Bouquet Of Poppies White Embossed Card

I recently had a Zoom craft session with some other crafters, and Evie Jacobson led us in a fun technique trimming a card panel and then stamping it with a large stamp using embossing ink, covering it with embossing powder, heat setting it and then ink blending over it after taping the edges. In my case, I trimmed my card panel to 5 by 7 and used Altenew's Stampwheel 2.0 to stamp the large Bouquet of Poppies stamp onto my paper with embossing ink. I used white embossing powder to heat set the image and then used mint tape in the 1-inch width to tape off all the sides of the card panel before ink blending some inks from Altenew's Bubblegum Dreams and Warm & Cozy ink collections. 

Once the panel was done, I die cut the word "Thanks" out of the center using Altenew's Mega Thanks die. I die cut the word using fun foam and also silver cardstock and glued in the layers. I was careful to save the little pieces from the letters that have inner parts so I could glue those back in place. 

I added a butterfly from Altenew's Beautiful Butterfly Press Plates set and used the coordinating die to cut it out and the coordinating stencil to color it in using the same colors I had ink blended over the stamped poppies. 

To finish the card, I added some silver sequins. This card is going out to my sister who recently gave me a gift bag of cards she had made along with a few other nice presents when we were together for a family gathering last weekend. She lives about 10 hours away from me, so we don't see each other very often, but when we do, we talk about cards! She was the one who got me interested in cardmaking almost 20 years ago! 

I've recently become an affiliate for Altenew, so if you are interested in ordering something lovely from Altenew and would like to use my link, thank you very much! Here's the link: Carrie's Altenew affiliate page 

Here's a close up to show how pretty the white-on-white embossing around the sides is:

 Challenges I'm entering: 

Crafty Calendar Challenge: Add a sentiment (2/3; ends at the end of the month)

Allsorts challenge blog: What makes you happy or ATG (Flowers definitely make me happy! And so does ink blending and die cutting!😁) (5/5; ends 6/20/25)

simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/: Fur, feathers, flowers (5/5; ends 6/18/25)

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (5/5 for the week; 8/10 for the challenge; ends 6/18/25)

A Place To Start: ATG with option of recycle it (8/8; ends at the end of the month)

613 Avenue Create: ATG with option of for the guys (8/8; ends at the end of the month)

A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge: ATG (unlimited entries; ends at the end of the month)

Craft Rocket Challenges: No design paper (unlimited entries; ends at the end of the month)

Crafty Catz: ATG with option: Use hot colors (4/5; ends 6/27/25)

Ellibelle's Corner: Ellibelle's Garden Party No. 4 - Anything In or From a Garden: Anything in or from a garden (4/5; ends 7/9/25)

Ellibelle's Corner: I spy with my little eye: At least one butterfly (1/5; ends 6/16/25)

Word Power: ATG with words as the focus (2/3; ends at the end of the month)