La Vie en Rose

Hello Everyone!!  There's exciting news happening at Power Poppy starting this month - we're excited and hope you will be too!!!  If you've missed the news, you can read all about it HERE!  On the 15th of each month there'll be a new Digi image released and showcased by a brand new team - our very own Instant Gardeners!!  Now that doesn't mean it's over for the Bloom Brigade, because we'll still be here creating with Power Poppy's beautiful Clear Sets!  Want to see what the Instant Gardeners have created this month - you can find all those links HERE!!

Today, to help kick of the new release, the Bloom Brigade are joining in the celebrations and you can also find all the news about the Peep of the Week on the Power Poppy Blog!  May we introduce - La Vie en Rose, perfect for Valentine's Day and all sorts of occasions as well!

I've used a base of white, layered with Chocolate Chip and red card.  Next I've printed this gorgeous rose and sentiment from La Vie en Rose onto X-press It Blending Card and coloured it with Copics (R32, R35, R37, G20, G21, G24, G28, E21, N0, N1, W0).  I've then cut it out using Spellbinders' Tranquil Moments and wrapped a silver ribbon through it.  To finish I've added a silver bow and clear rhinestones to the corners.

Stamps - La Vie en Rose (Power Poppy)
Paper - X-press It Blending Card, Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red, White
Ink - Printer
Accessories - Copics, Spellbinders Tranquil Moments, Silver Ribbon, Bow Easy, Clear Rhinestones

Just wait until you see the incredible projects the Bloomies have for you today!!

Allison Cope
Christine Okken
Cindy Lawrence
Dawn Burnworth
Julie Koerber
Katie Sims
Kathy Jones
Leslie Miller
Stacy Morgan
Tosha Leyendekker

That's all from me today, thanks for visiting and hope you are inspired to stamp!  :)

A Little Winter Pick Me Up

Hello Everyone!!  Although it is hot, humid and the middle of Summer where I live right now, I know some of my readers are shivering in the middle of Winter surrounded by snow.  I'm hoping today's card brings a little cheery warmth your way!

I've actually used two of the latest Power Poppy Digi stamps - Winter Pick Me Up for the image and the sentiment is from Camellias.  I really like this sentiment and thought it would work well with the warmer, happier colours - and besides, life is so much better with friends is it not!!  :)

I've used a base of Wisteria Wonder and layered with white and some MME Ooh La La DP.  Down the side is a strip of white punched with a Lattice Border Punch and topped with more Ooh La La DP and a piece of white ribbon.  The image and sentiment have been printed onto X-press It Blending Card and coloured with Copics (V20, V22, V25, G40, G43, G46, W1, N1, YR30, YR31, Y26, Y28).  I've cut the bouquet out with Small Oval Nestabilities and matted it with Wisteria Wonder cut with Elegant Oval Nestabilities and popped it up on X-press It Foam Tape.  I've cut the sentiment into a notched tag and attached as shown and finished by adding a few pearls to the top corner.

Stamps - Winter Pick Me Up, Camellias (Power Poppy)
Paper - X-press It Blending Card, Wisteria Wonder, White, MME Ooh La La DP
Ink - Printer
Accessories - Copics, Spellbinders Small Oval Nestabilities and Elegant Ovals, Martha Stewart Border Punch, White Ribbon, White Pearls, X-press It Foam Tape

That's all from me today, I hope wherever you are that you have a great week-end and stay warm.....or cool depending on where you live!!  Thanks for visiting and hope you are inspired to stamp!  :)

Floral Basket

Hello Everyone!!  Did you enjoy all the floral goodness yesterday???  Well sit back because there is more today to brighten your day!  Take a stroll through the JustRite garden and be inspired by their latest offerings - Floral Basket and the Reversed Crackle Cling Background stamps.

So I suppose you've noticed that I haven't used the Reversed Crackle, but instead I have a sneak peek of a background you'll see more of later in the week called Celtic Lattice.  :)  I've used a base of vintage pink Bazzill and cut the corners with a corner rounder.  I've layered with Baked Brown Sugar and also cropped the corners.  Next I've stamped the Celtic Lattice in Memento Lulu Lavender onto white card, but then decided to tone it down a bit and airbrushed it with V01 Copic and then also cropped the corners.  I've used Spellbinders A2 Scallop Borders One with Vintage Pink Bazzill and a piece of Maja Designs DP to make a horizontal panel.  I've used the Floral Basket SVG Digital File to cut the basket shape and the sentiment shape and then stamped them with the matching Floral Basket stamps.  I've coloured this with Copics - E31, E33, E35, E37, G40, G43, G46, Y21, Y35, Y38, RV000, RV32, RV34, V01, V12, V15, B00, B12, B14.  I've glued the basket to the front of the card and popped the sentiment up on foam tape.  To finish I've added some pearls to the corners.

Stamps - Floral Basket, Celtic Lattice Background (JustRite)
Paper - X-press It Blending Card, Vintage Pink Bazzill, Baked Brown Sugar, Maja Designs DP
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black, Lulu Lavender
Accessories - Copics, JustRite Floral Basket SVG Digital File, Silhouette Machine, Spellbinders A2 Scallop Borders One, Corner Rounder, Kaisercraft Snow Pearls, X-press It Foam Tape

Just wait until you see all the floral beauty waiting for you in today's hop!!  Pop on by and leave the team a little love!

JustRite Inspiration
Marisa Job
Darsie Bruno 
Sheri Holt
Kathy Jones
Angela Barkhouse

Before you leave, how's this for a little added incentive to get shopping????  JustRite are having a 20% OFF Sale!!  Just use the code below!

That's all from me today, enjoy the hop and hope you are inspired to stamp!  :)

Lilac Blossoms

Hello Everyone!  Hope you've all have a fabulous start to the new year and for those of you soon heading to CHA ---- I'm soooooo jealous!!  :)  Now that it's January, it's time for the latest JustRite Papercraft release - part of their CHA Winter Release!  Today it's a GORGEOUS floral set called Lilac Blossoms and a beautiful and super useful background called Script Background!

I've used both these sets for my card today - I love how you can create a vintage feel with them.  Firstly I've created a base using the largest die from Spellbinders' Radiant Rectangles.  Then I've used the same die to cut a piece of Very Vanilla and put it over the top.  The cut a piece of purple card using the largest two dies from the same set and attach to the top.  Stamp the Script Background in Memento Desert Sand onto Very Vanilla and cut with the next smallest die in the set.  Attach a purple ribbon around the bottom and glue to the top of the card.  Next stamp the large lilac image in Memento Tuxedo Black and the sentiment also from Lilac Blossoms in purple ink.  Colour the Lilacs in Copics, fussy cut (or use the matching Lilac Blossoms SVG file!) and pop up on foam tape.  Cut the sentiment with an oval die or punch, put up on foam tape.  Finish by adding some Chino Pearls to the ribbon.

Stamps - Lilac Blossoms, Script Background (JustRite)
Paper - X-press It Blending Card, Very Vanilla, Purple Bazzill
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black, Purple Ink
Accessories - Copics, Spellbinders Radiant Rectangles, Purple Ribbon, Kaisercraft Chino Pearls, X-press It Foam Tape, Oval Punch

Be inspired and pop around to the blogs below and leave a little love!
JustRite Inspiration
Debbie Olson
Kathy Jones
Kazan Clark
Angela Barkhouse
Sheri Holt
Heidi Blankenship
Darsie Bruno

That's all from me today, enjoy the hop and hope you are inspired to stamp!  :)

Stormy Skies

Hello Everyone!  Hope you've all had a happy Christmas - we went away and spent time with family and just had time to relax and de-stress......it was WONDERFUL!!  Just before Christmas, I had a Copic Tutorial go up on the Copic Oz Blog showing how to create this stormy sky.  In the weeks leading up to Christmas our city was hammered with storm after storm, so I thought it would be appropriate.  :)  For all the details about the Copic colours and how to create the scene click HERE.

The rest of the card is pretty simple, a base of Old Olive and layered with white, Daffodil Delight and a piece of MME Hattie DP (found DEEP in my stash).  The vertical panel is Old Olive punched with Iron Gate Border Punch and topped with more Hattie DP, then I've also added a horizontal piece of Hattie DP as well.  Down the side I've added a piece of white ribbon.  The image was cut with Large Circle Nestabilities and matted with Old Olive cut with Stately Circles Nestabilities.  To finish I've added a spiral clip with ribbon and a couple of clear Dew Drops to the corner.

Stamps - Hodgepodge of Happiness (Unity)
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper - X-press It Blending Card, Old Olive, White, Daffodil Delight, MME Hattie DP
Accessories - Copics, Spellbinders Large Circle and Stately Circle Nestabilities, Iron Gate Border Punch, Spiral Clip, White Ribbon, Dew Drops, X-press It Foam Tape, Mask It

That's all from me today, thanks for visiting and hope you are inspired to stamp!  :)

Camellia Notebook

Hello Everyone!!  How are you all surviving The Crazy Season?  December in Australia is the time for Christmas Parties, End of Year Parties - since our school year finishes at the beginning of December, and of course trying to get organised for Christmas Day with our families and friends.  With three children finishing school during these weeks, my life has been on the slightly insane side!  I'm part of a  Craft Group that is a gathering of school Mums who have talents in various areas - we all learn from each other and try different things - I've taught Copic colouring for example and one Mum (bless her), tried her best to teach me to crochet!  Last week was our final gathering of the year (or what we here in Australia call a Break Up Party - since we are breaking for the end of the year) and we were having a Secret Santa - the catch was it had to be something we made.  I decided to make a notebook.

I've taken a Spirax notebook and a piece of pretty patterned paper from my stash and punched along the edge with a spiral punch and glued down.  Next I took a piece of white and embossed it with Imperial M-Bossabilities folder - then decided it was too bright, so I toned it down by airbrushing it with Copic E51 - matted with Blushing Bride and wrapped a piece of ivory ribbon around it.  I've printed the Camellias image onto X-press It Blending Card and coloured with Copics (G20, G21, G24, G28, RV000, RV52, RV55, R30, R81, R83, R85, R89).  I've cut this out with Spellbinders Labels 25 and matted it with Blushing Bride cut with Majestic Labels 25.  To finish I've decorated with pearls and ribbons

Stamps - Camellias (Power Poppy)
Ink - Printer
Paper - X-press It Blending Card, Blushing Bride, MME DP
Accessories - Copics, Spellbinders Labels 25, Majestic Labels 25, Imperial MBossabilities Folder, Kaisercraft Chino Pearls, Ribbons

Thankfully the recipient really liked it!  :)  Are you making gifts this Christmas season?  I hope whatever you are doing that you are having fun and are inspired to stamp!  :)

Teacher Gift Set

Hello Everyone!  Last Friday, my eldest finished Grade 7 which means next year he is off to High School!  Grade 7 has been the final year of Primary School as long as I can remember in Queensland (although my mother tells me in her day Grade 7 was High School - the Education Dept obviously change the rules every generation or so), however this cohort will be the last to finish in Primary School, with the Grade 6 class finishing this week also heading to High School next year.  Such a strange feeling to have a child heading to High School.

Last Friday, the Grade 7's had their Graduation Ceremony which also included 10 Awards Presentation - these being Art, Mandarin, Music, Academic etc....  Finally the last award was announced, the June Hammer Memorial Award - which is given to one boy and one girl and is decided by no less than 20 staff and the winners kept a closely guarded secret by only 2-3 people.  The winners names will be engraved on the Honour Board at the school.  You can't imagine my surprise and gasp as my son's name was announced (I didn't even hear the girl's name I was so stunned - although I saw her go up on stage - Congratulations Ruth).  Needless to say, I shed a couple of tears.  We are so incredibly proud of you Zac - what an amazing young man you are growing up to be!

Now that I have had my Proud Mum moment - onto today's project!  Every year I make journals for the kids to give to their teachers (I do have others but you won't see those for a while due to the stamps I've used on them) - Zac had a male teacher who liked to torture the class with music from the 80's, so he wanted a journal in this theme.  (Not that Zac hates 80's music, he's been learning guitar to some of the songs of that era.)  You can imagine how this got my brain working - how was I going to do 80's theme?  I found some random bright, circular patterned paper deep in my stash which I thought would work, punched the edge with a spiral punch and glued it down.  I've made a black and orange panel for the front, and cut out the teacher's name in yellow and green using Spellbinders Upper Case Font One.  The guitar was cut using MFT's Rock and Roll Die-namics (I can't find it in their store - perhaps it's retired?) in a variety of colours.  Next came the cassette - I found Retro Cassette shape in the Silhouette Online Store and cut all the pieces and glued them together and attached as shown.

The card was made in matching colours, with the added use of the Music M-Bossabilities folder, the sentiment from MFT's A la Mode Rock Star set (also retired - boohoo - I miss the a la modes) which I've secured with a staple.

Stamps - Rock Star (MFT ret)
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper - Daffodil Delight, Kiwi Kiss, Black, Tangerine Tango, Cherry Cobbler, White, Unknown DP from stash
Accessories - MFT Rock and Roll Die-namics, Spellbinders Music M-Bossabilities and Upper Case Font One, Silhouette Retro Cassette Cutting File, Silhouette Machine

Sorry this has been a long post today and thanks for hanging in there until the very end!  I hope whatever craziness is happening in your part of the world, that you remember to enjoy it and celebrate every day!

Winter Blitz Release!

Hello Everyone!!  It's Power Poppy Hop Day!! Today both sets, Camellias and Winter Pick-Me-Up are available to purchase.......however a lucky person may yet WIN both sets simply by commenting on the blogs of the Bloom Brigade!!  It could be you, so don't forget comment!  :)

Have you seen the peeks over the last couple of days?  The team have made some beautiful cards over the last couple of days and there are more to inspire you today!

For my card, I've used Winter Pick-Me-Up....isn't this just a beautiful image!  I've started my card using a base of Very Vanilla and layered with Wisteria Wonder cut with Resplendent Rectangles.  Next I've cut a piece of Pion DP using the next smallest die from the same set.  I've printed the Winter Pick-Me-Up image onto X-press It Blending Card and coloured it with Copics (G20, G21, G24, G28, B60, B63, B66, W1, W3, C1, C3, Y21, Y28, YR30, YR31).  I've cut it out with Majestic Labels Twenty-Five and popped it up on foam tape.  I've shrunk the sentiment down, printed it out and cut it out with Lacey Ovals.  While still in the die, I've lightly airbrushed it with Copic B63 and then popped it up on foam tape.  To finish I've added a few pearls to the corners.

Stamps - Winter Pick-Me-Up (Power Poppy)
Ink - Printer
Paper - X-press It Blending Card, Very Vanilla, Wisteria Wonder, Pion DP
Accessories - Copics, Spellbinders Resplendent Rectangles, Lacey Ovals and Majestic Labels Twenty-Five, Kaisercraft Chino Pearls, X-press It Foam Tape

It's time to travel around the blogs and feast your eyes on the inspiring work of the Bloom Brigade!!!  Don't forget to comment for your chance to WIN!!!

• Allison Cope
• Christine Okken
• Cindy Lawrence
• Julie Koerber
• Kathy Jones
• Katie Sims
• Leslie Miller
• Stacy Morgan
• Tosha Leyendekker
• Marcella Hawley Power Poppy Blog

 That's all from me today, thanks for visiting and hope you are inspired to stamp!!  :)