MOJO Poppies for the Weekend

Happy Saturday my friends! It's the weekend! Do you have anything exciting planned? Me? I'll be pouring over the new 2014-2015 catalogue and planning SO many fun classes for the upcoming year!

Speaking of classes...have you seen what's coming up next week? Head on over to the classes tab and check it out! There's still space available, but HURRY!! Register by Monday and pay your fee of $35 (I accept PayPal) to reserve your space at the fun table.

Now that that's out of the way, here's today's card:

The Mojo Monday sketch this week was tall and skinny so this card is 3 ½" x 5 ½". The best part is that it'll still fit in a standard A2 envelope. Of course, if you had the envelope punch board, you could make a CUSTOM envie for it with a piece of 7 ½" square Designer Series paper.

Of course, I had some bright colours out from making from the Utah Divas card for Tuesday, so I went with those colours again, omitting the Marina Mist and adding Real Red and Old Olive.

To create the poppy image, I used just a portion of the Pleasant Poppies Background Stamp and coloured it using Real Red and Olive Markers.

A double bow of Daffodil Delight Seam Binding is the finishing touch.


What do you think?

STAMPS: Pleasant Poppies
INK: No ink pads were used in the creation of this card
PAPERS: Whisper White and Pacific Point Cardstock; Quaterfancy and In Colour DSP
ACCESSORIES: Ribbon, Markers, Stampin' Dimensionals

Happy Stampin'!

Poppies for the Crew!

It's Wednesday again (happens every week - LOL!) so that means it's Paper Crafts Crew day! You can see my card below and check out the rest of the crew HERE.

I'm taking a break from "Tag IT!" today to show you some poppies, but don't worry...Tag IT will be back tomorrow! 

Today, my poppies are BLUE! Well...Coastal Cabana to be precise. I'm pretty sure Coastal Cabana Poppies don't exist, but hey, it's my stamp space and I can make ANYTHING happen! :)

My card is square, so I started off with a 10 1/2" x 5 1/4" piece of Coastal Cabana Cardstock and added a layer of Afternoon Picnic Designer Series Paper.

I stamped and cut my poppies on Whisper White Cardstock (yes, I know the "base" colour of Afternoon Picnic is Very Vanilla - OOPS!) and added them in layers (with Stampin' Dimensionals) to another layer of Coastal Cabana Cardstock.

I embellished the card with Bermuda Bay 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon and Basic Pearls.

I had a few extra poppies in circles, so I added one to the inside for the finishing touch.

As you can see from the sketch below, I took a few liberties...

What do you think?

STAMPS: Pleasant Poppies
INK: Staz-On
PAPERS: Whisper White, Very Vanilla and Coastal Cabana Cardstock; Afternoon Picnic DSP
ACCESSORIES: Bermuda Bay 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon, Basic Pearls, Watercolour Pens, Stampin' Dimensionals

Happy Stampin'!

Do you even HEAR the words coming out of your mouth?

When I came across this sketch the other day, I thought it would be GREAT for my Pleasant Poppies series. I was right!

The funny thing is, that this sketch is from the Clean and Simple Stamping blog and as we all know, clean and simple (while lovely) is not my thing. Especially the simple part. And so:

It might LOOK clean and simple, but it's not quite that simple. Check it out:

You can see the layers of poppies - right down to the little bud. I may be a bit crazy...just a little! :)

My image was coloured by applying markers directly to the rubber in Island Indigo and Old Olive. I used the Big Shot and Circle Framelits to cut out the image panel and hand cut the super skinny Island Indigo mat.

Don't you LOVE that Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder? I love how it can dress up a card in a flash!

The sentiment was stamped with Island Indigo Ink and then I used one of the banner Framelits from the Label Card Thinlit. This little banner is SO much fun!

What do you think?

STAMPS: Pleasant Poppies, Teeny Tiny Wishes
INK: Island Indigo
PAPERS: Whisper White, Baked Brown Sugar, Island Indigo and Pool Party Cardstock; Vellum
ACCESSORIES: Big Shot, Framelits, Embossing Folder, Markers, Stampin' Dimensionals

Happy Stampin'!

With Sympathy

Today's Pleasant Poppies card was inspired by the lovely and talented Jen Mitchell. It's pretty much a CASE (Copy And Share Everything), but I did change up the colours and the sentiment.

You'll remember this post when I had some pieces of Island Indigo sitting out on my stamp space and I wanted to find a way to use them. Well...apparently I need to tidy up a bit more often, because some of that Island Indigo is STILL on my stamping space - EEK!

Just as well, because I thought it would be great to recreate Jen's card.

Thankfully, I don't *need* a sympathy card right now, but when I do, I know I'll have one ready to go. Because really...who wants to create a sympathy card when you NEED one? Are you really in the mood to create a sympathy card when you need one? I don't think anyone is.

As I mentioned, I started off with the piece of Island Indigo Cardstock left over from class (and since then, creating my husband's cards for the office). I then trimmed up my Very Vanilla Cardstock, drew a line around it with my Island Indigo marker (not free hand, though I supposed I could try that too!), added a post-it note mask and stamped the poppy image in Staz-ON.

I used my watercolour pen and ink squished into the top of my Island Indigo and Pear Pizzazz Ink pads to add colour to the image.

The image was then adhered to my piece of Island Indigo and added to the front of the card.

The sentiment (from Teeny Tiny Wishes) was stamped below the image in Island Indigo Ink.

What do you think?

STAMPS: Pleasant Poppies, Teeny Tiny Wishes
INK: Staz-ON, Island Indigo
PAPERS: Very Vanilla and Island Indigo Cardstock
ACCESSORIES: Markers, Watercolour Pen

Happy Stampin'!

We interrupt your regularly scheduled Halloween post...

...to bring you some POPPIES!

Don't worry...the candy will be back tomorrow, but I wanted to give you a little preview of what you'll be seeing here on the blog next week! :) Plus, this card is for this week's Retro Sketch, so it couldn't wait till next week - LOL!

I'm loving all the Designer Series Paper on my projects! Sometimes it's all too easy to just layer some cardstock and call it a day, but our Designer Series Paper is so much fun, you really should take the plunge and cut into it! For this card, I even used a DSP layer!

Today's card features Pleasant Poppies, Afternoon Picnic DSP and some Wisteria Wonder (which, in case you DIDN'T know, made it from the "In Colour" collection to the REGULAR colour families - WOOT!)

I coloured the poppies using my watercolour pens and squished ink into the lid of my ink pad. These particular poppies feature Wisteria Wonder with a touch of Perfect Plum.

I added some ribbon (retired) and button (not) to my card for a little extra pop.

What do you think?

STAMPS: Pleasant Poppies
INK: Basic Grey
PAPERS: Very Vanilla and Wisteria Wonder Cardstock; Afternoon Picnic DSP
ACCESSORIES: Watercolour Pen, Ribbon (retired), Button, Bakers Twine, Stampin' Dimensionals

Happy Stampin'!