Inspire Me Monday: Get That Glow!

Howdy all!  Welcome to another Inspire Me Monday.  I'm your hostess Allison Cope and today I’m going to be working my glow, girl!

Actually I’m going to be sharing my coloring process of added a glow to the beautiful Hellebore flowers from the Hellebore & Hyacinth stamp set.  I’m going to be coloring with Copic Markers and then added some detail using some Polychromos Pencils.

Come and join me at my crafty desk…  I sure hope you have grabbed a beverage of choice because this one is a little longer than one of my normal videos.  Enjoy...

Click to see it in HD.

Thanks for joining me today.  Here’s another quick look at my finished card.  I finished off the glass vase and the shadow on the ground off camera.

Here is the list of Copic Markers and the Polychromos Pencils I used for the entire card’s focal image…

Thanks for joining me today.  I hope you’ve enjoyed my tutorial and it inspires you to add a glow to your next project!

~ Allison Cope ~



stamps:  Power Poppy (Hellebore & Hyacinth)
cardstock:  Bee Company (Marker Paper), Recollections (110# White)
inks: Memento (London Fog), Copic Markers, Polychromos Pencils, Catherine Pooler Designs (Melon Ice, It’s a Girl, Party Dress, Royal Treatment, Black Jack)
dies: My Favorite Things (Stitched Rectangles)
stencil:  Altenew (Halftone Stencil) 

Inspire Me Monday: Adding Stitching to Your Cards

Hello! Happy Victoria Day to all of my fellow Canadians! I’m Allison Cope and I’m hostess this week for this edition of Inspire Me Monday.

Today I’m going to share a very short tutorial on adding some simple stitching details to your cards.  It’s a simple as a needle and some thread!

Join me at my crafty desk today for my video tutorial…

To view in HD.

Here’s another peek at the card featuring the Abundant Petals stamp set. 

I also used a sentiment from the new clear stamp set Cheerful Columbine stamp collection.

Don’t forget to take advantage of the amazing sale on the entire new release… including their coordinating dies!!  Happy shopping!

Thanks for stopping by!  I'd love to hear what you think about my card today.

~ Ally ~

supplies:stamps: Power Poppy (Abundant Petals, Cheerful Columbine)
inks:  Ranger Distress (Antique Linen), Copic Markers, Polychromos Pencils, Versamark, Sakura (Gold Calligrapher Pen)
cardstock: Bee Paper Company (Marker Paper), Recollections (White 110#), MFT (Wild Wisteria, Lavender Fields)
die: MFT (Cross Stitch Rectangle) 
patterned paper: DCWV(White Cardstock with Foil 6x8)

embossing powder: Stampendous! (Detail White)
other: Sulky (Gold Thread)

Make A Big Impact with a Small Change

Hello  ... Hello!  How are you today? My name is Kathy from The Daily Marker and I am happy when I get to guest on the Power Poppy blog. I also LOVE to color and my belief is that if you make a small change in your coloring you can really enhance what you have colored. 

This might be one of my all time favorite Power Poppy images and I just swoon every time I look at this illustration from Marcella. The Cup of Columbine is available now as a digital print and  the end of April a rubber stamp!  

Check out my video to see how I enhanced my watercoloring by "filling in the nooks and crannies"

Full disclosure ... even tho flowers are my favorite thing to color my flower knowledge isn't that good.  When you look at the way I colored these Columbines  you might understand why I interpreted the Columbines a different way with a lot of green leaves instead of petals I wanted to go with the flo of my coloring and restrained from looking up the Columbine to see what was petal vs leaf.

This is how my image was progressing. I happened to be in the Bahamas when I watercolored this using Tombow watercolor markers. Each day I colored a portion of the image and adding layers of color with the markers. 

This is when I finished the watercoloring part and before I "enhanced" this by filling in those teeny tiny little areas.

Does this help having it super zoomed in? This are what I call the "nooks & crannies". Basically it's where the lines intersect. I also like to add a nick in the leaves and I love to add a few thorns on some of the stems. 

The berries were so small that I didn't bother with them but, looking up close I think I will add a line of white gel pen. 

Ninety percent of the time fill in these tiny areas after I color but, I thought maybe seeing it this way would help. 

I am convinced that filling in "nooks & crannies" you can really make your coloring pop and I hope after today's post that you just might agree. Thanks for your visit today and have a good start to your week. Hugs, Kathy