Pink Poppies, Pink Christmas

It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month so I need to be sure to get some pink in my card making.

My Time to Craft's challenge is "In the Garden" and I grow a lot of varieties of poppies (Oriental, Welsh, California, Icelandic) in my garden so I've done a card with pink poppies:

A very CAS card - just stamped and watercoloured, trimmed with a stitched die, bordered in black.  I'm trying to work on my shading when I watercolour and for once, was happy with the results in the flowers.

And one of my favourite Christmas card challenges, Jingle Belles, always does a "Pink Christmas" challenge.  The wonderful Stephanie and Lauren who run the challenge each donate $2 to breast cancer research for every card linked up.  Here's my pink poinsettia:

The poinsettia is another one of my attempts at colouring embossed images.  I started by using a 3D embossing folder with watercolour paper.  Then I tried the watercolouring technique in this video using a couple of shades of pink.  My results are not nearly as good as the person in the video's results, but once I trimmed it, bordered it with lovely pink glitter cs, added a matching die cut sentiment, and embellished with a bit of Stickles in the centre.

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Clearly Besotted Poppu
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - watercolour paper, black and off white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, Lil Inker stitched rectangle die

Supplies for card 2:
Paper - watercolour paper, pink glitter cs, off white cs
Size - 4.5" square
Accessories - Nellie's Choice slimline poinsettia embossing folder, watercolour paints