Poppy Artist Trading Card

Hi everyone! I hope you had a good weekend! I have a poppy artist trading card to share with you with a fun resist technique using colored pencils and Distress Ink.

We have a Beautiful Blooms theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog this week. I hope you will join us! And don't miss the beuatiful project that our June guest designer Nikki Acton created for you.

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Our neighbours have such pretty poppies growing in their garden and I was inspired to create an Artist Trading Card featuring poppies on a bright green background. 

Start by cutting an ATC from watercolor paper (2.5 x 3.5 in) and round the corners. Stamp three poppies from Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Flowers with Antique Linen ink.

Color the flowers with colored pencils. I used Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils, but other colored pencils should work too - note that watercolor pencils will not work for this technique. Blend the colors with a white pencil. Also add a thin outline around the flowers and along one side of the stems with the white pencils, as well as some white pencils strands of grass.

Next, smear Distress Inks on a non-stick craft sheet, mist with water and press the card into the ink. The colored pencil will resist the ink. I could have been a bit more heavy-handed with the white pen outlines since they would have been more visible then.

Let the first layer dry and continue adding ink, to create texture and layers. I finished with a little Distress Oxide ink.

When dry, add highlights with a white gel pen and some marks with a black pen. If you want to, you can splatter some Scribble Sticks on the background too.

I took a too thick black pen by mistake, so some of my lines are a bit thick to my liking, but I thought they still fit with the somewhat messy look that I was aiming for. You can see that there is some green on the flower, which is where there were gaps in the pencil marks. 

I never grow tired of the look of Distress Ink and Distress Oxide ink in layers.

The sentiment also comes from the Thoughtful Flowers set and was stamped on a small piece of scrap paper, which had been inked with Antique Linen.

I hope you will join us this week in our Beautiful Blooms challenge. You have a chance to win a $25 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

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

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by here today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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