POPPIES BACKING PAPER/BACKGROUND: A4 With Commercial UseCompleted by Pamela Horton The whispering Platypus

This is another design by Clare Walker using pen and ink to draw a beautiful field of poppies.

It inspired me to not only use this design as a backing sheet and an insert, but also to incorporate the stitching design, by Emy van Schaik, cup894427_1549,flowercorner, I was reminded of an aged article I have, about the Poppies and that this was now the 100th.

Year Anniversary of the Armistice, and hunted out the article and the poem, written by Colonel John McCrae, when he himself was having treatment for his WW1 war wounds, looking out on the field of poppies.

I have not included the poem in the insert, but I have included it the card I intend to send to my aged Uncle .I made a white card 16x30cm, and scored and folded it before attaching the backing sheets and the topper using D.S. tape.

I have attached fine line gold peel off strips to the very outside edges of the 15 x 14cm, poppy backing sheet, and I have used the same peel off strips to attach 2mm in from the edges of the 14 x 12cm green backing sheet.

I have defined the edges of the main white 13 x 12cm topper using a red permanent pen. The poppy spray I have drawn with my black fine line pen and coloured with spectrum noir then cut out the image and attached it using red power tape.

This design is an absolute perfect match for the card I wanted to create.

Thank you Clare, I am sending a you a big virtual hug. Pamela Horton. The Whispering Platypus.