If the sun would shine here in Ca., this is what it would look like over in the beautiful foothills of the Sierra's. There's nothing like a drive in spring when the hills are green, along Hwy 49. Although now, you'd probably run into snow, after all these storms we've had. A girl can wish, can't she... I decided to go a little inland for this card, since the Sierra foothills would be covered in snow. This could be somewhere along Hwy 12, between Fairfield and Stockton. There are a few grain silos along the I-5 corridor. This could even be somewhere north of Sacramento. We have sunflower fields up that way.
When I saw the challenge was to use the sun, I knew just what I would do for the sun, just not how I would go about the rest of the card. It came to me, to use torn c/s to make the rolling foothills that are covered with wonderful oak trees.
The sun is by Spellbinders, using one of the faces of the sun die set and 2 big layers and 1 small of the Sunflower dies. While this beautiful Micro Sparkle c/s was in the die, I used Alcohol inks to color the petals. There's a sop of Viva bright yellow in the hole that is at the top of the sun face.
The hills are done with torn c/s and the silo is from a scrap that I scored, inked and drew the opposing lines on. The roof of the silo is a quarter of a circle. I used the Viva bottle to shape the silo and it's roof.
The golden flowers were added, since they are all over, orange Stickles are the centers.The mustard still is blooming in some places. The tree was stamped with Ivy green ink onto the first torn piece and the blue card.
We've had 11 days of rain, so some sunshine would be very nice! Supposedly it's coming...
Date: Friday, March 25, 2011 GMT Views: 902
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Fri, Mar 25, 2011 @ 4:43 PM
What a pretty Spring card, so cheerful!
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Fri, Mar 25, 2011 @ 5:02 PM
The hills with that tree sure do look like the foothills around the Hwy 49 area. You and "The T" should take a trip over there before they start to get brown again.