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And a very warm welcome to my newest follower, Kathy A
I cannot find if she has a blog to be able to link up here :(
I have finally been able to settle down and do some card making these last few weeks, and on two of the cards I used the same Hero Arts Hero Florals Poppy stamp set - I also have the matching dies
I started this card with a panel of inky goodness - if I remember rightly I did a couple of monoprints off stencils I had used on another card - come to think of it, it was background for the other poppy card!!
I cut a window using anrectangle Peek a boo die from MFT, then backing it with a snippet of pale blue card that I only attached on three sides, leaving the bottom free.
The poppies were stamped on more snippets and white embossed, before being coloured with water colour paints. I then die cut them, arranged them in the aperture and secured them on the reverse of the card with some sticky tape. I then popped some glue under the leaves, and foam bots for some dimension under the flower and bud, which left me some room to attach the clouds. They were a bit of an afterthought as the blue looked too stark - again white snippets were used.
The greeting (another Hero Arts set) was stamped in Versa Clear Pinecone ink and clear embossed on a tiny left over piece from the background, and the I edged it with a wee scrap of white I had painted in the same red as the poppies.
When I first started assembling the card it looked very plain, so I added a very sparkly gold ribbon to the left of the focal panel against the cranberry base, and some red rhinestones
I stamped the poppy on the left of the insert - yes, it's crooked, and I did re-do the whole insert..
The poppy also featured in the envelope, stamped in memento London Fog ink
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snippets of white for the all stamping and clouds - blue for behind the aperture