Poppies Please! by Jean Okimoto

Say hello with the billowy, textured, layered poppies from the Memory Box floral collection on a summer slimline. Hi, Jean Okimoto here with a mix-and-match design in sunny yellows.

These watercolored blossoms are cut from inky sheets in my stash - they're colored with inks from the Melon Melody Kaleidacolor inkpad pressed onto an acrylic block. Cut them with the Enchanting Poppy Stems, Graceful Poppy Stems and Sweet Poppy Stem dies. Color the attached stems with a yellow-greenish marker.

Cut the loose stems and leaves from the Enchanting Poppy Stems set from a light green 6x6 in the Lush Green Collection. Color the narrow leaf overlays with the marker too.

Cut the centers from the black 6x6 in the Rainbow Reflections Mirror Pad.

Assemble the flowers.

I used a stash scrap of ink-blended cardstock for the background - it's diecut with the 6-½" x 1-½" Wrapped Stitched Slim Rectangles die.

Attach the diecuts to a white slimline card (3-⅝" x 8-½") - use foamdots for the blossoms.

Stamp the greeting - from the Big and Little Reverse Words Clear Stamp Set - on a lime green 6x6 from the Lush Green Collection with Shady Lane VersaFine Clair. Quickly heat-emboss it with detail clear powder. Diecut it with the greeting strip die included in the stamp set. Trim the short ends. Attach it with foamdots.

Attach the largest Clear Fairy Drops. Cut a slimline-sized rectangle of cardstock to protect the card front for mailing.

Enjoy the versatility of Memory Box dies by mixing, matching and layering the floral diecuts. Diecut scraps of ink-blended or watercolored paper for loose, random inky petals. Try this design in your favorite colors too!

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