Power Poppy Pure Fragrance

Happy Friday! Today Power Poppy has 2 fabulous new images available in the store, Pure Fragrance and Volumes of Beauty. As always these new digital stamps are brimming with gorgeous details and are so fun to color!

For my card I used the Pure Fragrance digital stamp. I just love the pretty arrangement of flowers in the bottle. I decided to use colors that made me think about my grandma and the arrangements she would have around her house. She was a florist and had such a beautiful eye for color and knowing exactly what would look great with what.

Would you like to see what the rest of the Power Poppy Bloom Brigade did with these images? Click on their names to see their amazing projects, and then head on over to the Power Poppy store and grab these images!

Stacy

Christine 

Allison 

Gloria 

Leslie 

Barbara C  

Catherine

Catherine

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Power Poppy Part 2- Day 5

Welcome to the fifth and final day of the Power Poppy Quiet Christmas release! I hope you've enjoyed seeing all the various sets and the endless possibilities with each one. All 10 sets from the release can be found in the Power Poppy store in both clear stamp and digital form so there is something for everyone!

The last set for this release is called the Joy to the World Bouquet. Look at all the details and variety of flowers...a poinsettia, hellebores, ivy, cranberries, pomegranate and pine needles. Such a lovely feast for the eyes!

For my card I cut out the image with my Scan N Cut and then colored it with copics. I really wanted to try some black hellebores, I though the contrast would be great against the poinsettia, pomegranate and cranberries but in the end I chickened out. Maybe I'll try it on a scrap and see how it comes out. I stamped the sentiment in the bottom right corner in a poppy red and then embossed the white panel with a wood plank design. I then popped up the bouquet across the white panel.

Make sure you stop by the Bloom Brigade blogs to see all of their amazing creations and then head on over to the Power Poppy store to grab your favorite sets!

Jenny 
Leslie 
Christine 
Gloria 
Julie
Barbara C 
Allison 
SathyaKala 
Broni 
Catherine 
Stacy 

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Power Poppy Part 2- Day 4

Welcome to the 4th day of the Quiet Christmas release, part 2! Today's set is called Cuddle in the Cabin and I have to say, I keep going between this one and Forest Fellas as my favorite set. Both speak to my soul of things I absolutely adore!

I just love the images in this set....the snowy cabin scene, deer, a lovely pine tree and mountains to create your own backdrop. I don't live in a cabin but everything else about the set sure speaks to life in Alaska, especially since winter is my favorite season! When I was working nights I would come home at 2:30am and just sit on my front porch enjoying the way the moonlight caused the snow to sparkle, and to listen to the absolute stillness of the neighborhood.

For my card I went with a night scene where the moon is shining nice and bright. Those are my favorite nights, where the moon is so bright that it reflects off the snow and the sky is this gorgeous dark blue color and even in the middle of an Alaskan winter you can see for miles and miles because the snow covered landscape is all lit up. It's even better when the aurora decides to join the party and dances across the sky, a partner to the moon. I used a silver gel pen to add some shine to the edges of the roof, porch, trees and fence.

Are you ready to see what the rest of the Bloom Brigade did with this fabulous set? Let's go check it out!

Christine 
Gloria 
Barbara C 
Broni 
SathyaKala 
Catherine
Allison 
Stacy 

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Power Poppy Part 2- Day 3

Welcome back! It's Day 3 of Power Poppy's  Quiet Christmas Release Part 2. Today's release is a great set called Season's Greenings!

For my card I decided to use the fun Santa gnome carrying a Christmas tree and shovel. One of my best friends loves gnomes so I think this card will be perfect for her! After coloring my image with copics I used my Scan N Cut to cut it out and then I picked out some background paper and just did one wide strip across a plain white card base. I then stamped the sentiment "Here comes Planta Claus" in green ink under the strip. I normally don't do embellishments but I thought the sequins worked well here. (my layout was inspired by this card I saw on Pinterest)

Shall we go see what the rest of the Bloom Brigade did with this fun set? Let's go hopping!

Barbara W 
Jenn Dove 
SathyaKala 
Leslie 
Gloria 
Barbara C 
Julie
Christine 
Broni 
Allison 
Jenny 

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Power Poppy Part 2- Day 2

It's day 2 of the second part of Power Poppy's Quiet Christmas elease and the set today, Enchanted Branches: Woodland, is SO much fun to play with! I love all the fun elements in this set, including my favorite mushroom Armanita Muscaria aka Fly Agaric. This stamp set is definitely a must have for nature enthusiasts! 

For my card I stamped the branch and then grabbed the elements I wanted to hang from the branch: the fly agaric mushroom, a pinecone and an acorn. I then stamped the sentiment to the right of the branch. After coloring in the image I still felt it needed something so I did some dry embossing to make it look like snow falling.

Let's get hopping to see what the Bloom Brigade did with this fun new set!

Christine 
Gloria 
Barbara C 
Julie
Allison 
Broni 

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Power Poppy Quiet Christmas-Part 2

Hi friends! I'm so excited to be back to showcase the 2nd half of the Power Poppy Quiet Christmas release! Today is Day 1 and we are starting with an amazing set called Forest Fellas. I can't even begin to say how much I absolutely adore this set!

Forest Fellas is a bit of a departure from Marcella's usual images yet it is still perfectly inline with all of her amazing nature drawings. The set features a moose, bear, fox, owl and some amazing sentiments that are good for Christmas, winter and year-round. If you've been to my blog before it shouldn't surprise you that I decided to use the moose image for my card. I have secretly hoped that Marcella would do a stamp set with a moose someday so I seriously squealed with joy when I saw this set. 

A lot of folks don't realize that moose have a lot of red tones to their fur so when I color my moose images I tend to pull out my copics that have more of a golden tone. The colors on the antlers can differ depending on the time of year but I like to keep mine more of a lighter tone. I wanted to keep my background simple so I pulled out some plaid paper from my stash and paired that with a banner dry embossed with an argyle pattern. I stamped the sentiment in red and then popped up the moose along the side of the banner. I think I'm going to mass produce some of these to send out to friends for Christmas this year!

Are you ready to see what the rest of the Bloom Brigade came up with? Trust me, you won't be disappointed! After hopping through all the amazing blogs head on over to the Power Poppy store!

Barbara W 

Jenn Dove 

SathyaKala 

Leslie 

Christine 

Gloria 

Barbara C. 

Julie

Broni 

Allison 

Saskia 

Cheryl

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Power Poppy Quiet Christmas-Day 5!

Welcome to Day 5 of the Quiet Christmas release! I hope you've been as excited about this release as I have been! Marcella has truly outdone herself with these amazing sets. The best news? It's not over yet....we'll be back on Nov.12 to showcase round 2 of new sets and let me tell you, 2 of my absolutely favorite sets of this release are in Collection 2 and I cannot wait to show them off!!

Today's set is called Heavenly Peace Dove and it is such a beautiful image. The lovely dove on an olive branch is so eye catching and I just love the sentiments that are in this set!

For my card I colored the dove with some of my T copics and then used YG's for the olive branches. I mixed some dark olives with some green ones on the branches for some contrast. I adhered my image panel to some patterned paper with silver on it and adhered that to a green card base. I thought the card needed something else to finish it off so I took a sheer ribbon and tied that across the bottom of the card. I know it's hard to see in the picture but it's there :)

It's time to visit the rest of the Bloom Brigade to see their amazing creations!

Allison

Christine

Gloria

Broni

Barbara C

Leslie

Nancy

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Power Poppy Quiet Christmas-Day 4!

Happy Monday and welcome to day 4 of the Power Poppy Quiet Christmas blog hop! We're highlighting another brand new set today called Let It Glow.

How fabulous is this set? I love Christmas lights and I'm always wanting good sentiments to put inside my Christmas cards and this set offers both of those! Look at all the fun elements in the set, there is just so much you can do with these images and sentiment!

For my card I decided to create a Christmas tree made of lights, with the Let It Glow sentiment as the tree topper. I created lines of lights, decreasing them in size as I went up the page until I hit the height I wanted. Then I added the sentiment and turned it until I was happy with the way it was positioned above the lights. I then used my copics to color the lights and sentiment and I also went around all the lights to make it look like there was a bit of a glow coming from them. It's a nice and simple card but I really like how the lights and sentiment take center stage.

Let's go hop and see what the other Bloom Brigade members did with this great set!

Gloria 
Christine 
Broni 
Barbara C
Jenn Dove 
Stacy
Julie 
Nancy

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Power Poppy Quiet Christmas- Day 3!

I hope everyone is enjoying the Power Poppy Quiet Christmas blog hop so far. My mojo has been gone for a while but all of these wonderful new sets have my imagination spinning, it's good to be excited about creating again!

Today's set is called Garden of Gratitude and is one of my absolute favorites! I love the boots with the Christmas flowers in it and that trellis with the vine and fruit? Perfection! Marcella's images are so unique, that's one of the reasons I fell in love with Power Poppy when I discovered  them!

For my card I decided to use the fabulous trellis image. One of my very best friends lives in Florida and I thought of her and her family as soon as I saw this image. Since I colored the fruit as oranges I tried to keep the colors of the presents more toned down and garden feeling with the colors while still staying traditional. I printed the sentiment out and changed the font color to green to go along with the green in the image. I went with a simple kraft background on a green card base.

Now it's time to see what the fabulous Bloom Brigade did with this fun set...READY...SET....GO!!

Allison
Leslie
Gloria
Broni
Barbara W
Stacy
Christine 
Nancy
Barbara C
Lisa

Julie

SathyaKala

Jenny

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Power Poppy Quiet Christmas Release-Day 1!

I am SO excited! It's time for a brand new Christmas release from Power Poppy ((squeal)). It's been 2 years since the last holiday collection and wow, you will NOT be disappointed with what Marcella has designed for this new Christmas collection. Finally, something good to come out of 2020 LOL

Today we are highlighting a new set called Mossy Pots with Paperwhites. I decided to use the image of the paperwhites in a bowl with ornaments leaning up against the bottom of it. Because paperwhites are a very pure looking flower I wanted to keep the background very soft and quiet. I mixed and matched 3 different patterned papers that use the same colors and then I popped up my image over the papers. For a little pop of color I added some red with the ribbon through the flowers and then red stickles for a few of the ornaments. I used silver stickles for the other ornaments. I colored the flowers with my C copics and also used a hint of YG. I wanted my bowl to have an outdoorsy/nature feel to it so I carried the brown from the flower bulbs into the sides of the bowl. This image was so fun to color!

Are you ready to see what the rest of the Bloom Brigade did with the new set Mossy Pots with Paperwhites? Click on the names below to visit the blogs and see the amazing talent!

Jenny

Leslie

Broni

Barbara C

Nancy

Christine

Gloria

Allison

Cheryl

Stacy

Barbara W

Julie

Jenn Dove

Catherine

SathyaKayla

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Healing Bouquet

TGIF! Are you ready to bring in the weekend with another new digital stamp from Power Poppy? Today we have Healing Bouquet, an awesome image featuring lemon, lavender, lotus, elderberry and eucalyptus. There are so many wonderful directions this image can be taken in!

I decided to keep my colors on the softer side. The red berries and lemon really pop against the more muted colors of the lotus, lavender and eucalyptus. For my sentiment I once again used a sentiment from the now retired set Good Thinking:Renewal.

Now it's time to go on a beautiful adventure perusing the creations from the rest of the Bloom Brigade! Just click on the names for each designer to see the wonderful things they did with this fabulous new image!

Stacy

Christine

Leslie

Ally

Broni

Barbara C

Jenny

Gloria

Julie

Catherine

Time to Fly

It's my favorite time of the month...new digital stamp release at Power Poppy! I always get SO excited to see what Marcy has in store for everyone and she never disappoints!

For my card I used the set Time to Fly:

A meandering mix of butterflies and anemones swirl through the gears of time in this intricate design. Variations are included with both richly detailed butterflies and more simplified wings, also choose from ornate watch hands and very simple ones. Be sure to crop into this one to create a scene that works for you if you don't feel like tackling the entire drawing. Images are in light grey as well as black.

For my card I decided to go with bright colors and kept the butterflies simple because honestly, I was scared to try and get too much detail with the butterflies. LOL I'm just not as talented as some people who can look at an example and then translate it to their stamped image. I did google butterflies and used some of the images I found as the inspiration for the colors I chose.

The sentiment I used is from the clear set Geraniums Take Two and I thought it went perfectly with this image! I kept it simple by stamping it in black on a piece of white card stock that was die cut. I didn't want the sentiment to take away from the image so I think keeping it simple and in the corner keeps the eye on the colors of the image.

The other set released today is called Shimmering Flight:

The colorful hollyhocks and Native American turquoise-and-silver jewelry of New Mexico were on my mind when conjuring this drawing. Variations in this set include a faceted gemstone with a dragonfly, originally drawn expressly for Alyce Keegan's Kit and Clowder classes, and a version of the turquoise/hollyhocks with a dragonfly. Images are in light grey as well as black.

Head on over to the Power Poppy blog to see the amazing cards that were created with this digital stamp set, they are fabulous!

Make sure to go check out these new digital stamp sets, they have something for everyone in them and I think you'll love them as much as I do :)

Pssst....be sure to check out the sale section too....wow there are some awesome deals going on right now!!