The start of the sunflower garden

May 14, 2013
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One of the things I didn't get to before the Undersized Urbanite deadline was making a garden along the left side of the Studio. I made two sunflowers but I need more!

I've made Bonnie Lavish sunflowers before, and I highly recommend them. But, I didn't have a kit so I tried to make them from scratch. I followed a wonderful tutorial from MiniMumm on blogger. I made only a few changes to work with the materials I had on hand. I used a Martha Stewart punch to make the yellow petals. For the brown centers, I used some scraps of Velour Card Stock from The Crafty PC. I painted it with a wash of Bittersweet Chocolate by Americana and then used a studio g circle punch once the paint was dry.

I added the petals one at a time around the outer edge. Once dry, I followed with another round of yellow petals. I cut more petals from green paper and used those to make the calyx.

For the leaves, I used the leftover Bonnie Lavish leaves since I didn't use them all for the ones I put together before. I've ordered more leaves and will make a few more sunflowers using this same method once they arrive.