SSS Believe in You release

Hey everyone!  Simon Says Stamp has a new release happening today called Believe in You and I have a couple of cards to share that I made with one of the items from the release.   SSS was kind enough to send me the beautiful Sunflower Stem die to create with.  First up is a card that I am super excited to share.  As I was looking at the die and trying to figure out what to make it occurred to me that I could try to create a little bouquet of sunflowers like the kind you see at farmer's markets all over the country.  I die cut three sunflowers from Canson watercolor cardstock and then watercolored all three of them with my Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors and let them dry.  After they were dry I added washi tape to the back of each one so that the insides wouldn't fall out.  I also cut the sunflowers from scrap cardstock to adhere to each stem to make it a bit sturdier.  I rustled up some white tissue paper to create my wrap.  I arranged the stems on the tissue paper, wrapped them up and tied the bouquet with some rustic twine and a little kraft tag that I stamped the sentiment from Delicate Flowers on.  I used a Nuvo Aqua flow pen in a shade of blue to watercolor a background.  After letting the background dry I splattered on black paint.   I trimmed down the panel and adhered it to a kraft cardstock base.  I then added some splatters of black paint to the flowers.  Affiliate links listed below where available.

The second card is very simple.  I die cut the flower from green cardstock twice and yellow cardstock one.  I removed all the interior pieces from the flowers and adhered the two green ones together.  I trimmed the large flower and the bud from the yellow die cut and adhered them to the green one.  Some white cardstock was trimmed down and stamped with a sentiment from the SSS Hello Darling stamp set in black ink and the open letters colored with a light yellow Polychromos color pencil.   The flower was adhered and then I added black Nuvo Crystal drops to the center of the flower.  I love the simplicity of this card.   You can shop for all the new products here.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Supply List:

Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp
Dies:  Simon Says Stamp
Ink:  VersaFine Onyx Black
Cardstock:  PaperTrey Ink, Stampin Up!
Watercolor paper:  Canson
Watercolor medium:  Kuretake Gansai Tambi; Nuvo Aquaflow Azure Blue
Glue:  Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive
Embellishments:  Nuvo Ebony Black