Poppy Patch
Posted: March 19, 2009 Filed under: Poppy Patch, Thoughts and Prayers 4 Comments
I love these poppies!
This is my first stamp set from Flourishes, a birthday gift from my daughter. I haven’t quite worked out an efficient way to clean the clear stamps so if you have any hints for me please leave a comment. I realized when I was colouring these poppies that I haven’t used outline stamps in a long while, so I haven’t used my watercolour pencils in a while either. You would know, if you visit here regularly that I have been stamping a lot of silhouettes. Well, that might change, with these poppies and the new Sweet Peas from Flourishes also, when I get hold of them!
I began by stamping the poppies in Basic Black and colouring with watercolour pencils and a blender pen. I then sponged a Bashful Blue background around the poppies. I stamped one poppy and cut it out ready to overlap some of the others and decided to let it overlap a little of the oval where I stamped the sentiment. I chose gingham ribbon because poppies seem to be carefree and casual flowers to me. Not like the formal roses who might demand satin or velvet ribbon, the poppies are happy with gingham! There is a challenge on the Flourishes blog this week to use ribbon on your card, so this is my entry, not a very adventurous use or ribbon, I know but ribbon all the same.
Supplies:
Stamps: Poppy Patch (Flourishes), Thoughts and Prayers
Inks: Basic Black, Bashful Blue,
Cardstock: Whisper white, Bashful Blue, Always Artichoke
Also: Red gingham ribbon, Creative memories oval cutters, Faber-Castell Watercolour pencils, blender pen
Heather Telford 
Hi Heather, I absolutely love your poppy card and it is one of my favorite sets from Flourishes, that is until I saw the sweet peas and well they are all great. Beautiful card with gorgeous coloring. Very nice. Pat
LOVE your coloring, Heather! Fabulous! Your ribbon treatment is perfect too!
Beautiful, Heather! I’m really quite amazed at what you achieve with your silhouette stamps, but you do a fabulous job with the coloring, as well. If you enjoy the poppies, guaranteed you’ll love the Sweet Peas!
What a gorgeous creation — colored so beautifully!!! You asked about cleaning those clear stamps — they do stain quite badly from the ink — the sooner you clean them up the better, but they still stain — just how they are! A wonderfully cheerful card with your ribbon!!!