Sunflower with a Button

Close up of embossing and that beautiful button.

This is my third and last card for the sketch challenge at I Spy Sketches and my second card for the button challenge at Young Crafter's Unite. I cut a strip of green cardstock and embossed it with a Fiskars Embossing plate and stylus. Next I punched the sunflower with an EK Success punch and adhered a piece of yellow cardstock behind it. I found this beautiful button to add to the center of the flower which I adhered with Elmer's Craft Bond glue spots.  I cut the stem and leaves from the green cardstock, added a piece of scrap white behind it and colored in the stem with colored pencils. This added depth. I finished the strip with a piece of raffia and adhered the strip to the card base.  On the outside edges of the card, I used a green marker to add a border. I had fun with both the sketch and the button challenge....thanks for the inspiration!

Sailboat, Sailboat, Sailboat

Here's my second card for the sketch challenge at I Spy Sketches.  Therese Clavird provided a wonderful sketch that I can't seem to walk away from!  For this card, I used scrap pieces of cardstock to hand cut three sailboats.  I mounted them on Kraft cardstock and cut waves from additional pieces of scrap.  I used a Bic Marker to add details to the sails and mounted all three sailboats on Core'dinations Pure Chocolate Cardstock.  I tie on some raffia and mounted the strip onto a white card base.

Cattails

I have fond memories of fields with cattails and red-winged blackbirds from my childhood. These memories and the sketch at I Spy Sketches prompted me to create this card. I began by using a white card base and a white strip of cardstock and chalked the sky with blue.  To create clouds, I used an eraser to remove some of the blue chalk. Using the Stampin' Up's Nature stamp and green ink I stamped the grasses.  I added in the cattail detail with Bic Markers and colored pencils.  I also added in some blackbirds with the same markers.  I attached the cattail strip to a piece of Core'dinations Pure Chocolate cardstock and added a horizontal strip.  I adhered this to the cloud covered card base after I  added mountains created from a piece of green scrap that I inked and crinkled.    This was an interesting sketch to work with and I found myself thinking about other possibilities.  

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