A “field” of Pink Poppies help to brighten up the card against a stunning watercolor wash background.
Cut Cardstock:
- Card Base: Flirty Flamingo – 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″, score at 4 1/4″
- First Layer: Old Olive – 5 3/8″ x 4 1/8″, cut two
- Second Layer (front): Watercolor Paper – 5 1/4″ x 4″
- Second Layer (inside): Whisper White – 5 1/4″ x 4″
- Third Layer: Peaceful Poppies Designer Paper (green striped) – 4″ x 2″
- Stamped Image Layer: Shimmery White – 4″ x 3″
- Flower:
- Flirty Flamingo – 2 1/2″ x 2″
- Basic Black – 2 1/2″ x 2″
- Leaves:
- Old Olive – 4″ x 3 3/4″
- Mossy Meadow – 4″ x 3 3/4″
- Inside Strips:
- Flirty Flamingo – 5 1/4″ x 5/8″,
- Peaceful Poppies Designer Paper (green striped) 5 1/4″ x 1/2″
Assembly:
Using an Aqua Painter, lightly dampen the piece of watercolor paper so that it is wet but not dripping. Make a watercolor wash by picking up some Flirty Flamingo ink with your Aqua Painter and applying it to the damp watercolor paper, varying the intensity of the color as well as leaving some of the paper showing through – then add some Old Olive ink to these spaces. Make sure you don’t overlap the colors too much so that the colors don’t get muddy. To pick up the color easier, I rub the ink pad on an acrylic block, then pick up the color with my Aqua Painter from the block.
To speed up drying, I use the heat tool to dry this piece. When it is dry, use multipurpose glue to adhere it to one of the 5 3/8″ x 4 1/8″ pieces of Old Olive cardstock. Since the watercolor paper is heavier, I find using glue holds it better that using snail. Layer this piece onto the card base using snail or multipurpose glue.
Use snail to adhere the 4″ x 2″ piece of Designer Paper to the left side of the card front.
Using Memento ink, stamp the small poppies image from the Painted Poppies stamp set onto the piece of Shimmery White cardstock. Color the flowers with the Flirty Flamingo Stampin’ Blends markers. Crop the stamped piece with the fifth largest scalloped rectangle from the Stitched So Sweetly dies and adhere to the card front with dimensionals.
Crop a solid small poppy from the 2 1/2″ x 2″ piece of Flirty Flamingo cardstock using the dies from the Poppy Moments dies. Crop the coordinating poppy outline from the piece of Basic Black cardstock and glue it onto the Flirty Flamingo poppy. Attach to the card front using dimensionals. See photo for placement.
Crop two leaf bases from 4″ x 3 3/4″ piece of Old Olive cardstock using the dies from the Poppy Moments die set. Crop two of the narrower leaf pieces from the piece of Mossy Meadow cardstock using the dies from the Poppy Moments dies set. Use the multipurpose glue to adhere the Mossy Meadow pieces onto the Old Olive pieces. Use multipurpose glue to attach the leaves to the card front. See photo for placement.
Add a couple of Champagne rhinestones to the stamped image piece.
Make a small bow with the Gold Metallic Edge ribbon and attach it near the bottom of the poppy with a glue dot.
Inside:
Using Memento ink, stamp a portion of the small poppies image onto the lower left corner of the remaining piece of Whisper White cardstock. Color the flowers using the Flirty Flamingo Stampin’ Blends markers.
Adhere the Designer Paper strip to the Flirty Flamingo strip, then attach to the top of the Whisper White piece using snail. Use snail to adhere this piece to the remaining piece of Old Olive cardstock, then adhere to the inside of the card.
I chose to leave the inside blank so that I can write my own message.
Envelope:
Use Memento ink to stamp a portion of the small poppies image to the lower left corner of the envelope and color the flowers with the Flirty Flamingo Stampin’ Blends.
I hope you enjoy trying this card! For a live demonstration on how to do the watercolor wash, join my Facebook group to view a broadcast on this technique tomorrow. 🙂
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