Today I have a floral card to share with you. I began with a CHF Shady Tree Studios Perfect Poppies stamp, an Aged Sheet Music Scrapblock, some Webster's Pages Designer Vellum Cards and Hello Beautiful Journaling Cards, Rich Cocoa Memento ink, and a vague idea. . .
I loved the circle in the Webster's pages vellum but needed to think of a way to let the flower show through. I used a circle Nestability to cut both a window and a mask--the window for the flower to show through the vellum, and the mask to protect the background cardstock for the flower while I stamped music in the rest of the background.
Next I placed the mask over the musical background and stamped my poppies in Memento Rich Cocoa ink.
After stamping the poppies, I used a Copic Airbrush system, along with Copic markers Y23 and B 23 to airbrush the background for the poppies. I didn't bother masking the flowers because I knew that I was keeping the blue toward the top of the window, where I planned to raise the larger poppy bloom on foam tape anyway. The lower poppy is colored directly on the background, but the pale yellow didn't harm it.
After airbrushing my background, I was ready to color the poppies. I used the Copic markers shown below. (The B23 on the end was used only in the Airbrush. The Y23 was used in the airbrush as well as the poppy center. And as I sit here typing, it occurs to me that I have never in my life seen a yellow poppy center. . . That center should have been black. Perhaps I could plead artistic license?)
Here are the parts for my card, coloring finished and the large poppy layered with foam tape for added dimension.
I used a few strategically placed mini glue dots to attach the vellum layer to the background. The printed layer works surprisingly well to conceal glue dots. The little "beauty" tag is cut from a Webster's Pages Journaling card and pinned on with a Tim Holtz mini pin. Pink pearls conceal my more apt-to-be-spotted glue dots, and a wide silk ribbon from my stash finishes the card.
I hope you have a lovely day, and I thank you for visiting the CLASSroom!
