I started out with an entirely different pattern developed and completed for the month of September 1999.  But here it is now the 20th of August and I have drastically changed my mind about what I want to do for this last month of Summer and the last summer of the century!

    The most difficult part of putting this pattern  together was not in drawing out the sunflowers, or in all the embossing, painting, coloring or tracing... it was in just what I wanted to do with the finished piece.  Because the finished piece is deminsional I had to really put some thought to it and the more I looked at it the more I thought of just how perfect it would look mounted for a picture on the wall!!!!  So that is exactly what I decided to do.  By using the black paper as the background with a white matt board the finished composition was (in my opinion) stunning!

  I hope you have as much fun with it as I have!!!

Julia

Tracing:  Trace with white ink around all flowers, petals, leaves, and accent lines.

                Trace with Gold Ink around frame lines.

Embossing:
               Use a small ball embossing tool and emboss around all ink lines.
 
               Use a shading tool or hockey tool to shade and define all petals and leaves.

Painting:
               Use either acrylic paints or water color markers to proide color to the composition.  The  different
               mediums will provide a different finished effect.

              For leaves use a darker and light/medium green alternating each side of the center viens.
 
              For the flower petals, use a bright summery yellow  and highlight the top and bottom of each petal
              using a rust or light brown.
 
              For each flower center use a soft/light brown or blend to provide just a bit of diffenence in color that is on
              the tips of each petal.

Perforation:
             Use either the 4-prong straight tool or the two-prong tool to walk around each of the cut away areas of the
             composition.  Release and remove all cut-away perforated areas.

             Cut away all the solid darkened areas of the pattern.
 
             Cut out each for the four leaf sections made seperately from main pattern.

Completing Composition:
              After you have completed the perforations and  the four additional leaf sections. cut-away the excess
              paper away from the frame edges.

              Use foam, double sided mounting tape to mount each of the four leaf sections to cover the mounting section
              and edge of the composition (see finished composition above for detail).

              Mount finished parchment to black (or color of choice) paper.

              Finish by mounting completed piece to matt board.
 

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