Absolutely Wonderful Sunflower

Hi Clever Dexter crafties! It's Deidre sharing today's card inspiration. We're launching into February with a theme I love: FAVORITE TECHNIQUE.

Once again, our super sweet sponsor, Alex Syberia Design, has sent some absolutely awesome digital stamps for us to use month as inspiration. I couldn't pass up this giant sunflower called Hello Summer...it's my actual favorite flower IRL (in real life)  :) This card has a combination of two techniques I love, I hope that's not cheating lol. First: making my own backgrounds using stencils, spray inks, paints...pretty much all mediums. I used two stencils, a few red, yellow, and orange spray inks, a mica powder, and ink blending to create the brick wall background and to color the sunflower.

Second: layering for dimension. This sunflower has all of these luscious petals that I knew would be great to fussy cut some out, pop up the layer with foam adhesive, and layer a duplicate panel behind it.

You can pop over to my blog to see all of my supplies and colors too,

Prize from Our Sponsor:

The WINNER this month will receive a $15 Gift Card to be used at her Etsy Shop.

Grand prize winner of 2 digi stamps from our sponsors Etsy Shop is chosen randomly, so everyone has an equal chance to win! Good luck to everyone! 

Cleverly Concocted Challenge Rules

The challenge runs from February 1 to February 28

Please read the challenge rules for more details.

Our mandatory theme for this month is FAVORITE TECHNIQUE

 (whatever that means to you)

For this  Month's OPTIONAL color palette, we have : 

Red, Pink, Blue, Purple, Green

Thanks for stopping by and hope to see your creation in our gallery this month! Don't forget to tag us in your Instagram posts so we can check out your awesomeness! #cleverdexter, #cleverdexterchallenge, @cleverdexter

Deidre