August Beautiful Blossoms Challenge: Be Joyful

 Welcome back to another Beautiful Blossoms monthly challenge!! Are you having fun and getting inspired? I know I am!

This month's photo inspiration is so cheery! I love sunflowers! I also love the color of blue this vase has. So pretty!

I chose to use the sunflower colors as my inspiration and play off those cheery yellows they have.

I chose to use a stamp from Flourishes, a company that went out of business years ago, and colored it in with Copics. I matted that over some Kraft Cardstock and rounded the Kraft paper's corners. I paired my image with some yellow design paper (I cannot seem to find it anywhere or I'd name it), and used a corner punch to clip the corners into a decorative design. I added some peachy orange grosgrain ribbon and bow, and then added a sentiment from Simple Stories.

I rather like how it turned out. Clean, simple, and cute. Just the way I like them. I like my cards with minimal fuss so the images can take center stage. But every now and then, I'll fancy it up for fun.

Thank you for stopping by and I'll see you here for next month's Beautiful Blossoms Challenge photo!

Spring's Coming!

Spring's coming! I just called my mom and she told me that the weather forecast has called for SNOW this weekend! But out here in California, the blossoms on the trees have fallen off and fruit is starting to appear. One of my favorite thing to do is pick fruits and berries in the spring. This year I look forward to cherry, strawberry and raspberry picking. So I pulled out my Flourishes Berry Sweet set to celebrate the coming fruit season.

I used Berry Sweet stamping it out and coloring it in with the Poppy, Sweet Pea and Olive Green Copic Collections, then fussy cut it out, popping it up on popdots. I placed my image on a diecut that I stamped   Love and Lace in Stampin Up Sage Shadow, then I matted everything with a Spellbinder Romantic Rectangle. After I matted it, I tied an Ivory May Arts bow, that I added an Ivory Button and Metallic String to finish my card.

I have to admit, fall is my favorite time of the year, but spring is my close second! There's something about all those blossoms and the anticipation of the coming fruit! :)