Pleasant Poppies for Mother’s Day

This stamp didn’t grab me when I first saw it but I started seeing some really striking things made with it and it quickly grew on me. Now I can see so much potential for the things I’m going to make with it. It’s strange how sometimes you know immediately that a stamp set is for you and other times you need to see it in use before it jumps out at you. This one is a single large background stamp called Pleasant Poppies.

Pleasant Poppies Wood $30.95 or Clear $24.95

The first time I used it I stamped it on Pool Party cardstock and bleached it. I’d intended to colour it in with crayons afterwards but I really liked the simplicity of the two-tone look so I left it plain and simple.

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But I still wanted to try out colouring it so I tried again, this time on Baja Breeze cardstock. This bleached the image back to white so it was really easy to add the colour back in. And those final highlights with the white gel pen really make this one.

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I knew my mum would like the poppies – she’s a flower person but not a floral one if that makes any sense. She definitely appreciates flowers but her tastes aren’t traditional florals. So I set out trying to come up with a design for her Mother’s Day card using this stamp set. I was really thrilled with how the coloured embossing on black turned out. Simple yet striking and just the look I was after.

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If you like what you see, please leave me a comment and let me know.

Cheers,

Genna

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