Get Well Sunflowers Card

I explained on my previous post how I needed to take my mind off of the pain and illness of auto-immune attacks this week. Here's my second card to take my mind off of how I feel and think about someone else who is ill. One of my crafty friends who moved away two years ago is just finishing radiation this week for lung cancer, so I'm thinking of her with this card.
I used Copics to color this image from Power Poppy stamps. You probably already know that coloring is therapeutic! It sure beats focusing on headaches, arthritis, etc.

 

The sunflowers at Just Us Girls this week helped inspire this cards. Fall colors with golds, oranges and browns were perfect for this variety of flowers. The photo inspiration at Time Out Challenge inspired me to make the vase gray and use a lined dark gray paper background like the wall around their fall window view.

Thank you for visiting! May God bless you with ways to get your mind off of yourself when you don't feel well. Cardmakers have a special way to make their craft a double blessing - for themselves and others!

I'm sharing this card with the following challenges:
Colour Crazy Craft Challenge week 22 - anything goes with hand-colored image
Crafty Cardmakers #173 - Autumn (I chose autumn flowers and colors)
Crafty Awesomeness September challenge - anything goes with hand-colored image
Just Us Girls #362 - photo inspiration
Let's Color Linky Party #12 - anything goes with hand-colored image
Pile It On #117 - autumn colors
Time Out Challenge #66 photo inspiration:

Get Well Card with Black-Eyed Susans

We are having such wonderful weather this week! We've known for a week that we would have no rain, low humidity, and perfect temperatures, high around 70 degrees F.. My auto-immune disease decided to flare up and make me miserable instead of letting me work outside in the garden as I'd planned. I decided to take my mind off of misery by coloring some beautiful flower stamps from Power Poppy. Thinking about making Get Well cards for others took the focus off of myself. It's amazing how well that works! Coloring does, too! Here's the first one I colored with Copics and designed using a sketch from the Cheerful Sketches Challenge and sunflower and colors from the inspiration photos at Use Your Stuff. 

The background paper is old Basic Grey Nook and Pantry and the black pattern is from the Paper Studio Harper's Boutique. I used Spellbinders dies and the sentiment is cut using Cricut Paper Lace. I used a gauzy ribbon across the bottom that I've had forever and so glad to use up!.

 

Thank you for visiting! May God bless you in times of pain or illness and show you ways to get your mind off of your distress! Cardmakers and crafters have a special outlet for blessing others, too! (Check out my 2nd get well card, later.)

I'm sharing this card with the following challenges:
Alphabet Challenge - O for Oval
Cheerful Sketches Challenge - September sketch
Colour Crazy Craft Challenge Week 22 - anything goes hand-colored
Crafty Awesomeness Challenge - September anything goes with colored image
Let's Color Linky Party 12 - hand colored image
Use Your Stuff Challenge #235 - inspiration board