More Poppies

It's mid way time already at We Love Stamping and Stamping Sensations where this months themes are Hearts selected by Faith and Favourite Stamps which Lynn selected. I also have a share for the new challenges at Snippets Playground and Christmas Kickstart.

It's Lavinia Poppies again for me, a masked diagonal panel stamped with Garden Poppy, Group Poppies and in the background Orchard Grass. After shading the edges I stamped Deeper than the Ocean in the centre and matted onto red and black card base. Think this will fit the the themes at Classic Designs Blooms and/or Butterflies, Beautiful Blossoms, Red and/or Pink at (Pin)spirational and add some Red at  Dream Valley.

Above my card for Jo's Christmas Kickstart challenge which is about songs and hymns, my thoughts here are  Mistletoe (and Wine). The wreath is made with Lavinia mini stamps and the sentiment is a real oldie from Penny Black. Neglected Stuff, it's the sentiment which has only been used once or twice and I've had it for years. Would like to enter this at Holly and Ivy challenge.

Next my mid month share for WLS Kraft card, a heart created with a mask and white inkpad, light is so bad here lately that difficult to get a decent photo so doesn't look very white. The sentiment is Penny Black Black 30-297 Sprinkles and Smiles and Flower 40-669 Radiant all heat embossed with detail white EP, the flower head stamped again, coloured and cut out and raised on pinflair. Triple B would like Blooms so linking the above and my chosen three at Retro Rubber are Kraft, Your Choice and Heat Embossing, Radiant is long since discontinued, purchased about 2010/12 before the supplier closed.

And my Snippets share, I had fun with dies, an oddment of fabric scrim found in one of the garden sheds and some yellow fibre. A watery inky base panel, crackle texture paste and stencil wall and of course there had to be some stamping which comes from Hero Arts stamp Old French Writing. It's a real oldie which used to come out regularly at classes I ran at a shop selling them, sadly long since closed in 2014 so it dates well before then. Cut the flower heads a second time to decoupage, coloured with stencil brushes and arranged onto the other elements, a bow and tag with sticker stencils. Girlz Creative/Girlz Rebel it's ribbon or twine and a stencilled wall for Stencil Fun and finally dies for Fab and Funky.

My snippets, well some of them before they joined the others already in the bin, you might see this photo again as I made a couple at the same time from the oddments.