Sunflower Cards

At least I used my Cricut on these!  Elegant Edges provided the base for the stamped images.  The sunflowers are clip art.

When I cut clip art images out by hand and don't want any white edges showing around the image, I take a marker that matches the colors in the image, or a black marker if the image outline is black, and trace around the image before I cut it out.  That gives you a little "cheat" room around the outside and makes it easier to cut them out.

The stamps I used are from the SU Define Your Life set.  they've decided to retire this set so I'm sure glad I got a set before the new catalog comes out!

 The leaves were done with a Martha Stewart punch.

Summer card

I printed and cut out some free digital flower images, added some baby buttons and ribbon onto an embossed background.

Digital Sunflower Images

Scrappers Emporium offered these free digital sunflowers today.  They have 3 different colors, yellow, lilac and a bright blue.  I just downloaded them and used my Hallmark software to print them out.  The original plan was to use them printed onto my white cardstock and add either some cut out, or stamped leaves and stems.

After a couple of trials, I cut the flowers out by hand and placed them over a stamped image.  The pop-dot behind the flower made a lot of difference in the appearance of the card.

The stamped leaves were colored with Promarkers, edges of the cut out pieces are inked and then I added some hot fix rounds for a little detail.  This card was inspired by one seen on Splitcoast Stampers.