Meet today's card.
The poppies are blooming right now in my garden and they have inspired me to make a card.
I love the vibrant, happy look of these colours together and the majestic feel the poppies have.
I began by masking off my card front and then stamped the poppies from the Penny Black set called
Pretty Petals. It is a sweet little set with a variety of flowers in it. I stamped it twice to fill in the bottom of my card front and extended the stems of the flowers using a black Sharpie marker.
I used my Brushos to watercolour the flowers, dotted the flower centers with a white Sharpie, then painted the background using Peacock Feathers Distress ink.
I stamped the sentiment with black Memento ink and it is from the Words of Kindness set also by Penny Black. Using my black Sharpie again, I doodled a border to pull it all together and added some black splatters for interest.
Adding my card to these challenges:
Seize the Birthday- ANYTHING GOES
Crafty Catz- Going Dotty
(hope my dot splatters qualify for this)
Crafty Girls Creations- ANYTHING GOES
Crafting With Attitude- ANYTHING GOES
Have a great weekend and thanks.
Supplies: stamps- Penny Black/ Brushos/ paint brush/ Painter's tape for masking/ white, black Sharpie/ ink-Distress, Memento/ bl acrylic paint
Beautifully coloured they look 3D, love the blue background against the red.
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These are so beautiful and I bet the ones in your garden are too!
ReplyDeleteThis is gorgeous, Karen, and I love the colors and your watercoloring! I never tire of poppies and really love the doodled borders you use! Beautifully done, as always, my friend! Big hugs, and enjoy the weekend! xoxo
ReplyDeleteI love poppies too, Karen, and your field is gorgeous. I can't believe you did those small head with brushos. I call that controlled.
ReplyDeleteLove those gorgeous vibrant red poppies against the lovely blue background! xxx
ReplyDeleteGorgeous card Karen. I am having big trouble loading your page. It simply comes up as a blank blue page and a very small picture bar on the side. This is not happening with any other blogs. Have you changed your settings?
ReplyDeleteWonderful card, love those two colours together. Looks brilliant.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card, love those poppies
ReplyDeleteStunning card!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous pops of color Karen!
ReplyDeleteNice card, Karen! Like the red poppies with the distress blue bkgrd. One of my favs of Tim's blues. :) Your doodling and spatters look great, too.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous watercolouring Karen ... and gorgeous colours. The bright red and turquoise look AMAZING together. xx
ReplyDeleteGorgeous card Karen thank you for joining us over on
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Dianne xx
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Beautiful card! Love the striking flowers against the blue background.
ReplyDeleteOh wow Karen this is beautiful those Poppies really stand proud against that background, I love Poppies so this has brought me some extra special joy
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lorraine x
I LOVE this - so vibrant.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE this - so vibrant.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely stunning! I love those vivid red poppies on that beautiful blue background. Thanks for playing along with us at Seize The Birthday :)
ReplyDeleteWow! I love these colors and the contrast between them. This is a keeper!
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