As if you didn’t already know, I am smitten with the poppies. Initially, I wanted to try the whitewash technique for this card. However, it didn’t work and I obviously need to go back and rewatch the tutorial.

Here’s my card for The Paper Players 483 challenge:

Here’s the challenge banner:

It’s All About the Poppies

From the beginning, I knew I wanted to emboss the poppies. I did remember to use my embossing buddy before I started stamping. Thankfully! After randomly stamping the poppies on the Crumb Cake cardstock, I used the white embossing powder and my heat tool to set the powder.

Since my original whitewashing idea turned out so badly, I decided to use the Poppy Parade ink refill, some water drops, and an aqua painter. Just for reference, I used 5 Poppy Parade ink drops and five drops of water to watercolor. That combination created enough ink to cover this card. I thoroughly enjoyed my watercoloring time, especially with all this craziness surrounding us now.

The more poppies I watercolored, the more I liked the results. However, I found, by trial and error (mosty error) that the blends just made a mess. Using just the Poppy Parade marker did not create the same kind of deep color that the watercoloring created. I did try to create a darker shadowing in the center of the poppies, and that didn’t work either.

Here’s a look at my mistakes:

Now What?

Once I finished coloring, I decided that I did not want to cover up the poppies at all. However, I knew that I couldn’t just float the sentiment in the middle of the card. That’s when I thought of using vellum, which I cropped using the Stitched Rectangle dies. I also cropped some Crumb Cake cardstock, onto which I stamped the sentiment, using the same die set. Of course, adhering vellum is a challenge. In this case, I used the multipurpose glue under the inside ribbon, and under the sentiment. Since I wound up with a tiny smudge at the end of the sentiment, I decided to use a basic pearl to cover the smudge. Happy accident. That gave me a way to put drops of adhesive in the corners of the vellum under the pearls.

While I could have used the Poppy Parade ribbon, I chose the linen ribbon from the Magnolia Lane ribbon combo pack. I really like the neutrality of this ribbon against the bright poppies. The resulting card doesn’t look like the picture I had in my head at the beginning, but I love the result.

Finishing Touches

The layers on the front of the card are Crumb Cake, Basic Black, vellum, Crumb Cake, and Basic Black. I kept the pattern going and used a Crumb Cake card base.

That just left the envelope I could’ve used some Poppy Parade 6 x 6 DSP, but there is already quite a bit of bulk in the card. Therefore, I masked off the envelope flap and randomly stamped poppies on the flap. I also stamped a poppy on the lower, left-hand corner of the front of the envelope.

With that completed, this set was completed as well.

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Please stay safe, healthy, and isolated as much as possible. We were on Spring Break last week, and should have gone back today. Instead, faculty has many virtual meetings over the next few days in order to be transitioned when our “kids” start on Monday. I have one daughter, but many hundreds of “kids” and I miss this year’s kids greatly.

Have a Peachy Day!

Sue

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