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Tuesday

Creative Confetti: Just Color!

Hello peeps! If you've been paying attention to the buzz in blogland, you know that fabulous woman Kathy Racoosin is at it again with another 30 Day Coloring Challenge over at The Daily Marker! So, in the spirit of her mission to get us all in touch with our inner coloring chi, I decided to focus this week's Creative Confetti on doing just that and supporting a stamping sister at the same time!

HOW TO PLAY: Simply pick up a coloring medium -- any one will do -- and get coloring! Just that simple folks! If you want to get in on the action over at the Daily Marker, there are 3 ways to share what you are coloring. If you want to join a community of coloring enthusiasts, post on FaceBook or Instagram. Be sure to use the hashtag #thedailymarker30day. Or, you can link up to thedailymarker.com's blog by clicking here to link up.

Moving on to my creation!

For my creation, I decided to dabble in a medium that I rarely pick up. I am so used to my Copic markers that the supplies I have on hand to watercolor often get ignored. Not this time! I put on some jams and just colored, colored, colored! I used a mix of watercolor and Distress Inks. I chose the Distress Inks for the rose and green shades because they looked a little more muted and I didn't want every piece of this image to be over the top bold and bright. I also used a few Distress Inks to create a watercolor washed backdrop too.

I will say that this image was a sneaky peek of sorts! You might recognize this image as a part of Power Poppy's Bowl of Beauty digital stamp set but if you stay tuned to the Power Poppy blog this week, you'll see why this illustration is breaking out into a whole new format! Is that enough of a teaser for you?

Starting TOMORROW, Marcella has a whole hit parade of action coming your way -- 5 new stamp sets, amazing designer samples and a ab fab collab to show off all these new sets featuring one of the biggest names in stamping! Yep, we are pretty giddy around here so you will have to stay tuned!

So, now it's your turn! Color up something fun! Use Power Poppy stamps if you have them but if you don't maybe now is your chance to win some! If you color and then link up your image using the linky below, you might be one of the lucky stampers to win a $25 gift code to the Power Poppy Shop! YIPPEE!

Happy Creating!

~Julie

a.k.a. The Creative Confetti Thrower

Creative Confetti: On the Grid!

Hello peeps! Are you ready for a fun little challenge to keep this creative week rolling? I am! If you joined us for our Inspire Me Monday Rewind & Unwind yesterday, we took you back to 2015 with the ever-so-talented Ms. Dina Kowal. If you missed it, click here! She took us through -- step by step -- on how to create what she called a "9-block card." It was designed to mimic the effects of a quilted square and, my friends, that tutorial is the inspiration for today's Creative Confetti Challenge!

HOW TO PLAY: Simply cut up your stamped image to create that window pane or grid-like effect. While Dina did a 9 block, you can do literally any number and it doesn't even have to be a square! Try different shapes! Have a little hexagon punch? Or how about a circle die? It's up to you! We just want to see you create this grid-like effect, no matter what shape you choose!

On to my creation!

So, I wanted to give you a reference point so that you could "see" where I was going through my little step by step tutorial below. I am giving you a tutorial because I did my grid creation just a wee bit differently than Dina. She had a grid die. I wasn't so lucky but in the process of making this card, I remembered a little trick a fellow stamper taught me once. So, I reached into the cobwebbed recesses of my mind and dug that little trick out!

I started by printing off the brand new digital stamp by Power Poppy called Bowl of Beauty. Man, is it a beauty or what? I did only print off a portion of the image and I did blow it up a bit so that you could "see it" when I cut it up and re-assembled! Here's what it looked like after I finished coloring it with my Copic Markers! I have to admit I had a hard time taking my paper cutter to this one. I actually said to my husband, "I can't do it!" And you know what he said? "Don't complain, you knew you were going to do it when you started. Just do it!" HA! A little tough stamping love for me! ;-)

Now here's the little trick! I cut a few slivers of card stock to measure 1/8" wide. This would serve as my guide for layering all my little 1" squares! I started at the top and side....

And then kept moving my slivers of paper as I went!

You can see just how easy this made it!

And here's a look again at the final "puzzle" all put back together!

Here's a closeup. Don't look too hard! You can see that I am just a wee bit off on my top three boxes. The paper must have shifted as I was making my little squares. It's okay though. Most people won't notice that hopefully!

And here's the cheery little sentiment that I added onto a punched circle and put on my card thanks to some silver cording! The sentiment is from the Power Poppy set Potted Primroses. Love that set!

So, now it's your turn to color up something, cut it up and piece it all artistically back together! While it was a bit tough cutting up this image, I do love the effect and was glad I cued up Dina's tutorial for inspiration!

Before we go, we do have to share the winner of our March Creative Confetti Challenges! We threw all the names in a hat and thanks to random.org, here's our winner!

That means the winner is......

**** LISA JOHANSEN! ****

You might already know this card making phenom. She not only plays weekly, she's hosted here a time or two as well. Want to see her winning creation?

Lisa played along with our Color Wheel Challenge and spun the wheel to find the color tied to her birthday month! She's an October Baby... so blue was the color she was supposed to create with. I love the sweet and simple design, really playing up that Easy Breezy Coneflower! Congrats Lisa! You win a $25 gift code to the Power Poppy Shop! Just email us here at bloom@powerpoppy.com and we'll get your winning code right to you!

So peeps, now it's your turn to play along with us and show us what you've got! Remember, our linky is live all month long. So, play along one week or all four and each entry will be one more chance to win a $25 gift code to the Power Poppy Shop!

We can't wait to see what you create!

~Julie
a.k.a. Chief Creative Confetti Thrower!

Saturday

Instant Garden Release: Bowl of Beauty

We have a brand new digital introduction today, and it is one of my most VERY favorite images I’ve ever drawn. I hope you love it as I do. Featuring a lovely tree peony in a bouquet with ferns, Spanish bluebells, and hellebores, this one is pretty epic.

Introducing: Bowl of Beauty

Get a load of that giant flower!

So many tantalizing petals to color, arching ferns, polka dots, emerging buds.... it’s an encapsulation of spring.

The Bowl of Beauty digital download comes with two variations — with the bouquet tucked into a café au lait bowl, and without. You also get no-line (light grey) versions of each. I just know you’ll enjoy working with this one, I’ve tried to draw this one with a great amount of “oomph”!

Come and see what our Instant Gardeners have done with it, because I am on the verge of tears looking at their beautiful work.