Sending Big Hugs
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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This card is simply gorgeous!! Love it!
Really beautiful card. It IS so dreamy, floaty. Thinking outside the original design created this gorgeous result. Thanks for the inspiration to imagine and create.
This is card is dreamy and so like Debbie’s style which I adore! She is so talented and all of her designs melt my heart.
Oh, my goodness, Debby, you are so creative and so very talented! I love, love, love this stunning card!
Beautiful card. Gorgeous colors.
So beautiful.
Gorgeous card. Thanks for sharing.
This card is beautiful
Debby’s card is gorgeous! Her creativity never ceases to amaze me – this is brilliant!
WOW!!!!! so gorgeous..such a fab idea too!
What a beautiful card! I love your color choices, as well as the way you created the butterfly from a flower petal! This shows how versatile are supplies can be.
Oh this is so beautiful and so creative! Love this!
WOWZERS! Beautiful, I love how your transformed a poppie die into a beautiful butterfly!
Such a pretty card!
Very soft and lovely!
Oh, WOW!!!! Debby is such a talented artist. This card is amazing. The watercoloring is done to perfection.
Lovely card and beautiful coloring! Now you’ve prompted me to go check my dies and see other uses for them!!
This is such a pretty card. Love it!
So pretty. I love the sentiment. Hugz
This is beautiful! Such a soft, dreamy effect.
Love this almost transparent look!
Wow, this is gorgeous! Love the watercolor and I would never have thought to use the die like this! Thanks for the inspiration!
lovely. . . Debby is so creative and inspirational. . . .
This is so pretty, and I like how the sentiment is stamped rather than die cut so it makes it more economical for those of us that can’t spend so much.
Such a gorgeous project. The colors are so pretty. Love how you used that die.
SUPER Pretty!!!
Beautiful and creative card!!! Debby is one talented artist:)
I love how you used these dies cuts in another way!! Absolutely gorgeous!!
Beautiful card Debby. Love the soft colors and those big greetings.
Debbie Hughes never ceases to amaze! Brilliant card!
What a stunning card, brilliant use of the poppy dies and watercoloring is awesome.
Another beautiful card, Debby. Your watercolor skills are beyond perfection.
Love how you turned a flower into a butterfly! Beautiful! Love the water-coloring too!
So very beautiful! I love the soft colors. Hugs, Robin
Gorgeous! Loving the new dies.
WOW!!!! This is Gorgeous!! Way to stretch your supplies!! I LOVE it!!
Just gorgeous, love the soft coloring.
Love the big blooms!
Love this stunning card! Debby never fails to impress me with her talents.
Gorgeous card, tfs!
Beautiful card.
Oh my this is beautiful! I love it!
Oh my this is beautiful! I love it!
How gorgeous and
love that you used
the dies in a different
way!
Carla from Utah
How gorgeous and
love that you used
the dies in a different
way!
Carla from Utah
How gorgeous and
love that you used
the dies in a different
way!
Carla from Utah
Such a fabulous card–gorgeous watercoloring! I wish my mind worked more like yours; I would not have thought about using the die like this. Such a great way to stretch supplies :)
Excellent example of a way to stretch your use of stamps! The card is beautiful!
That is nothing short of genius. I like to consider myself a creative person but I could have sat and thought all day with no interruptions and not come up with that. I keep waiting to get that good….I think I will be waiting a while. In the meantime, we have people like you to amaze and delight us. I am thankful.
Beautiful card! I just love Debby’s work. I was just putting in an order and wanted the Simons BIG HUGS die and it went out of stock. Will it be back in stock soon? Makes me going to miss out on the ranger sale..awwww.