Muse sunflowers

This week's Muse is Anita Bowden who has created a lovely card to inspire us.  I really liked the way the sentiment stood out and tried to emulate this. I had difficulty finding a suitable flower stamp until I remembered I had this sunflower one which creates beautiful backgrounds. I stamped the sentiment and then masked it before stamping the flowers with 3 colours of distress inks. Finally I mounted the panel on foam tape and attached it to the card base.

Materials used:-
Sunflower stamp - Creative Stamping magazine issue 19
Sentiment - Stampin Up Sassy Salutations
DI - mustard seed, ripe persimmon, carved pumpkin

Thanks for visiting - I really appreciate your comments! Margaret

Gifts

Here is another clean and simple Christmas card I made today - after masking off a panel, I inked this and then spritzed it with perfect pearls to provide some sheen.  I stamped the image 3 times and finally scored lines on each side of the stamped panel to provide some definition - I don't think these show up very well on my photo.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

One Layer Christmas Card Challenge #13 where the added twist is "gift"
CASology where the cue card is REPEAT - I stamped the gift 3 times and "Merry Christmas" is repeated frequently on the stamp

Materials used:-
Distress ink - evergreen bough; Archival ink - aquamarine
Gift stamp - Penny Black Giving and Receiving set
Sentiment - free stamp from Simply Homemade magazine issue 48
Stampin Up scoring board

Thanks for visiting my blog - I really appreciate your comments! Margaret