From Our Nest to Yours

 

One of the most common birds found at our bird feeders are Chickadees and I enjoy watching them take shelter from the cold tucked in each day.  This little cutie from Power Poppy called My Little Chickadee is such a fun and easy one to colour up, that its perfect for the latest Blossom Challenge: Clean Slate theme for clean and simple cards. He’s ruffled up and on this winterberry branch ready to sing a song!  

I created a mini-slimline design with blocks of colour in patterned paper that coordinated with the colours I used with Copics.  

Some soft pointillism dotted blue-grey background is a soft touch, and the accents are simple die cut branches from The Greetery which I added mica flakes to, to simulate sparkly icy snow.  

You get a sense of the sparkle on this view, it’s really shimmery in real life!

I hope you can join us for The Blossom Challenge:  Clean Slate HERE!  

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From Our Nest to Yours

Beach Selfie

Back for day two of our Beachy Vacation in cards this week.  Today I’ve pulled out the very summery Best Day Ever stamp set for a fun and vibrant summery design.  I wanted to create the feeling of waves and sand as the background of the image, so I used pointillism.  I love how it gives you the feeling of the grains of sand and the foamy waves rolling in.  

A few designer paper pennants and enamel dots (to echo the pointillism) finish it off.  

Are you as ready for the beach as I am?  Now to only get rid of the 2 feet of snow in my yard!  

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Beach Selfie

Best Day Ever

Hello again Power Poppy Friends!  Did you SEE that awesome Move your Soul set yesterday?  Oh man, I can’t wait to play with that one...I just ran out of time this week!  Today’s fantastic set just sings summer fun.  It’s called Best Day Ever.  

Marcy does little vignettes so perfectly.  They’re all bundles of surprises, and she always puts something sweet in each of them.  I thought I’d play with this fabulous scene and sentiment combination.  

Doesn’t that just make you want to be at the beach?  I loved giving this some fun colour matching it up to this old pack of papers from Glitz - Uncharted Waters.  Because that cute thin strip along the side had polka-dots in it I thought it would be fun to create the “sand” with pointillism along the bottom of the scene and sentiment.  

Here’s a closer look at the colouring...did you notice what Marcy put in the book?  “juicy novel that I cannot put down” :)  And I just love the sentiment too.  So sweet!

A little smattering of sequins finishes it off.  Love it!  

Now, here’s the Bloom Brigade in action with this set!

Allison Cope
Christine Okken (you are here)
Cindy Lawrence
Julie Koerber
Katie Sims
Leslie Miller
Stacy Morgan
Tosha Leyendekker
and Marcy at the Power Poppy Blog

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Best Day Ever