Orange Poppies

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. We have had two birthdays this week - my granddaughter yesterday and mum on Tuesday. Today's card is one I made for mum.

I wanted to try a different colour combo, so I decided on Grey and Orange, and seen as how orange poppies seem to be everywhere at the moment I thought they would be a good choice.

I used the Painted Poppy set from Altenew and stamped them with Orange Cream, Industrial Diamond and Silver Stone Crisp Dye Inks.

I first stamped one on it's own and cut it out with a plain oval die, and then laid it on top of a scalloped oval die cut from orange card.

Next I randomly stamped a strip of card with flowers and leaves and then cut this down to lay on one side of a grey card blank.

I found some thin grey lace and a bit of sheer orange ribbon in the stash, so used these as decoration, then added the ovals to the front with foam pads.

The Mum stamp is from the Clearly Besotted You and I set, while the sentiment is from the Clearly Besotted Happy Birthday stamp set.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Painted Poppies

Good morning folks, hope you are having a good week. The days are positively flashing past now on the run up to Christmas. I swear December is speeded up somehow lol. 

Right, today's card is one I made using the lovely Painted Poppy set from Altenew. It's another of their colour layering stamp sets and I think it is soooo pretty. 

I decided to give it a go on some light Kraft card using the Altenew Crisp Dye inks. 

They stamp beautifully, and are so easy to use. I then added Glossy Accents to the centres to make them really shine.

For the sentiment I went with the Altenew Halftone Smile set. It comes with a couple of different Smile stamps and then lots of other add-on sentiments. 

I think these stamps are lovely for all sorts of occasions, we also have one called Halftone Hello which I haven't used yet. As this card was for a birthday, I used the Smile set on the front and then I added a happy birthday stamp to the inside.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Painted Poppies

Good morning, I hope you are having a good week, I'm taking Jude to get her stitches out today, so hopefully she will be back to full strength soon.

Today's card is one I made for my mum's friend for her birthday yesterday. I used the Altenew Painted Poppy stamp and die set.

I stamped the flowers using Altenew Crisp Dye Inks in Crimson, Velvet and Dark Chocolate, with Memento Tuxedo Black ink for the outlines. 

The leaves and stems were stamped with Memento Dew Drop inks in Pistachio, Olive Grove and Cottage Ivy.

I stamped one of the poppies directly on to the front panel, and cut the others out with the matching dies.

Then I used one of our oldest and still favourite wooden stamps for the sentiment. I stamped it with black ink and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder on to a strip of white vellum.

Then I mounted it on black card and added a few clear dew drops to finish it off. 

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx