Club Scrap Blog Hop: Sunflowers

Welcome to our monthly Club Scrap blog hop.

The theme of this month's kit is:

Sunflowers.

Hope you arrived here from

 Jennifer's Blog

and left her some love for her wonderful project.

I have this scrap page for you and a box with cards.

Now let's start with the scrap page. I wanted to have pictures

with sunflowers, but now just a vase with flowers, no a real field.

Not here around the neighberhood and allready I asked a friend

 if I could borrow some of her beautiful pictures........when suddenly

I founf=d the one perfect sunflower growing on the dike of the 

lake behind our house, when i was hunting for pokémons with Owen.

Made some great pictures for my page.

The layout is one of the ALSB pages that you find instructions for 

on the Club Scrap site HERE.

These cut aparts were perfect for the page with Owen.

He just started school this week!

The ribbon and the button are from the kit too.

Next is my box with cards:

Inside this box are 4 cards and enveloppes.

It fits 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inch size cards.

Of course I  have some instructions for you.

Let's start with the box.

This box is called a criss-cross box and I just found some real

easy instructions for you, so please go HERE for all details on

how to make this box.

After cutting the papers for the box I used my Sunflower rubber

stamps to decorate the box

The box is finished with a border around it, that

came from the cut apart from the kit.

And the flower on top is made with a roset that is cut 

with a Tim Hotz die. A stamped flower and leaves also

cut with a die.

And these are the cards:

Such beautiful paper in this kit, ready for use,

so I only cut this card and stamped the sentiment

on top. Ready........!

No...! This is the inside. I just had to add a fun twist

inside of the card.When you open this you find

a cup with flowers. The cup is from the Brewed Awakenings

kit and stamped with versamark and copper embossing powder.

Decorated with the checkered rubber stamp from the 

Sunflower kit.

To make the pop up for the card I cut a 4,5 x 5,5

piece of ivory lettered paper, folded in half and on the

fold cut 1 inch towards the inside. The horizontal line

is folded and you get a stand to stick the cup on,

like you see here. Of course you can add more pop ups

if you like.

Here you see the complete constructions.

The flowers are from the rubber stamp sheet.

The leaves are cut with a die and with the left over

 paper I stenciled the leave on the background paper.

This card is the easiest one.

I just cut a panel from this beautiful paper,

stamped happy birthday, a ribbon and finished.

For this card I cut a tag, embossed it with

a script embossing folder and added brown ink.

The sunflower is stamped on a piece of  left over

script paper and colored with pencil.

Cut out and with dimentional tape on the

tag. Zig zag ribbon from the kit.

I used an old wooden stamp with script for the background

of the card. This stamp was from 2006, but not sure from which kit.

For this last card I have a little technique tutorial for you.

The technique is called: crayon resist.

First stamp with a permanent ink on white paper.

I used the sunflower bunch and the vintage script stamp.

Next take a white crayon and scribble on top

of the stamped images. I did some circles and dots.

Then i took 3 colors of distress stain with some drops of water added

 (but you can also take water color, or very diluted acryl paint) 

and color all over your panel. When you finished coloring,

you will see the white crayon resists the painting.

To finish the card I added a bottle cap with a piece of sunflower

inside as embellishement and a ribbon. A birthday sentiment too.

Well, it has turned into a long post again ( I planned on ding something simple,

but it seems I can't do that!), but I hope you have found some inspiration here and

if not, there is another blog to go and see what

Pam has come up with for you.

Go to:

Pam's Blog

and enjoy her projects.

If you loose your way, there is always the

Club Scrap blog

to find all the participants of the hop.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!