Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #34 Fred She Said Sunflower

Greetings everyone! Well, it is freezing here this morning in Georgia. I am not wearing shorts. This is one of only a few days out of the year you won't find me in my shorts...LOL The temperature is below freezing and we have had to run the water all night so the pipes don't freeze!!!

Today's card is for the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge. This digi image is from Fred She Said. I love Sunflowers....completely adore them. They are bright and sunny and put a smile on my face every time I see one.
To make the portion of the sketch that looks like a half flower, I used my spellbinders Sunflower Die and cut two of each size sunflowers and cut them up to create what you see here. I used the leaf die as well. The corner treatments are a sizzx die.
I glued some seed beads in the center of the Sunflower and used lots of glitter stickles on the flowers. The focal point and the Sunflowers are distressed with Rangers Tea Dye ink. You can see all my 3D layering on this as well.

Here is the inside of my card. I have a confession to make. For the first 6 months of this year...I did not finish off my cards on the inside...can you imagine??? I had to take one whole week this summer and finish them off. I said never again after trying to hunt papers to match for hours on end!!! So I make sure to finish the insides or I do not consider my card complete.

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Congratulations to our winners this week!!!!


Our Gold Star Winner for MMSC33 is:
#8 Christina C.


Our Remarkables are:
#1 Peggy Elms
#18 Gunn aka Mrs. Plum
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This Week's Sketch Challenge:

Don't forget to enter your name and link to your card in Mr. Linky at Priscillastyles. Thanks for stopping in today to visit. I hope to be back with more creations this week.

15 comments:

Chris Olsen, Glowbug said...

Oh Carol, this card is gorgeous inside and out!! I love your bright cheery colors, the sunflower, color combo and design. My fave part is your use of the sunflower Spellbinders die!! Fantastic take on the sketch!! This is one of my faves for sure. Do you need my address? LOL!

Happy New Year My friend!

hugs,
Chris

Christina C. said...

Oh, wow, your card is gorgeous. . . love all the dimension!! The inside of your card is as stunning as the outside. Hugs and a very happy New Year, Christina

Denise @ kc242 said...

Carol, Your card is absolutely stunning. I will have to get that sunflower die. It is so lovely also in the inside. Makes me want spring to be here now! Thanks so much for the inspiration! Wow!

Stampin Mindy said...

WOW This is absolutly stunning. I love the way you decorated the inside theres so much detail and dimension! DARLING!

Jeni C Slack (^0^) said...

Such a bright and dimensional card, Carol! I'm just falling in love with the bright yellow flowers. You always amaze me :) The inside is so equally beautiful! Hope your Mom feels better, Hugs ~Jeni

Karen~The Barely There Primitive Bear said...

I just popped over to say I like Albert...
I even thought of Archibald! It's a good
thing I don't have to come up with the
Boyd's bears names...Thanks for coming
by...Oh, I love the cards you make, what
imagination, beautiful!

Bear Hugs~Karen

Lovely Linda said...

Oh Carol (sounds like a song! LOL!) this is one gorgeous card! I L-O-V-E everything about it - what a lovely warm feel it has inside and out! You truly are the 'Queen of detail' Carol - you always embellish beautifully! I love the use of tall of the DieCuts - just gorgeous Carol! Thanks for sharing and for constantly inspiring - you are amazing! God bless you my friend - BFF!! Happy New Year to you and your family! {{{hugs}}}

Winnie and Patty said...

Carol, this card made me smile when I saw the sunflowers too. It's a great card. And I can't believe you went back and finished off the inside of all your cards! I feel like I've really accomplished something just making the front of the card! LOL. Looking forward to helping out for the next VSN. It will be loads of fun I'm sure. TTYL

Jane, at Thepaperaffair said...

This really is an exceptional card, I love the colors and EVERY thing about it, great craftmanship (or womanship?). Yep, know about not finishing the inside of the card, LOL. I strive to do the inside at the same time else I lose the papers I had used before!

Gunn (MsPlum) said...

Happy New Year Carol!

Your card does have such a wonderful summerfeel over it. I love how you have taken the design on the outside to follow through to the inside. The sunflower image is just great!

Mvh
Gunn (MsPlum)

cabio's craft corner said...

What a lovely card Carol. So smart of you putting the same patels of the type of flower on the image. Love that rich colors for this pretty card :o)
Thanks for your support during my GT at MMSC and it's a pleasure being part of this team :o)
Hugs,
Cabio

Jaspere said...

Wow! This is gorgeous and oh so creative.

Rebecca Ednie said...

I sure hope you read these. I know it isn't posted yet, but I love the cupcake stamp you used for MMSC 35. Who makes it? Thanks in advance!!

Rebeccacell at gmail dot com

Priscilla said...

Ok your killing me with these OVER THE TOP cards.. Just brightly brillant that is all. I think you are just showing off now..LOL

Mary said...

wow is all I can say!!!! Your work is amazing!