Hi everyone, I’m sure you won’t be too surprised to hear that I’m still playing with my new Lavinia stamps from last Saturday’s visit to the Dreamatorium. When I first saw the array of new sunflower stamps, I immediately imagined a profusion of them bobbing around in a summer meadow scene, so that’s exactly what I made!
I cut a piece of stamping card 6.5” x 4.5” and created a soft inky background by brayering Elements inks directly onto the card (having run off the excess first on spare card) then spattering with water. I stamped the sunflowers at various heights and coloured them with Zig pens, then added sparkle with Wink of Stella and accents with white Posca pen. I stamped some meadow flowers, field grass and a couple of dragonflies to fill the scene, and coloured the flower tips with white Posca and Wink of Stella. I stamped the sentiment onto separate card, cut out, edged and attached, then matted the finished piece onto a teal border and 7” x 5” card blank.
Once again this card is quite sparkly, which the photos don’t capture very well.
Stamps: Lavinia Open Sunflower, Sunflower 1, Sunflower 2, Wild Summer Flower, Field Grass, Fairy Bugs, Heartfelt Verses;
Media: Lavinia Elements inks (Blue Atoll, Green Parrot); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Avocado, Sand Dune); Kuretake Zig Clean Color pens; Wink of Stella (clear); Posca pen (white).
Challenges I would like to enter:
Addicted to Stamps & More #496 - Make Your Mark (2nd entry)
Country View FB Challenge (July) - The Great Outdoors
C.R.A.F.T. #759 - Anything Goes
Crafty Gals’ Corner #269 - Fill In the Blanks: “… in July”
(Sunflowers)
Creative Aunts #103 - Summer (2nd entry)
Ellibelle’s Garden Party #5 - Anything In or From a Garden
FarmQuest General Store #30 - Anything Farm or Country Goes
Four Seasons (July) - Summer (2nd entry)
Heart’s Quest Celebrations of Love #7 2025 - Birthday (2nd entry)
Lavinia Creative Challenge (July) - Once Upon a Time (2nd entry)
(Once Upon a Time a girl visited a Fairy Festival in a Dreamatorium … she fell under a spell, purchased magical sunflowers … and crafted happily ever after lol!)
Love to Craft #87 - Anything Goes
Mix It Up #78 - Anything Goes with option Mixed Media
Outlawz Monday Greetings (July) - Happy Birthday
Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #264 - H is for Hot, Hot, Hot!
Try It On Tuesday - Summer Blooms
Word Art Wednesday #706/707 - Anything Goes (3rd entry)
I’m really enjoying playing with these sunflower stamps as they really are the essence of summer …and I also bought all the sunflowers in the new collection I can’t promise that I’m done with sunflower cards quite yet!
Take care, and thanks for visiting.
Hugs,
21 comments:
Beautiful work with this lovely sunflower stamps and of course the other meadow florals and grass in the background. I can see why you needed to get these stamps.
Gorgeous Summery card -love the beautiful sunflowers.
Carol x
What a beautiful creation Pauline! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Four Seasons Challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back again soon.
Darlene
DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS
Four Seasons Challenge Co-Owner
Beautiful card Pauline! I love the summer feel of these sunflowers. I can tell that you really took a lot of time and attention to creating this. I can see the sparkle too. Someone will love getting this card. Thanks so much for playing along with us at Word Art Wednesday. We really appreciate you!
Ja, Sonnenblumen gehören zum Sommer. Sehr hübsch deine Karte. Danke fürs zeigen bei uns Kreativtanten. Herzlichst Kirsten 💜
This is gorgeous. You have put those stamps together so well. Such a lovely garden scene and the sparkle will make it even more special in real life xx
Awesome sunflowers!!! I love how you've colored them!!! Perfect! We've got several farmers/mini farm owners who plant large sections of sunflowers every year. One family the patch is next to a small pond and the country road but they're not thick enough to be a privacy screen but certainly make the spot charming! Thanks for delivering this great outdoor scene at FQGS! -- Becca
You've captured the feel of a hot summer day perfectly with this beautiful sunflower meadow, it's a gorgeous card!
xx
That is such a pretty scene you have created Pauline. Wouldn't a sunflower field look just as amazing in real life!
Hey! I'm back making rounds for HQCOLCB! Thanks for sharing another entry and this time for the B/birthday theme from our BEWAS coded main themes!! I'm still oohing over how you've created those sunflowers!! Stunning! -- Becca
Ohhhhhh gorgeous I love sunflowers!
Thanks for getting hot hot hot with Edna and the sisterhood of snarky stampers
I can see why you coudn't resist these beautiful new stamps and you made an absolutely gorgeous card with them! So happy to see you at the July Garden party too!
Simply stunning. Love sunflowers so this card really works for me xxx
Gorgeous profusion of Sunflowers Pauline - wow I bet you had a great time up at Lavinia's. Thanks for sharing with us at ATSM
Your sunflowers are so pretty!!! And perfect for our HOT, HOT, HOT challenge. Your coloring is wonderful as well. Thanks so much for playing with The Sisterhood!
Fabulous card. I love all the details. The sunflowers are so pretty and I love the stamping green section. Great job of making your mark. Thanks for joining us at Addicted to Stamps and More!
sue n.
So very beautiful Pauline, gorgeous details. x
Really beautiful, Pauline! Thank you so much for entering our challenge at Try it on Tuesday with this lovely creation. Looking forward to see you again next challenge.
Regards,
Mia
Designer for Try it on Tuesday
craftartista.blogspot.com {My Blog}
A lovely card. Thank you so much for entering our challenge at CRAFT Challenge, looking forward to see you again next challenge.
Hugs Sheryl xx CRAFT DT
BEAUTIFUL,THANK YOU FOR JOINING US AT CRAFTY GALS CHALLENGE
Your sunflower meadow looks gorgeous and perfect for our challenge at Try it on Tuesday.
I'm not surprised you couldn't resist buying these stamps - I've had so little crafting time I've not bought anything lately. Avril xx
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