The Secret Life of Sunflowers – Jar of Flowers

Welcome back!  A few more challenges with quickly approaching deadlines…

The Challenges: Use Your Stuff (#475) – Inspired by a Book, Color Throwdown (#727) and Sketch Saturday (#717),

I really enjoyed reading The Secret Life of Sunflowers by Marta Molnar.  It is a work of historical fiction based on the true life of Johanna Bonger who was the sister-in-law of Vincent Van Gogh.

Here is the result:

Steps:

• Case Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Soft Sea Foam cardstock.
• Background Panel: (4” x 5¼”) Soft Sea Foam cardstock dry-embossed with the Painted Texture 3D Embossing Folder.
• Tilted Rectangle Panel: (2” x 4½”) Pink-Toned Painted Canvas patterned piece of paper from the Fancy Flora Designer Series Paper pack.
• Focal Image – Jar of Sunflowers: Basic White cardstock scraps.
  • The Sunflower Floral Arrangement image was stamped with Granny Apple Green ink and colored with Stampin’ Blends Markers.  Colors: Light and Dark Mango Melody, Pink Pirouette Dark, Flirty Flamingo Light, Granny Apple Green Light and Bronze.
  • The Mason Jar image, a reversible stamp, was stamped with retired Regal Rose ink and then cleaned and flipped over to add the fill-in color with retired Pink Pirouette ink.
  • The Flower Stalks image was stamped with Granny Apple Green ink and colored with the Granny Apple Green Light Stampin’ Blend Marker.
  • Both the Floral Arrangement and the Mason Jar were fussy cut with Paper Snips.
• Side Circles – Sunflowers: Basic White cardstock scraps
  • Four Sunflowers were also stamped, colored and fussy cut as above to represent the circles.
• Left Side Decoration: Champagne Rhinestone Basic Jewels were added to the edge of the Tilted Rectangle Panel.

I chose to create a Blank Card without sentiment as the decorated card front was so pretty.  This is a card that can be used for so many different occasions.  Just add your sentiment inside.

Thanks for spending some of your time with me today.   Cheers,  Jolanda!

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