Monday, August 1, 2016

Celebrate Watercolour Poppies



Hi and welcome! The Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog is turning 6 years old, and this week we are celebrating the anniversary. Our theme for the challenge is Celebrate. Since it is the first day of a new month we are also showcasing products from a specific company, and this week it is the wonderful exclusive products by Simon Says Stamp itself. 

Because this is such a special challenge, there are two $50 gift vouchers to be won. I hope you can join us!

Layers of ink - Watercolour Poppies Tutorial by Anna-Karin
Six years, that means approximately a total of 312 challenges. If you take the design team projects, and participant projects into account, that adds up to a massive amount of creative inspiration, and joy. With some quick very rough estimations, I think it will be above 40000 projects in total. Just imagine all of them collected in one room. That is certainly something to celebrate. 

I have been on this amazing design team for a little more than four years now, which would mean about 212 projects. But enough with the maths now and onto the card. :)

I made a card with the Tattered Poppy die as my focal point, and a whole bunch of other Simon Says Stamp dies and stamps. Here are some step photos. 

Layers of ink - Watercolour Poppies Tutorial by Anna-Karin
Start by die cutting the Tattered Poppy twice from watercolour paper. 

Layers of ink - Watercolour Poppies Tutorial by Anna-Karin
Paint the parts with Prima's watercolours. I painted the petals with clean water first, dropped in pretty concentrated red paint and then finished with a little bit of black at the base. You need four more of the stamen pieces than shown here.

Layers of ink - Watercolour Poppies Tutorial by Anna-Karin
Give the flowers some shape with a ball embossing tool and a pair of tweezers. This step really brings them to life.

Layers of ink - Watercolour Poppies Tutorial by Anna-Karin
Paint a background on watercolour paper with green, grey and black paints. Drop some extra grey paint into the sky for texture. Dry brush green paint in the foreground when the background has dried.

Layers of ink - Watercolour Poppies Tutorial by Anna-Karin
Die cut a number using the Number Blocks and the Create word from watercolour paper and paint them. I did an ombre effect on the word, using only black paint and water.

Layers of ink - Watercolour Poppies Tutorial by Anna-Karin
Stamp the sky with Falling Hearts and Smoke ink, and the grass with Tiny Alphabet Background and Green Leaf ink.

Layers of ink - Watercolour Poppies Tutorial by Anna-Karin
Die cut Stacked Hearts and a Sketch Frame from grey cardstock.

Layers of ink - Watercolour Poppies Tutorial by Anna-Karin
Assemble the flowers and add a pool of Glossy Accent in the center, sprinkle with Distress Glitter.

Layers of ink - Watercolour Poppies Tutorial by Anna-Karin
Here's the second flower. You can find another tutorial of mine using the Tattered Poppy die, here on this mixed media wall-hanger.

Layers of ink - Watercolour Poppies Tutorial by Anna-Karin
'Joy' was die cut with the Alphabet Blocks die and painted red.

I hope you will join us in our Celebrate challenge. Since this is a special challenge, two random participants will win a $50 gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.


If you want to, follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram, they post great stuff daily. 


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Do you use Instagram ? If so please add #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too.






Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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17 comments:

  1. Gorgeous card Anna-Karin, The poppies are stunning and I love the background too, the whole design is absolutely fabulous! :-)

    luv
    Lols x x x

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  2. Anna-Karin, your flowers are gorgeous!! They are so vibrant and paired perfectly against the green and gray background. It's always so much fun to see what you create because it's always fabulous!

    Hugs,
    Cathie ♥

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  3. Your poppies are eye-popping gorgeous, Anna-Karin!! I love how well they stand out on your card. I enjoyed seeing your son's awesome house :) hugs, Maura

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  4. Absolutely gorgeous Anna-Karin. I love how you have brought all these fabulous elements together. Very inspiring!

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  5. The card looks incredible! Love it!

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  6. Absolutely stunning! I LOVE all the colors and beautiful combination! The design is so pretty!!!
    Sherrie K

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  7. Wow! Terrific poppies and I love the arrangement of the die-cut bits. Thanks for all the great inspiration this year.

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  8. Oh wow, Anna-Karin! I love it when you're using this die! You make it so realistic and gorgeous! I really want that die now and make such a stunning card too! Hugs, Sandra

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  9. absolutely stunning...this die is definitely going on my shopping list...hugs kath xxx

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  10. STUNNING Anna-Karin! You really ROCKED this page the flowers look so real!

    *mwah*
    Steph
    Simon Says Stamp!

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  11. This is such a gorgeous creation, Anna-Karin. The colors are amazing!

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  12. Oh you definitely created my joy by only watching this project and following each step of making it. I love the rainy background with this fruity grass. Love the poppies colored so perfectly they seem to be taken from your garden and placed on the card! What a beauty! Hugs, Marzena

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  13. I absolutely LOVE these poppies and after seeing your beautiful creation, they are definitely on my wish list! Another stunning project, Anna-Karin and thank you so much for sharing! :)

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  14. Holy cow! This one definitely belongs in an art gallery! You have outdone yourself with the amazing painting here and I honestly could not decipher the dimensional layers from the dimension you added just with paint. It is remarkable and really life-like! And now I shall add "Master Painter" to your l-o-n-g list of skills!

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  15. This work is spectacular!Simon's dies you used is fantastic and you are created a masterpiece!Love the colors so vibrant! Barbara

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  16. This work is spectacular!Simon's dies you used is fantastic and you are created a masterpiece!Love the colors so vibrant! Barbara

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