Hi Friends
Here we are after a Wintery day weather it is once again warming up quite rapidly so I won't mind the warmer because I have refused to turn on the heat all last night and today I am just wearing a sweater when it gets cooler is all.
Shortly after the sun came out yesterday I went for a little tour of our front and back gardens to see that some plants are on the so so side. Whether or not it will make it, a few days will tell. But I am remaining optimistic that I will have saved all of them or very little was lost.
So now about this card for today, I have made it for a friend in Australia which I hope will like because her and I share the common passion about making our own flowers for our cards and she always shows her beautiful cards she has made with me by email, the ones she made with all of her friends. So after attending both stamp shows in March I had gotten some beautiful stamp sets from Heartful Creations which is very popular here online. So I gave it a go at making the cute little poppy flowers for her so, here is the card I made for Trish:
This card was inspired by some of the cards Heartful Creations had on their displays at the show, but they had a vase with the flowers in it. 3 white CS kinds were used. Bling, bazzill and SU. The cage was from CS in my stash that shimmers in egg shell. So since I had the bird cage I was dying to try for the first time I decided to go ahead and make a small arrangement of poppies in front of the bird cage. I also had some flourish dies and some leaves to add to make it more complete. The bouquet that is. I had also found a stamp to use like a flag with a toothpick saying Happy Birthday so I added a dab of glue to the end of the toothpick and planted it in some opening in between my poppies.
The poppie flower is a stamp that I have embossed with transparent powder, cut by hand. Then I cut in between the petals so I could play more with my stylus to add more dimension to the petals. I first cupped the middle of the flower from the front of it with a foam pad underneath. Then I turned the flower over and did the cupping with all of the petals. I did two layers of poppies. I then cupped the middle again so I could insert my punched sun in black in the middle of the flower. It instantly popped at me as being a gorgeous flower so I went from there to finishing the card the way you see it now.
Here is a closer view of what the flower looks like after being stamped and embossed on red CS.
So I hope you enjoyed it. These cards are usually sent in padded emvelopes so a minimum crushing is involved. But not a guarantee. So I hope you received it in good condition Trish. She is away for a week and she didn't bring her laptop with her so she will only see this when she returns home.
Have a great day everyone!