Quilled Sunflower 🌻

One of the remarkable characteristics of young wild sunflowers, in addition to growing in soil that is not hospitable, is how the young flower bud follows the sun across the sky. In doing so, it receives life-sustaining energy before bursting forth in its glorious yellow color.

Like the young sunflower, when we follow the Savior of the world, the Son of God, we flourish and become glorious despite the many terrible circumstances that surround us. He truly is our light and life. ~Quentin L. Cook

Close up of my quilled sunflower…The card is embossed and inked with Pearlescent Ivy Pigment Ink (Dew Drop). The sunflower is inked with Coffee Bean Pigment Ink (Dew Drop) on the petals and the fringed center is accented with Bronze Metallic (Sharpie). The leaves are inked with Pearlescent Olive (Dew Drop).

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