Sunday 1 September 2019

Stamping Sensations for September

Good morning, It's time for our September challenge at Stamping Sensations and this month we are looking for


 ****Anything goes with flowers****
 As the title suggest we would love to see your hand-stamped creations that include flowers. I am sure you will come up with lots of fabulous and colourful designs. 
My card's focal image is a gorgeous sunflower from our wonderful sponsors this month, Bee Crafty, in fact all of the stamps used were created by them. The background was made by blending and stamping distress oxide inks and the flowers were coloured with watercolour markers. The flowers on the left were fussy cut and stuck on with 3d glue. I finished it off with some liquid pearls.

Even though it is an easy theme, we need you to play by the rules:
Please can I remind you we are a stamping challenge so must see a stamped image which reflects the theme as the focal element of your artwork , this means:
Stamping must be the central point of attention and interest
  There is a fabulous £25 store voucher for our lucky winner. There are some wonderful stamps and stencils on the Bee Crafty website.
I had more colouring inspiration whilst on holiday, visiting Helmsley Walled garden, where they had a fabulous collection of sunflowers. I'm afraid I took rather a lot of photos of them!













Lol, sorry about that! I'm feeling very 'sunny' as tomorrow is my first official day of retirement!
Do pop over to the challenge blog and take a look at the fabulous creations from my talented team mates!

Thanks for looking!

14 comments:

brenda said...

What a beautiful post Sally, never tire of seeing Sunflowers, they always remind me of our first overseas holiday when the children were small camping in a field in France surrounded by them.

And your card is a lovely riot of colour, the purple works well with the yellows and oranges.

B x

Dora said...

Beautiful card and very colourful. I like it. Also I like your pictures.

Faith A at Daffodil Cards said...

LOVE the vibrant and beautiful card Sally, I didn't realise there were so many varieties of sunflowers. Gorgeous photos of these happy flowers.
Faith x

Pat said...

How gorgeous is this Sally, and love these quite stylised flowers by Bee Crafty which you have use and the background and colouring of them is so bright and pretty, and some fabulous accompanying photos of sunflowers too. x

cuilliesocks said...

Absolutely gorgeous card Sally, love the colours too.
Never knew there was so many different sorts of Sunflowers, the are so beautiful, Kate x

Mrs.B said...

A great card Sally, it has a happy feel to it.
Loved seeing the photos of the sunflowers, beautiful.
Avril x

Marlies said...

Lots of sunflowers here Sally, lovely photo's. Your card is beautiful, so bright and cheerful, it has a lovely "happy"look. Marlies x

Kathleen said...

A really super card, love all the images and your colour choices, a stunning background too.
Some great photos of some gorgeous flowers.

Kath x

Sue's Crafty Corner said...

A beautiful card Sally, the stamp you used is gorgeous as are the photos of your flowers.

Sue xx

meg said...

we have sunflowers growing near our bird tables, love it when they open and their beauty is seen, brilliant card love the colours and variety of flowers

Viv said...

Loved this post Sally! A wonderful card - and those sunflowers are A-Maz-ing! (Red ones get my vote!!) x

Cath Wilson said...

I would never have dreamed there could be so many different varieties of sunflower. They're beautiful! Lovely images.
Cath x

crafty-stamper said...

Love all the stamped flowers and bright colours-love all the sunflowers and enjoy your retirement
Carol x

Sandma's Handmade Cards said...

Absolutely gorgeous card Sally and what fabulous Sunflowers. The red one is really unusual. I have to say that just looking at them makes me feel happy x