Summer Sunflowers Bee Themed Shaker Card: Scrap Your Stash Project

Hello, Friends! My dear husband recently asked me to identify my favorite flower. Now that is a poser, as I love flowers. But after a few minutes of thought, it came to me: Sunflowers! There’s just something about their sunny faces that lifts my heart. Naturally, this progression of thought led me to create this Summer Sunflowers Bee Themed Shaker Card. This 6″ x 6″ easel style card is one of my “Scrap Your Stash” projects. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it.

Summer Sunflowers Bee Themed Shaker Card: Mix and Match

I’ve been busy doing my summer studio clean up. Overflowing scrap bins provided a real treasure trove of inspiration and materials. First, I cleaned up my cardstock scrap bin, ,where I ran across several 3″ x 5″ and 4″ x 6″ scraps of yellow cardstock in various shades. Perfect for sunflowers! Die cut some layers, do a little shaping, add some fun buttons, and voila! Just like Cinderella, these scraps are ready to party!

TIP: Inks and sprays are a great way to make different shades of cardstock blend together. Stick with colors that are in the same hue family, but some lighter, some darker. Spray or ink the finished flower with mica spray (like Perfect Pearls or Tattered Angels Or Lindy’s Gang) and you end up with a lovely bunch of lifelike looking posies.

Summer Sunflowers Bee Themed Shaker Card: Shake it Up

Die cut a doily shape, then cut out the center with a circle die to make a sunflower shaped shaker frame. Back the doily with clear cardstock that is cut with a slightly large circle die. Then add a triple layer of foam strips to the backside for a beautiful shaker frame! Fill with honey hued sequins against a backdrop of bee papers for the perfect finishing touch. (Products are linked below.)

This lovely bow is tied with Champagne Chevron Twill Ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon.

Summer Sunflowers Bee Themed Shaker Card: A Peek Inside

I’ve combined papers from my scraps of Graphic 45’s Time to Flourish August papers with Scraps from Craft Consortium’s Tell the Bees Collection. Then, just for fun, I threw in a little Prima Washi Tape from their Lavender Collection. It all works together quite nicely! And although I don’t consider myself to be a stamper, I did enjoy stamping these bee hive and bee images on a bit of scrap ivory cardstock. The lovely bumblebee is from ButterBee Scraps. (Linked below)

TIP: Create a quick and easy pocket by cutting the liner paper for the inside of your card a few inches longer than the base. Then simply score, fold and adhere to make a pocket. Dress it up with a pretty border from Time to Flourish.

Since I had enough sunflowers made, scraps cut, and all the mess was already on my desk, I went ahead and made a “twin” card. It’s almost like two cards for the time it takes to make one! Winning!

I have more “scrap your stash” projects in the works, so stay tuned. We all struggle with keeping our scraps from taking over the studio. My hope is that sharing a few ideas with you here every now and again will help you find creative ways to use up product before it takes over your world. How am I doing?

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Cheerio,

kathy

Summer Sunflowers Bee Themed Shaker Card SUPPLY LIST

Paper:

Graphic 45 Time to Flourish August Cut Apart Page (retired)
Craft Consortium “Tell the Bees”
Cardstock from my scrap bin

Dies:

Marisa Job Succulent/Mums Spellbinders Die
Spellbinders Standard Circle Small Dies
Spellbinder Ornamental Doily (retired)

Embellishments

Frilly and Funkie Floral Infatuation: Sunflowers Mini Album with G45 Time to Flourish

Hello, Friends! It’s time for another fabulous challenge over at the Frilly and Funkie Blog. Nancy is our hostess this time, and the theme is Floral Infatuation. Create any kind of vintage or shabby chic project where flowers are the focal point. With that in mind, I designed and created a Sunflowers Mini Album using Graphic 45’s Time to Flourish August papers. You’re invited to enjoy a tutorial and a video tour today. Let’s get started!

I adore sunflowers. This time of year, they are in full glory. Every time I see a field of these radiant blooms, my spirits are lifted and I am reminded to keep my face turned toward the sunshine and not the shadows. So I guess it was a natural for me to choose to make a sunflower mini album for this challenge.

Just look at this color palette: teal, yellow, gold, green…color me inspired! The album was created with a kraft cardstock base and decorated with the August papers from Graphic 45’s Time to Flourish Collection.

Golden Splendor

Time to Flourish was released with matching chipboard flowers,. It was fairly easy to alter these into bodacious sunflowers. Each blossom was carefully shaped, spritzed and inked.Teal and copper Czech bead were glued into the centers to mimic sunflower seeds. When everything looked “just right” I piled them onto the front of the sunflower mini album in a cluster of golden splendor.

Cover Story

Adding ivory burlap to the cover created an extra layer of texture. And I love the vintage metal findings from Graphic 45. To age them, I tapped them with Ranger Vintaj Patina and Moss.

Sunflowers here, there and everywhere!

Here is the first opening of the album. The side pocket contains a folder for photos., Pretty cut out images have been tucked into the belly band on the right hand side. A 4″ x 6″ photo can be mounted on the base, and more can be tucked under the belly band. Prima gold crackle accents were added with one of Tim’s mini stencils.

This square tag pulls out from the center pocket.

You can see that I filled the pockets of this sunflower mini album with all sorts of good things!

YouTube Video Tour of Sunflowers Mini Album

Because I find it hard to get a feel for the “flow” of a mini album through still photos, here’s a short YouTube video tour. It runs about 4 minutes.

How to Build the Base for the Sunflower Mini Album

You know how they say a picture is worth a thousand words? Well, I found that to be true when trying to write a step out tutorial for this album base. I finally gave in and built a second base while shooting a video.

That pretty much covers everything for me. Now it’s YOUR turn! Create your very own Floral Infatuation project and link it up on the Frilly and Funkie Challenge Blog before midnight EDT on Tuesday, September 6th.

The winner will earn the chance of a Guest DT spot at Frilly and Funkie, and everyone who enters and follows the rules will go into the draw for the chance to win a $25 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. And there are Top 3 Badges for three further outstanding entries, chosen by the Design Team.

I can’t wait to see what you make!

Thanks for stopping by!

Cheerio,

kathy

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