My flower

Hi and good afternoon. We haven't yet established the exact name for my flower art but there have been a couple of suggestions. However, so that I would know where to find them again, I've just kept the Poppy theme. :)
The last two of the six have been done slightly differently but still with the same criteria. One background stamp, one main image stamp, Adirondack inks (terracotta and currant this time) and my Stampendous Inspirational verses set.
The terracotta one is stamped onto a 'lettuce' brayered panel and coloured with the contrast colour. I ran the brayer over some elastic bands to create a random pattern before I stamped the image with Versafine ink. The strip across the card has been embossed with the Swiss Dots CB folder.
On the currant card I embossed two lines about 1.5cm apart and masked off the remainder of the card before brayering a solid currant line between the embossed ones.The flower, partially cut out this time is mounted onto brayered panels of currant and lettuce. I left the lettuce layer a bit longer so that I could stamp the sentiment directly onto it. The bottom panel of the card I embossed on the Scor It with diagonal lines.
I have been asked how I did the colouring. I selectively inked the stamp - lettuce or pesto for the leaves and the contrast colour on the flower. I dragged the colour over the petals using a water brush and added more colour by pressing the lid of the inkpad into the ink and picking it up from there with the water brush.
The majority of the mats are brayered panels so that I wouldn't have any trouble trying to find matching cardstocks.
I've just the box to make for this set but I'll do that another time as I am running out of space to keep them! :)
I hope you have a great day planned with plenty of crafting to do.
Thank you for taking the time to visit, I appreciate it so much. :)