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Monday

The Blossom Challenge Winner!

Happy Monday friends! It’s Christine and I’m popping in to celebrate the winner of our most recent The Blossom Challenge: Sponge Bath. Random.org picked #3 which is Susan! Susan has a gorgeous Trout card on an awesome background that you should definitely check out!

Susan just pop March an email at bloom@powerpoppy.com and she’ll get your prize code out to you. Happy shopping!

And in a Power Poppy update, I’m taking a hiatus from hosting The Blossom Challenge, but I hope to catch up with you creatively on my blog or Instagram . Happy creating!

The Blossom Challenge Winners and Jingle Bell Inspiration

Greetings Power Poppy friends! It’s Christine welcoming you again today! Is it warm and toasty where you are today? From what I can tell from weather reports, a lot of the map of both Canada and the US have had some significant cold and snow!

To warm it up, today I’m bringing you a design with this sweet image from Power Poppy called Blankets and Bells, AND I’m also here to announce November’s The Blossom Challenge winners! I travelled quite a bit last month for work, and it’s taken me a while to catch up at home. Thanks for appreciate your patience!

Isn’t this a delightful little stack that looks cozy-cabin ready for snuggling? Colouring is done with Copics and I’ve paired the design with some fabulous patterned paper I had in my stash with a fun colour palette. Behind the patterned paper I sponged Distress Ink through a basketweave stencil to mirror the patterns in the blankets, added a few enamel dots, and then I tied a pair of little golden jingle bells to Baker’s twine to mirror the image. Always sweet to hear the sound of jingle bells on a card!

NOW For our WINNERS! Our Designers had a chance to enjoy all of your beautiful entries into November’s Gold, Silver and Shimmer challenge and they have picked 2 winners as their favourites!

Maggie https://maggiescathouse.blogspot.com/2022/11/mitten-power-poppy.html

and

Nicola https://amethystlilydesigns.blogspot.com/2022/11/sparkling-treats.html

Congratulations ladies! Please contact Marcy at bloom@powerpoppy.com to claim your prize!

We’ll be back January 16th with a new The Blossom Challenge, so enjoy your Christmas and Holiday season and we’ll look forward to connecting in 2023!

The Blossom Challenge: Gold, Silver and Shimmer!

Hello Power Poppy Friends! It’s Christine with you today wondering when our lasting fall will begin to turn to the white of Winter. Even though I don’t love long winters, I am so glad I live where it snows. There’s is nothing more beautiful and peaceful then a soft snowfall, or looking at a sparkling snowcovered area. It’s shimmer and shine makes the world look like a faceted gem!

Today at Power Poppy, we’re excited to be kicking off a brand new Challenge and showcase some brand new digi images in the 2022 Digital Blitz that Marcy has cooked up for us! You’ll see some wonderful remastered images that Marcy has released in the past in polymer that will be delightful for you to create with.

The Blossom Challenge this month is called Gold Silver and Shimmer, and it’s all about metallic and shine.

I have two designs to show you and I’ll begin with this brand new and lovely Wrapped with Love Digi. It is filled with little pretties that evoke a elegant and classy traditional vintage Christmas all wrapped up in a bow! I coloured the image with Copics, and added lots of touches of shimmer with my glitter pen on the ornaments, stars and paired it with pretty glittery paper. Paired with the non-traditional coloured plaid patterned paper and it’s full of charm.

My next design is cozy and warm with rustic touches using a remastered image called Mighty Pine. I love winter botanicals like this where you can really dig into the colouring. I brought it to life with Copics, a little Prismacolour Pencil and some gold metallic pen touches on the jingle bells. All layered onto a distress oxide ink blended and stencilled background. Little splatters of gold shimmer and wood veneer hearts tie it all together.

Does Gold, Silver and Shimmer make your heart sing? We’d love to have you join in the challenge this month showing us your best designs with gold, silver or shimmery elements. Pull out your embossing, gold, silver or shimmery paper, foiling, embellishments and paper treatments. Dazzle us!

This month we’re going to have our Bloom Brigade Designers pick their favourites from the Challenge Entries as winners, so pull out all the stops! Remember you must use at least 1 Power Poppy stamp or image. This month we’re going to pick 2 Winners of a $20 Gift code to the Power Poppy Store! Enter below. You have until November 20th to join us.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!
Click here to enter

Were you a WINNER last month in our Fruit and Veggie Challenge? Random.org picked Maria Rodriguez’s pretty veggie display. Maria contact Marcy at bloom@powerpoppy.com to claim your gift code! Congratulations!

There’s more to see with the rest of the Bloom Brigade playing along today.

Barbara

Gloria

Essie

The Blossom Challenge: Eat Your Fruit and Veggies

Hello Power Poppy friends! It’s Christine with you here today and we’re headed into harvest season this month with The Blossom Challenge and our theme “Eat Your Fruit and Veggies”. Today I am showing off our “vegan” concept with two cards celebrating both gratitude and yummy fruit and veggies.

My first design showcases Power Poppy’s Cabbage Patch set. Each of these cabbages or kale are coloured with Copic Markers and trimmed out. I have more photos of this design on my blog, as well as a short tutorial on how I created the coordinating cabbage and kale background. The mini-slimline size is perfect size for this design to make it feel long and lean, and with lots of room for the images, sentiment banner and background.

The sentiment is from the polymer version of this set, which is embossed in white and inked in black below. I love all the rich green colour! It’s the colour I love best!

Next up is a card with one of my favourite fall sets from Power Poppy called: Pumpkins and Pears.

Marcy always does little vignettes so charmingly and they are such a delight to colour. I started with Copics for this design and then finished off the colouring with Prismacolor Pencils to add in the fine details.

The background is a Kraft panel that was masked off with tape and then Distress Oxide Ink was added (Crackling Campfire, Abandoned Coral, Fossilized Amber and Seedless Preserves). After splattering with water and some white ink and it was dry, I ran the panel through with a pierced die. I love the look it gives. It’s finished off with some patterned paper, inked die cut leaves and enamel dots.

Have you been eating your Fruits and Veggies? How about creating a card with them?!

Join us this month with a design using some form of Fruit or Vegetable in the card and at least one Power Poppy stamp. The Challenge is open for a month and you could win a $20 gift card to the Power Poppy Store!

To top it off, Marcy has a SALE on some of my favourite Fruit and Veggie themed digi stamps in the store if you’d like to add to your collection and play along!

You have until October 16th to submit your link below.

Want to know the WINNER from our Sentimental Challenge last month? Congratulations goes out to..... Maggie S ! Maggie, contact Marcy at bloom@powerpoppy.com to get your prize code! We look forward to see what you create!

Enjoy and be inspired with more Fruit and Veggie goodness from the Bloom Brigade playing along today.

Gloria

Essie

Tuesday

Creative Confetti: Sketch It Out!

Hello all and happy Tuesday to you! Today, I thought I'd do something I love and offer up a brand new sketch here on the Creative Confetti Challenge! It's always a good time when you can just try someone else's layout design, take the guesswork out and just color and create!

HOW TO PLAY: All you have to do is create using the sketch below. Use Power Poppy Stamps if you have them but if not, this is a great way to try to win some Power Poppy goodness! Just that simple!

Let's take a look at the sketch....

And now, on to my creation!

A few weeks ago, I followed along with Nancy Sheads as she colored up an image from the Holly Golightly set. I love her Inspire Me Monday coloring videos. It's just so peaceful to have a coloring companion! ;-) You can CLICK HERE to see this tutorial for yourself! She shares what Copic Markers she uses as she goes, making it super easy to pause, grab the color and then hit play and follow along.

After I was done coloring, I used a stitched edge circle die and matted it on top of a few layers of different decorative paper, add a little doily, some twine and... ta da! Done! The little tag sentiment features a portion of a sentiment from the stamp set Simple Joys.

Here's a look at a closeup of my card front. You can see, when I was all done, I did add a little sparkle thanks to a Wink of Stella Glitter Pen. Gotta have a little sparkle!

So, there you have it folks -- that's my take on a brand new sketch! I hope you join me for this week's challenge!

That means the winner of the September challenge is.....

SUSAN SUDBURY!

Susan created a beautiful card for our Free For All Challenge using Power Poppy's Chickadee in Barberry digital stamp! Check it out! And, if you want to see more of her creative process, all you need to do is click HERE to hop on over to her blog!

I love how she used an effect to create the look of snow falling in her background. Amazing! Susan, to claim your prize, all you need to do is email us at bloom@powerpoppy.com and we will get your winning coupon code for $25 in the Power Poppy Shop to you!

Want to join me and take this little layout for a test drive? Please, get those fingers inky and be sure to share what you come up with by using the linky below! Every entry -- no matter what the week -- is thrown into a virtual hat for our random drawing at the end of the month for a $25 gift code to the Power Poppy Shop!

Have a great week! I can't wait to see what you create!

Creative Confetti: "Pop" goes the flower

It's Happy Tuesday, Hello all! I bet you are wondering what this title means. "Pop" goes the flower? Well, that's what this week's challenge is all about! I have learned that if you want your image to stand out, you need shading to push it out front by coloring the background in a darker shade to... make it pop!

HOW TO PLAY: Stamp your image for your project, color it up and then color the background too. Make sure that it is a dark color and that will make your image "pop". If you are hesitant to color the background, you can just start with dark card stock, or you can cut out your image and adhere it to a dark card base. Whatever you decide, just go for it. It will be fun. Remember that everyone has a chance to win a $25 gift code to the Power Poppy Shop.

On to my creation!

I will be honest with you, I made this card and when it turned out OK, I wrote this post. Sorry that I have no in-process pictures. I promise that next time I will do better. I do have a surprise later, so stay tuned. For this card, I used the stamp set called Abundant Petals by Power Poppy. After stamping it with Versamark and a champagne embossing power, I colored it with Copic markers. The flower is colored with YR68, YR21, Y17, and Y38. The leaves are colored with YG03, YG17, YG21, and YG67. And, my background is B24.

Here is the surprise that I mentioned before. I am adding this card that I made after taking Amy Schulke's class. It is another example of that dark background that makes everything "Pop".

This card uses the stamp from Power Poppy called Take a Deep Breath. This background has Distress ink in Chipped Sapphire and Mermaid Lagoon sponged on using the masking technique.

Now it is your turn! Roll up our sleeves and start coloring up those images. I can't wait to see what you do to make your flowers POP! Remember you can win a $25 gift code if you enter, so don't forget to link up your creation using the linky below!

Before I let you go, we do need to draw the winner from our fabulous July entries!

Random.org threw all the names in a pot and drew this lucky card maker as our winner....

CONGRATS TO LUCY E.!

Lucy created this lovely card from last week's Make It Your Way Challenge. Her birth month is May and her initials, L & E, which means she had to use a flower and use the colors pink and green. I think she nailed the challenge with this beauty of a card!

Lucy, to claim your prize, all you need to do is email Marcella at bloom@powerpoppy.com and she will get your $25 winning code right to you so that you can make a fun stop to the Power Poppy Shop!

Can't wait to see what you all create this week!

Until next time!

~Barbara

Creative Confetti: Rock that Mojo!

Hello everyone and happy Tuesday! If you checked in yesterday for my guest post on Inspire Me Monday, you know that I've been having an issue as of late with my mojo! I got a few emails after I posted that column and, it turns out, a lot of YOU are suffering as well - wondering where your mojo went! So, I thought it would be fun to have you read THIS POST and hopefully it will inspire because that is the basis of this week's Creative Confetti Challenge!

HOW TO PLAY: Find a source of inspiration - a blog, a Pinterest gallery, a sketch website, a catalog, a magazine -- you name it! Whatever inspires you, take some time to really let that mojo bubble up to the surface to create! All you need to do is create using that source and then share a link or photo of your inspiration source!

Once you are done with your creation, don't forget to link it up using the linky below. Every entry is one shot at winning a $25 code to the Power Poppy Shop!

On to my creation!

So, this sketch below from Paper Play Sketches was my source of inspiration. I loved the simplicity of it and as soon as I set my sights on it, I knew exactly what I would do to bring it to life!

I started by cutting out all my pieces first, like I did in my post yesterday, just to speed up the creative process. As you can see, after I die cut my rectangles, I stamped using the Power Poppy clear stamp Summer Berries.

From there, it was just coloring it up with Copics and assembling! Before I added the strip of green decorative paper, I decided to add some pizazz by wrapping it with some silver cording. To color, I used R30, R32, R35 and R37 for the berries and accented in spots with Y11 and YG00. The leaves were colored up with YG00, YG03, YG13, YG17. I accented with Y00 and YG0000 around the outside of the image and then accented the berries with a white gel pen. And... ta da!

Here's a little closeup for you!

And as you can see, I did use the "Hello Friend" sentiment, also from the stamp set and accented my creation like the sketch did with some bling in the upper right corner! I have to say, I love the simplicity of following a sketch and helping take some of the guesswork out of creating -- especially when you feel like you are in a creative slump!

MOVING ON! Since we are about to embark on a new month, we have a winner to share from all of our June Creative Confetti entries! If you missed the action, just click HERE to see some of the beautiful creations submitted! After we put all the entries into the virtual hat, Random.org drew this number!

That means the winner is....

* * * * * BONNIE KLASS! * * * *

Bonnie had several breathtaking entries this past month, but this one below was our lucky winner!

I love the bold pop of color on the white textured base and just a hint of black in the twine and sentiment! Just perfect! Just in case you wondered, Bonnie used Power Poppy's Garden Fireworks digital stamp set for this creation.

Bonnie, to claim your $25 gift code to the Power Poppy Shop, just email us at bloom@powerpoppy.com and Marcella will get your code right to you! So glad you played along and shared your talents with us!

Okay, sweet stamping friends, now it's your turn to show us your spark of inspiration! As I mentioned, each entry gets you a chance at winning a little shopping trip with $25 to spend in the Power Poppy Shop! So... what are you waiting for? Let's see you get those fingers inky!

Until next time!
~Julie

Creative Confetti: All Boxed Up!

Hello all and Happy Tuesday! How's life in your neck of the woods? Beautiful, I hope! I have a fun challenge that is open to interpretation, which means I hope we have some creative sparks flying and can see this little challenge go in so many different directions! Check it out!

HOW TO PLAY: Use a box element on your card or creation. Think graphically! Or, think literally by actually creating a box! That's okay too! So, my sweet stamping friends, that's all it takes this week to add an entry to our monthly drawing for $25 off in the Power Poppy Shop!

On to my creation!

I have to say that I was really inspired by Jessie Banks quick watercolor creation that she unveiled yesterday in her Inspire Me Monday post. I love those little cherry blossoms and so, I knew that I wanted to have a few spring blossoms take center stage in my creation. They are just so fresh and full of spring! Only, mine aren't cherry blossoms at all ... but apple blossoms!

I'll start by saying that I used the Power Poppy digital stamp called Apples in Season and then, I went and nipped and tucked and created this grid in Photoshop Elements. Let me show you what I did!

I started by creating a 4" by 5.25" canvas. I created a square using the Marquee tool, clicked on the tab at the top that says "Layer", clicked on "New Fill Layer" and then when it asked what color, I used the little color dropper tool to choose the same white as my background. From there, I added a "stroke" around my box. You can see when you look at the screen capture above that the stroke I used is highlighted with a box.

From there, you right-click on that box and click on "Duplicate Layer" until you get three duplicates. Then, when you look at your canvas through a grid (it's a tool you can click on under "View" ), you can line up all your boxes perfectly so you have a four-square design!

From there, I opened up the Apples in Season stamp set and used bits and pieces. TIP: If you click on "Layer" and then click on "Merge Visible" all four boxes will stay where they are. From there, you can use the magic eraser tool to erase the background on each box so that you can allow pieces of your image to show through the box. That's what I did here! I also wanted some of the image to hang over the box - which meant making a duplicate of the image, letting pieces of it hang over the edge and erasing the other areas that I wanted to stay behind the grid frame. I got a little tricky with my image but you don't need to. The whole idea was to frame up pieces of my image for a visual pop!

Here's a close up below!

Quick details on my card! I used Copic Markers and used R0000, R81 and R83 for the petals, G20 and G24 for the leaves and then G0000 and BG11 to highlight my image in each box. I added a little glitter glue to the centers and then added the sentiment in the plain box from the clear set called Always Here. From there, I just matted it on a decorative paper card, added some pop thanks to a Stampin' Up Embossing Folder, and then added some silver cording and a fun pearlescent button. Tada! Quick - pretty - inspired - and fun!

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Before we bid you adieu, we do have to draw the winner from our May challenges! Can you believe it is actually June already!?!?

So, after we threw all the virtual names into a hat, random.org drew this number!

That means the winner is.....

* * * * JULIE GEARINGER!! * * * *

Julie joined us for Barb's challenge to use the "Rule of Thirds!" She created this sweet creation below using Power Poppy's Sunshine of My Life digital stamp set (Psst! This one is on sale right now for $2.99!) and dolled it up using a die-cut to create her thirds and added color with some watercolor pencils! I love the result with the dreamy background she created and the bold color!

Julie, to claim your code to the Power Poppy Shop, all you have to do is email us at bloom@powerpoppy.com! Just that simple!

Okay sweet stamping friends, now it's your turn! Let's see how you take this challenge and think "out of the box!" or, in the box, or just as a box! ;-) If you have Power Poppy stamps, please use them! If not, remember each entry will be one more chance at winning a $25 gift code to the Power Poppy Shop! (That means you might be able to WIN some!)

Just a note! Because the 30th of June is a Tuesday, this month's challenge will end on June 29th so we can draw for the winner that night! So, let's get those fingers inky to get your cards on the linky! ;-)

Until next time, happy stamping!

Creative Confetti: Quick Color!

Hello all! Are you ready for a fun and speedy challenge this week? I will give you a clue, if you checked in yesterday to my Inspire Me Monday, you might already have an idea what this week's challenge entails!

HOW TO PLAY: Choose a design, technique or layout that adds a bit of quick color to your creation. This is not the week to spend hours upon hours coloring. Show us the ways you add a quick splash of color!

Need a little inspiration? Of course, my tutorial HERE yesterday is a great place to start, but that's not the only way you can take part in this challenge! Here are some other ideas below to spark a little creativity!

Spotlight Coloring

Distress Ink Resist

Embossed Silhouette

On to my creations!

If you click over HERE, you'll see a step-by-step on how I did this but I will give you a hint! I used stencil brushes and then, just dabbing them in the ink, and then dabbing on the paper to give my images a quick splash of color! For both cards, I used Memento Bamboo leaves to stamp my image for a softer than black base. I used the stamp sets Simply Camellias and then the clear set (retired) Lilac Time. This image is available in digital form though in the set French Lilac.

So, now it's your turn! Use a fun technique to add quick color to your card, then when you're done, enter your creation using the linky below. Every link is one more shot at a $25 gift code to the Power Poppy Shop!

Before we go, with a new month comes a brand new winner! After all the names were thrown into the virtual hat from our April Creative Confetti Challenge, Random.org drew the number...

And that means the winner is.....

* * * * ESSIE of ES Cards! * * * *

Woot Woot! Essie, all you need to to do claim your prize is to email us at bloom@powerpoppy.com and Marcy will get your gift code right to you! With the sale still underway, your winnings have a little extra buying power! ;-)

Before we go, you have to see Essie's beautiful creation!

Essie used Power Poppy's digital stamp called Pansies and in her Instagram post she said, "Power Poppy helps me love flowers even when I am (stuck) indoors!" We agree Essie! But with spring here, that shouldn't be the case for long! As you can see by scrolling through Marcella's IG feed, it's good medicine to be out in the midst of all those spring flowers! Click HERE and you'll see what I mean!

Well folks, thanks so much for stopping by! I hope the sun is shining in your neck of the woods or, at the very least, in your hearts!

Happy creating!