamps with dies that cut out the images in the stamp set but Stampin’ Up!® also adds some fun dies to their sets that do other things than just cut out the images.  A perfect example of this is the Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set and the coordinating Sunflower dies (and you can save 10% if you buy them in a Bundle).   Yes, the dies cut out all the images but they do so much more.  The Sunflowers dies also include the parts to make the sunflower and the leaves in my cards.  So, you get a die that cuts out the shape of the sunflower and the leaves but then you get another die that add the details to them.  .

To make this card I first cut out the large outline of the sunflower.  Then I did a little sponging in the center and the edges of it using Cinnamon Cider ink.  Then I cut out the details of the sunflower using Cinnamon Cider cardstock and adhered it to the sunflower using Multipurpose Glue.  After that I added to two center pieces (dies that also do other things that just cut out an image).  I did the same with the leaves using Mossy Meadow and Pear Pizzazz cardstock.

I wanted to add something to the background of the card so I embossed a piece of Whisper White cardstock using one of the Greenery Embossing Folders.  Here is a closer look.

Stampin Up Celebrate Sunflowers

The last thing I did was stamp the sentiment in Memento Black Ink. 

Product List

Celebrate Sunflowers Bundle (English)

Greenery Embossing Folders

Stamping Sponges

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

Forever Fern Swap

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This is a card I made for a swap I participated in with some of my downline and some customers.  I love swapping with them.  They are all so talented and their cards are always beautiful.  Swaps in the mail are so much fun.  Not only do you get beautiful cards but you get mail that you can look forward to (unlike bills and ads!).

I used a couple of Stampin’ Up!®  stamp sets to make this card.  I first stamped the jar which is from the stamp set called Jar Of Flowers in Smoky Slate Ink.  Then I took Seaside Spray Blends to color the water in the jar.  Then I stamped all the leaves using Shaded Spruce and Old Olive inks.  Then I did kind of a “no line coloring” technique for the flowers.  This is where you stamp an image very, very lightly and then color it with Stampin’  Write Markers in such a way that you can’t really see the outlines of the flowers.  I used a stamp from Flowering Blooms to do this.  I inked the stamp in Smoky Slate ink and then stamped off twice (this is where you stamp on a piece of scrap paper) before stamping the third time on my card.  I could barely see the outline of the stamp but I could see enough to color it with a Highland Heather and a Gorgeous Grape Marker.

The sentiment is from the stamp set called Celebrate Sunflowers.

Product List

Forever Fern Bundle (English)

Jar Of Flowers Bundle

Flowering Blooms Bundle (English)

Celebrate Sunflowers Bundle (English)

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

Celebrate Sunflowers

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Sometimes when Stampin’ Up!® introduces a new color it doesn’t quite grab me right away.  I always purchase all the new colors because that is just how I am but sometimes one or two of them sit for a long time.  I decided to embrace the new InColor called Magenta Madness and there is not better way to do this then to use Designer Series Paper (DSP) that has that color in it.  It softens it a bit and show me how well it goes with other colors.  To do this I used Flowers For Every Season DSP.  It has Magenta Madness in it but also has Bumblebee and Poppy Parade along with a couple of other pinks.

To make this card I first put the DSP along with some Magenta Madness cardstock on a Whisper White card base.  Then I stamped the sunflower and cut out the coordinating die in Magenta Madness.  I stamped the “Thanks A bunch” sentiment but used my Paper Snips to cut out “A bunch”.  It was a super easy card to make and it made me like Magenta Madness which means problem solved (now if I could just learn to love Melon Mambo.  I’ll save that for another day!).

Madelyn had a busy week last week.  She graduated from Pre-school and learned how to ride a bike without training wheels.  She is so grown up and he will be headed to Kindergarten this fall (if schools open, that is).  Let’s all hope for the world to open back up soon.

 It is Bonus Days!!  For every $50 you spend during the month of July you earn a $5 coupon towards your August purchases.  Purchase $50 and you get one coupon.  Purchase $100 and you get two!  There is no limit as to how many coupons you can earn!

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Celebrate Sunflowers Bundle (English)

Flowers For Every Season 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper

Magenta Madness 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

Magenta Madness Classic Stampin' Pad

Celebrate Sunflowers

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This is a card I made using some new products from the Stampin’ Up!® 2020/2021 Annual Catalog.  Have you looked at this catalog?  It is awesome and full of beautiful and new products!  I had a hard time decided what to purchase first.

The sunflower on this card is part of the Flowers For Every Season Suite.  One of the stamp sets is called Celebrate Sunflowers and it has matching dies called Sunflowers Dies.  If you purchase them in a Bundle you can save 10%.  I didn’t use the stamp set on this card.  I only used the dies and as you can see, they make a beautiful and large sunflower with a lot of detail.  The colors I used are Bumblebee (a brand new InColor!), Garden Green, Crumb Cake and Early Espresso.  The Designer Series Paper  I used is also brand new and is called In Good Taste.  I love how this particular piece I used looks 3D.  The sentiment is from Here’s A Card.

Product List

Celebrate Sunflowers Bundle (English)

Here's A Card Cling Stamp Set

In Good Taste Designer Series Paper