More Poppy Resist

First, let me share my heartfelt greetings to everyone who has or had a Mother! And for those of you who are Mom's - I send my wishes for a perfect day filled with undercooked eggs and crayon-drawn cards! ;-)

This card is another with the fabulous stamp from Hero Arts called Poppy (something). I'm really enjoying these negative image stamps - because you can do this awesome resist thing with them! Last summer I taught a technique at my monthly Open Stamping called "Ghost" - and it's basically taking the resist technique one step further - and removing the clear embossing after you've used it as a mask. You do that with scrap paper and a hot iron. (be sure to use a clean piece of paper each time or you'll spend hours cleaning your iron!) I think I'd like that on this card - because the "shiny" doesn't really do it for me. Anyway - the cardstock and design paper as well as all the inks I used are from Close-to-My-Heart. The colors for the Poppies were Tulip, Hollyhock and Sorbet. The stems were drawn in with the Chocolate marker.

Hugs!