Hello! Today I’m sharing another floral card with Distress Embossing Glaze. This time, it’s full of beautiful poppies! 😍

Like everyone else who has them, I’m having so much fun with my glazes, that every once in a (short) while I have to use them again… So last night, I made this card, with “embossing glaze poppies”:

For the background, I used “Small Talk” stickers from idea-ology. I love the messages on these stickers! So encouraging and positive. After adding them to the background, I added Old Paper distress ink on top. (by the way, I’m pretty sure the inspiration for this background came from the Tim Holtz Addicts Facebook group. That group is just amazing!)

I stamped the “beautiful” sentiment first, using Tim Holtz Mini Worn Text stamp set. I think this set it discontinued, but Stampers Anonymous have a larger set called Worn Text.

Love the look of these letters over the stickers. I didn’t leave the “background text” visible on purpose, but I really like the way it turned out:

The black “you are” stickers are from “Chit Chat” stickers pad from idea-ology. Because they’re black, they stand out nicely on the background. And because I put them on top of the white stickers, they stand out even more 🙂

Once I had my background and sentiment ready, I stamped the large gorgeous poppy from Tim Holtz Flower Garden stamp set. I did it a couple of times, to cover the backgrounds nicely. Because I wanted to do some coloring, I used Jet Black Archival Ink.

I colored the center and stamens of each poppy with a black marker. Once it was dry, I colored each flower with my Versamarker pen and then heat embossed it with Fired Brick Distress Embossing Glaze.

I left some areas “uncolored”. I think it creates a nice “artsy” look 😍

Here’s a photo of another one:

I just LOVE how the glazed poppies look on this card. As you may already know, I suck at coloring, but with the distress embossing glazes I can “color” pretty well! It really is a great product ❤️

Two Useful Tips about Embossing/Glazing

1 – Use an anti-static powder before coloring with your Versamarker pen, especially when your background has texture. On my background, the stickers have many “crannies” between them, and the powder helped preventing the embossing powder from piling up there.

2 – When glazing multiple large images, work on one image at a time. This way, you won’t have to worry about your Versamark ink getting dry.

Card Challenges

I’m submitting my embossing glaze poppies card to these challenges:

Simonsaysstamp Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes.
A Vintage Journey – Beautiful Blooms.

If you want to see other cards that I made with Distress Embossing Glazes, click here! There’s a sunflower card there, that uses the same stamp set as the poppy!

I really hope you liked my card. Please let me know what you think in the comments below. Much appreciated! 🙂

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Enjoy the rest of your weekend! ❤️

– Michal