Challenge 177 - Poppies

This week on November 11th we remember those brave men and women who died for us whilst fighting in various wars so my challenge is to show Poppies on your creations. For this easel card base I took some Coredinations craft card and sanded the top roughly just enough to show the craft colour below.  I stamped the poppy stamps from an Inkylicious set and coloured using Promarkers and Copics and coloured the background with Distress Inks.  I sprayed over the top with Crafter's Companion glitter spray.  I added the sentiments from Hunkydory - the smaller one reads 'Don't count the Years - Count the Memories' and stamped some more poppies onto the craft card using black Stazon.
I hope you will Remember the brave ones and maybe create something in their honour.
Thank you..... we will remember.

Sunrise Sunset

 My challenge this week is another song... Sunrise Sunset and here is my DT card.  The background sunset is an actual photograph I took from our house in Bermuda last month - this was my starting point.  On the scalloped card I added some Distress inks using the double ended brushes from Inkylicious and stamped the hills with a Stamp Addicts stamp. The trees and elephants are black peel offs as is the Safari word.  I created the flower and overstamped with text then added the same colour orange distress ink and a gold centre gem.  The leaves are cut from brown paper using a Tim Holtz die.  I added the bow making it out of some raffia I found in Tesco and a piece of brown string.  I mounted this onto the black card cut with a scalloped edge from my cutting machine.  Everything was then mounted onto an A4 cream card and again with scalloped edges.
Will someone now please tell me to stop making these large cards.... two in two weeks ahhhh... they are taking over.
I hope you like my creation and please do pop over to my challenge blog to see the lovely DT creations and enter yourself..... A Joanna Sheen voucher is up for grabs this week.