Hello Friends and Welcome to the August edition of the The Blossom Challenge. I’m Christine bringing you this month’s The Blossom Challenge, and we’re Going Sentimental, focussing on Power Poppy’s beautiful selection of sentiments.
Today I’m bringing you two inspiration cards with Sentiments as the focus.
First up is a design I made for a recent wedding.
For a lot of years my husband and I were youth pastors and it’s been fun to see our former students get married over the years. This wedding was a delightful one with the bride from Indian-Canadian descent and the groom from British-Canadian descent, the mix of cultures and colours at the wedding was gorgeous. This palette reflects the colours in the wedding of orange, pink, coral and red. I’ve utilized two beautiful Power Poppy sets, Hummingbird Paradise as the beautiful floral frame, and then one of my ALL TIME favourite polymer sets from Power Poppy Big Scripts. Did you know that this set features hand drawn sentiments by Marcy? I just love her scripty writing.
To highlight the sentiment I embossed it on white cardstock, then sponged warm shades of Distress Oxide Ink, Seedless Preserves and Abandoned Coral around it, wiping the ink off the sentiment once it was done. The floral frame is fussy cut out in a windowed design.
Next up is a Clean and Simple design.
Dear friends of ours move away today to another city in the province. We are going to miss them terribly. Over the years we’ve watched them grow from a newly married couple to a family of four. We’ve shared a love of creativity and the mountains, so this design is a bit of a nod to our friendship, and the fact that they are moving closer to the Rockies. Similar to the first card, I created a background of a sunset sky using Distres Oxide Inks: Tumbled Glass, Wilted Violet, Abandoned Coral and Seedless Preserves, spashed some water on the background, then embossed this awsome encouraging sentiment from Power Poppy M-Powering Words (currently sold out in polymer) onto the beautiful colour of the background. I used a framed arch die to accent the sentiment, and then hand drew in a silhouette of our favourite mountain range in Canmore, Alberta, the Three Sisters, filling it in with a black Sharpie, and added a punch-cut sparkly paper moon.
Now how about some phenomenal Sentimental inspiration from The Bloom Brigade?
and Me, Christine!
Now it’s your turn Power Poppy friends! Your challenge this month is to create something “Sentimental” where the focus is on the sentiment. We’re inviting you to think about creative backgrounds, stencilling, framing the sentiment with other sets, or creative uses of patterned paper and dies. You can use any Power Poppy set as part of your design to be in the running for our monthly prize!
To sweeten the deal Marcy has discounted a number of her Fall themed Sentiment sets (and a few extras) for you HERE. Did you know there are also two sets in the sentimental family that are FREE?! I Can Do All Things and Let It Be. We’re making it easy for you to play along!
Add your link at the bottom of the post for your chance to win a $20 Gift Code to the Power Poppy Store!
Would you like to know who last month’s The Blossom Challenge: Christmas In July winner is? Random.org picked Amanda! Congratulations Amanda! Please email Marcy at bloom@powerpoppy.com to collect your gift code!
Looking forward to seeeing all of your Sentimental Creations!
3 comments:
Awesome cards Christine, especially the wedding card.
Also love the aweosme cards your fellow Bloom Brigade made.
Thank you so much for sharing these awesome inspirations Christine,
Barbara, Essie, Gloria and Lisa.
Stay all safe and have a wonderful day.
Always wonderful inspiration creations. I just LOVE coloring Power Poppy images and making pretty cards for loved ones and friends.
Lovely inspiration! Thank you for the fun challenge.
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