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Lilypad Lake Loving Thoughts

Lilypad Lake Loving Thoughts

 

A Whisper White card base 4-1/4 x 11.  Scored at 5-1/2

Tranquil Tide Mat 4 x 5-1/4

Mint Macaron Mat 3-3/4 x 5 Embossed using the Seaside TIEF

Stamp Set is Lilypad Lake

Tranquil Tide – water mat 2 inches high

Old Olive Grass

Egret stamped using Memento Black Ink on a scrap of Whisper White

Lilypad stamped using Memento Black Ink on a scrap of Whisper White

Colored with Old Olive and Calypso Coral Stampin Write Markers popped with Stampin Dimensionals

 

Inside left blank to write a note.

Inspiration for this card is from The Paper Players Clean & Simple Challenge:PP398

Check out all the other great entries for this challenge, just click on the link above.

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  Products Used In This Card 

 

 

Be blessed and have a great day. Visit again!

Pleasant Poppies for Memorial Day

Pleasant Poppies for Memorial Day

In honor of Memorial Day and those who served, gave their all and the many who were not appreciated, I have a poppy card.  This is a very retired stamp set from Stampin Up, but I have always liked the poppies so much and this is an appropriate time to be using it.  The blue and white mat is also a retired product from Stampin Up.  The red ribbon also.  I stamped then embossed the art piece using clear embossing powder but it turns out white and colored using a blender pen and Real Red Stampin Pad.  I stamped the poppies for the inside sentiment also.

 (Remembering our fallen heroes.)

Monday we celebrate Memorial Day.  When I was a kid, Memorial Day was always the 30th of May. It was called Decoration Day.  It was made a national holiday in 1971, at that time it was moved to the last Monday in May.

Memorial Day is the day we remember what it means to be a hero. A day to remember the heroes who gave their all for their buddy next to them and for our freedom. These are the real heroes.   It is also a day we can thank those who did not get recognized with the honor they deserved when they returned from the war.

The church I grew up in still calls it Decoration Day.  It is a big event.  Everyone takes a dish and lunch is served.  Family and friends that live out of town come for the celebration.  It is a good time to catch up with family and old friends who live out of town that you do not get to visit often.  I have a friend from childhood that has come from Oregon this year for the event as he was in the war. A far ride for an oldest, Oregon to North Carolina.

I remember the little paper poppies sold by the veterans from the local American Legion to raise money for the needs of the disabled veterans.  Poppies became the symbol of the American Legion.  The other day when I was shopping there were two old veterans sitting outside the entrance of the store taking donations.  If you made a donation, they gave you one of the little paper poppies.  Sure brought back memories of childhood and Decoration Day.

Lt. Col. John McCrae wrote a poem called “In Flander’s Field”. He had walked in a field of poppies where crosses were laid out to mark the graves of the fallen.  You can see at the end of this blog post.  There was also another poem written by Moina Michael as a tribute to Lt. Col. John McCrae’s  “In Flander’s Field”.  It too is at the end of this post.

My card is entered in The Sisterhood of Crafter’s Challenge for the week.

Product List  Used In This Card

Card Recipe:

Real Red Cardstock – 4-1/4 x  11, scored at 5-1/2

Whisper White – Cut 2 – 3-3/4 x 5

Blue and White Mat – 4 x 5-1/4- you can use any blue and white pattern

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In Flander’s Field
By Lt. Col. John McCrae, 1915
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly,
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow.,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields

Take up our quarrel with the foe
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields

Lt. Col. John McCrae died of pneumonia in 1918 and is buried in Wimereux, France
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We Shall Keep the Faith”
By Moina Michael
Oh! You who sleep in Flanders fields,
Sleep sweet – to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw
And holding high, we keep the Faith
With All who died

We cherish, too, the poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led;
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies,
But lends a lustre to the red
Of the flower that blooms above the dead
In Flanders field

And now the Torch and Poppy Red
We wear in honor of our dead
Fear not that ye have died for naught;
We’ll teach the lesson that you wrought
In Flanders field

Play A New Song

Play A New Song

My theme for this card is from the Paper Player (PP387)

I thought this was going to be a hard Challenge and almost decided against doing it, but then I found this cute picture of a guitar with a butterfly on it.  Then I looked at the picture and thought this is going to be extremely hard to color, but I decided to challenge the coloring.  It took a while, but I finally accomplished it. It isn’t professional but turned out ok.

I started with a Melon Mambo card base.  I cut a mat from Whisper White and embossed it using a musical note embossing folder.  I popped this on the card base with Stampin Dimensionals.  I cut two narrow banners, one from a scrap of musical card stock and one from a piece that was left from the embossing. I find it better to emboss before you cut.  The paper seems to shrink a bit when it is embossed. I used glue dots to adhere these to the embossed mat.

I colored the guitar and butterfly using Melon Mambo, Lemon Lime Twist, Garden Green, Perfect Plum, Bermuda Bay and Daffodil Delight Stampin pads and a Blender Pen.  I mixed the Garden Green and the Lemon Lime Twist, making this a different color of green.  I popped this against the two banners.

I did not do an inside sentiment at this time as I do not know who the card will be going to.

That’s my card. Hope you like it. Come Again!

Products Used Creating This Card

Glue Dots

$5.25

Blender Pens

$12.00