Poppy Patch
Today I have a card I made using the newly released Poppy Patch by Flourishes — what a fun set!!! All the various stems are separate so you can create your own cluster of Poppies, however you like!!! Here’s the set:
And here’s the card I made — much brighter colors than my normal choices, but I just thought a Poppy card needed some bright colors.
To create my main image, I first stamped the large center poppy on a piece of white cardstock. I then stamped the image again on my Eclipse Masking Tape and cut it out. This Masking Tape is wonderful for those who like to mask. The entire back has a low-tack adhesive so you can press it on over your image and it stays tight, but then you can just pull it off when you’re done and save it for next time — really works great!!! Anyway, once my mask was over my large center poppy, I then stamped on the remainer of the poppy stems, pulled off my mask and colored in my images using Copic markers and then stamped on my SU Sanded background. Then I cut and embossed the image using my Petite Oval Nestability Dies by Spellbinders, matted again in black and framed with the yellow scallops.
For my background the lower green sheet is from the Scarlet’s Letter pad by Basic Grey and it is stamped with the background from the newly released Stamp Simply set called Thank You. Love that little background stamp!!! The upper half is run through the Cuttlebug with the Swiss Dots embossing folder. I punched the corners and the butterflies, and after wrapping with the Black Sheer Ribbon and adhering it all together, I was done. The oval is on with mounting tape to elevate it a bit and I used Zots to adhere the butterflies.
- Stamps: Poppy Patch and Thank You by Flourishes. Sanded b/g by SU.
- Paper: Black, White, YoYo Yellow, Scarlet’s Letter by Basic Grey.
- Ink: Palette Charcoal and Noir Black. Copic to colors: Y-15, YR09, R14, R27, R29, YG03, YG63, G99, C-1, 0.
- Accessories: Black Sheer Ribbon, Brad, Petite Oval Nestabilities, Photo Corner Punch by SU, Butterfly Punch by Martha Stewart, Mounting Tape, Zots.
And here are some reminders:
To see more samples using this weeks new releases by Flourishes, you can access the Flourishes Design Team Blogs here: Leslie Miller, Linda Duke, Faith Hofrichter, Susan Roberts, Julie Koerber, as well as Sharon Doolittle, Nancy Kirk.
Voting is currently taking place for the Paper Crafts Gallery Idol contest, and Flourishes own Julie Koerber is in the running, being one of 20 finalists. You can find the link and instructions on Julie’s Blog. Please vote NOW as time is of the essence.
Tomorrow, Friday, you can expect a fun and really easy Stamp Simply Challenge here.
And you have until 6:00 p.m. EST today, Thursday, 7/10, to enter a card or project using Coffee with Friends in our Coffee Time Challenge. You can’t hope to win unless you enter — check out the link for the challenge rules and a photo of the prize.
And I think that wraps it up for today. Thanks so much for stopping in and I hope you all are having a wonderful week!!!!