Sunflower Happy Bee-day

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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's plain white vellum; detail gold & clear EP
Distress Oxides - squeezed lemonade/wild honey/spiced marmalade/hickory smoke
Perga Color Exclusive pens
Linking up with -
Make My Monday #149 Floral Birthday                             Addicted to Stamps and More #406 - Make Your Mark
                                  
Thank you for visiting - I'd love you to leave a comment if you have time - Steph x

Comments

  1. Billie AThursday, 27 May, 2021

    Cute card. Fun images and so glad you shared over at Make My Monday

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  2. EmmaTFriday, 28 May, 2021

    Beautiful sunny card. My brother grows lots of sunflowers in a corner and they look amazing, i never have much luck growing them sadly. Emmax

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  3. As.I.Do.Rodos.Friday, 28 May, 2021

    Wonderful card Ginny
    My Blog As I do Rodos

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  4. ClurFriday, 28 May, 2021

    I love this card Steph, so summery 💕 Clare x

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  5. Maria ValenteWednesday, 02 June, 2021

    Fabulous card! Thanks for sharing at Make My Monday.

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  6. WeiTuesday, 08 June, 2021

    So pretty! Thanks for playing along with us at Make My Monday Challenge. Looking forward to seeing your creative projects in the future galleries.

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