My Paper Corner

Had a play with my Funky Fossil stamps and stencil to create this sunflower bee card.  Last year my Dad gave me some sunflower seedlings that he had grown which I potted on and had a really lovely display of traditional yellow and ruby sunflowers in our back garden which the bees loved to visit. Started by running the sunflower stencil through my Big Shot to dry emboss the design straight onto my card blank.  Keeping the stencil in place I used three yellow/orange colours of distress oxide inks to brush over the petals for an ombré look with hickory smoke for the centre. The bees, honeycomb and sentiment were stamped and heat embossed on vellum before cutting cut and adhering with tiny dots of glue.  Coloured with my very old parchment Perga Color pens which amazingly still work.  Each bee has a stamped hexagon and bee trails doodled behind for movement. I've used - 6x6" white card blank Funky Fossil Sunflower stencil Funky Fossil Bees Knees & Geo Bugs stamp sets Anita'

I've changed the traditional red berries to white on this festive card (just to be different) as I decided I wanted to go with a gold, green and white colour theme inspired by the current challenge at  CAS Christmas . Started with brushing distress oxide ink through a bauble stencil directly on my card blank then flicked on some water to create highlights before stamping on a wreath stamp.  Die cut lots of white dots to adhere over the top of the berries with a matching stamped and fussy cut white bow. The holy leaves and bauble top are coloured with a gold gel pen for contrast.  To complete the design I added extra stamped foliage at the top with enamel accent berries and below a lovely script sentiment which is the current  Fezziwigs Festive Frolics  prompt. I've used - 6x6" white card blank Versafine Olympia Green ink pad & clear EP Funky Fossil bauble stencil Distress Oxide - wild honey Butterfly Kisses wreath stamp Xcut adhesive pearlised textured sheet Mag freebi