I Spy With My Little Eye #40 🌻🌻

Hi everyone, it’s the third Wednesday in August so it’s time already for a new I Spy With My Little Eye... challenge over at Ellibelle's Corner. Thanks so much to everyone who joined in last time - please do check over on Ellie’s blog to see if you are one of our top picks. 

This month it was Ellie’s turn to choose the theme, which is

I Spy With My Little Eye 

*** Sunflowers or Something Yellow ***

A lovely summery theme I’m sure you’ll agree!  Please don’t forget to pop over to Ellie's blog to see her fab creation and link up your entries here.

Here’s my card for the challenge. I love sunflowers and own several sunflower stamps, but I think this Visible Image one is my favourite. I decided to CASE a previous card I made three years ago - more details further down this post.

I cut a 13cm square piece of stamping card, and created a vibrant smooshed background using Lavinia Elements inks. I stamped the focal sunflower then added background script stamping in Twilight VFC, and stencilling using both Brilliance Moonlight White pigment ink, and Rainforest VFC. 

I stamped the sunflower again onto a separate snippet of card and coloured with Zig pens with white Posca accents, then fussy cut and attached to the smooshed panel on top of the original image. I die cut an aperture frame into a piece of white card then cut down the piece to 16cm square. I attached the flower panel behind the aperture, then matted onto a teal border and a 7” square card blank. I stamped a bee onto separate card, coloured with Zig pens and Spectrum Noir sparkle pen on the wings, then cut out with the matching die. To finish I stamped my sentiments onto the white frame, attached the die cut bee and added Glossy Accents to the centre of the sunflower.

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

Media: Lavinia Elements inks (Blue Lagoon, Green Parrot, Sundance); Versafine Clair (Noctune, Twilight, Rainforest); Brilliance pigment ink (Moonlight White); Kuretake Zig Clean Color watercolour pens; Posca pen (white); Glossy Accents;

Tools: Visible Image Bee Happy die; Craft Addiction UK Stitch Craft Fusion Frames; Visible Image Off the Grid stencil.

Challenges I would like to enter:

AAA Birthday #88 - Flowers

Addicted to Stamps and More! #524 - Any Occasion

Aud Sentiments #340 - Summer + a Sentiment

Beautiful Blossoms #44 - Anything Floral Goes (2nd entry)

Classic Design Challenge #08 2026 - Anything Goes with option Use Die Cuts

Crafty Gals’ Corner - Anything Goes with option Summer Vibes

Crazy Is Our Fame, Stencils Are Our Game (August) - Use a Stencil

Creative Artiste #129 - Anything Mixed Media Goes

Creative Color Girlz #7 - Summer (2nd entry) - WINNER

Cupcake Inspirations #640 - In the Garden

A Cut Above (August) - Anything Goes with a Die Cut

Ellibelle’s Garden Party #18 - Anything In or From a Garden 

Four Seasons (August) - Summer (2nd entry)

Hand Stamped Sentiments #495 - Inspiration Photo

Heart’s Quest Celebrations of Love #31 - Birthday

Heidi the Yorkshire Crafter (August) - Flowers

Inkspirational #374 - Garden (2nd entry)

Inspiration Station #88 - Inspiration Photo

Passion for Markers #851 - Floral Vibes - TOP 5

Sweet Stampin’ - Summer Fun

Triple B (August) - Birds, Butterflies and/or Blooms

Unicorn Challenge #123 - Layer It Up

We Love 2 Create #8 2026 - Anything Mixed Media/Papercrafting Goes

Word Art Wednesday #766/767 - Anything Goes

As I mentioned at the start of this post, my card today was inspired by CASEing a card a made three years ago - here’s the original, and here is a link to the original post with info about how I made it.

The I Spy Challenge will end on the Sunday before the next challenge starts at 23:59 US Central Time - so this time that is Sunday September 13th, and the next challenge will begin on Wednesday September 16th.

Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,