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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Curtain Call Inspiration: Sunflowers!

Clearly Besotted is the sponsor for this challenge over at the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge  with a chance to win their own set called: Blooming Marvelous stamps and Die Collection!!  Yahoo!!


I used PTI Simple Sunflower.  First I die cut the circle using a nestability die, then I marked off the circle on the card base and stamped my flowers.  the sentiment is a Hero Arts one that I shaped inside the actual die while it was on the glass block in order to get the sentiment to follow the circle.  I masked the flowers to add the leaves.

And now because I am going to take the new Online Card Class:  Insider, I am paying special attention to the inside of the cards, so here is this one:
It kind of goes with the front of the card sentiment:  amazing friend!!  Oh and I didn't forget to add a flower to the front of the envelope...but of course it was AFTER I cleaned and put the whole set away!!  I am learning, it is just taking me a while..!!

You do want to play along with this Sunflower explosion of cards?  go check it out...
                                            
                                                                                                                            stamps:  PTI Simple Sunflower, Hero Arts sentiment sets (2 different ones)
ink:  PTI summer sunrise, dark chocolate, simply chartreuse
paper:  PTI stampers select white                        

7 comments:

Marjan said...

LOVE this card, the circle with the seethrough and also the perfect stamping!

Marybeth said...

Gorgeous Colleen ! Love the flowers peeking from the circle great idea. Love the rounded sentiment .
I'm going to take tag class too.

Stacey Schafer said...

how beautiful, Colleen! love the window effect! thanks so much for playing along at the Curtain Call!

Tracey McNeely said...

Beautiful Colleen, love your peek a boo card. Thank you for sharing with us at the Curtain Call!

Linda said...

So pretty. I love this technique and should use it more.

Jackie Rockwell said...

This is such a fantastic CAS card Colleen! So bold and crisp and I love the circle cut out.

Tenia Nelson said...

Beautiful cards!! Thanks for playing along with us over at the Curtain Call!!