Florence Turnour's Blog

This frustrating pop out card took me three tries to excecute, and I'm still not entirely happy with it. I am moving on, though. I learned many things about designing these flip cards, and I'm going to try again now with a simple circle and my new Flourishes stamps. For today, here comes the sun! Here Comes the Sun I used a Spellbinder die for the sun, and some unlabeled tiny letter stamps, but I drew the clouds myself and cut them out on my Silhouette cutter. I'm submitting this one to the Simon Says Stamp! Anything Goes challenge . Have a sunny day! 

I know I live in a warm place, but it was particularly warm and sunny this weekend. I decided a big warm sun would be central to my entry in this week's JustRite Stampers Friday Challenge. The sun shape plays well into my doily obsession, which is still going strong. This week's challenge was to create and use your own stamped "designer paper." I masked and sponged liberally to create the layered look, and then created this fold-out card to make the doily hills really stand out. Summer Is Coming! To make the sun, I stamped a medallion from the JustRite's Kaleidoscope Medallions Set on yellow paper, and then added a very sun-like border from the Smile Set on top, aligned using my stamp alignment system for cheap people (picture of the "Stamp-a-ma-cross" in this post ).  I cut it out with Spellbinders' dies,  Classic Scalloped Circles for the stamped image, and Lacy Circles (from a lighter yellow paper) for the outer layer.  I sponged the two...