You Are my Sunshine

Here's a sweet, cheery card for this week's CAS-ology cue word, song, and this week's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.  I flipped the sketch around a bit to get it to work with my idea--hope that's okay!

The song represented in my card is "You Are My Sunshine."  It's a song that makes me remember my sweet Cosmo the crazy dog since I used to sing it to him when he was sick, which unfortunately happened a lot.  I made a simple scene panel using the sun stamp from the Fresh Squeezed Stamps Weather Through set. The sun was inked with watermark ink, then with Memento Dandelion ink and stamped on a white panel.  I covered the stamped image with clear embossing powder and heat embossed the powder.  The cloudy background is sponged over the sun with Salty Ocean distress ink and a cloud template.  After I finished sponging on the ink, I wiped any stray ink off of the embossed image to reveal its bright yellow color.

I added a yellow button tied with yellow baker's twine to the center of the sun and a strip of green on green houndstooth patterned paper punched with a grass border punch to the bottom of the panel.  Once the grass was in place, I stamped the "you are my sunshine" sentiment on the panel in Bahama Blue ink.  The panel is set on a yellow card base to match the color of the sun.
 
Materials Used:
from i {heart} papers:  Fresh Squeezed Stamps Weather Through stamp set, Tsukineko Memento Dandelion and Bahama Blue inks, Ranger Salty Ocean distress ink, Doodlebug Design Flower Box 6x6 paper pad, Divine Twine lemon yellow baker's twine

other:  Daffodil Delight, Certainly Celery, and Whisper White cardstock, Crystal Clear embossing powder (Stampin' Up!); Versamark ink (Tsukineko); grass border punch (Fiskars)