Pleasant Poppies

I wanted to play a little with my brayer today, so I did a quick background for one of the newest background sets this yet – Pleasant Poppies.  This is my first time using this sweet stamp and I have to admit I was rather excited!

I started to create my sky with the three blues – Bashful Blue, Baja Breeze and Marina Mist.  I like the strong sky the three colors formed.  I then added a little Certainly Celery to the bottom of my card panel.  I wanted it to have a wispy look to it without getting too strong with the brayer.  Here you see two cards – one I left as blue poppies and the other I added Tangerine Tango.

• I created a good base with Certainly Celery (isn’t that just such a great name!) before taking to my card with a sponge and the ink pad.  I started off my card and sponged on in circles to create the light green feel.
• I also did the same with a quick coat of Bashful Blue to pop the sky a little after having brayered the look I wanted to achieve.

• To give that rich orange look that poppies – especially California Poppies from my home state have, I used Tangerine Tango.
• I stamped on the Tangerine Tango cardstock and cut out each image with my Paper Snips before adding it to my brayered background.  This gives the card a definite pop.
• I didn’t want the poppies to be too 3D as I felt this would take away from the card, so I popped up the card panel instead. 
• To finish the card I matted the brayered background on Whisper White before adding the dimensionals on the orange sample.

For a more subtle look, I left the blue poppies alone and added a slight white border before adhering it directly to the Marina Mist Card.  I popped up the saying to add a little dimension.

Two similar card with very different looks.  Which one is more your style? 

Creatively yours –

Ingrid

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Stamp Sets – Pleasant Poppies (129499), Sweet Essentials (128315) Paper – Whisper White (100730), Marina Mist (119682), Tangerine Tango (111349) Ink – Bashful Blue (126961), Baja Breeze (126960), Marina Mist (126962), Certainly Celery (126958), Basic Black (126980) Cool Tools –Brayer (102395), 1” square punch, Paper Snips (103579), Stampin’ Sponges (101610) The Perfect Finish – Stampin’ Dimensionals (104430)