Gorgeous New Lemon Queen Sunflower Set

I'm thrilled to be a guest designer for Picket Fence Studios' July release!  This is a release full of fun and awesome products for fall and Halloween.  It's so hot where I am that I love thinking ahead to the cooler fall days!

This card is also part of an Instagram hop with Picket Fence!  There will be one winner chosen amongst the commenters to win a $75 gift card to their shop!!

My card today features the absolutely gorgeous Lemon Queen Sunflower stamp set!

I wanted to do no-line coloring of this beautiful stamp, and stamped it onto 80# Neenah with light colored ink.  It didn't take very long for me to realize that my no-line coloring skills need a little assistance with the flower's center!  My coloring experience hasn't reached that far to handle the awesome details of the center of the flower.

So I started over and, this time, I inked up the flower center with a medium brown ink cube.  I used a cloth to dab and soften the edges of the brown ink.  I used the light no-line ink for the petals.

This made coloring the flower's center much easier!  Here is a list of the Copic markers I used to color the flower:  V01,Y19, Y13, Y11, Y00; E59, E57, E49, E57, E25, E35; G85, G24, G43.

I used  B39 and B37 to color the space surrounding the flower in dark blues for a dramatic look!

After I finished with the Copic markers, I used some colored pencils to add more depth to the petals and details to the flower center.  I used these Prismacolor Pencils: Chestnut, Dark Brown, Sienna Brown, and Terra Cotta.

I wanted to feature the entire gorgeous flower on my card so I trimmed the finished piece to 5-¼" square and adhered it to a 5-½" card base.  FYI, there's a fabulous coordinating die that's available too!

I stamped the bee from the Lemon Queen Sunflower set with medium brown ink, colored it, and fussy cut it out.  I stamped the sentiment in the same medium brown ink.  Then I added foam tape to the sentiment and bee to pop them up onto the card.

Stay tuned, as I have two more cards to share with more new products from Picket Fence!  I'll be sharing them later this week, so be sure to subscribe to my blog by adding your email in the box to the left.

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