October Birthday Challenge for Happy Little Stampers

All of a sudden it is October and time for a new birthday challenge at Happy Little Stampers.   This challenge is always fun because it is "anything goes".  Everyone needs to make some birthday cards and this gives you an opportunity to get ahead or caught up.

I have a friend who recently moved back to Kansas and the state flower for Kansas is the sunflower so I wanted to incorporate a sunflower as part of her birthday card.  Luckily I had this sweet image from Woodware stamps with a sunflower with an adorable gnome.

He was watercolored with the Tim Holtz watercolor crayons.  I love the depth of color that I was able to achieve in the sunflower.  The image is a little large so this is a 5 x 7 card.  I found some fall paper that worked well with the image.  A simple birthday sentiment and some gold splatter completed the card.

Here is a close up of the gnome.

Please come play along with us at Happy Little Stampers with our birthday challenge.  

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