Hi everyone, Elizabeth here and welcome to the latest Inspire Me Monday ! Do you want to: make a bunch of cards at once and wel...

Hello, everyone! Today is a special day for Inspire Me Monday! Instead of just one Bloomie you get two! Allison and I are having a friendly challenge! We each set the other a challenge. We picked a stamp set, a coloring medium, and a sketch...for each other! The challenge Allison set for me was to: - Use either Forest Fellas or Gifts from the Sea stamp sets - Use Copic markers and colored pencils as the coloring medium - Use the sketch provided (sketch by Mojo Monday) Well, not too difficult a challenge! I really wanted to use the Gifts from the Sea image as I live in California and thought a beach-themed Christmas card would be awesome. However, I could not color such a detailed image to fit the small size needed for the card sketch! I ended up printing the digital version of Forest Fellas: Maximo Moose to color for my project. I colored Maximo with Copics and Prismacolor Pencils. I followed the sketch very closely and created a slimline card (tall and skinny is what we used to call these in the "old days"). My card is 8" tall and 4" wide. I had fun digging into my vast stash of 6x6 paper pads for some moose appropriate patterns for my card! I was thinking lumber jacks and log cabins! I love how it turned out! I stamped the clear version of the sentiment in brown ink. A bit of twine and a few enamel dots finish off the card. I had fun doing Allison's challenge! I hope the Bloomies can do more of these! Make sure to hop over to the Power Poppy Blog to see Allison's Creation!

Hello Everyone! It was Father's Day here in Australia last Sunday and I made this card for my Dad, which I had planned to have up on my blog on Sunday - unfortunately my daughter and I have been very sick for about 4 days so it's only going up now as we are finally starting to recover. Dad loves anything to do with the water so I thought this Leaping Trout image would be perfect for him! As it's a digital, I've put it and the matching sentiment together from Leaping Trout and printed it onto some X-press It Blending Card and coloured with Copics (I would list the colours however I was starting to burn up with a fever of 39.5C/103F at that point and of course I didn't write them down - sorry about that!). It's been cut out with a stitched rectangle die. The base is made of Old Olive, white and some FabScraps Beach Bliss DP. Around this I've added some Hessian (Burlap) ribbon and then popped the trout image up on X-press It Foam Tape. To finish I've added some chocolate pearls to the top corner. Stamps - Leaping Trout (Power Poppy) Paper - X-press It Blending Card, White, Old Olive, FabScraps Beach Bliss DP Ink - Printer Accessories - Copics, Double Stitched Rectangle Die, Hessian Ribbon, Kaisercraft Chocolate Pearls, X-press It Foam Tape That's all from me today, I'm hoping next time you pop by I'll be feeling a lot better and hope you are healthier than me and inspired to stamp! :)

Happy Friday y'all!! It's a great day to be sharing some inspiration, don't you think? And what better way than with some Power Poppy images! Today I went over to my dark side a bit. I colored my images, from the Power Poppy Clear Stamp Set Party Time, with only two Copic color families: Black and Turquoise. Now, I'm getting up there in years, so I know a lot of people celebrating the birthday milestones that are "a bit up there" if you know what I mean. So I thought it would be fun to color my packages and cake dark with a pop of color...so it's not too morbid after all. ;) I even pulled a "Cindy Lawrence" and finished off the inside of my card. She always goes above and beyond, and since I admire her so much, I thought it was about time I did too. Besides, I loved the sentiment "Bring it On" and wanted to use it with this color scheme...like you're saying..."Turning 50?...Bring it On"!!!! Lastly, I added some Chrome Pearl Pen dots to my cake to make them look like edible candy additions. That's it for me y'all!! Now, if you haven't already, check out what my fellow Bloom Brigaders have to share: Christine Okken Julie Koerber Katie Sims Stacy Morgan Tosha Leyendekker---you are here Copics: B06, B04, B02, B00, T8, T6, T4, T2, T0 Thanks for dropping by today! I hope you have a most fantastic weekend!! Happy Stamping! _________________________________________________________________________ Stamps: Party Time (Power Poppy) Paper: X-Press It, Black (PTI) Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento) Dies: Stitched Rectangle and Stitched Scallop Rectangle (Waltzingmouse) Accessories: Copics, Embossing Folder (Tim Holtz Alterations ~ Sizzix), Chrome Silver Pearl Pen (Viva Decor)

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Hi Everyone! Thanks for stopping by my blog! It is time for a new Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge - Woven. I hope you get a chance to play along. The LEAD of this challenge will be invited as a Guest Designer in a future challenge. For my card today I am using the Get Wool Soon Digital Stamp Set from Power Poppy. I colored the image with Copic Markers. These images are so fun to color! The sentiment is from a Taylored Expressions Stamp Set, Sit & Chat. I finished off the card with twine and sequins from Pretty Pink Posh. Woven Designers Betty Wright Kim Singdahlsen Leigh Penner Lisa Henke Lori Tecler Lynn Mangan Marisa Ritzen Maureen Plut Melody Rupple Monika Davis Sheri Gilson Silke Ledlow Stacey Schafer Tammy Hershberger Tara Godfrey Follow us! Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge Facebook Page Curtain Call Pinterest Boards Stop by the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge:Woven for the challenge details and to play along with us! Share:facebook - twitter - pinterest Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge - Woven

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Hey there - happy Inspire Me Monday! I’ve got a fun project to share today that I hinted at on my blog a few weeks ago - you might remember if you were here for the Camellia release hop! My project today is a Screen Divider Card - this is a tutorial from Splitcoaststampers that we featured last month during our Holiday Tutorial Blitz, but it's a great card for any occasion. The instructions and measurements are all available at the link above. For this version, I wanted to use a single colored image to cover all 4 panels - the panels can be cut and decorated separately, but aren't we all looking for ways to cut corners and speed things up? This was a great way to color the panels all at once, and the larger Camellias were much easier to color in. Even at this size, the detail is incredible! I set the margins to 0" and resized the Camellia image to 9.34" x 6.37". (Those measurements don't have to be precise! Just somewhere around there will give you the size needed for this project.) NOTE: Be sure to set your printer settings for borderless printing - otherwise, you'll have a quarter-inch white border around the edge. The piece I needed for my screen divider panels is 4" x 8.5", so I trimmed across at 4" and then cut the rest of my sheet into card front sized panels and created two other cards. Before coloring with markers, I used a glaze pen to protect the tiny stamens of the flowers. The glaze pen acts as a resist medium, even with alcohol markers. After coloring, I added some deeper shading with a pencil. My panel was cut into 4 equal pieces, 2-1/8" wide. I sponged the edges of each panel lightly so that each one seemed like its own design. Here's a little tip for cutting the legs of the screen divider card - I centered and stuck my die to the back side of a Post-It note. the edges of the note helped me to position the die right where I wanted on the edge of the card each time. I folded the card in half and cut the center panels first, then did the outer panels. I always score around the edges of each panel for a more finished look. Here's a closer look at my finished creation! I hope this gives you some ideas for using digital stamps in a larger format! These little cards make beautiful decorations as well. Happy holidays to you!

It's been a very busy 6 weeks, 2 "artist in residencies" down, just started my third as well as presenting at the Early Childhood Conference on Friday. I think I need 36 hr days! I never get tired of creating Poppies for Remembrance Day. I love how coffee filters make amazing petals. The speckled background is quite nice as well. MATERIALS REQUIRED: - coffee filters - disk tempera paint (red, white, black) - white card stock - black coloured paper - white crayon - glue - black ink or black paint - black beads - scissors PROCEDURE: Flatten out your filters. You want to paint them red but you want some variation in the reds. I add some orange red, purple red, burgundy, and pure bright red. Let dry. While the filters are drying you can work on the background. This is a piece of white card stock that is painted with grey (a touch of black tempera into the white). We want variation again, so we have patches of dark grey mixed with lighter grey. I wanted some splatter/speckle in the background so I spray some diluted black ink on the paper. When my filters are dry I add some black ink to the center. I fold up the filter and then using an eye dropper add the ink. If you don't have ink you can use watery black paint. With the black paper I cut out a stem and a leaf and glue them to the background. Using a white crayon I added some detail to the leaf. To cut the petals I fold up the filter again and then cut the shape. Round the corners to make it look less like a filter and more like a petal. Glue the petals into place. Glue some beads into the centre. See you next time.

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