Gold Sunflowers
Gold Sunflowers
Other Products: Distress Inks; Vintage Photo, Gathered Twigs and Evergreen Twigs, Sewing Machine, Copic E29, Card Stock; Black and Yellow, foam tape, plastic bag, sharpee pen, X-acto tool and self healing mat.
Watch the video https://youtu.be/faTpandFJLI to see how to shape the Sunflowers.
Instructions: Cut out 5" x 7" brown decorative base rectangle. Cut piece of strip decorative paper 4 3/4" x 6 3/4". Using your scissors or a distresser run along the edges of the paper and rip and distress. Use the vintage photo ink on the edges of the distressed paper. Cut out one black flourish from the Everyday Hero Die. Cut the die in two and tuck the ends behind the striped piece of paper as shown, glue the striped piece down on the base as shown and then stitch around with the sewing machine. Cut out the small panel from the paper pack. Using a clear storage bag lay the bag over the decorative panel. Using the sharpee pen trace around the flourish then cut out the center portion you have drawn off with an X-acto tool. You are creating a mask to stamp in the center of your panel and not get the stamped image in the flourish portion. Lay the mask over your panel and then stamp the newsprint stamp with the Gathered Twigs ink. Glue the stamped panel in the center of your card with foam tape. Fussy cut out the pocket watch with the sentiment from the paper and foam tape attach it to the bottom left of the card as shown. Die cut a set of links from the All Geared up Die and cut each link and glue together to form a chain. Attach to the the pocket watch and trail the links up the side of the card as shown. Next stamp the globe 4-5 times on the green designer paper and die cut out with coordinating die. Cut out the globe portion of each die with the exception of one. Fold each circle in half and then glue together to make the dimension globe, gluing the ball down to the one solid die cut that you did not cut out the circle. Attach the globe to the card as shown with foam tape. Next stamp one set of sunflowers on yellow card stock and cut out with matching die. Distress ink with vintage photo all the petals and then using the flower tool set give a slight bend to each of the petals of the flowers. Make three full blooms by layering the petals and gluing together and then with the largest die bloom, cut in half and make the one half that is behind the globe. Nestle the flowers around the pocket watch and glove as shown. Take the clear sparklets and color with copic marker and then glue down in the center of the three full blooms. To finish the card add to a 5" x 7" plain card.