Celebrate Sunflowers for PP540

I really should have been doing other things this afternoon but the colour challenge at The Paper Players was just too tempting!

One of the things I like about going through my shelves to move retired items to a different zone is that it reminds me of lovely sets that I've got. Celebrate Sunflowers is one of these and I gave myself a mental kick for not having used it more - which led to putting it out on the desk so I couldn't forget it again!

Using it for a red, black and grey challenge wasn't the obvious choice but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. 

I started by stamping the sunflower in Tuxedo Black and colouring it with Stampin' Blends in Cherry Cobbler and Gray Granite. I fussy cut it out and sponged the edges.

I white-embossed the image again on Basic Gray card, added some die-cut leaves and popped the Cherry Cobbler sunflower up on dimensionals.

Originally, I'd been going to use 'Wishing you brighter days ahead' as the sentiment but the more I worked on the card, the more celebratory it became - at least in my mind. 😀

So I took the 'Let's celebrate you' sentiment from the set and masked it down to 'Let's celebrate'. I felt that way it could be for a birthday, an anniversary, an engagement or just because.

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Update: Delighted to be a Cut Above at The Paper Players.

Celebrate Sunflowers Cling Stamp Set (English)

[152517]

$50.00

Sunflowers Dies

[152704]

$69.00

Basic Gray A4 Card Stock

[121689]

$18.50

Basic White A4 Cardstock

[159228]

$20.50

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

[121688]

$18.50

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

$12.00

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$20.00

Basics Embossing Powders

[155554]

$38.00

Cherry Cobbler Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

[154880]

$19.00

Gray Granite Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

[154886]

$19.00

Heat Tool

[129056]

$60.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$7.25