Thanksgiving Poppies

 I'm sharing my 4x6" art today for this week's Sunday Postcard Art theme of "Poppies" and combining it with Thanksgiving, as I have enough Veterans Day decorations for my art corner. So, I'm giving poppies another chance to shine.

This is my finished card that I am currently displaying on the table in our front door foyer. 

Paper: Springhill white card stock, recycled chipboard

Images: Flavia calendar page

Ink: Promarkers

Dies: IO and MFT grass, Lawn Fawn grass and clouds, Memory Box poppy, Spellbinders Classic Scalloped ovals, Little B large scalloped circle

Other: N/A

I used 7 dies on this card, most of them already die cut and in my leftovers pile from previous projects. 3 kinds of grass, scalloped ovals and clouds, all cut out of white card stock and ready to color with my Promarkers.

I added freshly die cut poppies to the mix and got started coloring. The focal point of this piece is a very old page I kept from a Flavia calendar I once had. Each page had one of her quotes. I wanted all the poppies red so I simply colored them. ;-)

So here is everything I used all colored up and ready to collage. The base of the card, by the way, is the thin chipboard backing that USPS puts into the cellophane package with each sheet of stamps sold online. HUGE waste of paper and plastic on their part but great source of card bases for me! I simply cut to the size I need.

I popped the two top stitched clouds up with foam tape. There are two layers of different grass die cuts along the bottom, with a third layer of grass clumps on the top of that, colored in contrasting shades of green. 

The poppy die cuts are tucked between the card and the grass layers. Glue dots on the flowers hold them in place adding a tiny bit of dimension. 

Makes me think of days from my childhood, laying on the grass on my stomach, looking out through the grass at a glorious visage of nature, with a canopy of clouds hovering over me. Not that I ever lay in a poppy field, lol, but this would be what it would look like. Quite peaceful. No wonder Dorothy took a nap, haha.

And a final view. One more home decoration for my art corner and beyond. Poor Honey, every time he turns around, a new little nook or cranny has been redesignated for my art. I am so blessed he's so supportive, always grabbing his cheaters to lovingly admire my latest make.

Thanks for dropping by and I hope your weekend is everything you've planned. Stay well and safe, XOX

MY CHALLENGE PLAYLIST:

1.  Sunday Postcard Art: Poppies

2.  Creative Fingers #196: AAG (entry #3/3)

3.  Creatalicious Challenge #198: AG -- Option not played this time (entry #3/3)

4.  Scrapping4Fun #179: Give Thanks/Thanksgiving/Gratitude  

5.   Crafty Gals Corner #213: Thankful  

6.   TTCRD for Week 11/10: AAG -- (entry #1/2)

7.   Die Cut Divas Nov.: Thanks/Thanksgiviing -- used Poppy, clouds, scalloped ovals and grass dies (entry #1/4)

8.   Crazy 4 Challenges C4C560: Thanks/Thanksgiving

9.   Outlawz Paper Saturdays 11/7-11/20: Give Thanks

10. Paper Funday #23: AG + Opt. Give Thanks/Thankful/Grateful

11. The Crafters Cafe' #254: AG -- (maximum of 11 challenges; entry #2/5)