Birthday Painted Poppies -- Happy and Bold

All the wonderful images in the Painted Poppies Bundle and the Peaceful Moments Bundle inspire creativity every time I see them!  I just love the power and simplicity of this card using the Painted Poppies stamp set and the Painted Labels Dies.  Those reds (Poppy Parade) just really pop (yeah, I hear the pun too!) against the Whisper White cardstock.  The flower heads were quick and easy to color in with my Poppy Parade Dark Stampin' Blends Marker and I topped it off with a little Wink of Stella on each one.  I didn't even try to use shading on those little flowers; just a solid coloring with the dark marker.  I did use both the light and dark markers to color the large poppy and the leaves.  The fun swirly die is a great accent for the sentiment from the By the Dock stamp set.  I also used a stitched circle for the sentiment from the Stitched Shapes Dies. 

The inside was kept simple with a bold sentiment from the Peaceful Moments stamp set and just a peek of the field of poppies in the lower right corner.  

Stamps:  Painted Poppies (mini p. 26), Peaceful Moments (mini p. 27), By The Dock (mini p. 49)

Paper:  Basic Black, Whisper White, Real Red

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Tools:  Die Cutting Machine, Painted Labels Dies (mini p. 26), Stitched Shapes Dies

Other:  Large & Small Dimensionals, Light & Dark Poppy Parade, Light & Dark Old Olive Stampin’ Blends Markers, Wink of Stella

Technique:  Coloring with Stampin’ Blends

All supplies from Annual Catalog unless otherwise noted.

Original idea CASED from Michelle Robinson @ www.mlbstampinup.blogspot.com

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