If you’re anything like me, you love to create some very stepped-up cards that are your “masterpieces.” There are times, though, when I just want to make something quickly, yet still be pleased with the results of having a card with lots of details to it.

The ‘Peaceful Poppies Elements‘ in the 2020 mini catalog are the answer! There are lots of elements that are ready-made – you only have to snail, glue, or use dimensionals to attach them to your cards.

Using just a piece of of Whisper White cardstock, colored cardstock and matching ink, you can make a very pretty card in a matter of minutes!  This is great if you want to build up your stash of cards, or make several to give someone as a hostess gift. Turn them into birthday, “thinking of you,” or thank-you cards, or just leave blank as notecards.

Here are a few cards I quickly made and you can see how using the elements give a certain flair to the cards.

For the first card, I used a piece of Poppy Parade cardstock cut at 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ scored at 4 1/4″ as the card base. I embossed a 5 1/4″ x 4″ piece of Whisper White cardstock with the Stone 3D folder from the Power of Hope bundle, although any of your favorite embossing folders would work.

I added several pieces from the Peaceful Poppies Elements. I colored the leaf element with the Light Old Olive Stampin’ Blends Marker, then stamped the “Happy Birthday” greeting from the Peaceful Moments stamp set using Poppy Parade ink and cropped it with a rectangle from the Stitched Rectangle framelits. The flowers and greeting were attached with Dimensionals, everything else was attached with snail.

For the inside of the card, I used Poppy Parade ink to stamp the sentiment from the Peaceful Moments stamp set onto a 5 1/4″ x 4″ piece of Whisper White cardstock and snailed it to the inside.

For the envelope, I used Old Olive ink to stamp one of the leaf outline stamps to the lower left corner of the envelope.

For the next card, I used an 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ piece of Mossy Meadow cardstock scored at 4 1/4″ for the card base. I used Memento ink to stamp several of the larger flowers and leaves from the Painted Poppies stamp set onto a piece of 5 1/2″ x 4″ piece of Whisper White cardstock.

I thought just the black images were a little plain but I didn’t want to take the time to color every flower and leaf. The Painted Poppies stamp set also has a couple of sizes of ‘spatter’ stamps, so I used Poppy Parade ink and Mossy Meadow ink to add a splash of color to the flowers and leaves. I stamped off on a piece of scrap paper before stamped on the cardstock so that the colors would be a little muted.

I used several of the elements to dress up the card, again coloring the leaf with the Light Old Olive Stampin’ Blends marker. I stamped the ‘Thank You’ from the Peaceful Moments stamp set onto a scrap piece of Whisper White cardstock and used the Label Me Fancy punch to punch it out. The black element and leaf are snailed to the card front and the greeting and flowers are attached with Dimensionals.

I left the inside blank to write my own personal message, but I decorated it a bit, using Memento ink to stamp the leaf and using Mossy Meadow ink stamped off to add the splash of color to the leaves.

I stamped the envelope as I did for the first card.

For the last card, I used a 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ piece of Calypso Coral cardstock scored at 4 1/4″ for the card base. I used Poppy Parade ink to stamp the flower from the Painted Poppies stamp set several times onto the front of the card base.  I again used several elements  for the card front. I used Mossy Meadow ink to stamp the ‘Happy Birthday’ greeting from the Peaceful Moments stamp set onto a scrap piece of Old Olive cardstock, then punched it out with the Label Me Fancy punch. I used just a touch of Multipurpose glue to attach the vellum flower and leaves, all other elements are attached using Dimensionals.

For the inside of this card, I used Poppy Parade ink to stamp the flower and Old Olive ink to stamp the leaf onto a 5 1/4″ x 4″ piece of Whisper White cardstock. I used Memento ink to stamp the sentiment from the Peaceful Moments stamp set, then snailed it to the inside of the card.

I stamped the envelope as I did for the first card.

There are many different pieces in the Peaceful Poppies Elements to choose from when adding them to your cards or projects and I hope this gives you a few ideas. Could you or I use these stamp sets to make really fancy cards? Absolutely! But remember–these are just some suggestions to use the Peaceful Poppies Elements to make a card or cards quickly.

Stay tuned for more posts using the Peaceful Poppies Suite to create cards that require a little more time investment!

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