Wild Poppies Silhouette: Four Seasons August Challenge

Happy August, not sure how we are already in the last full month of summer but here we are, and it is also the last month of summer creations at the Four Seasons challenge blog for this year. We have a wonderful new (optional) mood board to inspire you and hope to see you joining us! 

I was inspired by the beautiful Poppy for my card, although I wish I had used a bit brighter colors for more of a summer-y feel. 

I started out with the negative of a circle die cut and inked with Distress inks/oxides. Wish I remembered which exact colors I used. I tried working ahead here but didn't actually write up the post after I was finished with the card, something I really need to work on! In any event, I used some red inks for the most part and added either black soot or hickory smoke to the bottom left of the circle.

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Luckily I do remember which stamps I used, it is the beautiful Wild Poppies stamp from Lavinia and the sentiment is from the Penny Black set Blooming Sentiments. I used a white Sakura gel pen for some details and added a tiny butterfly done with Penny Black's die Soaring. I layered the white butterfly onto a black butterfly to create a shadow and finished off with some black enamel dots. The red background paper was done with the same red inks.

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I plan to share with these challenges:

• Addicted to CAS - Code word: Nature
• Ally's Angels - AG
• A Perfect Time To Craft - AG
• Beautiful Blossoms - Flowers
• CAS on Friday - Use Circles
• Crafts Galore Encore - AG
• Cut It Up - CAS with a die cut (I used a butterfly die)
• DL.Art Linky Challenge - AG
• Simon Says Stamp - Beautiful Blooms
• The Creative Crafters - AG