Sunshine and Sweet Simple Things ~ Power Poppy

Hello, hello, HELLO!!!  This is quite the inspiration filled Friday, let me tell ya!!  The Instant Gardeners, as well as some of Bloom Brigade members, are sharing a gorgeous new Power Poppy Digital image called Sunshine of my life!!  And it's a beauty!! I also have a second card to share with you using the Power Poppy Digital image Sweet Simple Things.  There's a lot of color flowing today.

First, for my Sunshine card, I made the image 4 1/2" x 4 1/2" with only part of the image showing with a sentiment (included with this digital set) I added using Photoshop.  If I'm honest, I wish I had moved the sentiment down and to the right a little bit, but until I diecut it, it looked great.  I didn't diecut it until after I'd finished coloring, and with the plethora of Copics that I used, I wasn't about to start over.  *grin*

I took an easy way out with this card a bit.  Jennifer Dove has fabulous "Color of the Day" tags, and since I knew I wanted to use a variety of colors on the vase and flowers, I thought I'd use her already designed combinations.  The Vase uses Split Pea Soup, Gopher, Chartreuse, Patina, then Split Pea Soup and Gopher again.  The Patina was used on the next stripe too, but it got mostly cut off.   I used Transition Red for the two bottom sunflowers and my own color combination for the other three.  I also used her Dragon combination for the leaves and stems.

Copics:  Bottom Sunflower Petals ~ R59, YR18, YR15, Y02 Bottom Sunflower Centers ~  E79, E57, E35, E33, E31 Top Sunflower Petals ~ Y38, Y19, Y15 Top Sunflower Centers ~ E89, E87, E84, E81, Leaves ~ YG67, YG63, YG03 Vase ~ YG95, YG93, YR23, E79, E57, E35, E33, E31, YG95, YG93, YG21, BG49, BG15, BG13, BG11

That's it for my first card.  For my second, I colored the Digital Image Sweet Simple Things.  I adore Bee Skeps and have quite a collection, so of course I had to color this baby up as soon as I had the chance.

Didn't Marcy design the most charming image?  Seriously!!  I LOVE this, and had a delightful time coloring it.  I wanted the Bee Skep to have as much dimension as I could achieve, so I colored each individual layer.  The sentiment is from one of the new Clear Stamp sets called Everything's Even Rosier.  I love how Marcy scripted the word "hello".

Now, this card also fits this month's creative Power and Spark Challenge designed by our dear, sweet, talented Aussie, Kathy!!  She's challenging everyone to "B" Happy and include as many "B" things on your card that you want.  On this card I have Bees, a Bee Skep, a Bench, a Banner, Burlap String, and Black dots.  I think that about covers it.  ;)

Copics:  Bee Skep ~ E59, E37, E34, T10, T7, T2 Bench ~ W8, W6, W4, W2 Foxglove ~ YR09, YR04, YR00, RV23 Daisies ~ BV31, Y18, Y08 Leaves and Grass ~ YG99, YG17, YG13, YG11 Background ~ E43, E41, E40

That's it for me today y'all!!  I hope you've enjoyed an inspirational hop.  If you haven't seen the rest of the Power Poppy creations, here are the links to those with projects to share:

Instant Gardeners:
Broni Holcombe
Cheryl Scrivens
Debbie Olson
Barb Walker
Nancy Sheads

Bloom Brigade:
Allison Cope
Christine Okken
Cindy Lawrence
Kathy Jones
Stacy Morgan
Tosha Leyendekker---you are here

I'm so glad you were able to drop by!  I hope you enjoy a fabulous weekend!!

  Happy Stamping!  

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Sunshine of my Life

Stamps:  Sunshine of my life (Power Poppy)

Paper:  X-Press It, Smokey Gray (PTI), Cardboard Scrap

Ink:  Printer

Die:  Stitched Squares (Die-Namics)

Accessories:  Copics, Distrezz-it-All (Zutter) 

Sweet Simple Things

Stamps:  Sweet Simple Things, Everything's Even Rosier (Power Poppy)

Paper:  X-Press It, Smokey Gray and White (PTI), Cottage Living (Pebbles), Necessities Wood Designer (MME)

Ink:  Printer, Antique Linen

Dies:  Stitched Square (Die-Namics)

Accessories:  Copics, Burlap String, Enamel Dots (MME)    

Power Poppy ~ Happy Crabapples

Hello Friends!!  I can't believe it's almost August!!  One exciting thing about coming up on a new month, is... new Power Poppy images!!  August 1, Power Poppy will be releasing the Color Me Grateful Collection.  And it's an incredible set too.  For the next 3 days, the Bloom Brigade will share little peeks into what you can expect, and the 4th day, we'll have a little hop showcasing all the sets.

Now, earlier this year a Flowering Branches digi was released and it was very well received.  So well, in fact,  that now there's a fabulous entire stamp set of Happy Crabapple images with beautiful sentiments included.  

I colored one of the branches with Copics and framed it with a few circles.  I was inspired by MOJO Monday Sketch 261.  I added a blossom bunch to the upper left corner, along with a few enamel dots, and that sums up this CAS card.

Here's a list of the Bloom Brigaders who have peeks to share with you today:

• Allison Cope
• Christine Okken
• Katie Sims
• Leslie Miller
• Stacy Morgan
• Tosha Leyendekker---you are here

Copics:  R17, R14, R12, R02, G99, G94, G85, G82, E79, E74

That's it for me today.  Stop by tomorrow for a blast from the past.  ;)

    Happy Stamping!

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Stamps:  Happy Crabapples (Power Poppy)

Paper: X-Press It Blending,  Cottage Living (Pebbles), Smokey Shadow and White (PTI) 

Dies:  Standard and Lacey Circles (Spellbinders), Stitched Circles (MFT Die-namics)

Accessories:  Copics, Enamel Dots (Teresa Collins)