A Sweet Treat for You!

It’s Wednesday and time for another challenge day over at StampNation. This week’s challenge is a delicious and delightful one!  This week’s challenge is to incorporate a fruit or vegetable into your card or project. Here’s some little sneak peeks of my fellow StampNation Dream Team members creations for this week’s creations…

My StampNation exclusive card is the one with the yellow striped paper and strawberries on it!  Yum!

With summer in full swing here in Alberta, we’re starting to see some fresh Ontario and British Columbia fruits like cherries and strawberries in the grocery stores.  I love this time of year for all these glorious fresh products.  So today I decided to honour the beautiful, sweet raspberry!

For my card I used a variety of Flourishes products here. I used the adorable “Sweet Berry Frames” stamp set for my fruit, gingham shape and also my sentiment.  For these shapes, I used the Flourishes Spellbinder’s die set, “Perfectly Pierced Classic Frames” which is designed specifically for this stamp set.  It’s got such great shapes!

I also used a fun back ground stamp from Stampin’ Up! to create my wood grain effect.  It’s called “Hardwood”.

Here’s a quick close up of the colouring and focal point of my card front…

So take a moment and check out StampNation!  You’ll love the friendly feel for sure!  If you have not had a chance to check out StampNation yet....

~ Ally ~

Supplies:
stamps: Flourishes (Berry Sweet Frames), Stampin’ Up! (Hardwood)
cardstock:  Recollections, Flourishes, Bazzill
ink: Memento, Stampin’ Up!, Copic Markers
dies:  Spellbinders for Flourishes
pearls:  Doodlebug Designs
other:  thread.

Tutorial: Adding Texture With Copics!

Join me on the Power Poppy Blog today for a quick and super EASY way to add some cool texture to your Copic coloured creations!

Click here!

~ Ally ~

Sponsored by:  Power Poppy

Red, White and Blue!

It’s all about the red, white and blue this week!

Join us at Power Poppy this week for the newest challenge and grab your FREE DIGI STAMP!!

 

HOW TO PLAY:  

To play along with us this week, all you have to do is follow this little formula below! 

1 point for everyone who uses Power Poppy stamps or digis!

2 points if you use Power Poppy images with patriotic colors representing YOUR country

3 points for everyone who follows the first two steps plus uses one of our digi freebies!

Please, if you play, be sure to add a link back to this challenge post and please only use Power Poppy images. 

So, what do the points mean? Each point equals the number of entries you’ll have in our end of the month Power Poppy Peeps of the Week Challenge for a free stamp set of your choice!

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And here’s a sneak peek of the StampNation Dream Team’s challenge creations this week and we’re featuring red, white and blue too…

If you have not had a chance to check out StampNation yet....

Come out and join us both this week!

~ Ally ~

Hop Along with Power Poppy

I hope you have enjoyed our three days of Power Poppy July release creations.  Now join me and the rest of the Bloom Brigade for one fun journey to see some more creations for this month's digital release.  Happy hopping everyone!

I truly had some fun with our fabulous digital stamp set, Countryside Bouquet.

I began by taking my image into Photoshop and I tucked a piece of black and white checker patterned behind my bouquet.  I carefully removed all of the white space to reveal all of the open spaces between the stems and blooms to allow the pattern to show.  Then I played with the opacity and toned it down to a very subtle back ground.

Once I printed my image on my laser printer, I began my colouring my back ground using the shades of Copic Toner Gray.  I darkened the center and made it lightened as you got closer to the patterns edges.  This made my bouquet pop!

One final step was to colour, cut and shape my poppies.  I chose just the poppies to paper piece to make just one level of dimension appear.  I glued the shaped pieces on using a 3D glue to allow them to hold their curves.

I hope you enjoy your blog hopping today.  All of our amazing digital stamp sets are on sale NOW in the Power Poppy Store!  Make sure you go and grab them so you play along with all of our challenges!

Have a gander at what the rest of the Bloom Brigaders have done with these amazing digital release images…

Allison Cope -- you are here!
Christine Okken
Cindy Lawrence
Danielle Kennedy
Dawn Burnworth
Dina Kowal
Julie Koerber
Kathy Jones
Katie Sims
Leslie Miller
Stacy Morgan
Tosha Leyendekker

Thanks for stopping by!   

~ Ally ~

Sponsored by:  Power Poppy

Supplies:
stamps: Power Poppy (Countryside Bouquet)
cardstock:  Recollections, Bazzill
patterned paper:  Authentique (Elegant)
die cut shapes: Spellbinders
digital paper:  unknown
ink: Copic Markers
other:  thread, Glossy Accents.