a sunflower and love 23

Hi! I hope you had a great weekend! I had a lot of fun hiking, biking, painting and paper crafting. It's week 3 in the online painting workshop that I'm currently taking with one of my favorite artists Dreama Tolle Perry. This week we are painting a sunflower along with carnations in a blue jar:

Here's my sample on a 9" x 12" canvas board. I'm going to give this one another go on the same size panel then jump to a "20 x 20" canvas to hang in my studio.

 I also created a Valentine's Day card featuring a variety of die cuts, flowers and pretty patterned papers from my stash:

I'm linking my painting to the Paint Party Friday site:

For card sketch inspiration, I'm joining along with the MOJO Monday sketch challenge:

I was inspired by the hearts, shades of pretty pinks and kraft at the Card Concept challenge using a Clean and Layered style:

Thanks so much for visiting ~ I hope you have a great week!
Be Sweet ;)

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