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Hi readers! Happy Sunday, and welcome to another creative uses post with the fantastic Debby Hughes! Her creative genius never ceases to amaze! Read on to see what she used to make this lovely card below.
Enjoy!
Hello, Debby here with a look at stretching your supplies just that little bit further; this card takes one die and turns it into something completely different! The STAMPtember release had a bundle of fabulous dies and I thought the Tattered Poppy set had a lot of different options than the one intended. You can see a gorgeous example of the Tattered Poppy dies in a card Nichol Magouirk used for the STAMPtember blog hop – so pretty with its rich red colours.
However, one of the poppy petals reminded me of a butterfly in flight with the poppy stamens as antennae and some of the other petals looked like ginkgo leaves. I die cut the flower twice from Canson watercolor card and reached for my watercolors. Cutting the die twice made sure I had enough ‘leaves’ to create a simple ginkgo stem. I love this patchy watercolor style at the moment with areas of white left to show through for highlights.
I also loosely watercolored a panel of Canson card as the background and splattered spare paint and a solution of Perfect Pearls to give it a dreamy bokeh look. The sentiment is from the Big Scripty Greetings set stamped in Versamark and Silver heat embossed. All I added as an accent were a couple of sequins from the Little Things by Lucy’s Cards range.
Thanks for joining me today and perhaps you can take a second look at your new supplies for alternative uses?
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Super cute butterfly and enjoyed the watercoloring.
Wow! So darn pretty!
Absolutely gorgeous! Love everything Debby makes. ;)
Beautiful card! I love using my dies for multiple designs! Good job on this one.
Elegant and beautiful. Love the alternate use of the Poppy die.
Amazing gorgeous card and watercoloring!!!
Debby’s card is absolutely gorgeous! I love her choices of colors and the details on the flower and butterfly. Sequins give it a nice finish. THANKS for the inspiration!
Debby Hughes is nothing short of amazing!! Her soft color palette is always joyful and pleasing. I adore this card!!
Absolutely love this watercolored plant!
BEAUTIFUL card Debby!!!
Your work ALWAYS INSPIRES and DELIGHTS – Thank You for sharing!!!
so delicate and beautiful!
Debby always has such great ideas for multi purpose for dies and stamps. I love this card it’s so beautiful, feminine, and soft. Simply breathtaking.
It is dreamy, Debby! I never would have guessed it was the poppies. Brilliant!
This is stunning, I love the soft watercoloring!
Gorgeous! Debby always has such inspirational and utterly gorgeous creations. Love this ♥
Such a beautifull, elegant and “light”-looking card!! Love to watercouloring and this is such a perfect inspirationcard!
So very lovely … the watercolor effects are so delightful !!
Amazing alternatie use of that die. It takes a special eye to see possibilities like that. thanks for sharing.
Those colors are gorgeous. It is such a pretty card. How creative to see that you could use the poppy set to make it.
debbi’s creativity never ceases to amaze me… this card is just stunning!!
Another beautiful card just filled with inspiration!!!
Such a breathtaking beautiful card!!!
This is so pretty, and very inspiring!
It’s so pretty! The colors make this card stand out!
Absolutely stunning design and color.
This is absolutely gorgeous!
Debby is an amazing artist! I’m so glad to have found her blog. This card is stunning!
Very beautiful!
What a beautiful card! I love the gorgeous colors and butterfly.
Exquisitely beautiful!!!
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Love the look of this card – the leaves, butterfly and watercolor make it all look so delicate!
Lovely card! And such a creative idea!
thanks a ton Debby!! I will be seeing my dies in a totally different light now!
Just love how you look at things with a different eye. Thanks for the inspiration.
Beautiful watercolor background and versatile use of dies already in your collection. Thanks for giving us a different view and a beautiful card.
Love this card. The colors are beautiful and it looks so delicate. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
Beautiful, delicate card Debbie! Love the soft palette. TFS
luv the delicate look
Love the soft colors on this card! Very pretty. Thank you
lovely card, so beautiful colors and details ♥
love the soft colors of this card.
Lovely projects! Love the soft watercolor look.
Incredible!!!! Debby is astounding!
So romantic!
lovely!