This is a fun card that only requires 3 stamps and a sprinkling of seeds to complete.
Stamps:
# 104-H, Take time..., $6.49
# 1326-A, Ladybug, $2.99
# 3402-K, Spring Frame, $7.99
Other Materials:
Black Pigment Ink
Clear Embossing Powder
Embossing Heat Tool
5.5" x 8.5" Antique Gold Parchment Cover Stock
5.5" x 8.5" White Cover Stock
Small Piece of Acetate
Small Piece of Foam Core
Exacto Knife
Glue or Double-sided Sticky Tape
Pencil
Markers
Dwarf Sunflower Seeds
Instructions:
1) Stamp and emboss "Spring
Frame" twice on the white cover stock. Color just the inner
box with the sunflower on one of the stamped images and color
just the outer frame of the other. Set aside.
2) Fold the parchment cover stock once in half and then open flat
again for stamping. Stamp "Take time" at a diagonal
several times across the face of the card. Stamp "Ladybug"
at intervals around the face of the card. Emboss, color and set
aside.
3) Using the piece with the sunflower you colored, carefully cut
out just inside the lines of the outermost box of the overall
stamped image. Set aside.
4) Carefully cut just outside the outer frame of the border you
previously colored. Cut out the inside area containing the uncolored
sunflower. (This can be thrown out or set aside to use on some
other project.) You should now have just the outer frame of the
original image. Use this frame piece as a template on the foam
core and carefully trace around the inside and outside lightly
with pencil. Set your original colored border aside. Cut just
inside the pencil lines on the foam core to end up with a foam
core frame that is just slightly smaller than your original frame
border.
5) Cut a piece of acetate that is big enough to completely cover
the open window of your frame. Set aside.
6) Glue the foam core border over the uncolored frame of your
sunflower piece. You should now have a nicely colored sunflower
framed by the white foam core frame.
7) Sprinkle in a few dwarf sunflower seeds. Glue acetate over
the foam core frame to create a window and hold your seeds inside.
Glue your colored border frame over the acetate.
8) Glue the finished shaker frame to the center of your ladybug
card.