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Springtime Poppies

Hi and welcome to our Spring Collection Blog Blitz!  Jean Okimoto here, with a simple card to welcome the new season, and our great collection of new Memory Box Dies and Designer Stencils.  Let's combine a quick watercolor-y technique with the wonderful spring products today.

Memory Box Products

  • Darling Poppies 98879
  • Zippy Dots Designer Stencil 88568
  • Metal Adapter Plate
  • Granny Smith Cardstock
  • Peony Cardstock
  • Parchment Cardstock
  • Granny Smith Envelope

Inks

  • Imagine Crafts Lady Bug irRESISTible Colored Texture Spray
  • Imagine Crafts Golden Glitz Delicata
  • Imagine Crafts Pearlescent Lime Brilliance.

Spritz water and Imagine Crafts Lady Bug irRESISTible onto a craft mat and allow the water and ink to blend.  Press a rectangle of 140# cold-pressed watercolor paper onto the diluted ink, then heat-set it briefly, just till it's still slightly damp.

Press some ink from a Delicata Golden Glitz inkpad onto a clean section of the craft mat and spritz the ink lightly with water.  Press the watercolor paper into the diluted Golden Glitz to pick up some soft gold highlights.  Heat-set the paper, trim it and ink the edges with a waterbrush dipped into a blend of Lady Bug and water.

Diecut Darling Poppies from Granny Smith Cardstock.  Cut the flowers again from Peony Cardstock and press a piece of Scor-Tape onto the backside of the flowers to keep the pieces intact.  Stencil Zippy Dots onto the watercolor paper with Pearlescent Lime.  Assemble the card – offset the Peony Cardstock flowers so the Granny Smith portion appears as a slight shadow.  Attach three green sequins.  Tuck the card into a spring green Granny Smith Envelope and send it to someone special.

Be sure to add your comment to all of the posts during our blitz this week – you'll be entered to win a product from each designer's project.  I'll be giving away the beautiful, delicate Darling Poppy Die!

Every blog post this week will have a chance to win a prize.  The deadline for submitting comments is 10:00pm EST on Sunday, March 30th.  Winners will be announced on the Outside the Box blog on Monday, March 31st. 

Thanks for visiting – and be sure to scroll down to see Deb's IT'S A BOY card too – and add your comment there for another chance to win a great prize!

 

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121 Comments

  7. The Darling Poppies are SO pretty!
    Zippy Dots stencil is very cool…art journaling funky-cool!

  10. Hello Jean,
    Bienvenue au printemps et à cette nouvelle collection,attendue avec patience ,sublimée par vous toutes ,design team.
    Un cadeau qui nous ravit
    Amitiés
    Danièle
    C’est un moment intense ,découvrir toutes ces merveilles qui rendent nos journées plus belles

  11. This die is so beautiful and so is the watercolor panel! I’m going to try that!

  17. Love this beautiful die! This card is so striking with the gorgeous red blooms!

  21. The poppies are so pretty and I love the stems and leaves. Nice watercolor background too! Thanks for sharing!

  28. Lovely, lovely, bright card! Just what is needed on this day when we still have a lot of snow here.
    Thanks.
    MJ

  29. Beautiful card. I love poppies they are a versatile flower to use on cards 🙂 xx

  31. What a lovely card, the colors are so pretty. The poppy die, like so many Memory Box Dies, is beautiful. Thank you for sharing your techniques.

  36. Beautiful card! I just love this poppy die and your background panel is wonderful. Great design! Thanks for sharing.
    Katie B.

  37. Thank you for sharing your card recipe! I already had the Darling Poppies on my wish list, now I’m adding the Zippy Dots stencil. 🙂

  38. the poppy die cuts look great against the water color panel and I love the delicate color of the card base. Beautiful job.

  40. Love the vivid colors and the intriguing background technique!! Thank you for sharing.
    <3 J
    jwoolbright at gmail dot com
    HerPeacefulGarden.blogspot.com

  43. This card is so pretty, the water colour technique is my favourite just now. I love the effect an ink pad and aqua brush give. Your card is beautifully colourful and the new dies are brilliant Dx

  44. WOW! WOW! WOW! Love this simply Springaliscious card! Love how you did the poppies, the colors are amazing and the stencil work is just right! I am going to go broke buying dies and stencils!! Hopefully I can win some to help the wallet out! LOL TFS!

  46. Very pretty card! I love the poppies die and the dots stencil! Can’t wait to get them both!

  48. I love red poppies. It is one of the first of my flowers that bloom every Spring. Your card is lovely today.

  50. That peony card stock is beautiful and just right for the die. Love the new (to me) watercolor-y idea. Thanks!

  57. I have fallen in love with all for the poppy dies and stamps since my daughter decided to use those for her wedding flowers. They are a must for my collection of memory box dies.

  64. Beautiful ,I got the other poppy dies and they make fab cards. Would love this one as well.

  67. Love this die. I have the Prim Poppy but would love to have this one!! Beautiful card!

  70. Poppies are my absolute favorite. Great card, and the new dies encourage new levels of creativity!

  73. this poppy die is gorgeous it is on my wish list. I do hope I am lucky enough to win it, I would be so delighted. Thank you for the chance to win.

  76. Love Memory Box dies and have the poppy on my wish list. I fing the cut beautifully.

  77. Awesome die & stencils! Creates such a wonderful card and not too difficult to make! Fantastic!!! Thanks for sharing the ideas…

  78. What a lovely card…..and I LOVE the poppies die!! So versatile!!! Thanks for sharing!!

  85. Love the poppies…so very cheerful! Thanks for the detailed instructions on the techniques used and thanks for the inspiration!

  89. Love most of MemoryBox dies, and already have a poppydie. This one is also super, I’m very fond of dies with butterflies and flowers, and as number one the poppies. Maybe because I live nearby ‘Flanders Fields’…
    Thanks for all your ideas you give us!

  94. Love this technique. This die is on my list, so lovely and versatile! Thank you for sharing!

  98. Such a beautiful card. I love that poppy die and you did a great job of showcasing it. Love the colors you selected.

  101. Poppies are the flower of the American Legion Auxiliary which does wonderful things to help our veterans and youth. What a great die. I would use this die so often. If I do not win, I know I will be buying it.
    Thanks for sharing!

  103. Stunning use of colour and fabulous use of dies, plus your work with the stencil is so creative – I love your card!

  106. This poppy die is wonderful. I love the technique used for the background. Will have to try it.

  107. Beautiful card for Spring. Love the poppies. This will be a very popular die.

  108. I love the techniques you used on this card, especially the background – it’s beautiful.

  111. Wow, the poppy die could be used for just about any occasion. Poppies are so evocative and I’m dreaming of all the ways I could use this lovely die….Great card!

  113. This design is lovely, and having the flower go outside
    The frame is the perfect touch! Thanks so much! 🙂

  116. Beautiful Spring color card! Love the poppy die—real darling:) Love the design, the water color background. Thank you for sharing the details and techniques 🙂

  121. Thanks for all of your wonderful comments – and CONGRATS to Darling Poppies prizewinner Margarita Navarro-Rivera!

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