Nothing quite says summer like a sunflower. My niece has a birthday soon and she loves sunflowers so this was a must when I saw it in Tracy Evan's set Friendship Florals.
The background was one I had in my stash of backgrounds when I was playing with my gel press. The colours used are Arteza acrylic paints in golds, reds and purples - I also went over it with a stencil to give that swirly background. I thought it would look great with the sunflower against it.
I inked the sunflower in Versafine Black in k and used Tim Holtz distress inks to colour it in. I then fussy cut it out - not my favourite thing to do and I'm not very good at it but it worked out not too bad. The little pot is another of Tracy Evan's stamps called Containers. I added some of the stamps from Friendship Florals in the background and cut out a few of the birds to add to the card. The Happy Birthday is from Clearly Besotted.
I'm adding this into the following challenges:
Make My Monday - Summer
International Art & Soul - Summer
We Love Stamping - anything stamped
Colour Crazy Challenge - Colouring
