Thursday 14 August 2014

Sunny Goodness

 
Good Morning.  Sending you some sunny goodness today with my big sunflowers and the challenge at Splitcoast called 'glazed over'.  Such a happy card.
I began by stamping my sunflowers from Penny Black called Sunshine and coloured them with Copic markers.  I cut them out and edged them with a black Memento marker so you wouldn't see the white edges of my flowers.  I them added a generous amount of Glossy Accents to the centers to make my flowers pop.  It looks like the sun is shining on them IRL.
For the background, I did a reverse stencil inking by applying Distress inks to the back of my stencil, spraying with water and pressed my paper into the wet ink.  It made for such a sunny and bright backdrop for my sunflowers.  Lastly, I stamped the sentiment from the Friendship Flowers set.
 
 Also adding my card to these challenges:
 
 
 
Simon Says- SUMMER 
 
 
 
Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.
 
Supplies:  stamps- Penny Black/ stencil-TCW/ Distress inks/ Copic markers/ Glossy Accents

19 comments:

Shery Russ said...

This is so gorgeous, Karen! I'm loving all the yellow/gold!

Lin said...

As always, Karen, a beautiful card! Love the summery yellow!

JD/ Jill said...

Stunning card...really like the bright, cheery, summer, colors!

joy said...

beautiful card, Karen. I love the glossy accents and the vivid yellows!

Deepti said...

Gorgeous! Loving the gold with gorgeous yellow BG, great use of glossy accents too :)

Susanne Vargas said...

Love your beautiful, sunny card!

SD pooja said...

WHat a Bright n sunny card !

Debbie said...

What a happy card! I love how you did the background and the centre of the flowers. Gorgeous.Great colouring too!

CherylQuilts said...

Oh, Karen, this is gorgeous! I LOVE sunflowers, and you've really made these shine! Stunning background technique too, sweet friend! I LOVE it!! Hugs!

CherylQuilts said...

P. S. Haha! I just realized what stamp this is - I have it! You are amazingly creative, my friend! Hugs!

Davi said...

Oh I really love this!! The sunflowers look amazing and the background is perfect with them :)

My Paper Epiphany said...

This card screams summer! So beautiful! i love the monochromatic look.

maria f. said...

OK, Jenny took the words right outta my mouth. This screams summer. Love it, Karen.

cheiron said...

Gorgeous sunflowers! Love that bit of shine in the center. Thank you so much for playing along in our Summer Challenge over at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog this week :)

Julia Aston said...

I love the reverse stenciled background you created on this wonderfully summer card Karen! Thanks for joining in the Mixed Media Card Challenge!

Loll said...

Hi Karen. Don't know how I missed this beauty! LOVE the bright and sunny backdrop - great technique. Any your sunflowers are gorgeous ... the GA really makes them shine. Thanks for joining us at Mixed Media Card Challenge and ATCAS.

sannalippert said...

oh, I love this yellow, bright and happy card! gorgeous and perfect for the challenge. thanks for playing along with us at MMCC :)

Elina Stromberg said...

Love your card! A really great take on the summer theme, with great colors and beautiful textures.
Thanks for playing with us at MMCC. Hope to see you with us again in September!

Lyndal said...

FABULOUS Summer goodness Karen! So glad you joined in the fun @ Mixed Media Card Challenge!