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!
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!