Sunday 11 November 2012

Lest We Forget

"Poppy Field"
 
If I Should Die
by Rupert Brooke
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
 
Ingredients:
Indigo Blu stamp set: Poppy Meadow
Spellbinders Decorative Labels One, Labels One
distress ink pads & markers
archival ink: Jet Black
Stampendous embossing powder: clear
red grosgrain ribbon
cardstock: red 300gsm, black 300gsm, white 200gsm
 
Entered for the following challenges:
Card Crafter's Circle - Remembrance / Poppies
Crafts and Me - Reds
Try it on Tuesday - Memories
That Craft Place - Red for Remembrance

13 comments:

  1. A beautiful card, love the poppies.

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  2. A really lovely card and with a lovely poem too, great remembrance project :-) Elaine xxx

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  3. A stunning card Maddy and a really powerful poem, thank you

    Sue

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  4. A gorgeous card, I always love poppies but at this time of year they are so special and always make me weepy!
    Anne x

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  5. Stunningly beautiful card and such a thought provoking poem, Maddy. Perfect

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  6. Beautiful card, the poem is so special at this time of Remembrance .
    Thank you for sharing your card with us at TioT's.
    Yvonne

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  7. A wonderful creation, with a stirring poem. Thanks for sharing with us in our Remembrance challenge at the Card Crafter's Circle!

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  8. Stunning rememberance styled card, lovely poem.
    Just hopped over from Docrafts, Ni.

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  9. beautiful card really captures the spirit of Novemeber 11th. Thank you for sharing it with us at TIOT.EE

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  10. What a lovely, lovely card..you designed this so well! i love seeing what you created for our challenge at Card Crafter's Cirle! thank you!

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  11. A beautiful card, always love these stamps.
    Thanks for joining our Memories challenge at TioT
    Avril

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  12. Wow gorgeous card, I really love the stamping and colouring. Thank you for joining us at That Craft Place Challenge Blog. Happy Crafting :-) Kerry x

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