Beautiful Sunflower Card Tutorial 🌻 With Video

Today we’re making a stunning sunflower card using embossing folders, sponge daubers, and ink blending. This technique creates a bold, textured look that really makes the sunflowers pop.

Measurements

• Card Base: Secret Sea – 4 ¼" x 11", scored at 5 ½"

• Layer 1: Crushed Curry – 4 ⅛" x 5 ⅜"

• Layer 2: Basic White – 4" x 5 ¼" (x2)

• Accent Strip: Basic White – 1" x 4"

• Sentiment Strip: Secret Sea – ¾" x 3"

Instructions

Step 1: Adhere the Crushed Curry layer to the Secret Sea card base.

Step 2: Emboss one of the 4" x 5 ¼" Basic White pieces with the Sunflower 3D embossing folder.

Step 3: On the debossed side, lightly drag the Secret Sea ink pad across the surface. Repeat in the opposite direction with Pecan Pie ink. Use a light hand so the texture shows through.

Step 4: Color with sponge daubers:

• Petals → Crushed Curry

• Leaves → Mossy Meadow

• Flower centers → Crumb Cake + Early Espresso

Step 5: Repeat this same process on the 1" x 4" Basic White strip.

Step 6: Adhere the decorated strip to the second 4" x 5 ¼" Basic White layer for the inside of your card.

Step 7: Stamp your greeting onto the ¾" x 3" Secret Sea strip with Versamark ink. Heat emboss with white embossing powder.

Step 8: Die cut the sentiment using Stylish Shapes banner die and adhere to the card front.

Step 9: Finish by scattering a few 2025–2027 In Color Flat Pearls across the card front.

Here are some other samples I have for you using the same technique.

This card was colored with Stampin' Blends, instead of sponge daubers. Background was drug with Secret Sea, the petals are Dark Darling Duckling, dark and light Daffodil Delight, the leaves are dark and light Old Olive and the centers are dark and light Crumb Cake, light Pumpkin Pie, light Pecan Pie and dark Cajun Craze.

 

For the purple card the background was drug with Crumb Cake and Early Espresso, the flowers are Highland Heather and Crushed Curry, the centers are Crushed Curry and Crumb Cake and the leaves are Mossy Meadow

This card was done using the same technique, just with the Jolly Holly Hybrid embossing folder. The background was drug with Mossy Meadow ink, the holly was colored with light and dark Old Olive Blends and the berries were colored with the light and dark Cherry Cobbler Blends.

Envelope Decoration ✉️

Stamp three sunflowers from the Darling Dino set onto the envelope. Color them with:

• Daffodil Delight (petals)

• Crumb Cake (centers)

• Mossy Meadow (leaves)

This extra touch ties the project together beautifully!

✨ This sunflower card is full of texture and color, perfect for brightening someone’s day.

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You can watch My Video where I show you how easy this card is to put together.

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Sunflower 3D Embossing Folder

Hello stamping friends. I am back today with WOW card. This is my first time using the Sunflower 3D Embossing Folder and I love how it turned out. I started out with a layer of basic white and embossed it with the Sunflower 3D folder. I drug Secret Sea very lightly over the debossed side of the basic white. I then used my blends to color the flowers and leaves. I am hooked and now need to try other color combinations. The measurements are simple, Secret Sea 8½ x 5½ scored at 4¼ and a basic white layer that measures 4 x 5¼ times 2 (one for the inside). I also embossed a strip of basic white 1 x 4 and drug the Secret Sea on the embossed side for the inside.

The colors of the blends used on the flowers are:

Petals: Dark Darling Duckling, Dark Daffodil Delight, Light Daffodil

Leaves: Dark Old Olive, Light Old Olive

Centers: Dark Crumb Cake, Light Crumb Cake, Light Pumpkin Pie, Light Pecan Pie, and Dark Cajun Craze (I might leave the Cajun Craze off my next card)

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Painted Harvest Thanksgiving

Hello, welcome back to my blog.  My share with you today is a card I made for Thanksgiving, but never shared.  I'm trying real hard to get better at blogging and sharing my creations.  I started off with a card base of Old Olive, added a strip of dsp from the Daisy Delight package across the middle.  A layer of Early Espresso was added and then a layer from the Wood Textures dsp stack.  I stamped the full image of the sunflower in Crushed Curry and the more detailed image in Cajun Craze.  I then turned my full image stamp and stamped another layer of Crushed Curry.  I saw Patty Bennett do this and think it adds so much to the flower.  This piece was then cut with the Stitched Shape Framelits and layered onto Old Olive, which was then adhered to the card front at the top of the wood textures layer.  The greeting comes from the stamp set At Home With You stamped in Early Espresso and cut with the banner from the Large Letters framelits.  A little Crushed Curry was sponged on the edges of the banner and then it was adhered to the bottom of the wood textures layer with dimensionals.  That's if for today, thank you so much for stopping by.

Measurements:
Old Olive: 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 scored at 4 1/4 and folded in half for card base, 2 3/4 x 2 3/4
Delightful Daisy dsp: 2 x 4 1/4
Early Espresso: 3 1/2 x 4 1/2
Wood Textures dsp: 3 1/4 x 4
Whisper White: 2 5/8 x 2 5/8

Supplies List: 

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Painted Harvest

Hello, thanks for stopping by.  It's been awhile since I posted so I appreciate you hanging in there with me.  My share today is with the new Painted Harvest stamp set found in the Stampin' UP! holiday catalog on page 49.  I absolutely love this set.  It makes gorgeous flowers with very little effort.  For this card I stuck with the "traditional" fall colors.  I do classes with a fellow demonstrator and we just hosted a Christmas/Fall workshop.  This was my fall contribution.

Measurements:

Very Vanilla: 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 folded in half at 4-1/4 for the card base, 4 x 5-1/4

Early Espresso: 1-1/4 x 4

Painted Autumn design paper: 1 x 4

Crushed Curry mini chevron ribbon: 5" and then about 3" for the knot

Instructions:

• Using Crushed Curry ink and the largest flower image, stamp randomly on Very Vanilla layer 3 times
• using the smaller flower and Cajun Craze ink stamp over the large flowers
• the flower center is stamped with Soft Suede, stamped off then onto card layer
• little dots are stamped with Early Espresso ink in the center of the flowers
• with Lemon Lime Twist ink randomly stamp the solid leaf image
• with Garden Green stamp the detailed leaf image over the solid images
• stamp greeting with Early Espresso, adhere layer to card base
• adhere dsp (design series paper) to the Early Espresso strip
• wrap 5" piece of ribbon around dsp and adhere to the back, then adhere to card front
• tie a knot around your ribbon using the 3" piece of ribbon
stamp leaves on inside of card - see below

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