Saturday 26 April 2014

pretty poppies

 Both cards use a stamp from the Chocolate Baroque pretty poppies set as the main image.
The first one was inspired by a card Janet demoed at Moira's the other week - this one was a lot less heavy-handed with the brown ink though! Background is distress inks in vintage photo, broken china, barn door and bundled sage brushed on, sprayed with water and blotted. I stamped a stamp from lace fragments several times on the left and one from  butterfly poppy on the right and at the bottom , all in vintage photo. Once the inks were dry, I stamped the main image using archival black and coloured it with promarkers and karisma pencils before sponging more vintage photo round the edges. The stamped images on
the base card are using tea dye ink, and the image was matted onto black and copper card.
The second card inspiration came from a post on the CB design team blog by Miranda, and is very different from her elegant monochrome card . I stamped the same stamp again with versamark and white EP before brushing distress inks in tea dye, barn door, bundled sage and broken china over it, keeping roughly to the design for the colours. A quick wipe with kitchen roll to clean off the embossed image, and matting onto red and green card. The base card was stamped with a stamp from poppy meadow using tea dye inks, and more sponged round the edges finished it off.

I am entering these  in the Make my Monday challenge, distressing

8 comments:

  1. It's amazing to see how different these two are through the techniques used for the main image. I love the way you picked out those white parts of the butterflies' wings in the first & gorgeous black & copper matting. Your matting of the second one really brings out the reds & greens in the image panel & I particularly like your soft brown stamping in the two corners. Thank you for your kind words on my latest blog post too.
    Paula (PEP)

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  2. They are both beautiful, the second one is my favourite though, great colours.

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  3. Both lovely, Veronica I like the first one best though - blue poppies are fab

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  4. I just saw these beautiful cards over on the CB FB page. They are both gorgeous Veronica and don't think I could choose a favourite.

    Hugs
    Lesley Xx

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  5. Great use of that lovely stamp to make these cards using interesting distressing techniques.

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  6. Both cards are delightful, the images are beautiful. I love both of them. Love and hugs x ChrisB

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  7. beautiful, beautiful cards Veronica... love them both. Thank you for joining us at MMM
    Suzi B x

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  8. What stunning cards Veronica! I saw these on FB but didn't have time to come over for a proper look. Glad I've come back to them today because they really are beautiful. Fab techniques used to create two totally different cards with the one lovely stamp.

    Hugs
    Lesley Xx

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