DIY Sunflower Picnic Date Idea

Be like the sunflower, always find the light! Sunflowers are happy and cheerful and a perfect theme for picnics, bouquets or presents.

Every year Buttonwoods farm in Griswold, CT has a sunflower festival where there are rows and rows of sunflowers grown. Tall and bright, they always face the sun! This year I wanted to make a fun themed date around the festival.

I love stampin up sets that are versatile, and really the versatility depends on how creative you can be. As your stampin up demo, I'm here to show you how to use your stamps for more. I used the Eastern Medallion thinlits set to create this sunflower imagery.

I used the thinlits shown below to cut out the yellow part of the flower. The brown part is cut out using the thinlits stacked up and cut out.

Even though the weather didn't permit for it today, I had a picnic basket I had ready for a picnic. I decorated the picnic basket with a sunflower themed banner. The best part of visiting a beautiful flower field is to sit and enjoy its beauty while having a picnic. Picnics are very cute alternative way to avoid restaurants and make it intimate. I love picnics in the park!

The sunflower festival has tons of sunflowers that they also cut. For $10/ you can get a bunch of beautiful sunflowers. All the proceeds are donated to Make a Wish foundation. I really support the Make a Wish foundation. I heard of the charity first because of Kid Kraddick Morning Show's involvement with the foundation. I have had a soft spot for it ever since. I bought bunches to support the charity and to spread the love among beloved friends.

Turns out you can also stamp on the brown florist paper. My wonderful preferred local florist Amy Forbes of Forbes Flowers in Hope Valley, RI kindly let me have two sheets of this brown paper to experiment with.

I used the crush curry ink and baked brown sugar ink to stamp the sunflower onto the paper. The stamps used to stamp the paper are from a previous Paper Pumpkin kit that I held onto for just this wonderful occassion. The picture below shows the stamped images.

My husband wrapped the beautiful flowers and we assembled it with a tag. The instructions on how to wrap the flowers to come later! Now that you know how simple it is, you can make it as well. To order the Eastern Medallion set, visit https://www.stampinup.com/ecweb/default.aspx today and use the workshop code KHKK73BV and have your own sunflower picnic or arrangement. With purchase of this set, I'll send you step by step directions on how to make the tags and the banner.

If you just want the tags or banners featured in this blog, visit my etsy shop to purchase directly.