Poppies

Good Morning all.

Today is a little card using die cut acetate poppies.  After all my acetate cards i have lots of little offcuts so decided to try using them.  Here i used alcohol ink to colour the acetate before die cutting.

I first die cut white card into an hexagon shaped base card and and smaller mat.  To the smaller panel i very lightly stencilled a foliage background with oxide inks patina & pistachio.   I inked the acetate pieces with alcohol inks, i then die cut just the poppy heads, as this is heavyweight acetate i used for base cards the die doesn't cut all the way through, but enough to easily finish cutting with scissors.  I die cut the poppy again from a scrap of white card and coloured the stems with alcohol pens. 

I decided where i wanted the poppy and then stamped the cat, sentiment & dragonfly with a ombre ink pad.  I then glued on the poppy stem and added the acetate poppy heads on top with a little tacky pva 

The oxide ink just lightly shows through the stamped cat which i like on this occasion.  I made this in all that heat last week when i kept spraying water around the room to try and help keep the heat a bit more bearable. I only noticed later some had landed on my cat and given a speckled effect to it which makes me smile as my old cat likes to sit in front of my water spray to cool off too😁

Just a close up on the poppies. The colour on the poppies mostly hides the glue so its not as obvious as it would be on plain acetate.  I didn't glue them on flat so that it has dimension.  

Items Used:

Lavinia stamps - mooch, fairy bugs

Lavinia stamps stencil - 'foliage'

Sentiment stamp

Pennyblack poppy die

Hexagon stitched dies

Distress oxides - cracked pistachio, patina

Kaleidacolor Ombre ink pad 'Caribbean sea'

Tim Holtz Alcohol inks - red pepper, watermelon, yellow

CraftyUK ltd white linen cardstock

Hunkydory acetate

Thank you all for stopping by and all your comments, i really do appreciate you all taking the time out of your day.  Enjoy the rest of your week.  Hugs Emmaxxx

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http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.com/2021/07/pixies-snippets-playground-challenge_0902861094.html   - my acetate is snippets

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