Poppies

There's just 'something' about poppies .....  I entered this swap last year and had some great returns.
I want to do something different this time .... there will be a Steampunk one among them.... and then I have a poppy stamp ......

I sketched out my first poppy onto a card from my 'kit' and used my promarkers to colour it.  The effect I am achieving with these pens does not appear to be as good as others I have seen so, I am wondering if maybe it is the paper I am using.  I think that I will make some cards from different papers/card and see what the results are ...... watch this space!
But for the time being my first card is sketched, coloured and finished.

  I stamped out my next poppies in brown onto a steampunk background.  I used various gelpens to colour the design - plain, metallic and glitter.


I looked for some ideas through my magazines and found a superb picture of a field of Californian poppies - all blowing in the breeze.  I covered the card and then used my poppy stamp, embossing it in black.  I used my gelpens to colour in the poppy, makes it 'pop' from the background.

Among the pages of my magazines I found an article on the Himalayan Poppy, I have so often tried to grow this in my garden - without success.   I used a several photographs as a background and then cut out a detailed photo.
It makes the poppy touchable ..... know what I mean?   Love it.....