Painted Poppies - Kre8tors Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to another Kre8tors Blog Hop.  If you are starting here with me or hopping on from Michelle, welcome!  This month our theme is Floral and we have lots of inspiration to share with you.

I decided to use a favourite stamp set of mine called Painted Poppies and the Poppy Moments Dies.  I am delighted to say both items will still be with us when the new Annual Catalogue launches at the beginning of June!

There is nothing to say that the lovely line art images in this set have to be poppies, a quick look on Pinterest and you see will lots of ideas.

The colours I decided to use for my projects are very simple - just one colour for each of my projects today.  My projects  would look lovely in lots of different colours;  after all, who says poppies have to be red!

I also decided to use a stamp set called Praiseworth Prose.  I'm ashamed to say this is the first time that I have used this stamp set that is sadly retiring soon.  However, I have used the coordinating alphabet dies a lot and will be keeping them on my shelf for a long time.

Here is my floral project.

To create the Painted Poppies project
8.7 cm x 29 cm ww thick - scored at 14.5 cm
8.2 cm x 14 cm ww thick
8 cm x 7 cm watercolour paper

To create the stamped elements
I used Night of Navy ink to stamp this lovely sentiment from a set called Praiseworthy Prose and also the flowers in the bottom right hand corner of the ww panel.

I used the Balmy Blue Stampin' Blend (light) to add little splodges of colour to the flowers deliberately missing areas to create a sort of watercolour effect.

To create the die cut elements
Die cut the largest flower and the two flower centres from watercolour card.

Spritz with clean water and then using ink from the Night of Navy ink pad, dab colour randomly using an Aqua Painter onto each piece and allow to dry.

You can see above that when I started this project I was not sure which colour I wanted to use.  I ended up using the two blue flowers only - I will save the Lovely Lipstick one for another project.

To assemble the project
I used dimensionals to adhere the panel to the card base.  I used the end of my poky tool to add shape and dimension to the flowers centres.  I prefer to use two separate pieces for the centre of these flowers because I don't like the smiley face on the larger die cut!  Adhere with with Tombow and then use a dimensional to adhere the completed flower to the card front.

Here is the completed card and envelope.

I also stamped the flowers on the inside of the card and the envelope.  How I wish Stampin' Up! would offer more sizes of envelopes - the quality with other brands is just not the same.

I also completed a card using the Balmy Blue elements shown above.  I wasn't quite happy with the paler blue flower so I added some jewels to add a bit more contrast.  

I like both versions of my project but I prefer the Night of Navy one!

I hope you enjoyed my projects, details of the products I used today can be found at the end of this post.  Next up is the lovely Dana Sullivan who has more floral inspiration to inspire you.

If you get lost along the way a list of hoppers can be found below.

Stay safe and well.

Happy Crafting!

Susan xx

Roll Call List

Melissa Tennison (USA)

Sandra Roberts (UK)

Su Mohr

Laura Mackie (UK)

Tricia Butts

Jan Musselman - USA

Jo Blackman (UK)

Libby Fens

Tracie St-Louis - Ottawa, Canada

Jacqui Lawrence (UK)

Anastasia Radloff

Margriet Siekman

Kirsteen Gill - USA

Deb Naylor US

Nicole Mahler

Sharon Dalton

Ximena Morales

Ann Krucek

Sue McDonald

Annette Ball-Canada

Cheryl Hamilton

Rebecca-Jo Unwin- Australia

Rochelle Laird-Smith (Australia)

Annette Elias-De Kijkkast-NL

Angie McKenzie

Janey Backer (USA)

Michelle Bryant

Susan Simpson (UK)You are here!
Dana Sullivan

Alexandra Rauf
Sue Allen -Australia

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