Poppies in Pastels & Brights

Happy Weekend everyone, I hope you are enjoying the summer.  We've had a lot of rain so the gardens are constantly needing pruning but everything is so lush it's great.

I have contrasting card designs today using Chocolate Baroque's beautiful new Poppy Meadow set.    I took some of my dies & an embossing folder out for play as well.

I see that Rhedd and Rosie's current challenge is "Anything Goes" so I'm joining in with this design.

For the card above I stared by creating a little scene using Distress Inks, ripped card stock and a mask created with a circle negative.     Next I stamped one the gorgeous poppies from the Poppy Meadow set with Cocoa Memento Dye Ink and coloured them with my Prisma Pencils.

The white background was embossed with Acanthus Cuttlebug folder.   I used Crealies CL CF 20 & CL CS 23 for the flowers & leaves which I punched from a light blue sheet of Basic Grey paper which added colour by blending Distress Inks over top.   I stamped with a fragment from the Lace Fragment set on some of the flowers.   I used a little brad from my stash to hold them together.

This next card below is quite bright with Dylusions inks, maybe you'll need sunglasses for this one !

The card above started out different but that happens a lot.  When I stamped the Poppy image onto the background I realized it was lost with the busy background.   So I decided to outline it with a Spellbinder die, using a pigment pen, and bleached the area inside the outline. I painted with Pink, Blue & Green Dylusions (I just add a little ink to my craft mat with the end of the sprayer and paint with a brush & water).    I stamped the corners with Salty Ocean Distress Ink and also used TCW Harlequin stencil with Salty Ocean DI.   Love is from Artistic Expressions.    This design is different, but I thought I would show a contrast to the first design.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day,
Shirley

Sail Away

Hello everyone, I hope your week is going well.

I have a card today using stamps by Impression Obsession.   This sailboat collage stamp has been sitting in a drawer uninked for too long.    I was hoping to enter this design in an upcoming IO challenge but one of the rules is that you must use IO Stamps and Dies.   I've used a non-IO flourish die so unfortunately it doesn't qualify but I think this would work well as a 'man card'.

However I'm joining into the Rhedd and Rosie Challenge- as the theme is "Here comes Summer".  Well summer is certainly here, it's beautiful this morning, the humidity left but I'm sure it will be back soon.   Sailing would be a wonderful activity!

Impression Obsession stamps:   Cover a Card CC014 Fluff, H13022 Sail Collage and B3552 just a note.

I stamped the 'fluff' CAC background with Black Soot Distress Ink over a piece of designer paper that has a slight pattern to it.    It looks like a 'swirl' to me and mimics water.

I stamped and embossed the main image with black twice.   I painted with Tombow markers and cut out the outer frame and decoupaged over the main image.   I embossed the nautical decoration a 3rd time and added to the side.   I added glitter to the ripples in the water.

I used Crealie Die CL CS02 for the black flourish that matches the background swirls.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great summer day!
Shirley