version 4

I’m sure I’ll be making more sunflower cards in the future, but this is the last one for now.  I cut out 2 circles and snipped them into petals for this one.  It is kind of hard to tell from the picture, but one set of petals is on top of the next one.  When I finished this one, it looked really flat to me.  Then I got out my yellow marker and went to work on it!  I think it really brightened things up to color on the petals.  Not all of them, just streaks out to the tips.  If I do this again, I will definitely be coloring before I glue it to the card.  Talk about nerve wracking!

version 3

This is my 3rd go a the sunflower challenge.  I decided to tear the flowers instead of cutting anything.  The great part about the petal paper is that it is 2 colors, a light yellow on one side and a dark yellow on the other.  So when I tore out the outer petals, I got the ring of light yellow for free!  To me, this one looks just a tad bit flat, so I’m going to pull up the edges of the petals to give it a bit of dimension.

Version 2

Ok, so cutting out all those little petals was a bit of a hassle.  And I’m sure that no one wants to pay for 2 hours of my time so they can send someone a sunflower card.  So I went looking for ways to shorten the time it takes to make one, without loosing that cool torn paper use up all the scraps theme.   These flowers were my friend Renee’s idea.  Each one is a circle of paper that has notches cut into it for the petals.  Then the petals were rolled up around the center to give it a bit of dimension.  The sky isn’t so dark in this one, but I probably should have torn the paper up into smaller pieces.

First card

I took a class on making torn paper cards at the Mercantile, one of my fave places to go.  It is a great way to use up those little pieces of leftover paper from making cards.  You know how you always have little bits left from projects, and they are too big to throw away, and too small to use in a standard way?  This is a fun way to play with them.

I was kind of insane on my first one.  I cut out each petal flower individually, and glued them to the back of the center of the flower.  It took me 2 hours to make this one.  Over the next few days I’ll be posting 3 more on the same theme, so keep looking.