Pink Quilled Mini Sunflower Bouquet Card

After the rain comes the sun! Literally two storms in the last two weeks. As with weather, life changes and you'll have the good and the bad. Eventually the sun always comes out. It's important to remember the things you are grateful for when things aren't so great. With Thanksgiving already fast approaching, it has never been a better time to remind yourself of what's most important to you in life so happiness is never far away. I hope you all enjoy your family time next week. :)

This card was made for my supervisor's birthday at work. She is a valued team member who received little appreciation in the past. In addition to the card, we threw her a mini frozen yogurt party last week.

The card is a bouquet consisting of punched leaves, a quilled mini sunflower, 2 mini quilled flowers with quilled centers, and a paper vase which I regretfully did not make darker for contrast. They sit on a dry embossed background with yellow ink dusted on.

Pink vellum creates and extra layer for writing on the inside.

Sentiment is stamped on the vellum.

My supervisor commented on the plain envelope I gave out last time, so I decorated it for her. She mentioned that she keeps all cards and envelopes. This makes me feel less wasteful if I dress it up a bit. 

Enjoy your Tuesdays!

Entered in:
-Tuesday Alchemy #40 Anything Goes
-365 Cards Day 257 Blank Slate
-MIM #115 Anything Goes
-CMC#7 Embossing
-Through the Craft Room Door #44 Anything Goes
-Papertake Weekly Flower Power
-Craft Room Punches and Die-cuts

Love of My Life Quilled Card

It was a beautiful 58 degrees on Saturday which is really rare in New York City. I took the opportunity to go for a long walk at the park. What did you do this weekend? I wish all winters were this warm--then we'd all be in lovely moods all the time! I even saw daffodils growing in yards already!

This week there is another Etsy workshop on drawing in Brooklyn. I am pretty excited! It was a lot of fun last time and this time I am looking forward to learning something new!

Today I want to introduce my window card. I have a lot of pictures for this card because I was getting really excited about the details of it!

The way this card is, you really need to be careful where you write the message on the inside otherwise it will show through (I have done that before, oops!). To help you make sure you don't do that, all you need to do is write your message on the space around the vellum paper (see last image for interior of card to see what I mean).

I added extra puffed ink to make the swirls pop at the tips. It is an extremely raised background!

I will be entering this card for Day 3 - Pretty In Pink at 365 Cards and Sketch 155 at Card Patterns.

Etsy