DP-free at Pile It On

This week at Pile It On! we're challenging you to create your project without any DP (Designer Paper). You may make your own patterned paper, however.

We are sponsored this week by A Day for Daisies, and I was able to use their adorable Baby Giraffe:

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I've had the Poppy rubber stamp set by Sheena Douglass for many years, but it's fairly large so I haven't used it very often. But I thought it would be really fun with this image. Imagine a jungle of poppies! I stamped directly onto the printed image sheet, and colored everything with Copics. I added some detail with gel and glitter pens.

I used this lovely, large die for the card base and orange layer. It's actually a bright orange that I embossed and inked with a lighter orange chalk ink. The cloud was cut on my Silhouette Cameo using a cut file from Bird's Cards (thanks Bird, you always seem to have just what I'm looking for!) and I used a finger dabber to ink the edges with another chalk ink (VersaMagic). The sentiment rubber stamp was stamped with Versamark ink and heat-embossed with two orange powders. I added some bright orange Liquid Pearls to the outer border, and finished the card with some blingy flowers.

For the message section on the inside, I used a smaller die from the same set as the card base:

Inspiration/Challenges:

1. Crafty Bloggers Network April Challenge: Die Cuts or Embossing
2. Delightful Challenges: Include a flower
3. Fab 'n' Funky #212: Flowers
4. Get Inky! Challenge #12: Die Cuts
5. Hiding in my Craft Room: Flowers
6. Just B Creative Crazy: Linky Party Anything goes
7. Party Time Tuesdays: Die Cuts
8. Quick Quotes: Project with Stamping
9. Red Rubber Inspirationals: Back to Nature
10. Simon Says Stamp: Animals

Update: This was the Prize Winner for Get Inky! Challenge #12!

Thank you for visiting, and hope you'll join us this week at Pile It On,