Thursday 7 April 2022

California Poppies

 I'm Guest Designing with the ladies over at Day of the Month Card Club this month with a fabulous new challenge.


We're celebrating California Poppy Day...


I've used an MFT background poppy rubber stamp, stamped in Versamark and embossed in Cosmic Shimmer gold.

The poppies on this stamp set are Oriental so to offset the wrong type of poppies I watercoloured them true to their natural beauty of rich orange.


To finish the card I embossed a sentiment from Colorado Craft Company onto black cardstock for drama.

Challenges

Happy Little Stampers - Watercolour Anything Goes
Seize The Birthday - Anything Goes Birthday optional topping Stripe (no topping)
Addicted to Stamps - Make Your Mark
Daisy Chain - Birthday 




































14 comments:

  1. Your colouring is exquisite as always Claire a beautiful Birthday card

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  2. Your card is stunning and it looks so noble!! It is a great pleasure for us that you support us as a guest designer at DotMCC this month. Thanks very much!! Gundi

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  3. A beautiful card Claire. I like how you have highlighted with colouring just some of the poppies. xx

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  4. What a stunning creation this is with those vivid orange poppies outlined in gold! I just love how the gold on the sentiment beautifully coordinates with those embossed flowers! Congrats on your GD spot, it's well deserved and well done too! Thanks for all your kind words - I have to get through the services tomorrow and hopefully then I will be able to move on and let go of all this heavy-duty sadness. My new motto is "just breathe"

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  5. Beautiful card Claire, leaving some of the poppies uncoloured is so effective. xx

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  6. Poppies are one of my favorite flowers! I really love how you spread them on the card and especially that you only colored two of them! The vibrant orange and gold sentiment really catches the eye! Thank you so much for being our guest designer at DotMCC this month! Rosi xx

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  7. Wow, this is gorgeous, Claire! Love the shimmer and the spotlighting of the two poppies

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  8. Beautiful card and a wonderful way to show off those poppies with just a couple of them colored! Thank you for sharing this at Seize the Birthday!

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  9. This is a gorgeous card Claire, love that you only coloured two of the poppies, really makes an impact, love the gold embossing too, and thankyou for playing along at Seize the Birthday, Cathy x

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  10. You've come to the right place with the color of Californian poppy seeds. I love how you add color to only part of the image, it makes the card even more eye-catching.
    xx

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  11. Beautiful card and great design! Thank you so much for sharing at HLS Watercolour Challenge:)

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  12. WOW Claire your poppies look so wonderful, stunning card.

    Hugs
    Anke

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  13. Just love the shimmery gold embossing with only a few poppies colored, Claire! Gorgeous design - congrats on being guest designer at DOTMCC!!

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  14. Your card is just striking ! Love those red/orange shades for those poppies and your gold embossing outlines. Thanks so much for being our talented guest designer this month and sorry for my late comment.

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