Springtime Poppies
Hi and welcome to our Spring Collection Blog Blitz! Jean Okimoto here, with a simple card to welcome the new season, and our great collection of new Memory Box Dies and Designer Stencils. Let's combine a quick watercolor-y technique with the wonderful spring products today.
- Darling Poppies 98879
- Zippy Dots Designer Stencil 88568
- Metal Adapter Plate
- Granny Smith Cardstock
- Peony Cardstock
- Parchment Cardstock
- Granny Smith Envelope
Inks
- Imagine Crafts Lady Bug irRESISTible Colored Texture Spray
- Imagine Crafts Golden Glitz Delicata
- Imagine Crafts Pearlescent Lime Brilliance.
Spritz water and Imagine Crafts Lady Bug irRESISTible onto a craft mat and allow the water and ink to blend. Press a rectangle of 140# cold-pressed watercolor paper onto the diluted ink, then heat-set it briefly, just till it's still slightly damp.
Press some ink from a Delicata Golden Glitz inkpad onto a clean section of the craft mat and spritz the ink lightly with water. Press the watercolor paper into the diluted Golden Glitz to pick up some soft gold highlights. Heat-set the paper, trim it and ink the edges with a waterbrush dipped into a blend of Lady Bug and water.
Diecut Darling Poppies from Granny Smith Cardstock. Cut the flowers again from Peony Cardstock and press a piece of Scor-Tape onto the backside of the flowers to keep the pieces intact. Stencil Zippy Dots onto the watercolor paper with Pearlescent Lime. Assemble the card - offset the Peony Cardstock flowers so the Granny Smith portion appears as a slight shadow. Attach three green sequins. Tuck the card into a spring green Granny Smith Envelope and send it to someone special.
Be sure to add your comment to all of the posts during our blitz this week - you'll be entered to win a product from each designer's project. I'll be giving away the beautiful, delicate Darling Poppy Die!
Every blog post this week will have a chance to win a prize. The deadline for submitting comments is 10:00pm EST on Sunday, March 30th. Winners will be announced on the Outside the Box blog on Monday, March 31st.
Thanks for visiting - and be sure to scroll down to see Deb's IT'S A BOY card too - and add your comment there for another chance to win a great prize!
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Love the poppies die and the zippy dots stencil!
Posted by: Margarita Navarro-Rivera | 03/26/2014 at 03:24 PM
Oh so pretty...love the colors and design.
Posted by: conil | 03/26/2014 at 03:28 PM
Beautiful! Love the poppies.
Posted by: Pam | 03/26/2014 at 03:30 PM
How pretty, I love poppies.
Posted by: Tami B | 03/26/2014 at 03:31 PM
Wow that poppy really pops x
Posted by: Jane's Journal | 03/26/2014 at 03:32 PM
Thanks for the watercolour tips. Gorgeous card
Posted by: ionabunny | 03/26/2014 at 03:40 PM
The Darling Poppies are SO pretty!
Zippy Dots stencil is very cool...art journaling funky-cool!
Posted by: Erin Glee | 03/26/2014 at 03:40 PM
Great technique, lovely card, thanks!
Posted by: Pamela B. | 03/26/2014 at 03:42 PM
Poppies make everything sunny!
Posted by: Marty Robinson | 03/26/2014 at 03:44 PM
Hello Jean,
Bienvenue au printemps et à cette nouvelle collection,attendue avec patience ,sublimée par vous toutes ,design team.
Un cadeau qui nous ravit
Amitiés
Danièle
C'est un moment intense ,découvrir toutes ces merveilles qui rendent nos journées plus belles
Posted by: BOHR Danièle | 03/26/2014 at 03:47 PM
This die is so beautiful and so is the watercolor panel! I'm going to try that!
Posted by: Amy Kolling | 03/26/2014 at 03:47 PM
Beautiful card! Love this die!
Posted by: Rachel B. | 03/26/2014 at 03:48 PM
Great card! Love the new dies!
Posted by: Laraine R | 03/26/2014 at 03:52 PM
What a gorgeous card and a beautiful die!!
Posted by: Sabrina Radican | 03/26/2014 at 03:57 PM
Poppies are the prettiest of flowers, your card is wonderful.
Posted by: Deidre Stuber | 03/26/2014 at 03:59 PM
Haved loved poppies ever since I first saw one.Your card is lovely.
Posted by: Sandra | 03/26/2014 at 04:00 PM
Love this beautiful die! This card is so striking with the gorgeous red blooms!
Posted by: Miriam Prantner | 03/26/2014 at 04:11 PM
Love your background - very pretty colors and great card using this new die !!!
Posted by: karenajo | 03/26/2014 at 04:15 PM
Love the poppies die! Beautiful card! TFS
Posted by: Loly Borda | 03/26/2014 at 04:17 PM
Such a lovely card - I love poppies! Thanks for the chance to win one of these pretty dies:)
Posted by: Lynn Hardy | 03/26/2014 at 04:22 PM
The poppies are so pretty and I love the stems and leaves. Nice watercolor background too! Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Lynn G. | 03/26/2014 at 04:30 PM
Oh my goodness! The Darling poppies die is so pretty! Love it! Love you card!
Posted by: Betty H. | 03/26/2014 at 04:34 PM
Oh my goodness this card is just gorgeous! I love the poppy die!
Posted by: stampnk | 03/26/2014 at 04:35 PM
Wow! Thanks for all the details on how you made the card.
Posted by: Jill H | 03/26/2014 at 04:40 PM
Lovely card and great die! ;-)
Posted by: diana | 03/26/2014 at 05:02 PM