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Celebrate Sunflowers Thanks a Bunch Card

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Celebrate Sunflowers Thanks a Bunch Card

I think a lot of us are going to miss making our sunflower cards after this stamp set retires so I thought I would make this Celebrate Sunflowers Thanks a Bunch Card. One house in our neighborhood had sunflowers growing tall in their backyard and peeking over the wooden privacy fence in the summertime. They were so pretty! I hope they come back this year.

When this Celebrate Sunflowers Stamp Set came out there were all kinds of examples of colors you could use to color in the stamped sunflower. The die was a little difficult to line up, but certainly nice to have to cut out all the edges of this flower! The Sunflower Dies are discounted during the Last Chance Sale and the Stamp Set is regular price.

I stamped this sunflower in Memento Ink and then colored it with Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers. You can choose whatever colors you like. I used the Light and Dark Daffodil Delight Blends to color the petals with a little Pumpkin Pie thrown in! The center is Soft Suede, both Light and Dark. The leaves are stamped and colored with a little bit of Daffodil Delight (someone who painted told me one time to always have a little yellow in with green), then colored with Light and Dark Granny Apple Green. You could use Old Olive or any green colors you like for leaves.

To make the card, I used a card base of Night of Navy cardstock and then chose the dark blue pattern in the Regency Park 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper for the front layer. The sunflower is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals and the three leaves are just adhered flat to the card.

The greeting is stamped in Night of Navy ink on a piece of Daffodil Delight cardstock, then cut out with one of the retiring Stitched Rectangles Dies. These dies are discounted on the Last Chance List. I wish they were staying around.

For some glitz, I added three gold sequins in the Pastel Adhesive-Backed Sequins. To see another card I made when this Sunflower Bundle first came out in 2020, click HERE to see my post.

I think the dark blue and bright yellow on this card really make it stand out! If you like sunflowers, don’t miss out on this stamp set and the dies as well!

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Celebrate Sunflowers Thank You Card

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Celebrate Sunflowers Thanks You Card

The Celebrate Sunflowers Stamp Set and Sunflower Dies are available this month, until March 31, as a Bundle with an extra discount during the Savings Are in Bloom promotion! You can also get the Mini Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine at a 20% savings, but you can buy select Bundles even if you don’t get the machine.

This card came about because I wanted to make a card with the sunflowers set and dies. As I was looking through my designer paper the other day I came across this blue print designer paper in the Heart & Home Designer Series Paper. I thought maybe it would look good with the yellow sunflower. However, when I went to make the card, I thought maybe the print was not a good background for the sunflower. I simply turned the paper over to the wood design and that was fine. However, you never know when you are designing a card! As I went to put adhesive on the blue print side, I decided I really wanted to use it, so I did! Is it too much or just something different?! I don’t know! But I think I like it for now!

The card base is Misty Moonlight, a color I wanted to use before it retires soon. Yellow and blue always look good together. The sunflower is stamped in Memento Ink and then colored with Stampin’ Blends. I started with Light and Dark Daffodil Delight markers and added a bit of Mango Melody. The center is Light and Dark Soft Suede with some black dots that darken it up. The leaves were colored with Granny Apple Green, Light and Dark, but also added some Light Old Olive for a little darker green.

The sunflower is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals and the two leaves are adhered flat on the card, stuck under the sunflower a bit. The greeting in the Celebrating Sunflowers Stamp Set is stamped in Misty Moonlight ink on Basic White and die cut with a Stitched Rectangle Die. I was going to use the next larger rectangle for a Misty Moonlight layer but I wanted something narrower so I just cut a rectangle myself from the cardstock.

Be sure to check out the Bundles that are available this month during this promotion!

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Sunflowers In the Neighborhood

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Celebrate Sunflowers Card

One evening my husband and I were out for a walk and I noticed a yard from the side along the sidewalk that had a bunch of blooming sunflowers peeking out over the top of the wood fence. These wooden privacy fences are everywhere here in Houston. Sometimes I think it would be better not to have them and see our neighbors, but they are standard it seems like. Since we have the Celebrate Sunflowers Stamp Set, I felt I should make a card inspired by the sunflowers we saw!

Sunflowers

For my sunflower card, I started with Daffodil Delight Cardstock for the card base. For the look of the wood fence, I used a wood pattern from the In Good Taste Designer Series Paper. Although the top of my fence doesn’t show very much, I notched the top of the planks with the point of the Tailored Tag Punch and then drew in black lines to make the paper look like fence boards with a marker.

The sunflowers are the smaller ones in the stamp set, stamped in Memento Ink and colored with Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers. I used Daffodil Delight for the flowers, Soft Suede for the centers, and Granny Apple Green for the leaves, both the light and dark colors. I stamped a couple of flowers, the smaller ones, on the Basic White for the background and stamped three on scrap cardstock and then die-cut those. In the background for the look of sky I simply scribbled with the Light Balmy Blue and Light Pool Party Stampin’ Blends in the background.

The fence is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals® as are the die-cut sunflowers. I also die-cut some greenery with the same Sunflowers Dies and placed it here and there. The greeting is included in the stamp set although I only inked up the words you see to shorten it a little to fit on the card. I used Early Espresso Ink and die cut with the Ornate Frames Die. To help it stand out a little, I used my Dark Daffodil Delight Stampin’ Blend to just run around the edge of the die cut.

Here is a blog post from last year where I also stamped these smaller sunflowers in the set to make a card.

My card today certainly is a very summery card with the sunflowers! I really enjoyed seeing the real sunflowers in the neighbor’s yard! Remember, tomorrow is the first day of select designer papers being on sale for 15% off, and the In Good Taste Designer Paper is one of them! This is a very large package of paper with many images of backgrounds and textures you can use for cards and projects. Wait until tomorrow, July 1, to start your order so that the sale prices show up. This sale will run through August 2.

Sunflowers are one of the things that just say “Summer” so if you are ready to celebrate summer like this Sunflowers In the Neighborhood card, pick up the Celebrate Sunflowers Stamp Set on your next order plus some designer paper on sale!

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Celebrate Sunflowers Celebrate You Card

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Celebrate Sunflowers Celebrate You Card

If you want to send a card to someone who maybe had something special happen to them or just to send someone a happy thought, make them a card something like this Celebrate Sunflowers Celebrate You Card with these pretty sunflowers!

I felt drawn to make a floral card and the sunflowers won out, hopefully with a bit of a fall look. I actually thought I would use the coordinating Sunflower Dies, but once I stamped and colored the sunflowers in the Celebrate Sunflowers Stamp Set, that was all I wanted to do.

The sunflowers are stamped in Memento Ink because I was going to use our Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers to color in the flowers. I saw that someone had colored in sunflowers with Light Daffodil Delight, Dark Pumpkin Pie, and Dark Mango Melody so I just went with those colors. You could easily choose some other similar colors or a different color scheme entirely. For the leaves, I just used some lighter and some darker greens, probably Granny Apple Green, Old Olive, and maybe some Mossy Meadow. The flower centers are colored with Soft Suede Stampin’ Blends (light and dark) and parts were just kind of dotted, following the stamped image.

The greeting is in the Celebrate Sunflowers Stamp Set but I only wanted to use the “Celebrate You” part of the stamp due to space. I inked up only those words with Old Olive Ink and die cut with one of the Ornate Frames Dies. I felt like it needed something to set it off from the background but I didn’t have much space so I just used the Dark Old Olive Stampin’ Blend marker along the edge of the die cut. Luckily I had a stead enough hand and it worked out well! It might not have, but it did! Then I added some ribbon behind the greeting but I’m not necessarily in love with that on this card. I think I should have used some gems or sequins or something in a few places on the card for that bit of bling.

The coloring might look overwhelming, but really it is not. I just kept the darker colors at the base of the petals and the rest was colored lighter. It’s mostly a solid image so I just colored all of the petals with my lightest color first and then went in and added the two darker colors. Then I went back over some of it with the lightest color to help it all blend. Just put on some music or something and enjoy yourself while you color! It’s great for relaxation!

The card base is Soft Suede and I will need to put a Whisper White layer inside the card since it is a dark cardstock. I’ll stamp one of the little sunflowers somewhere on that piece, maybe coloring it in or maybe just stamping in Soft Suede or a yellow shade and just leaving that as is.

Here’s another card I made by just stamping the small sunflower and some leaves randomly over the front of the card. You can see I didn’t use as much color on the flowers as I did on this card.

Take some time to do some stamping and coloring with whatever coloring technique you like to use!

Celebrate Sunflowers Celebrate You Card Closeup

Clear Tiny Treat Box With Sunflower

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Clear Tiny Treat Box With Sunflower

One of my favorite extra products in the Stampin’ Up! Catalog besides stamps, paper, and ink, are the Clear Tiny Treat Boxes which can be decorated like this Clear Tiny Treat Box With Sunflower. Put a candy treat inside or a small gift and you are good to go! Just keep a package of these treat boxes in your stash for any occasion that arises.

The stamped sunflower is the smaller one in the Celebrate Sunflowers Stamp Set. This is the technique I used to stamp and color this sunflower:

  • Use Stampin’ Write Markers to color directly on the stamp in the different colors, huff on the stamp, then stamp on Whisper White Cardstock.
  • Use a Blender Pen to pick up ink from the ink pad lids of whatever colors you choose to lightly color in the white space on the stamped flower. Although I used a Crushed Curry marker to color on the stamp, I used So Saffron Ink with my Blender Pen to fill in the flower petals. I used a Granny Apple Green marker for the leaves but colored in with Mint Macaron.
  • The flower center didn’t look good filled in with Soft Suede so I went back with Cajun Craze lightly to match the markers. When it looked too solid or something, I used the small tip of the marker to fill in a lot of tiny dots around that center.
  • The very center has some yellow and a tiny bit of green.

Blender pens are good to use because you tend to get a lighter color using them but you can pick up more ink and get a darker shade. We used to use Blender Pens all the time, back in the “olden days” when I first became a Demonstrator. You can pick up ink from the ink pad or lid with them, pick up ink directly from the marker tip, blend Watercolor Pencil colors or even pick up color directly from the Watercolor Pencil tip. They are so handy and versatile. Just enough moisture to work but not enough to pill the cardstock, unless you work it too much. In that case, Shimmery White Cardstock is better than Whisper White.

The sunflower is die-cut with the Sunflowers Die. Then I wrapped a ribbon around the treat box and adhered the die-cut sunflower. This ribbon I used is the green gingham in the Flowers For Every Season Ribbon Combo Pack.

After putting your treat or gift inside, you could tie the ribbon around from the bottom to the top instead or just add a bow to the lid of the box. You could stamp a little tag to add as well.

There are so many things you can do with these Clear Tiny Treat Boxes! They are handy for so many occasions! Here is a favorite one I made at Easter.

Here is a close-up of the sunflower so you can see the coloring. You could also stamp in Memento Black ink and color with Stampin’ Blends. Or use Watercolor Pencils.

Clear Tiny Treat Box With Sunflower Closeup

Think about getting a package of these Clear Tiny Treat Boxes and also check out the other types of boxes and bags Stampin’ Up! carries for treats and gifts! There are many options!

Remember it is Bonus Days for another two weeks in July! With every $50 purchase, you will receive an email with a coupon code for $5 to use in August on your orders. No limits, so if you have a large order, you will have more coupons to use! And with the new Stampin’ Up! Catalog, a large order is pretty easy to come up with! Way too easy!!

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Highland Heather Sunflower Thank You Card

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Highland Heather Sunflower Thank You Card

This started out not to be a card! I was going to stamp a sunflower and die cut it and decorate a glass votive candle holder. The sunflower was going to be a little large for that project and when I laid it down on the table I thought it would look pretty on a card. That is how this Highland Heather Sunflower Thank You Card came to be! Don’t be afraid t change your mind from your original idea!

I decided to make my sunflower a different color than yellow, so I happened to choose Highland Heather for the color. I stamped the largest sunflower in the Celebrate Sunflowers Stamp Set in Highland Heather Ink. I die cut that sunflower, as well as the outline, with the Sunflowers Dies also out of Highland Heather Cardstock. I didn’t know if this would be enough contrast or not, but I liked it. I added the die-cut center out of Bumblebee cardstock.

The leaves are stamped in Granny Apple Green Ink on the same color cardstock, then die cut. The leafy stems are cut out of Garden Green Cardstock. The sunflower is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals and then I slid the leaves partially underneath. The greeting is also in the stamp set and is stamped in Highland Heather ink. The card base is Highland Heather.

In spite of not planning to even make this card, I was really pleased with it and may even copy myself and make some more, maybe in different colors! We are artists and can be creative with whatever we make!

The sunflower’s name comes from its tendency to face toward the sun. I didn’t even think of any symbolism about the sunflower, but I’ve read that it can symbolize adoration and loyalty. And it may mean something a little different across other cultures. Apparently it is an easy plant to grow because it is heat and drought tolerant and grows in the summer. If heat is good for sunflowers, I could be growing sunflowers filling my whole backyard because it is so hot here in Houston!!

I also stamped a Whisper White layer for inside the card with the smaller sunflower in the set just with Highland Heather Ink. That makes it easier to stamp or write a message inside the card on white instead of purple. While I had the stamp and ink out, I also stamped a corner of the envelope to make it pretty as well! Hopefully the envelope will not get separated from the card and I’ll remember to use it!

If you like sunflowers, this is a popular stamp set so check it out in the Online Store. And if you like the Sunflower Dies as well, you can buy both the stamp set and dies in the Celebrate Sunflowers Bundle at a 10% discount.

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Highland Heather Sunflower Thank You Card

Celebrate Sunflowers Celebrate You

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Celebrate Sunflowers Celebrate You

It was time to play with the Celebrate Sunflowers Stamp Set and matching dies in making this card, Celebrate Sunflowers Celebrate You. You could send this card with this greeting to someone who was celebrating something big or small or just someone who needed a little perking up!

I knew I wanted to use the new In Good Taste Designer Series Paper along with the sunflower. You won’t believe this designer paper! It is photographic images of wood, tile, stone and other elements. Some look like carpet or fabric! And you get 24 sheets in the package, 2 sheets of 12 different double-sided designs! This wood sheet that I used on this card looks like a real piece of wood up close! It’s great!

To make the large sunflower in the Celebrate Sunflowers Stamp Set, I stamped the flower on Crushed Curry Cardstock with Memento Ink. If you stamp on the color of cardstock you like, then you don’t have to color the stamped image.

You can buy the Sunflowers Dies separately or together with the Celebrate Sunflowers Stamp Set in the Celebrate Sunflowers Bundle and save 10%. The dies, of course, are great for cutting out the two sizes of sunflowers and the leaves and sprigs.

I die cut the sunflower outline in Early Espresso to match the card base of Early Espresso. The leaves are stamped in Pear Pizzazz and die cut.

The greeting comes in the stamp set. Of course, you could change it out with almost anything or just leave it off the card. The card design will stand on its own.

The Celebrate Sunflowers Stamp Set and dies are just a couple of the amazing new products in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog! Get your favorites while you can!

Remember, with a $150 order you earn Stampin’ Rewards, and during June, a $250 or more order earns an EXTRA $25 in Stampin’ Rewards!!

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Celebrate Sunflowers Celebrate You Closeup (3)

Celebrate Sunflowers Stamped Thank You Card

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Celebrate Sunflowers Stamped Thank You Card

I wanted to try out this stamp set but in an easy card, so I came up with this Celebrate Sunflowers Stamped Thank You Card. Demonstrators who were able to pre-order this stamp set have been making beautiful cards with it and with the coordinating dies! So be sure to check it out when you get your catalog!

Ordering from the new Stampin’ Up! Catalog begins Wednesday, June 3, no later than Noon (Mountain Time/Stampin’ Up! Time). That’s 1:00 PM Central Time. That’s the plan anyway! Stampin’ Up! will be setting up the website with the new catalog products from midnight until Noon MT so ordering will be unavailable until it IS available again!

I wanted to try out the Celebrate Sunflowers Stamp Set but I wanted it to be easy. I chose the smaller sunflower and decided to just stamp a few randomly on the Whisper White card layer along with some leaves. I stamped all of these in Memento Ink and then colored in with Stampin’ Blends.

The card base is Old Olive and the next layer is Crushed Curry. I could have used the new Bumblebee color of cardstock but I didn’t think about it and I didn’t have a matching Stampin’ Blend marker.

After stamping with Memento Ink, I used various Stampin’ Blends to color in the sunflowers and leaves. If you aren’t sure which color to use on any project, get a piece of scrap Whisper White Cardstock and try out some colors on that. You get a better view of the actual color than if you color on Grid Paper or computer paper. Use the real cardstock!

For the flower centers, I used the Dark and Light Crumb Cake plus a touch of Old Olive. Maybe even a touch of yellow. For the petals, I used Light and Dark Daffodil Delight (I think) but I also had Mango Melody handy. Mango Melody has a little more orange in it. But just try out some colors and see what you are in the mood for!

The greeting I took from another new stamp set just because of space. This “Thank You” is in the Many Mates Stamp Set which has lots of great greetings. I used a die from the Stitched Shapes Dies (one of my favorite die sets!) and then layered it on an Old Olive scalloped oval from the Layering Ovals Dies.

This card would also be pretty made with Shimmery White Cardstock with just that faint hint of glimmer, plus if you wanted to watercolor the sunflowers, the Shimmery White paper holds up a little better to water than the regular Whisper White cardstock. Shimmery White is probably my favorite paper except for Real Red!

So, basically an easy card to make although it does take a little bit of time to color the sunflowers and leaves, but that’s good therapy and relaxation! And we all need that right now! Just take your time stamping and enjoy!

Remember, the last day for the current annual catalog is Tuesday, June 2 until around midnight (Mountain Time). If you want any SINGLE Stampin’ Blends, get them by Tuesday because in the new catalog they are only sold in the Combo sets of Light and Dark. So if you only need one of the colors, order now. Also, check the Last-Chance products and the Clearance Rack! Get all the bargains!

AND Stampin’ Up! has extended the early release ordering of the Ornate Garden Suite of products through June 2 since it has been so popular, I think it was to end May 31. It is in the new catalog so you can also order it with a new catalog order.

I hope you like these new sunflowers in the Celebrate Sunflowers Stamp Set! And if you like dies, you can get the Celebrate Sunflowers Bundle and save 10% off the total price! It’s all on page 13 of the new Stampin’ Up! Catalog.

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