Precious Poppy

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A couple of weeks ago, I received the sad news that one of the Project 71 veterans had passed away.  Poppy was such a happy, vibrant character who made the most of all that life gave her.  I was her carer a few years ago on a veteran’s trip to Jersey and we had such a laugh together – memories that I will treasure.

I wanted to send Poppy’s daughter a sympathy card and it had to feature a poppy, of course.  I started by stamping and clear heat embossing the sentiment and poppy, positioning it slightly off the panel.

The purpose of the clear heat-embossing is so that I can colour using alcohol markers.  I also added a few scribbles with a black fineliner around the base to ground the poppy.

The lovely script stamp in the set was stamped directly onto the card base.

After matting the poppy panel on some green card, the panel was mounted onto the card base.

I’ve recently been introduced to the Luna Lapin series of books and wanted to make myself a memory bear named for Poppy.  I’d seen some lovely fabric in a local shop so I set about making the Erik bear from the Luna Lapin Stitched with Kindness book with white felt.

The patterned fabric is used for the feet pads and ear lining, which is really cute.

Poppy’s shirtwaister dress is from a pattern in the same book.  As I’d attached the ears too low down, there was quite a lot of head sticking up so I fashioned a hat to complete her outfit.

Poppy Bear can now watch over my craft room antics and remind me to make the most of what life presents me with.


 


Location: Fareham, UK

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