Power Poppy Hues to Use

Today is an exciting day! I am a guest over at the Power Poppy blog on the Hues to Use segment! I am so excited to be able to take part in this great challenge and want to thank the fabulous Julie Koerber for having me! (boy I love those exclamation marks LOL)

Here are the colors for this week....

The pink in this weeks Hues to Use really pops so I wanted to make sure the image I used highlighted that color. The digital set Bees in Foxglove was a great way to have the pink take center stage. Fun fact.... foxglove doesn't normally survive in my part of Alaska because of the winters, but it is quite prevalent down in SE Alaska.

After printing out my image I die cut it out with a rectangle panel and I used my Copics R81, R83 and R85 to color in the foxglove blooms. The leaves and stems were colored with Copics YG03 and YG25. I threw in a bit of Y04 to color the bees visiting the foxglove.

To bring in that light sandy color I used the same die I cut the image panel with to cut a piece of sandy colored patterned paper. I also used the die to cut a piece of pink patterned paper and set both of those at angles behind the main image panel. The card base is green embossed with a large polka dot folder, carrying on the polka dot theme of the patterned paper.

To finish off the card I used the sentiment from the Bees in Foxglove set, changing the color of the text to green. I cut the sentiment panel to the size I wanted and then cut the corners with a round corner punch and adhered it to the front of the card.

Make sure you head on over to the Power Poppy blog to play along with Hues to Use! If you play along YOU could be one of the next guests on the blog! Let's see what you can do with these colors :)

Thank you again to Julie and Power Poppy for having me as a guest this week!

Let Freedom Ring

This week at Sunday Stamps we have a color challenge, and when I first saw the colors I immediately thought of a patriotic card. With the recent loss of 15 Marines and a Navy Corpsman in a plane crash and a local solider from Wasilla killed in Afghanistan my heart is especially full of gratitude for our service members and their families. My dad was a Marine and my husband is a retired FMF Navy Corpsman  and I'm very lucky that they always came home safe. Sadly not all military families are that lucky and we must not forget why we have the freedoms we do.

The sentiment is a free one offered from Power Poppy stamps, you can find it HERE. I uploaded it to Word and changed the color to blue to go along with the scheme of my card. After using the circle die cut I used dimensionals to adhere it to the card.

My layout is from the current CAS(e) this Sketch challenge, it was perfect for what I had in my mind for my card.  After seeing some of the cards by their DT I figured it was ok to put the circle on the card like I did.

Make sure you head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us!

Stamps: digital sentiment from Power Poppy

Paper: Night of Navy (SU), Neenah Solar White, Authentique Seafarer and Seafarer Two, Pebbles America the Beautiful

Ink: Printer Ink, Night of Navy (SU)

Accessories: Cuttlebug, MFT Zig Zag Stitch Circles, Dimensionals

A Blue Christmas

My favorite challenge blogs both have great challenges this week.....Power Poppy has a blue color scheme for the Hues to Use Challenge and Jingle Belles has a photo inspiration that is also filled with blue. Blue is my favorite color (well, tied with green!) and so I was very excited to try and figure out a card to combine these 2 great challenges.

Power Poppy has a wonderful digital image called Wreaths: Felt Leaves and Fruits  (and today is the last day to get their digital images 20% off, go check out the Power Poppy website!) so I decided to make that image the focus of the various blues wanted by Hues to Use. If you look at the Jingle Belles inspiration photo you can also see the varying degrees of blue used, from the ornament on the side table to the ribbon on the mantel to the snowflakes hanging from the mantel.

I colored the felt leaves in the sky shade of blue and then used the cornflower shade on the pom pom fruits and the midnight blue for the berries. I continued the darker blue color into my card base layers. The sentiment in the middle of the wreath is from another Power Poppy digital stamp set called Glittering Glass Santa. I resized it to fit in the middle and then changed the color of the stamp from black to blue.

For the Jingle Belles inspiration I embossed the banner with a snowflake pattern, after the snowflakes hanging from the fireplace. The white cascading down on the patterned paper was inspired by the white dots going down the wall in the picture, and the stark white of the image panel against the blue can also be seen on the inspiration photo with all the white elements contrasting against the blue wall.

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Wreaths: Felt Leaves and Fruits (Power Poppy), Glittering Glass Santa (Power Poppy- sentiment)

Paper: Night of Navy (SU), Neenah Solar White, Bo Bunny Dear Santa PP

Ink: Printer Ink

Copics: B41, B52

B63, B66

B97

Accessories: Cuttlebug, MFT Zig Zag Stitch Circles, Dimensionals, SU Banner Framelits (retired), SU TIEF Snow Burst (retired)

An Owl Christmas

This month for my Kitty Bee Design Team spotlight I'm continuing the Christmas in July theme with this fun image called Kawaii Santa Owl. He is definitely a jolly fellow!

I colored the image with copics and then used my Scan N Cut to cut out the image. I used a retired SU background stamp to create the chevron background, added a strip of chevron DSP and then popped up Santa Owl. Lastly I added the sentiment.

You can find this fun image and more at the Kitty Bee Design Shop HERE.

Don't forget to head over to the Kitty Bee Designs Aloha Friday Challenge and check out the latest challenge!

Stamps: Kawaii Santa Owl (Kitty Bee Designs), Toasty Greetings (MFT-sentiment), Positively Chevron (SU retired)

Paper: Baked Brown Sugar (SU retired), Neenah Solar White, Season of Style DSP (SU retired)

Ink: Printer Ink, Chocolate Chip

Copics: E42, E43

R29, R46

E33, E35

G07, R5

Accessories: Scan N Cut, Dimensonals, Clear Wink of Stella

Dashing By for LMMS

It's time for a new challenge over at the Little Miss Muffet Stamps blog and I'm continuing my Christmas in July theme! This week I'm using Polka Dot Pals Issie. How cute is she? One of my favorite things to do with my kids when they were small was to take them sledding. We'd have a bunch of fun in the snow and then go home and have nice bug cups of hot chocolate!

I pulled the colors from the patterned paper I used, which was some I've had in my stash for a while. I love darker colors so it was the perfect it for me :) 

Make sure you head on over to the LMMS blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along in our Anything Goes challenge!

Stamps: Polka Dot Pals Issie (LMMS), Dashing By (MFT- sentiment)

Paper: Night of Navy (SU), Neenah Solar White, Carta Bella All Bundled Up

Ink: Printer Ink, Cherry Cobbler (SU)

Copics: YR00, YR02

E23, E25, E27

E93, E97

R39

E49, N7

N2, N3

C1

Accessories: Scan N Cut, Cuttlebug, MFT Blueprints 27, Dimensionals

Happy Daisies for Power Poppy

Hello from sunny southcentral Alaska! It's in the mid- 70's today and I'm hiding in my craft room, working on cards. I think I may have to jump in our pool later though. Anything over 70 is way too hot for this girl!

I'm playing along with the current Power Poppy Power and Spark challenge again and my card colors are perfect for my weather today, bright and cheery! This time I am CASEing a lovely card by Bloom Brigade Member Christine Okken. Her card instantly caught my eye with its bold colors and fun design.

I really love how Christine took the digital image and enlarged it for her background layer and changed the color of the image to go along with the main image. I decided to do the same thing for my card and used green for the color of my background image. Instead of using 2 additional layers I chose to just use one, the image panel. I used yellows for my gerbera daisies, it's just such a happy color to me!

For the 2 strips across the card I decided to use the same card stock and left off embellishments. My sentiment also comes from the Gerbera Daisies set and I used a punch to cut the sentiment out, first changing the color of the sentiment from black to green.

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Gerbera Daisies (Power Poppy)

Paper: Crushed Curry (SU), Neenah Solar White, Crushed Curry DSP (SU retired)

Ink: Printer Ink

Copics: Y08, Y19

YG03, YG25

YG95, YG99

Accessories: Cuttlebug, MFT Blueprints 15, SU Labels Framelits (retired), SU Decorative Label Punch (retired), Dimensionals

Santa CASE for Power Poppy

Over at the Power Poppy blog the challenge this month is to CASE a card by a Bloom Brigade member. For those who aren't familiar with the term, CASE stands for Copy And Share Everything. You create a project based off of someone else's project. Most of the time this is a good thing!

There are so many gorgeous cards by the team members to choose from and I know I'll be submitting to the challenge again but for now I started with this card by Julie Koerber. I've admired this card for a while and it's the first one I thought of when I saw the challenge. It's also perfect for the Christmas kick I'm on right now...who else is watching the Christmas movies on Hallmark this week? :)

For my card I changed the colors to darker colors, since I'm pretty traditional when it comes to Christmas. I've hoarded this DSP from SU for many years so it was perfect to break out for this card. 

I kept the basic layout and just changed the border along the middle panel to a scalloped one. The oval image panel seemed too stark to me against all the papers so I used a sponge to put Old Olive around the edges. The camera didn't pick it up but I added some Wink of Stella to the Santa ornament and used a white gel pen to add some snow to the branch and the tree in Santa's arms.

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Glittering Santa (Power Poppy)

Paper: Chocolate Chip (SU), Baja Breeze (SU retired), Neenah Solar White, Holiday Treasures DSP (SU retired)

Ink: Printer Ink

Copics: YG95, YG99

B000, B01

R27, RV52, R01

G46

N2, C3, W1

Accessories: Big Shot, SU Oval Framelits, MFT Blueprints 15 and 23, Ribbon, White Gel Pen, Wink of Stella Clear, Dimensionals