In my garden, while I don't have actual poppies, I do have tulips blooming, so I am going with a flower theme. This also works for "May Flowers" CAS challenge.
I stamped my giant poppy stamp in the corner of my panel, and then again on a large post-it which I had cut down to the exact size of my card front. I cut the image out from the post-it (I wasn't too picky about all the little bumps and ridges), and then used the negative of this piece to cover the part of the card front that was outside my flower. Then I sponged the flower, removed the mask, stamped the happy, die cut the word birthday (stacked 2 of them), and added some stickles and white gel pen accents (on the stamen). Popped up this panel with dimensionals.
Registered: December 8, 2005 Location: Iowa Posts: 72961
Mon, May 15, 2017 @ 5:16 AM
Stunning!
------------------------------ Paula "The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa the bad things don’t always spoil the good things, or make them unimportant. - The Eleventh Doctor
Registered: October 29, 2006 Location: Buffalo, NY Posts: 4100
Fri, May 19, 2017 @ 8:36 PM
Wow this is gorgeous! Love how you managed to sponge it too! Thanks for taking the Time Out to play with us!
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Registered: November 3, 2007 Location: NJ Posts: 208
Thu, Jun 01, 2017 @ 4:16 AM
Hi Maura. Stephanie L from the Time Out DT here to congratulate you on getting honors for this absolutely GORGEOUS card that you posted for Time Out Challenge #83. The image is so wonderful, as is the belnding of color and those wonderful flecks of gold. The top left placement of the sentiment is perfect. We loved your creation, we loved having you play with us, and we hope you come back again and again!