Passion for Papercraft: July 2025

Tuesday, 1 July 2025

AAA Birthday #75 - Guest Designer

Hi everyone, I was thrilled to be asked recently to be guest designer for this month's

where this month the challenge theme is

An ideal theme for right now, I’m sure you’ll agree, and open to many interpretations - I can’t wait to see what you create! There’ plenty of great inspiration from the Design Team so please do pop over to the challenge blog to check it out and link up your entries here.

Here’s my card for the challenge - summer invariably makes me think of sunflowers and bees, so I have combined them on this project using Visible Image stamps and dies.

I die cut a large stitched square of stamping card, and stamped a background of small sunflowers and spatters using Golden Meadow Versafine Clair. I stamped and heat embossed the larger sunflowers onto a 9.5 cm square of stamping card, stamped the script and additional spatters, then coloured the sunflowers with Zig pens overlaid with Wink of Stella. I stamped and heat embossed the bees onto separate card stock, coloured with Zig pens and Wink of Stella, then die cut with the matching dies. I assembled the card with the coloured sunflower square placed behind the stitched frame then attached to the sunflower background and a card blank. I stamped the sentiments directly onto the sunflower background, then finished off by adding white Posca highlights and Glossy Accents to the flowers, and attaching the die cut bees.

Stamps: Visible Image Sunflower Grunge, Bee Happy, Sketched Tulips;

Media: Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Golden Meadow); Versamark; clear embossing powder; Kuretake Zig Clean Color watercolour pens; Wonk of Stella (clear); Posca pen (white);

Tools: Hunkydory Moonstone Duo-Stitched square dies; Visible Image Bee Happy dies.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Addicted to Stamps and More #495 - Die Cuts and/or Stencils

Crafty Catz #697 - Anything Goes

Die Cut Divas (July) - Birthday

Four Seasons (July) - Summer

Paper Players #744 - Tic Tac Toe