Crafter's Companion Poppies and Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

It's time for a new sketch over at Atlantic Hearts Sketch challenge. I spent a lot of time on this one.  I searched in my "tag" section of my Scraprack.  I found this great pocket with tag and the project grew from there.  I searched my inventory in Evernote and found that I had a poppy stamp and die set.  I had the striped paper scrap lying around from my recent Dreaming Tree project.  Creating the flowers, background and sentiment were the hard parts.

Here is the sketch:

I began by stamping and embossing the flowers on good card stock.  I think used three distress inks to add color to the flowers.  I wish I had better matched the reds, I thought Fired Brick would do it but it came out brighter than I expected. 

Each flower is four stamped, embossed and inked pieces excluding leaves.  I shaped the flowers with my fingers.  I stamped the sentiment in the same ink as the inside of the flowers aMuse French Roast pigment ink.

I stamped the poppy buds with Colorbox Pistachio and embossed with clear powder as I did all the images.  I didn't want the buds to overpower the flower cluster so I picked a green that more closely matched the green in the paper versus the green in the leaves.  I masked in a few places as the bud and the stem were separate stamps.  All the stamps used came from the same set.

I loved how this tag has a neat envelope.

Ingredients:

Quick Quotes Spring Showers papers

Sheena (Crafter's Companion) Poppy Victorian Floral stamps and dies (several years old)

Colorbox Pistachio pigment ink

a Muse French Roast pigment ink

Tim Holtz Distress ink:  Wild Honey, Fired Brick and Mustard Seed

Spellbinders Label die

Judikins clear embossing powder

masking tape

tag and pouch from stash 

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

http://craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper.blogspot.com/2020/04/craftyhazelnuts-patterned-paper-april.html until 4/30x

https://www.retrorubberchallengeblog.com/my-blog/2020/04/challenge-133-anything-goes.html until 5/1x

http://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com/2020/04/challenge-198-our-beautiful-earth.html until 5/1x

http://ttcrd.blogspot.com/2020/04/anything-goes-challenge-week-beginning_28.html until 5/6x

https://worldwideopendesignteamchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/04/world-wide-open-design-team-challenge.html until 5/15x

Thanks so much for stopping by and don't forget to play along at Atlantic Hearts Sketch 

challenge.

Alicia