Sketches of Spring Bouquet with Power Poppy

I am so excited about Spring flowers this year.  We are a few weeks away from that ....but I can’t wait to see things pop up in the flower garden this year.  Being so in the mood for flowers, I pulled out this beautiful floral arrangement from Power Poppy called Sketches of Spring Vol. 1.  It is a dreamy combination of different daffodils, fritillaria, and a viridiflora tulip, with its varigated colours.  

Colouring is primarily with Copics, with a few smoothing details with coloured pencils.  The beautiful frame is from Pink Fresh Studios called Essentials:  Rounded & Braided Rectangle die, with a little out of the box cutting to make that tulip leap from the page.  

I love that daffodils are such a welcome sign of Spring!  

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Sketches of Spring Bouquet with Power Poppy

Birthday Party and Cake with Power Poppy

 

Hello!  I have a few birthday designs to finish out this week, and today I’m starting with a sweet combo card using the prettiest cake on a stand from Power Poppy called Layer Cake Digital Stamp Set.  It’s perfectly decorated, and displayed!  Coloured up with Copics, in a sweet colour palette.  

Next, I paired the image with the confetti dies and stencil from The Greetery called Celebration Streamers Stamp and Stencil, and the Curly Q Streamers Die for the background Party on the paper.   

The sentiment is from the polymer version of this set, with a few enamel dots that coordinate with the candy on the cake.  

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Birthday Party and Cake with Power Poppy

Periwinkle Petals Birthday

 

Hello!  Have you ever pulled out a stamped image and you’re really not sure where it came from?  I have a pile of images I’ve printed or stamped and just never gotten to.  This gorgeous floral is illustrated by Marcella Hawley - that I know for sure.  Her style is unmistakable, I just can’t find if it was from Power Poppy back in the day....or even for Flourishes even farther back in the day.  Regardless, its a beauty - and needed to finally make an appearance on a card.  

The colouring is done with Copics, and finished off with coloured pencils.  I can’t remember the last time I used lace ribbon, but the cream of the cardstock and the pretty petals just lent itself to a old fashioned feel.  To liven it up I also added a strip of periwinkle glitter paper to accent.  The background embossing folder is one from Spellbinders.  Which gives it nice texture.  

The birthday sentiment is stamped from another Power Poppy image, Party Time, at least that I know :) 

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Periwinkle Petals Birthday

Jeweled Christmas Florals with Power Poppy

 

We are snuggled up inside today because of what the National Weather Services calls “a major snow event”, where a good 8 - 10 inches, or 25 cm fell in the past 24 hours.  I have thoroughly enjoyed it - but I’ll admit, I wasn’t doing the shovelling.   So, tonight I’m in the mood for Christmas!  I pulled out this beautiful image from Power Poppy called Ultimate Poinsettia Digital Stamp set. Marcy always had the most beautiful arrangements of florals for any season, and this one is one of my favourites with the poinsettia and anemone flowers, plus berries and dusty miller greenery.  

The image is coloured with jewel toned Copics, with finishing detailing done with coloured pencils.  I’ve die cut the image out of the box style with the tiny dusty miller greenery in the lower corner peeking out.  The background is foiled in light lilac with a Spellbinders called Glimmer Monoline Stars.  

The sentiment is embossed on vellum with the Power Poppy set,  Joy to the World Bouquet. I ink blended Blueprint Sketch ink on the vellum to coordinate with the purply-blues.  

A few pretty rhinestones give extra shine, and I accented the sentiment and corner with silver die cuts from Spellbinders Christmas Bird Poinsettia Die.   Appreciate you stopping by! 

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Jeweled Christmas Florals with Power Poppy

The Perfect Sunflower with Power Poppy

I do love the beauty of Sunflowers, and there are so many beautiful illustrations of them in stamping, but I don’t think there is any better one that this design from Marcy’s skilled hand at Power Poppy.  It’s called simply called Sunflower Power.  I haven’t coloured it in so long, and it was just the right season to pull it out.  

I started colouring the design with Copics, and finished up the detail work with Coloured Pencils.  This way you get the saturated colour start, with the fin lines of a sunflower petal and leaves.  After colouring I trimmed it carefully and placed it on some rich rust cardstock using an MFT framed die.  The background is created with a gorgeous pierced plate that I’m so taken with from The Greetery called Pierced Plaid Pierce Plate.  I’ve added deeper ink around the edges for more texture.  

I added in ink splashed die cut leaves from The Greetery using their Big Branches: Ruscus Die.  The sentiment is stamped with the polymer version of this sunflower stamp set, and I’ve splattered some gold paint over the design to make it shine.  

The perfect Sunflower, am I right?  :)   

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The Perfect Sunflower with Power Poppy

Cuppa Columbine with Power Poppy

 Hi There!  Today I have another beautiful floral, this time from Power Poppy, and it’s a digi called: Cup of Columbine.  Talk about a beauty!  Just the way the pretty columbine petals are arranged in a tea cup is so whimsical and charming, and wonderfully illustrated by Marcy. 

I printed the image on XPress It Blending Cardstock, and coloured with Copics, finishing with some coloured pencils for some blending and details.  

I trimmed it out with a Pink Fresh die Rounded and Braided Rectangle.   The base of the card is ink blended with Distress Oxide inks to coordinate with the colouring of the columbine.  A few clear dot gems accent the design and nod to the seeds flying away. 

The foiled sentiment “Sending Birthday Wishes” is foiled using a Spellbinders sentiment for a little pop of silver, and I’ve added a bit of white gel pen to accent the tea cup and colour the polka dots on the cup.  

She’s a cutie!  

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Cuppa Columbine with Power Poppy

All Star Dad with Power Poppy

Hi There!  With Father’s Day a few days away, I thought I’d pop in and show a design I created a few weeks ago for a friend to purchase.  This design is created with a retired Power Poppy’s set called Play Ball.  It has great elements of a sports theme, and you can get part of the set in digital still available as Baseball Vignette.  

I coloured all the designs with Copic in a spring green and yellow combo, trimming out the layers, and also incorporating a postage theme with the dies.  The herringbone parquet background is from The Greetery and makes a perfect backdrop. 

A few stars and enamel dots accent and tie the colours together in a fun way.  Thanks for popping in!

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All Star Dad with Power Poppy

Apples for the Teacher with Power Poppy

Hello!  Today I’m bringing you a sweet apple for the teacher.  Another one of the Retirement cards I created for a friend who has colleagues retiring at her school.  And you can never go wrong bringing your teacher an apple right?  This design from Power Poppy is a digital image called Apples in Season.  And while you won’t likely find blossoms and full fruit in any season, it sure makes a gorgeous design for a card!  

My colouring is done with Copics, with a little touch of white gel pen on the stamens of the blossoms.  

 

The beautiful focal die is called Rounded and Braided Essentials from Pink Fresh Studios, and the wonderfully textured background is created with Concord & 9th’s Basket Weave Card Front Die.  It’s been so long since I’ve used this set, it was a delight to colour it up and bring it to life!   

Thanks for stopping by!  

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Apples for the Teacher with Power Poppy

Hydrangea Hi with Power Poppy

Hi!  Today I’m bringing you a Spring beauty from Power Poppy from the Hydrangea Hype digital stamp.  It’s just such a gorgeous blossom!  Blue hydrangeas are always my favourite, so I couldn’t help but colour them in blue-purple to soft green shades.  

Then to coordinate the background to the card, and the ombre style I coloured the letters, I ink blended the background of the circle card in blue to green shades, with some white acrylic paint splatters.  A pretty die shape accents the shape of the blossom branch.  

 

Just a couple of enamel dots accent the top of the design.  Clean, crisp, simple and full of vibrant Spring colour!   

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Hydrangea Hi with Power Poppy

Slimline Daffodils with Power Poppy

It’s mid week!  And it’s almost Spring!  I’m really enjoying our increase in light each morning and evening!  It’s put me in a sunny mood, and there’s nothing better than daffodils to create more sunshine.  These beauties are from Power Poppy and are called Daffodil Bouquet.  I think they are fantastic mixed in with some tiny grape hyacinth, it’s a personal favourite combination I have planted in my front flower beds.  

The colouring for the image comes with Copics, and finished off with coloured pencils.  I say it generally because I use a mix now of Prismacolors and Polychromos pencils.  

The background was another fun experiment with ink blending and a stencil in an ombre fashion using Distress Oxide inks.  A little splatter of water addes some interest, and the sentiment is both stamped, and then white gel pen is added in the letters to define them against the ink blended background.  

I chose to go with no embelishments on this one, and just let those fussy cut flowers shine.  

Have an incredible day everyone!  I hope the sun shines on you beautifully.  

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Slimline Daffodils with Power Poppy

Hello Roses with Power Poppy

It’s the perfect season for gorgeous red roses.  In a flower it speaks love.  I pulled out this beauty from Power Poppy called Everything’s Rosy.  An irresistable display of cut roses in little cups.  I can just picture popping out in the garden to bring them in.  I think when you look at the personality of roses, red ones are all about the drama, so I chose a very dramatic black, white and red palette to show them off.  

 

After colouring the roses with Copics and finishing with coloured pencils, I used some dies from Concord & 9th Plaid Card Front Die, and an older ornate Spellbinders oval dies with fancy scrolls.  Seems perfect for pretty roses.  

I stamped a sentiment from the original polymer set for this design so it can be used for more than one occasion but really it’s all about the love!  

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Hello Roses with Power Poppy

Winter Roses with Power Poppy

OO I’ve got some pretty colour for you today!  I will more often lean toward a warm palette, but sometimes you’ve just got to go coooool!  I pulled out this image from Power Poppy called Snowdrops and Tea Roses which is such a beauty!  And though it could lean Christmas, I’m just telling myself it’s still good for Winter, especially with a Birthday sentiment.  

This awesome image was coloured with Copics, and finished with coloured pencils.  I can tell my copic nibs need replacing because some of my colouring is getting shiny, so finishing with pencils help tone that down a little.  

 

It’s a gorgeous arrangement of little roses, snowdrops and holly leaves with tiny berries in a cup.  So darn sweet!  

I created the background with Pink Fresh Studios Slimline Diamond Builder and some Distress inks that coordinated with the colouring.  Then I layered some vellum over to give it a bit more softness.  Finished with some slim velvet ribbon, and tiny dew drops that look like water drops on the roses.  

The sentiment is from a Power Poppy polymer set and the banner die is a retired one from The Cat’s Pajamas.  Such a great colouring project to start the year!  

I have a colouring video on my Instagram page for this card if you’d like to pop by!  See me here at ChristineCreationsArt

Thanks for popping by today!  

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Winter Roses with Power Poppy

Magnolia Bouquet for Christmas with Power Poppy

 

Hello!  It’s always so good to take a little break from the busyness of work and Christmas preparations to colour!  I pulled out this amazing image from Power Poppy called Winter Flora, and my Copic Markers to bring this arrangement to life, beautiful magnolias, hellebore, and sprigs of greenery, with little ornaments nestled in make for an amazing combination of colour.  

After colouring I combined a few dies, from Simon Says Stamps Pincushion Plate Die and white pine greenery from The Greetery with Big Branches: Pine Die to accent the pretty framed die from Spellbinders.  I decided to add a blue green background with my prismacolor pencils, so the beautiful rich Oceanside cardstock really sets of the festive colours.  And then, just a little bling with clear sequins, placed like berries in the greenery.  

Christmas Blessings to all of you out there!  

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Magnolia Bouquet for Christmas with Power Poppy

Red Poppy Birthday

 

Well Hello!  I’ve had a bit of a break the past couple of weeks, as I was preparing to speak at a Women’s Retreat.  Today, I’m popping in with some some beautiful red poppies in anticipation of Remembrance Day coming up this weekend, but rather than as a memorial reminder, I chose this time to make them Birthday poppies.  

I’ve used Power Poppy’s gorgeous Perfect Poppies Digi set for this design.  

Colouring is with Copics, trying to get all the papery shades of a poppy.  The sentiment is from another Power Poppy set, in polymer because it worked just right for the size I needed.  

I’ve also utilized a lovely background coverplate die from Pink Fresh Studios, Ornate Medallions, and then a rick rac die retired from MFT as accent.  

Just a few black sequins add some depth of colour for the accents.   Feels good to be colouring and creating again!   

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Red Poppy Birthday

Flower Fields with Power Poppy

This Spring I planted a section of California Poppies in one flower bed that were such a bright spot all season long.  Their thick carpet of yellow-orange filled in the space in such a lovely way.  Thinking about them, I pulled out a digi set from Power Poppy called Countryside Bouquet and it’s companion polymer set, Countryside Bouquet Deluxe and created my own poppy fields on this card.  

I layered two of the flower bouquets side by side on Copic XPress It Blending cardstock, then stamped a few extra flowers from the set to make the cardfront feel really full of flowers.   

It was about time I did some colouring again!  Copics create a vibrant analogous colours mis of yellow-orange, pink and purple for a really cohesive colour scheme.  Then I picked a crisp blue - the opposite of orange on the colour wheel for the background.  These little colour cues make the flowers really pop with vividness.  

The sentiment uses another Power Poppy set, Vibrant Thanks. Which sits so nicely to contrast the flowers.  Nothing sweeter than a field of abundant wildflowers! 

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Flower Fields with Power Poppy

Shimmering Poinsettias with Spellbinders

Hi!  Today I’m bringing the shimmer and glimmer with gorgeous Christmas Poinsettias and Spellbinders Poinsettia Bloom Etched Dies.  I went for the full on red and gold sparkle for the Christmas Season.  I used the poinsettia dies to cut beautiful red petals, with the colour deepened using Copic Markers.  The petals are surrounded by golden leaves in sparkly gold paper.  It’s a striking statement.  To help give some contrast I used the outline die in vellum and placed it on an older Spellbinders circle die.  

I place all of this on a beautifully foiled Glimmer Holly Background card layer and then added a few gold sequins to accent and a sentiment from a Power Poppy Christmas set.  

Totally RED and festive!  Thanks for joining me today!  

 

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Shimmering Poinsettias with Spellbinders

Birthday Patterns with Power Poppy

Hello!  Today’s design is a Birthday design that makes great use of a statement piece of patterned paper.  I found this awesome sheet in my stash and decided that THIS was the day to make use of all those gorgeous colours and patterns together and the always adorable Power Poppy stamp set Party Time also in digi as Party Essentials.  Marcy has always done stacks of anything in ways you just can’t resist.  I took all my colour inspiration for the card from the patterned paper, with Copic colouring.  

I needed some separation between the pattern of the card and the presents, so I added an oval vellum layer that still gives you that transparant look at the design.  

A cute border lines the top of the car, with a GREAT BIG black satin bow.  Man, I can’t remember the last time I used a big ribbon accent, but it seems to suit the bold patterns and colours well, so you’ve just got to go for it!

Thanks for joining me today! 

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Birthday Patterns with Power Poppy