Saturday 3 May 2014

Pretty Poison

Salutations. Today the Lady Commander of Copics and I decided to head to the village and see if we could find a gift for our lady mother as Mother’s Day was quickly approaching. On one of the corners, at the edge of a questionable alleyway, stood a small chap in a dapper looking outfit selling flowers. The flowers were sad looking, being that it was only the first week of May, but I felt compelled to purchase one nonetheless. As we turned away from the boy and started towards another stall, the Lady Commander suddenly slapped the flower from my hand.
“What was that for!?” I exclaimed.
“Poison,” she stated, turning to look for the boy who was already dashing down the alleyway, holding onto his little hat as he ran.

I started this card by stamping The Greeting Farm’s “Hello Ian” image onto watercolour paper. I then watercoloured him using Distress Markers. In the background I stamped a plaid type image using a Unity Stamp, spraying the ink with water first to make it….um...blobby? I cut the letters out using the Birthday Bash cartridge and then added some twine and buttons for +88 embellishment XP points.

The inside I stamped using the Inkadinkado “Thoughts for the Day” set. I then coloured the flowers with Distress Inks and my Hydrabrush of +90 wetness.

I stamped a flower on the envelope using the My Little Shoebox “Farmer’s Market” set and coloured it with Distress Markers.

This card has picked the following challenges to enter:

I carefully retrieved the flower from the ground, wrapping it in a handkerchief, to take back to the Guild Hall to study the poisonous properties. I’m thankful my sister was able to detect the poisoned flower before any harm befell me. I wondered now how many other of these flowers the mysterious boy had sold, and to what end.

~ Guild Master Crystal ~

14 comments:

mulberry station said...

Love the hat and great paper piecing. Thanks for joining us at Catch The Bug.
Nancy

Cut It Up Challenge Blog said...

The blobs work! I also really like the words cut out of patterned paper, and that ADORABLE image!!

Thanks for linking to our Mothers' Day challenge at Cut it Up!
Evelyn
http://mylittlecraftblog.wordpress.com

Today's Beautiful Moments - Tracey Fehr said...

Fantastic card! Love the image...and it's colored so beautifully. Thanks for sharing with us at Pile it On.
Tracey, DT

CG said...

LOL I love your fun little story to go along with this great card! The colors are lovely. Thank you for joining us at OSAAT last week, hope you'll join us this week for a brand-new challenge. Best, CG

Scrapcat 1 said...

such a fun card. Thank you for joining us at Pile It On we hope to see you again soon. Tracy DT

rachel said...

such a great card - cute image - thanks for joining us at Crafty sentiments and good luck xx Hugs Rachel xx

valou250809 said...

Beautiful card! Thank you very much for playing with "Crafty Sentiments Challenges". Good luck.

debby4000 said...

Oh what an adorable image and such a fabulous card.

Thank you for joining us at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge.

luv

Debby

Daimar Sanchez said...

Hermosa la tarjeta, los colores y el sellos te quedaron muy lindos...

Sue said...

A great card. Thanks for joining us at One Crazy Stamper this month.

JMC Creates said...

How cute is this? I'm so glad you joined us at Craftitude. Jacqui

Tammy Miller said...

What a great project, very cute!! Thanks so much for joining us for our May Anything Goes Challenge at Catch the Bug, I hope you join us again very soon.

Tina Campbell said...

aww that is so cute :) Any mother would love to receive a card like this. thanks for sharing your card with us at Jo's Funday Friday

julie said...

Beautiful ! Thanks for joining us at The Corrosive Challenge Blog. Good Luck !

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