Poppies


Doodle Pantry Digital Challenge 32

Have had this image for a while and thought the challenge over on Doodle Pantry was the perfect time to colour it up. The poppy has a special meaning for us in Australia on Remembrance Day. It is when on the eleventh hour on the eleven day of the eleven month, the nation stops for a minute's silence, to remember those who sacrificed their lives in war. On this day we wear a red poppy in remembrance. The red poppy has become a familar emblem of Remebrance Day due to the poem "In Flanders Fields". These poppies bloomed across some of the worst battlefields of Flanders in WW 1, their brilliant red colour an appropiate symbol for the blood spilled in war.

In Flanders Field


In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scare heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago 
we lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders Fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders Fields.

This is my card. The image is coloured with copics and then mounted on spellbinders circle dies. The pp is from the kaiser Blae and Ivy 6x6 pad. Bling is kaiser, ribbon and lace from stash and sentiment GinaK.


Copics:
Poppies R27, R35, R37, R59, C7, black multiliner. Leaves YG95, YG97. Shadow G0000.



Comments

  1. Glenda AtkinsSaturday, 23 March, 2013

    Beautiful and fabulous colouring of the poppies. We (I'm Canadian) wear the poppie on November the 11th too in remembrance of the war dead. Love your card! Thanks for joining us at the DPDC#32!

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  2. Glittered PawsMonday, 25 March, 2013

    Stunning card and love the coloring on the flowers and all the embellishments are so pretty. Thanbks for joining us at DPDC #32 this month.

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  3. Carolina Girl (Cely)Wednesday, 27 March, 2013

    Beautiful and gorgeous. Such inspiration...I have to see if I have this one. Of course, I want them all....haha Thank you for joining us in this month's Doodle Pantry challenge. I hope we see you again next month for a fun challenge and best of luck in the drawing.

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