You are my sunshine

Hi everyone! It’s time for my fortnightly Design Team make for Visible Image.

After the wonderful, sunshine-filled summer I’ve enjoyed, I wanted to create a card that captured some of those happy summer memories. For this card, I chose the Sunflower Grunge stamp set.

to make this card.

I wanted to give the card a slightly retro, summery feel, so I used kraft card and my Prismacolor pencils. I repeat stamped the Sunflower head around the edge of the card in dark brown ink and clear heat embossed the images. I stamped a single sunflower with leaves in the centre. I also stamped the sentiment at the top (seen in later photos)

I selected my pencils

and then started adding the colour. 

I used the lightest yellows first and moved up through the shades then blended in some orange. 

I also added some white highlights. 

Once I had coloured all the flower heads  I added shades of green to the leaves using the same process. 

  I matted the finished card front onto a piece of yellow card and then a kraft card blank. I added some sequins as a finishing touch.

Here is it again

with a close up

and 1 final shot. 

The finished card really does remind me of those oh-so-sunny summer days of 2026 – a little bit of sunshine captured on a card! 🌻☀️

Back soon… and, shhh, there’s a new release in the pipeline! 👀

Remember that I share share all my crafting on Instagram here too 

Also after 7 years...LOL... I have resurrected my Pinterest acount here and I will be adding all my latest makes to it!

Bye for now,

Jane x

The heat is on

Wow the temperatures have certainly hotted up here in the south east of England. Yesterday was 36c and today we could break the all time record of 38.5c....phew!

My garden flowers are loving all this heat and sunshine especially my sunflower..how aptly named.

The bold colours in my pots also reflect the heat of the summer

It registered 38c on my sunny patio when I got home yesterday from a visit to Bird World

I think this pig at Birdworld had the best idea of the day!

It is also wedding season; we have family one in August so I decided to make some new stock of wedding cards for Dotty's Teahouse where my cards are sold. Here is one of them. 

I used some glittery die cuts and a stamped sentiment. 

a little close up of the stamped Lili of the Valley sentiment which I accented with gold pen. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Addicted to stamps and More anything goes
Die cut Divas July anything goes
Crafting by designs 1/3 anything goes
Creative fingers 1/3 anything goes

Today is also rather special as it mine and my darling Hb's 38th Wedding anniversary. We will be celebrating and raising a glass of something bubbly.  We will find some shade as we celebrate. I will share the card I made for my Hb on Monday.

If you have this heat where you are keep cool.

Cheers!

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x