All Occasion Sunflower Card

You know the phrase "Let your fingers do the walking."  Well, this is my version of  "Let the paper do the talking".  The front of this card is made from a sheet of paper in K&Company  Designer Mat Pad (Susan Winget's watercolors).
I trimmed the 4.75" x 6.75" paper to fit the 4" by 5.25" mat on my card.  Embellishments are a small silk sunflower with a splash of shear purple ribbon, and two butterflies that I cut from a second sheet of the same paper then covered them with glossy accents. I placed the butterflies on top of the same image on the paper using foam tape ti pop them out.  You can see the original image on the paper under the raised image.  [clear as mud right?]

Inside is a simple knotted ribbon and rub on hearts.

 I thought it would be either a nice thank you, thinking of you, get well or birthday card.
Thanks for stopping by.  Let me know what you think.

Hugs,
Sue

Handmade Roses

 I love flowers.  Paper, real, silk, photographs - you name it I love it when it comes to flowers.  I spend hours going through my garden books just admiring how God made so much beauty in such a small package know as an individual flower. 
One of my most cherished possessions is a glass dome filled with roses made from soap.  My sister gave it to me for my birthday many years ago.  Here are some pictures:

They are so realistic and smell just like American Beauty roses.  Which is nice, but the dome allows me to keep them, because the scents from most flowers send me into migraine headaches.  So, I don't grow many flowers or herbs for that matter.  But I still love them!

I've been experimenting with new techniques lately. I found a video that showed how to make paper roses with just a scallop punch, water, card stock and a brad.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjsOonwEtJQ&feature=related  Thank you Lisa.  Here are my creations, not anywhere close to as beautiful as the soap or those in real life, but I'm pretty happy with them:

 The baby is with a 1" scalloped circle punch.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek.

Sue