Remembrance Sunday Lest We Forget ~ Poppies

Happy Remembrance Day

Hello bloggers today's card is in remembrance of all those who have fallen over the years in various war and conflicts.

This card began as a white 5x7 card blank.  First I attached a sheet of blue coloured paper to the front of the card.  Next I stamped my poppies using fired brick distress ink and Indigo Blu 'poppy meadow' stamp set.  I stamped them several times and then used the distress ink with a water brush to make a water coloured image.  I then fussy cut out all the poppies.  They were layered up at the bottom of the card. Finally I printed out the sentiment from the computer and adhered it to the top of the card.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel
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Bee Happy - Poppy

Hello bloggers today's card is a simple card about being happy.

This card began as a white DL hammered card blank that I cut down to make a smaller card.  First I inked the edges of the card with dried marigold distress ink.  Next using a bee stencil I inked through the stencil using mustard seed distress ink.  Using festive berries distress ink I stamped the poppy image using IndigoBlu ' poppy meadow' stamp set.   I then coloured the leaves with a ProMarker and then cut it out by hand.  This was then adhered to the card.  Finally I stamped the sentiment using dried marigold distress ink and Polka Doodles 'sensational sentiments'  stamp set.  I cut it out by hand and inked the edges then attached it to the card blank.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

Scalloped Vase of Poppies

Hello bloggers, posts should be back to normal from today onwards as I made a boo boo with schedule times on blogger and only just realised today.  Hope you like today's scalloped poppy card.

To create this card I began with a piece of A4 yellow card stock and folded it in half die cut it using Spellbinders Grand Scallop dies twice.  Next I adhered the two scallops together to make a pocket vase so only added glue to the bottom half of the vase.  With another sheet of yellow card stock I die cut the stand for my card as it is a non opening card.  The stand was cut using labels 28 die and then scoring the label so that it formed a stand which was adhered to the back of the vase.  Using IndigoBlu 'Poppy Meadow' stamp set I stamped the largest poppy 8 times, some of these were generation stamped but most were not.  This was done to give the poppies different looks.  Next I water coloured the stems and leaves on 3 of the poppies using peeled paint distress ink.  The poppies were all cut out and I inked the edges with a red promarker to disguise the white edges.  The poppies were then arranged in the vase.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

This card is being entered into the Indigoblu Challenge 3 - Flowers

You can check out the details here http://community.indigoblu.com/?tag=challenge