Midnight Dahlia

Hi, today I have something to share with you that is

not a card.

Every month at Vanilla Arts, Amy Shulke does a live stream 

to teach coloring and she is am an amazing teacher.  I love

her style of teaching.

It is always a Power Poppy image so this month

the image was Midnight Dahlia.

I so could not color this without Amy's help.  I am pretty happy with

how it turned out, except for my stars in the background😏.

The background is made on Cryogen paper using distress inks,

Faded Jeans, Peacock Feathers, Dusty Concord.

It measures about 6 1/4 so I am not sure what I will

do with it.

Well, thanks for stopping by. 

Layered Birthday cake

Hi, I am really excited to share this card with you today.

Sometimes I play along at PowerPoppy's blog (they always have many different challenges going on) and the 

Hues to Use challenge, well I was so thrilled when I got an email

from Julie at Power Poppy asking me if I wanted to be a guest

designer for this week's Hues to Use.  Of course, I said yes!

So here are the colors I was to use for the challenge.

Magenta, White & Gray.

I chose to use the Layer Cake that Marcella drew.  Marcella is a fabulous artist, you will have to go take a look around her shop PowerPoppy.  She has some
fanstatic flower images then she generally draws from flowers in her own garden.

I was worried a bit about getting the gray in there bu, in the end,d I think I pulled it off.
And THEN something else happened (I think me being a guest designer was meant to be), I get monthly emails from Amy Shulke at Vanilla Arts witha free image and the "recipe" for coloring it.  Amy also has monthly instructional Livestream for a small fee, well wouldn't you know it this months video was on coloring this exact PowerPoppy Layer cake image.
YIPPIE!!!!!! I signed up immediately and boy am I ever glad I did.
Her Livestream instructions are the best I have ever seen.  Her approach to coloring is great and helped me tremendously because she
doesn't concentrate on "light source" which I have always had a hard time with.
However, following her instructions you can see how much dimension you
can add and this was my FIRST class of hers.
Thr background was done using Distress Inks and the image was colored
primarily Copic markers.  Then she uses Prisma pencils and
Staedtler triplus fineline pens to add in details.  Just the small details she teaches you makes all the difference in the world.
So working together with a Power Poppy image and Amy's instructional videos
it was a win win for me and I am sure it would
be for you also, so check out PowerPoppy images and then head on over
and see what is going on at Vanilla Arts.

Oops, sorry got sidetracked a bit.  I made the card by cutting out a
rectangle in the center of the front panel because I wanted to
mount the image behind the cut-out.  Then using a Gina Marie die
I cut the magenta loopy rectangle, then had to cut the center part out.
I embossed the white panel using a Cuttlebug folder and added a few sequins.
The sentiment is also from PowerPoppy that I printed and cut out using
my Cricut Explore.
Thanks for stopping by and taking a look around and reading
through my long-winded post.

Fall Wheelbarrow

Sure wish Fall would show up here is Arizona.

The temperatures around here are just awful for this time

of year, we are breaking records.  Next week is suppose to 

get up to 98 degrees, HELLO Mother Nature hasn't anybody

told you yet that is is suppose to be cooling down. 

So I had printed up this image from Power Poppy's 

Fall Haul digital stamp set and thought maybe coloring it would make

it feel like or at least remind me that it is Fall.

My daughter was born on Thanksgiving day so I thought this

might make a good birthday card for her.

I love how it came out, I have to admit I followed the very good instructions

for coloring this image from Julie Koerber from the Bloomin Brigade DT.

I had to adjust the colors a bit since I was coloring on kraft and Julie was

coloring on white.  This is my first time coloring on kraft with my

Copics, I liked it but there are some adjustments.

The sentiment is from the same Fall Haul digital stamp set

and I had printed it out side by side so I made this card the size

that will fit into a #10 business size envelope. 

I mounted it on a couple layers to bring out some of the colors and popped

the top layer for dimension.

Well that is it, thanks for stopping by.

Challenges entered:

Power Poppy - Hues to Use (Sept open-ended)

Crafting with Attitude - anything goes - ends 10/29

Creative Knockouts - Fall - ends 10/26

Moving Along with the Times - Autumn Fall - ends 10/25

Happy Holidays

Hi, if you have visited my blog some lately you will

know I love coloring on kraft paper.

So this week when I saw that PowerPoppy's challenge was to use kraft paper

I was all in.  What better combination is there besides

kraft paper and PowerPopoy images, it is a win-win.

So here is what I came up with using PowerPoppy's 

Hollyberries digital image. 

I colored it using my Polychromo pencils and Copics for the berries.

I was surprised to find that Copics color well on kraft paper.

I mounted the image on a piece of deep red and then popped

the whole panel onto my kraft card base and that was it.  A pretty

quick Christmas card.

Thanks so much for stopping by and head on over to PowerPoppy and

join in the fun or at least poke around at all the great images at

PowerPoppy HERE.

Challenges entered:

A Snowflakes Promise - anything goes - ends 10/8

Creates and Makes - anything goes - ends 9/25

Digi ChoosDay - anything goes - ends 10/4

Lemon Shortbread - anything goes - ends 10/4