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Heartfelt Creations Rustic Sunflower Tutorial with Spellbinders Home Sweet Home

Hello, Friends!  Today I’m going to share a Heartfelt Creations Rustic Sunflower Tutorial with you.  Sunflowers are part of our “Sunflowers and Bees” theme for August.  Now I’ve been creating handmade flowers for over a decade, and sunflowers are probably my favorite ones to make. This tutorial will show  you how to use Distress Inks to color your cardstock as well as useful tips for stamping and die cutting.  You’ll learn how to shape the flower layers by hand, or with the Heartfelt Creations flower shaping mold.  Then finally, I’ll show you how to create the perfect flower centers.

There’s no card tutorial today….just flowers, but I had to show you how cute they look when added to a card.

Spellbinders Home Sweet Home Die

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August is a big birthday month for our family, and this is the card I  made for our precious daughter-in-law.  She and our son live in a pretty blue house with a white picket fence.  So when I had the opportunity to work with this Spellbinders Home Sweet Home Die, I  knew I would use it as the focal image on her birthday card.

One of the things I love about this die is the size of the finished house.  My card base measures 7 1/4″ x 5″, but it does not get lost on this large card.  Here are a few tips for bringing this house to life.

TIP: Fill the flower boxes with moss.  Then dot Dries Clear Adhesive randomly on the greenery and sprinkle with Prills to create realistic posies.

TIP:  Every home needs some landscaping at the front, so I used more moss to make some faux flowering bushes near the doorway.

TIP:  Die cut curtains and door from patterned paper scraps to add contrast and interest to the design.

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You can find a tutorial for this dimensional card base HERE on my YouTube channel.

Heartfelt Creations Rustic Sunflower Tutorial on YouTube

Would you like to see how I created these sunflowers?  Then please grab a cuppa and a snack and join me for this video tutorial HERE.

Next week will begin our September Wonderful Wednesday tutorials.  The them will be Autumn Acorns, Pumpkins and Leaves.  Sound good?

You can find a linked supply list below this post.

Thanks for stopping by!

Cheerio,

kathy

SUPPLY LIST

• Spellbinders Home Sweet Home Die
• Carta Bella Sunflower Summer
  • 12×12 Collection Kit
• Heartfelt Creations Rustic Sunflowers (retired)
  • Cling Stamps
  • Cutting Dies
  • Shaping Mold
• Groove Golf Tool Set
• Distress Inks: Scattered Straw, Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss, Crushed Olive, Warm Mustard, Squeezed Lemonade, Fossilized Amber, Tea Dye are good colors for petals and leaves
• Mica Spray: greens and yellows
• Seed beads (gold, copper, brown, black are all good)
• Prills (Gilt Trip, Power Outage, Go man Go, October Tango
• Chicken Buttons
• reindeer moss