Friday 6 May 2011

The Stampman Poppies Challenge

Happy Friday everyone. I hope your week has gone well.

It's time for another challenge over at The Stampman and this time the lovely Janet has set us the theme of POPPIES.

Her husband is organising a fund raising concert for The British Legion in Skipton on 25th October and thought it'd be great to have some handmade cards to sell. So if you'd like to be challenged, dig out all those lovely Poppy stamps you have in your stash and get creating. If you'd like to donate your cards to Janet, via The Stampman, she'd be thrilled, but there is absolutely no obligation. You will still be in with a chance of winning the £10 Stampman vouchers whether you donate them or not, so have fun.

Here is my Design project this time.


I used a Hero Cling stamp coloured with distress inks and then cut out and decoupaged with some stickles and glossy accents to highlight the lovely flower.


It is mounted on some embossed card using the Script Cuttlebug folder which had lime green chalk ink lightly rubbed over. The other embossed card is some Core'dinations Black magic which has been lightly sanded to show the red through.

The Sentiment is in an Aspects of Design Framie and I coloured some white nail heads with a promarker to match.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a lovely weekend.

19 comments:

Lisa Jane said...

oh wow this is stunning .. a gorgeous Poppy. I love them.. they are special to me and my partner so i hope to have time to make a card this week
Lisa x

SYLVIA-ANNE said...

A stunning creation Lisa - the beautiful Poppy really stands out from the embossed background. Love the effect of the black Co'ordinations card with the red core.
Hugs, Sylvia xxx

Mrs.B said...

Fabulous card Lisa, that flower looks gorgeous - Glossy Accents really makes a difference. The CB script is just perfect for the theme.
Avril xx

Shaz in Oz.CalligraphyCards said...

Lisa, this is just awesome - thanks so much for posting it very inspiring! Shaz in oz.x

Ciara said...

Wow, that's really striking Lisa! Love the shiny petals.

Funnily enough, I've just put some stuff up for sale on my blog & one of the stamp sets has that same poppy in!

Hope you have a lovely weekend too, xx

G Peplow said...

WoW Fabulous card, so pretty, I love the distressed background too:0) xxx

Lynne K said...

Wow! This is just stunning, Lisa. The flower is amazing!

Have a lovely weekend,
Lynne xx

Lynda said...

Beautiful card Lisa - the flower looks wonderful against the script background.

Love Lynda xxx

Emma Williams said...

WOW!!! Absolutely stunning, Lisa!!! I always love cards with poppies on and this is such a beautiful card. I adore everything about it...and can't wait for your next little creation! :)
Hope you have a fab weekend.
Love and hugs, Emma xxx

Sally H said...

This is gorgeous, Lisa! I haven't used that stamp for a while - hope I can find the time to join in x

Jules said...

Hi Lisa

What a totally fantastic card!! I love this very much.

Great decoupage and such gorgeous colours.

Love Jules xx

CAROL said...

Ooh! beautiful card, love everything about it xx

Brenda Brown said...

A stunning 3D poppy Lisa and fabulous design.
Have a great weekend.
luv and hugs {brenda} xoxox

craftimamma said...

What a fabulous card Lisa. I love the techniques you have used on here and the poppy looks gorgeous. I'm a sucker for script backgrounds whether stamped or embossed so this really pushes the right buttons for me. Beautiful!

Hugs
Lesley Xx

Jill said...

Wow Lisa, what a poppy! Absolutely gorgeous card. Hope you and yours are all well. Just come back from 4 nights in the caravan which was really enjoyable! Jill x

Lesley Edmonds said...

Oh Lisa - this is absolutely stunning!
x

Sue said...

This is fabulous Lisa, I love your script background, and your poppy is stunning x

Kezzy said...

Hi lisa I'm just catching up with everyone as easter hols finished last wednesday when the kids went to school, and I've not managed to blog either which i think has a bit to do with lack of blogging. I've been looking through all your posts that I've missed and wow you have done so much. You have had some gorgeous days out the pics are brill, your dd does some beautiful work and she definitely will be an artist of some sort as she has a fab eye for colour and her colouring is way better than mine, how old is she? Looks like you both had a fantastic day at the workshop. Your pieces for the stampman are stunning, the utee stamping into was great, the resist tag was brill and the poppy is stunning. I have been following the stampman blog but not entered yet, lack of confidence i think, mind you i am going to do some poppy cards to send as i think its a great cause. I'm hopefully going to lock myself in the craft room today and try and create and blog. Thanks lisa fir supporting me from the beginning and i really appreciate you being a follower. Kezzy x

Janice said...

There are so many poppies out there! Another beauty. Love the card design, Jx