Thursday 6 November 2014

Age Shall Not Weary Them

I have a special project to share today. I think it speaks for itself. This is my Great Grandad James Thomas Schofield who was killed near Ypres during the First World War. To commemorate the centenary, I wanted to make something fitting for my mum, who initially knew very little about her Grandad, but has over the last twenty something years made a real connection with him.


This is how I made it




I started with the Poppies mask by That Special Touch. I used Distress Ink to colour the design, masking as I went to minimize colour contamination.


Next, I took a script stamp and used sepia Archival ink through the mask so that the script only appeared on the flowers. 


I removed the mask, cleaned it, then re positioned it. I applied Perfect Medium through the mask and then clear embossed.


Then I went over the top of the whole piece with Newsprint Swirls...


followed by Crackle.


Finally over the whole piece with Gathered Twigs DI


To make the poppies, I used the Spellbinders Build a Flower die set. I cut 6 each of the three sizes of petal, 3 of the star shaped calyx, three of the poppy centres, one each of the centre circle and the asterisk plus a few leaves.

I added ink to the petals.


Then used a ball tool to add dimension


I applied Cosmic Shimmer glue to the calyx


 then stuck the six petals of each size to each of the three calyx.




I made one for each of the three petal sizes and then stacked and glued the three together.


I used a ball tool to add shape to the centres,


and glued them together


I did the same with the three 'ruffles'.



Then stuck them together.


Assemble the flower with the centre in place and the leaves on the back.



Thanks for stopping by


2 comments:

  1. Absolutely stunning Tracy, loved the fact you have done a remembrance card I started mine last night so it was great seeing how you put the poppy together as I was not sure, I cut all the pieces out yesterday so will construct it today lol!. I am sure your Mom will love this.

    Love & Hugs
    Jacquie J xxx
    http://jewelscardcraft.blogspot.co.uk/

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  2. I wanted to know how to make a realistic poppy for Rememberance Day cards. Thank you for posting this. Lovely. X

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