Sunflower Hapiness

Happy Wednesday!!  It's time for another challenge from The House That Stamps.  This week we have a beautiful inspiration photo for you:

And here is the card I created:

Right away, those yellow flowers caught my eye as the look like little, tiny sunflowers!  So, I decided to go with the sunflower theme and add in some of the colors to complete my card.  I started by stamping the sunflowers on the blue panel on the left.  After stamping them in brown ink, I colored the yellow portions and then colored the background with blue.  I got a little carried away with the blue and it was quite dark, a bit too dark for my liking and the rest of the card, so I added a piece of vellum over stop.  This softened the colors just enough without making it hard to see the images.  I found a piece of yellow paper that I have had FOREVER and is one of those which I have a hard time using because it's so bright.  But it seemed perfect for a happy, sunflower card and definitely fit the color scheme.  I then stamped, colored and die cut the main sunflower image and added brown stickles to the center to give it some dimension and sparkle!  You can see it better in the photo below: 

I finished everything off with some scallops cut from kraft scraps, some blue mats cut from scraps (the one under the main panel actually has a giant hole from die cutting something a while ago, but it's a mat, so no one will ever see it!) and some brown enamel dots.

Thanks for stopping by!  Make sure you head on over to The House blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has done with this photo.  And if you "need" any of the stamps I used, check out my 10% off your entire order coupon code over in my lift sidebar.

Supplies:

Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Sunflower", "Floral Positive" (the vertical blue panel on the left side), and "I'm so glad . . ."

Dies: Spellbinders "A2 Matting Basics A" rectangle; MFT "Stitched Scallop Border Trio"

Challenges:
Cards Galore #66--anything goes
Crafting with an Attitude #54--anything goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper--anything goes with patterned paper
Creatalicious Challenge #169--anything goes with the optional twist: add some sparkle
Crafty Calendar--anything goes
Stamplorations Theme and Sketch Challenge--anything goes

Creative Fingers #169--anything goes
Cupcake Inspirations #476--glitter (stickles=glitter glue)

Word Art Wednesday #400--anything goes with uplifting sentiment
Crafty Creations #376--anything goes
Alphabet Challenge--K is for kind thoughts
Sketch Saturday #157--sketch