Hi there, For today I have a couple of super easy cards made using a beautiful sunflower themed stamp set from Lovely Legs Seasons Girl Collection by Colorado Crafts.
Lovely Legs~Summer Season-Sunflowers stamp set is an 11 pieces stamp set that will allow you to create cards for different occasions.
SUNFLOWER STAMP SET
What I love the most about any of the Lovely Legs Collection stamps is that they are very easy to use as there provide you with a full scene that will cover the front panel of a C6 card ( 4-1/4″x5-1/2″ inches). No masking needed.
The artwork is very original and it is just sweet and beautiful and the images are very easy to color.
You can use any coloring medium you might have and you can apply different skin tones to personalize your artwork even more.
Yo apply a very relaxing layer of coloUr, I used Copic markers ( alcohol markers).
BASIC COLORING TIPS
I have a very simple method to color anything and this would work in the same way with any translucent, semi-opaque, and blendable coloring medium.
- Chose three or four colours to blend: a dark shade, a medium shade, and a light shade of the same colour.
- Start by applying the darker shade where I want to have darker areas and soften the color in the opposite direction.
- Translucent mediums can be reapplied as needed or until achieve color wanted.
You can do relaxed and mindless coloring too.
In my pictures, you could see that to colour the grass I just did some doodles. For the fences, I applied random strokes with the markers in a linear direction and I used two different shades of marker to create lighter and darker lines.
So this was easy and quick
sUNFLOWER CARDS
I used Neenah solar Crest 110 lb ( cardstock).
As I used alcohol markers I stamped the images using Memento Black Ink. This is one of my favorite inks to use with alcohol markers.
To achieve crisply stamped images, I used a stamping platform. Using a Nuvo Midas Touch and by adding a couple of clear sequins to each card, I also added a little bit of sparkle.
Last but not least, I also want to invite you to check another Lovely leg and Colorado crafts here!
- Cards for mothers – Lovely Legs
- Encouragement Card – Big & Bold Crown
- Sending Thoughts and Birthday – Big & Bold butterflies – video post
- Watercoloured Birthday Card – Big and Bold Perfume Bouquet
- More Birthday Cards – Lovely Legs
That’s all for today.
Sending Hugs and Happy Crafting
x
Bibi
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Beautiful! Your coloring is amazing. My favorite summer flowers are lilacs early summer and then sunflowers! Thanks for sharing!!! Great
You had me at “no masking”! LOL. My young nephew has a green thumb is all about yellow marigold flowers, so it’s become my fave summer flower. I heart this stamp set. TFS different ways to color the image. Have a lovely day!
Gorgeous cards. Love the touch of blue. Sunflowers are my favorite summer flower. They are so bright and beautiful, they always make !e smile.
I absolutely love your post. My favorite summer flower is a daffodil. But I also love the scent of lilies. And sunflowers, Roses, and buttercups….
Love this design, and your coloring is wonderful. Thank you for the tips. 🙂
Hi Bibi. Just discovered your blog on the Colorado Stamp site. You’re work is amazing. Now subscribed to your blog. Today I’m playing “catch up” with past blogs. These sunflower cards just make me smile big. tfs-stay well.
Hi Bibi…just discovered your blog through the Colorado Stamps post. Your craft work is amazing. Now subscribed to your blog and “playing catch up” today with your earlier posts. Today’s sunflower just make me smile big. tfs-stay well
Such a lovely card and sentiment. Thank you for the tips about your coloring which is always so realistic. This is a cool stamp set and I like all the occasion options. I have so many favorites of flowers, but I too love Lilacs not only for their beautiful colors, but their fragrance. A new favorite since moving to Florida is the Dragon Fruit Flower. It’s massive and only blooms at night.
LOVE your wicked coloring skills on the sunflowers! I remember seeing miles of fields of them in late summer in eastern Colorado. So striking. Since then, they’ve been my favorite summer flower.
I am very happy to have found your blog. Growing up my favourite flowers were snapdragons because I enjoyed opening and closing their “mouths”. I never developed a green thumb and as a result my favourite flowers are ones that lead to fruit.
Favorite flower has to be the giant dahlia. My uncle used to grow them and my aunt would cut them and put them in their house. Great memories!!
Love your cards. So beautiful coloring. My favorite flowers are peonies. They grow everywhere in my parents garden and remind me of my childhood.
Love the flowers and the colors are beautifully done. My favorite summer flower is peonies. It was hard to just choose one.
I really love CCC legs stamps!!! I have several of the sets. Love your coloring, too, Bibi! I love the rich colors that you use! My favorite early summer flower is lilac! I love the scent the wafts outside of my windows. My mid to late summer favorite flower is Moss Rose! It can create a blanket of color in your flower garden!
Hello Sunshine (Bibi), Beautiful artwork as are all your images. Now that I am subscribed I can enjoy your work more often. My husband is an avid gardener with gorgeous flowers that fill our yard and they are vast and beautiful. I think for scent, I love the Lillies of the Valley but for looks, nothing beats the Lillies in Color, yellow, pink, coral, fuchsia, and orange. They really put on a parade of color. We do grow Sunflowers as well and the best part of them is the fun in watching them grow, we get some that are 7 and 9 feet tall! Isn’t nature a glorious wonder!
Beautiful cards ! I also love this quote very much. I love aaaaalll flowers ! White hydrangeas are gorgeous, and I also love white lilies. But the flowers I prefer are sunflowers, as it reminds me of Vincent Van Gogh …
Lovely! My favorite summer flower is the hyacinth.
These cards are so beautiful, wonderful coloring! Thank you for sharing your coloring tips with us! 🙂
Sunflowers are my favorite flowers and theme to my kitchen. I’m glad I got to go to Scotland last year before the pandemic to visit my sister and her 2 boys. Such a long trip from the U.S., glad we have families to visit so we don’t have to rush back for another long trip home. Thank you for your inspiration!
I love this fun and summery set. Your coloring is awesome and I am so jealous you live in Scotland. I want to visit so much. My ancestors came from the Highlands and I would love to see the country. My husbands’ family is also from there. Plus I wouldn’t mind catching a glimpse of “Jamie”!! My favorite summertime flowers have got to be gardenias and hibiscus. The gardenia smells heavenly and the hibiscus is gorgeous to look at!!
lol Lisa you made me giggle. I also enjoy Outlander. This is a very beautiful place there is wonder everywhere. Thanks for stopping by
Love sunflowers, but my favorite summer flower is foxglove. Love the bell shapes and spots. Enjoy watching bumble bees snuggle inside.
I love your coloring tips!! Thanks for sharing them! My favorite summer flowers are sunflowers and daisies.
Beautiful coloring! My favorite summer flower is Portulaca because you get different colored blooms on the same plant! It is also a memory of my Granny who has been gone nearly fifty years now.
So sweet. What a delight to color! I’m a color pencil fanatic and would use those. My favorite summer flower strangely enough is the sunflower – so bright, so bold, so in your face, and the seeds are great for the birds and me, too! Thanks for sharing your talent, Bibi.
These are just beautiful! I love the way you colored the images!
My favorite summer flowers are teddy bear sunflowers. I grow them in my yard every year.
Hello BiBi!
I am so grateful that I have found your blog (thanks to CCC). You have amazing tips and pictures that you have shared that I cannot wait to try on my own. Honestly, the salt one is phenomenal and absolutely gorg!!!! Hopefully I’m not the only person who has never heard of using table salt for that purpose; the outcome is unbelievable.
At any rate, my favorite summer flower (and all year flower if flown in) is the Asiatic Lily. The fragrance is obviously a bit strong for some but they were so heavenly for our March wedding many moons ago…love, love, love those lilies! 💕
Again, thank you for those tips and stay healthy!
I always seem to learn something new whether it’s looking at your blog post or watching your YouTube channel…. wonderful card!
Hola, Bibi! Gusto saludarte! Como siempre, tus tarjetas estan hermosas! Me gustan los colores que usaste! Bueno, me gustan todas las flores pero me gustan las margaritas (daisies) y tambien me encanta la lavanda (lavender). Tengo lavanda en mi jardin pero batallo para que cresca! 😀 te mando un abrazo desde San Antonio, Texas (mi mama es de Mexico)
My all time favorite flower would be the golden poppy, but I truly appreciate almost all of the flowers.
Beautiful cards and lovely coloring! I have many favorite summer flowers; marigolds & gardenias & daffodils & Lilacs & hibiscus. I love the Lovely Legs series by CCC, and their Big & Bold series is awesome too! So nice to find you through their newsletter!
CCC has wonderful images and you have colored these beautifully. At my house we love Vincas in the summer in hanging baskets or ceramic pots on the deck. Just water every day and the blooms stay so pretty. They come in lots of colors too.
Beautiful card! My favorite summer flower is any type of Lily.
Love these sweet cards – and thanks for all your tips along the way!!! Just discovering Colorado Crafts and got my first order recently… I will be returning!!!
Beautiful cards! I love the way you colored these!
My favorite summer flowers are teddy bear sunflowers. I grow them every year in my yard.
I am so enjoying the lovely legs series. (Still smiling from the little baby’s legs in the crib). This card is beautiful and comforting and well, sunny!, and the coloring is just perfect! I’m learning coloring and honestly not having a face is perfect for me right now! Your coloring is absolutely beautiful… really love the technique you used fo color the Bush! This is my first year that I planted sunflowers and although too early for their sweet faces I’m enjoying them already so today they are my favorite! Stay safe and thank you!
You coloring is stunning! I love so m y flowers it’s hard to pick….I think I will say hydrangeas. Thanks!
Such a unique fun stamp. Love it. Love your coloring too. My 16 year old daughter would love to color this too!
Lovely card and I especially like your pile of grass she is standing in..
Hi, Bibi! I love your cards! Your coloring tips are very helpful, too. Colorado Craft ha some beautiful stamps and I love their unique take on designs.
It is very hard for me to pick just one summer flower to be my favorite since I love them all!! One of the most loved is morning glories. I love the variety of colors that they come in and the way they bloom profusely over a trellis or fence.
Take care!
Wonderful tips on how to color the stamp. I like a lot.
Forgot to mention my favorite flower is the rose. The yellow rose to be exact.
Who won the Colorado crafts sunflower series giveaway on Monday?
Graet coloring to the design. I live wildflowers best. A full mixed field of them all over hills is beautiful.