When I was digging out the dies for the pink card in my previous post I seen my sunflower die that I've had for ages but haven't played with much. And I had the perfect stamp for a card inside so I brought the 2 together...
(The text is from a set from Red Rubber Designs.) I love how this turned out and I think our granddaughter will like it. I swiped ink on the die cuts after embossing for a bit of pop. I did make a boo boo, at least to me. Can you figure it out? Maybe this next picture will help.
I got my 2 bottom layers switched!!! I didn't even notice it until I glued on the top layer! Geez. Oh well, I know my granddaughter won't notice but it bugs me. Since the glue had set up like it should and I had the flower center already on, well, too late! But now I'll show you the inside. I bet you'll think the stamp inside is perfect, too!
I knew I had this stamp and it took awhile to find the set it was in but I prevailed! And since I couldn't get 3 leaves on the cover the third was great inside! Oh, I did faintly stamp sunflowers on the card cover base before adding the die cuts. I'm learning how to use my Big Shot. It's actually a bit easier to use than my Wizard but I do have a bunch of the deep Sizzix dies and the Wizard uses those very easily. I haven't figure out how to use them in the Big Shot and I probably won't even try. As to sunflowers, we're thinking of taking out a patch of Aloe Vera plants that are looking really bad and fixing the spot to grow sunflowers. I miss the bright plants and I think the birds will love them (along with the lizards, spiders, and whatever when they get growing). I hope to get this done for next year.
But, before I close I want to show you my desk while it's clean. I gave 2 BIG bags of paper scraps to the scrapbook store for a gal to take to Mexico to children there. I found a couple drawers of scraps from before we moved to AZ and figured, I didn't miss them to give them away. Then I emptied a basket of scraps into 8 small drawers by color, put my in sue scraps in the basket and again "found" my Cricut. I wanted to play with it as I just purchased a new cartridge called Southwest. Are you ready?
For me this is almost immaculate! I still need to do something with the stuff behind my lamp but it's coming along!!
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