These Playful Poppies from the new Spring Blooms release by Memory Box are so beautiful. Since poppies come in a wide variety of colors, I’m sure I’ll be pulling these out for lots of occasions. For its first run, I decided to get out my Zig Clean Color Brushes and do some watercoloring. I stamped the image on watercolor paper and embossed it with clear embossing powder. I used the Yellow and Bright Yellow (really an orange yellow) pens for the poppies and Smoky Yellow and Deep Green pens for the leaves.
Once the poppies were dry, I die cut them with the accompanying dies. I love these intricate dies that cut between the leaves and the flowers. This is a large image, so I die cut the largest of the new Oval Eyelet Rectangle Frames and created a 4 1/2 X 6 inch card base from bright yellow/green cardstock. After arranging the poppies on the panel, I stamped and die cut the sentiment, also from the Playful Poppies stamp set. I added it to the card with some dimensional tape and decided the card needed no additional embellishment.
I’m sending this off to Simon Says Challenge: Something New and NBUS for my first entry in January.
Beautiful card with those pretty yellow poppies Karen. Your watercoloring looks great as does the design of your card. TFS
A very pretty card – your colouring skills are amazing. I like the die cut panel that the flowers rest upon.
A lovely cheerful card. I have orange and yellow poppies in my garden and they do brighten everything up. Just a few weeks away now!
PS Still not able to see all the photos.
Beautiful poppies, Karen! I love how you’ve colored them and those intricate dies are a must! This is such a warm and cheerful card!
What a sweet hello card, Karen! Your coloring with your Ziggies is perfect; these look just like our pretty California poppies! And I love that eyelet border! Thank you for inspiring everyone to use their NBUS! Happy New Year! Hugs, Darnell
Lovely coloring and what a beautiful mat!
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