Sunflowers, sales, and showers of blessing!

Biblical Impressions has a monthly challenge called "What would you create?". They choose a few of their designs and the challenge is to feature those images on your cards, which they collect in a gallery. There is a little incentive for submitting, too! This month's challenge is to use the sunflower stamps. I only have one of them...so I pulled it out to play this week.

I've done the first card design before, but I used a TAC woodgrain stamp on the fence, so I redid it again with only BI stamps. I used a cloud stencil on the sky before assembling the scene... The flowers were stamped on scrap paper and cut out. The shading is done with Prismacolor pencils. Center flower is 'popped' a little with mounting tape. I used 6 tag punchies for the fence, and how could we have a garden scene without the brad ladybugs? Hmmm?

Card #2 went a completely different direction! Hello! The background paper is a single sheet (2 patterns on it) from the Fruity Fusion paper set from TAC. Woo, bright! I'm not sure where this card came from...though sometimes I do make bright cards to cheer myself up. :) I cut the sunflower image around the front petals this time, and watercolored the bright pink with my Derwents and a waterbrush. I stamped the center on another piece with Citrus Yellow chalk ink, shaded it a little with pencils, cut it out and mounted it on the flower. The stem is one of BI's plaid lines (which - did you know - I designed!). I stamped Celebrate on a scrap piece, and trimmed the ends using my scalloped square punch. Couple eyelets, little ribbon, done!

Speaking of BI, their monthly special is none other than my alphabet set! Yep, I designed that too (aww, warm fuzzies that it is their favorite!!). It's regularly $17.50 but is on sale this month for only $9.50. Such a deal. :)

Hey, while I am rambling...I got an email from my mom about the supplies that have been sent for her to bring over for my ladies' craft project in June - she has 35 spools of ribbon and a 2-1/2" stack of patterned paper - and there are still 4 or 5 packages en route that I know of! Wow! God is good, and you all are sooooooooooooo generous! Thank you so much - I know the ladies that have signed up for the craft (which is about 40 right now) will be so blessed, and we are gonna have some fun together! Can't wait!