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

Quick Quotes Gratitude card

Good morning Quick Quotes readers, Alicia here today.  I have a card of gratitude to inspire you.  I used several subtle techniques to accentuate the soft and lovely Harmony 101 paper.  

The first technique I used was masking.  Here are the steps I used to create the image:

1. Stamp image multiple times using a platform with Quick Quotes Powderpuff Chalking inks insures a dark clean image
2. Stamp the same image on masking tape or sticky note paper
3. Fussy cut the image and place exactly over the stamped image
4. Layer the second image on the platform over the first image
5. Stamp image multiple times to insure a crisp image
6. Remove masking to reveal combined image

I inked up all the edges with Warm Gray PowderPuff Chalking Ink  and finished off the card with a ribbon and some sequins.  I like to drop pearly drops inside the sequins for a final touch.  

Quick Quotes Products used:

Harmony 101 paper

Warm Gray PowderPuff Chalking Ink

other products:

Close to My Heart stamp set Always Grateful

Judikins Eclipse tape

Frantic Stamper Corner Cut tag die

TPC Studio Black Shimmer card stock

sequins and pearl drops   

ribbon

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

http://useyourstuff.blogspot.com/2017/11/uys-289-thankful.html until 11/25 no winner

http://www.dare2bartzy.com/wp/november-challenge-gratitude/ until 12/2x

Thanks so much for reading today.

Alicia