Apr 04 2007
Poppies!
I just love poppies! Those huge bright blossoms…who can resist? My aunt has the most gorgeous clump of them that come up every spring in her front yard. While the most of you are having gorgeous spring weather…the temperature here is dropping fast. By Easter weekend, actually by Thursday, we are talking about temperatures below zero and not just at night! So much for nice spring outfits and hats for church this weekend! Make sure you check back in later today or tomorrow… I’m having a special day on Saturday and want to share it with you!
Since the only sign of spring seems to be in my stamp room….LOADS of new flower stamps!:) …I’m pulling out my poppies to brighten things up. I bought my Poppie Stems stamp from my local stamp store. They are made by Stampendous who came out with a fabulous new spring line of stamps. The color combo for this design came from yestereday’s anniversary color challenge. It was a double challenge and I decided to give the second combo a whirl last night when it worked so well with my new stamp! The challenge was Real Red, Black and Kraft and I thought I’d see if I could take the bold combo and create a more shabby styled spring card with it. To try and keep the look fresh…I used a large white piece of cardstock to stamp my image. It can be a great design feature to offset the image to one side and use the sentiment or another feature to fill in the rest. There is no written law that says, every image must be stamped dead-center.:) I also stamped the poppies along the kraft cardstock piece in close to cocoa ink. As there is no “kraft” colored ink…I thought I’d sneak in the Close to Cocoa as a substitute. After laying out my design…I freestyle stitched around the red cardstock to add some interest and to carry the white through my design a little for balance. The top of the image is also stitched in a zig zig and tied with a red gingham ribbon. I wanted to add a little more pizazz to the red poppies so I outlined them with my Sakura gelly roll glitter pen. It is so perfect for adding a little touch of sparkle with precision.
Spring Time Poppies click on pic to see detail
Supply List:
Cardstock: Real Red, Basic Black, Kraft - SU
Stamps: Poppy Stems - Stampendous, Everyday Flexible Phrases - SU
Ink: black, real red, always artichoke - SU
Other: Red gingham ribbon - unknown, Word Charm - K & Company, sewing machine
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What a beautiful stamp and such a terrific looking card! I’ll send ya some “spring weather” from NC but it will probably all be in the form of pollen! LOL
~Angie
Gorgeous card! I have this stamp, too!!! I’m so in love with Stampendous’s lates floral releases, I can hardly stand myself! I see great minds think alike: we have the same splendid taste in beautiful rubbah, don’t we, girlfriend?! (wink!)
I love your work!!! all your creations are beautiful TFS!
have a nice day
Bety
Gorgeous. You are smokin hot lady!!
OH! Beautiful work as always - I do LOVE poppies too!
This is so pretty J!! LOVE that stamp!! Love the colors, sewing, I just love it!
Another lovely piece…great stitching details!
This is such a pretty card! Love it!!!!
How pretty! I like the Versamark on the brown and the stitching looks beautiful! As always!
Those poppies are incredible. Love the detail. Beautifully executed using the color challenge. TFS
What a beautiful card!!!
Love, love, love the red ginham ribbon, and the brown paper w/ the versa mark!
: )
Sarah
Angel #3653
I just started subscribing to your blog and I just love it. You are so talented. This card is beautiful! I love all the different papers and textures of it.
Julia I adore poppies too and those stamps are beautiful as is the card you created. I like the layers .. and the added stitches - and the colour impact is great. Nice work!
What beautiful Poppies Julia! My mother has poppies all over her garden (there’s really not too many flowers that she doesn’t have in her garden). You definately did the showy blooms justice on your card. I am definately going to be ordering this set for myself in the next week or two.
Linda