Paper Pieced Poppies for "A Challenge for Kath" at Allsorts

Hello and welcome!

This week at Allsorts challenge we are dedicating the challenge to Kath, our dear team member who sadly passed away a few weeks ago. This week would have been her challenge week and she had picked the theme of "Favorite Stamps". We're still keeping her theme, but have decided to celebrate her style of crafting by including an option of her favorite style: Favorite Stamps with Option of Paper Pieced Flowers. Hope you will join us this week for Kath's challenge. We have some wonderful prizes to give away which I will tell you more about at the end of this post. There are quite a few prizes.

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For my card I used one of my favorite poppy stamps from the set Blooming Garden by Penny Black.

I started out by flicking some distress inks onto the background of Bristol Vellum paper. After this was dry, I stamped the flower onto the paper, and stamped again on patterned paper then fussy cut the blossoms. For some added interest I paper pierced and distressed the edges. My paper piercing template is very old, from Stampin Up. There may be something similar available on Amazon.

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The sentiment is from the Stampin Up set Touches of Ink which I was lucky enough to win. It was stamped and die cut using a simple Nestabilities circle die, then adhered onto the card with foam tape. 

I wanted to layer the image panel onto the same red patterned paper, but I think I must have used my last bit of that paper because I could  not find any more of it. So instead I picked a script patterned paper which works just as well. I did choose a red card base (vs white - had I used red patterned paper), but before adhering to the base, I stapled a couple strips of paper onto the image panel for some more interest. 

As mentioned, here are the prizes we have this week at Allsorts:

A pretty floral Woodware stamp from Craft Stash, one of Kath's favorite places to shop.

Next a winners choice of four digital images from Ruth Hamilton Design

A £12 voucher for digital images from the winners choice of store. It has been been kindly donated by one of Kath's crafting friends who wanted to stay anonymous. 

  

Canary Bird Rose was Kath's favourite CB stamp, this will be for a winner who follows the Paper Pieced Flowers option.

Kath loved her DP's so there had to be some for a prize, this is an 8x8 pad. 

Another prize kindly donated by a friend of Kath's who also wished to remain anonymous.

You can find the link up on the challenge blog, and remember you may enter up to 3 different times for more chances to win! Anyone is welcome to join us in this special challenge for Kath.

Thanks so much for visiting!

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