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April 18, 2020

The Peaceful Poppies Suite Meets the Stitched Rectangle Dies

Happy Saturday everyone! I hope you are doing OK.

There's some happy news on the back-ordered die front. Several are once again available, including the both the Poppy Moments and the Painted Labels dies which I personally am waiting for. In the meantime, here is a card that I made with both of the Peaceful Poppies Suite sets: Painted Poppies and Peaceful Moments and the Stitched Rectangle dies.

Those little poppies are stamped in Basic Gray and colored with the Lovely Lipstick Blends combo. Note that these will be retiring soon as Lovely Lipstick is a retiring 2018-20 In Color.
All layers other than the base card are cut with the Stitched Rectangle Dies.
The vellum layer is stamped with the poppies in white craft ink.
The Peaceful Poppies DSP frame is cut with 2 of the rectangle frames.
Embellishments to the white layer include White Crinkled Seam Binding that has been colored with both the light and dark Lovely Lipstick Blends. This gives a variegated appearance.
Vellum embellishments are from the Peaceful Poppies Elements embellished just a bit with the Peaceful Poppies Sequins.

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November 18, 2019

Inking Up Painted Poppies with a Color ChallengeHi

Hello stamping friends. I was so fortunate to be able to attend Stampin' Up!'s Onstage Local in Lansing last weekend. Even better, I won one of my favorite new sets, Painted Poppies, and got to break it in today with this week's Splitcoaststampers Color Challenge.

Holley is this week's hostess and did she ever challenge me! Real Red + Early Espresso + Mossy Meadow with Sponging for dessert. I had in mind a sketch I used here and here and came up with this beauty:

I made masks of the 4 outline images by stamping on on of those post it notes are stick on the whole back. All of them fit on one sticky note and took less than 5 minutes to trim. Trim inside the lines to avoid getting a halo effect.
Pretty basic Blends coloring. These alcohol markers are great for avoiding streaky marker lines. I used the color lifter to put a few highlights on some of the petals.
I haven't done much sponging lately and it isn't something I usually use on this sketch. I decided it would be fun to sponge teh mat layer and see what happened if I tried to get a variegated or ombre look on that layer. It's subtle but you can see that the upper left corner is lightly sponged white the lower right corner is much more heavily sponged.
The skinny white seam binding is another preview product. I'll get a whole new roll tomorrow but for this I had to scrimp with some from my unfinished Onstage make and takes.
Red Rhinestones finish this off.

I was a little surprised by how much I liked this color challenge so I used the same colors to finish a lonely unfinished swap card I had assembled but not yet colored.

This uses To A Wild Rose along with Swirly Frames. I colored a little more on the circle frame and it ended up looking something like a slice from a log.
I added an Early Espresso marker plus the Neutral Blends, Soft Suede Combo and Crumb Cake Combo. The light Crumb Cake is used for the light stripes and to outline the images.

Here are some of the shots of earlier and other versions:

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Here's this color challenge duo together:

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