This is my card for CC983. Barbara is our hostess and she chose granny apple green, crushed curry and pumpkin pie for her color trio. Dessert option this week is sunflowers.
My card started with my background paper. It's from the Stampin' Up Sweet Sunflowers Paper Pumpkin Kit from August 2022.
It has a sunflower, but the other flowers were in crushed curry and melon mambo. So I cut smaller sunflowers in crushed curry cardstock, a bee, butterfly and some hearts and placed them over the other flowers.
I edged my flowers with spiced marmalade distress ink to cover the pumpkin color. My card base is the granny apple green color.
Stamped my sentiment on a tag from the kit and added some crushed curry enamel dots.
This one will go to my good friend who has a July birthday and the sunflower is her favorite flower.
Hope you can play along and bring a bit of summer this week. It will be welcome after the frigid cold temps we have had.
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Registered: September 24, 2007 Location: WA Posts: 13984
Mon, Jan 15, 2024 @ 7:51 PM
Mary, your creativity is amazing! I love how you started with DS that had other colors, then modified it to work with the Color Challenge. And oh, my! The things you added are so pretty, the bee goes perfectly with the honeycomb paper! So adorable! Your friend will love this!
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Registered: October 12, 2007 Location: Arizona Posts: 70555
Tue, Jan 16, 2024 @ 7:53 AM
Bee-utiful! Amazing creation. I enjoy reading how you put this together and made it work for the challenge colors. I like the bee hive background and the cute bumblebee. Lovely sunflowers! Sweet card.
Registered: March 30, 2004 Location: Wherever I am, that's the place to be! Posts: 6707
Sat, Jan 20, 2024 @ 5:45 PM
Mary! Wow!!! I kept looking at the sunflower thinking..'did she watercolor it?' This is simply fantastic! Your friend will love this I'm sure. (BTW, I'm a July baby too..hint...hint...) ((smiles))
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