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Well.....Happy Birthday to Joanne!!!!!!  In honor of her special day, this week's challenge is to make a feminine birthday card with flowers.  To celebrate the day with her,  she requests that we do a random act of kindness.  Call a friend who might need cheer, pay for someone's coffee, give a hug, .....try to make a difference.

You can join in on the fun by playing along and linking it over on the CCEEstampers Blog
HERE. While you are there check out all the floral birthday wishes all the others on the team have shared. 

For my card, I used a stamp set from Power Poppy. I fussy cut the roses and the cup of roses and then popped up the cup of roses. I used a Martha Stewart border punch and a Spellbinder tag die. 

Happy Birthday, sweet Joanne!

SOS321 Apple of my eye

I made this card for the Shopping our Stash challenge 321 with the theme Apple of my Eye.
I love this digital print I got from Power Poppy. I colored it with copic markers, The sentiment is computer generated. I found this lovely sparkly red paper in my scraps, and decided the black background made it pop, One of my favorite color combos is red, white, and black, so I used it on this card.

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CCEE1730 - Walk on Stilts Day

Create a tall thin card with any theme to celebrate walk on stilts day.
  Maryann Einam is our hostess this week.

My card was made with a Power Poppy digital. The wonderful thing about digital images are the ways they can be sized and placed on your card.  The peonies were colored with copic markers. 

Hope you can play along with us this week. Just link your card over on the cceestampers blog site that can be found here.  Just use CCEE1730 as your keyword over on SCS. 

Power Poppy's Power and Spark July challenge

The power and spark challenge for July is to copy a bloomie. I went to Cindy Lawrence's blog and found this gorgeous card to case:

and here's my card that I made from the inspiration of this pretty card:
                                                     

I used a different digital image and sentiment. I added stars instead of twine, and added a little more color to the image. 

Power Poppy's Hues to Use Challenge

This is for the new fun challenge over at Power Poppy's blog . Something about a red rose speaks All American to me. I made a stencil with the stars by punching out stars from a scrap of paper. Then I sponged  faded jeans Distress Oxide ink into the stars. I used my copics to color this wonderful digital from Power Poppy. I didn't seem to find any red, white, and blue ribbon in my stamproom, but I found this fabulous wide red and white stripe. It just seem to be the finishing touch.

Power Poppy's Power and Spark June challenge

Just doing one more card for the Power and Spark challenge this month on Power Poppy.'s blog. .
Working with digitals is so fun on the computer layering and overlapping this is so much easier than all the masking you have to do when stamping. I actually printed this twice, once on the kraft and once on the ivory. I cut the quote out from the ivory and placed it over where it was on the kraft. I used a white galaxy pen for the white and to lighten the flowers on the kraft paper before I colored it with my copic markers. I sponged the edges with walnut stain distress ink.

Another MSC Make a Square

I just had to do another Power Poppy card for the Make a Square challenge over on Mod Squad this week. I love this digital of the dogwood and I am always in need of cards with this sentiment for my Care Team obigations at my church.  You can find the challenge here.

Make it Square

I used a Power Poppy digital image and digital sentiment for this square 5 and 1/2 square card for this card for the Mod Squad Make it a Square card challenge. I colored it with copic markers, sponged lipstick pink Oxide ink around the edges. I have been making my cards more mail friendly lately so this is a one layered card. Here is where you will find this challenge.

Another Power Poppy June Bug Challenge card

I just love getting over into my downloads and finding these great Power Poppy Digital images. Since I found butterflies on some of the images I had, I decided to try another for the Power Poppy June Bug Challenge. These climbing clematis fit the bill. I googled images of clematis to check out what colors these grow. This bluish purple seem to be one variety. I used a Martha Stewart embossing folder and made this a window card, so the image is actually inside the card.

Power Poppy's June Bug Challenge

I loved Allison's challenge over on Power Poppy's blog for June.  I used the Pure Prairie digital from Power Poppy and the scripture is also a digi from Power Poppy. Because this is a digital, I was able to make it the size I wanted it to be. This is a great advantage over the vinyl or rubber stamps, which I make use of often. I made this a CAS and added an embossed edge just a a final touch to the empty side of the card. I love how the colors pop from the white.

Let's Go Green challenge over at Power Poppy

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These gladiolas are from a Power Poppy digital as is the sentiment. I decided they would do well on the March Challenge to Let's  Go Green at Power Poppy.  Spring is definitely the time of year that the earth begins to laugh, so decided to drop that sentiment in the midst of these gladiolas.

Trying out my new digi

I was inspired by a beautiful card made by a stamper I admire so much over on SCS, Linda Paider. She used this new digital from Power Poppy, and the nice thing about digitals is that you can purchase it and have it the same day. Can't beat that, right?  So looked to see what challenges this card might be suitable for and decided on these two: Cute Card Thursday and Double D Challenge.

I colored this image with my chromatix markers. I embossed the two front pieces with a Sizzix folder. I also embossing the pink mat for the image.

Tuesday Throwdown challenge

For the Tuesday Throwdown to make use of my favorite embellishment, I used diecuts and seam binding as my favorite embellishments. The digital is from Power Poppy  and I colored it with my copic markers.

Power and Sparkle challenge for February

I finally figured out how to print out the digital image in lighter colors so that I could take part in this month's Power and Sparkle challenge over at Power Poppy.  I love this dogwood digital from Power Poppy and wanted use it for my first attempt at this technique.   I have to shout out a big Thank You to my dear stamping friend, Irene who gave me some pointers for getting this printed.

Dragonfly Journeys challenge - Bodacious bows!

I've been trying out some new challenges to put on my blog to ger a little more traffic over here. This card I made using my new digital image I got over at Power Poppy. The great thing about digitals is that since they store on your computer, they take less space than stamps, and the other advantage is that you can resize it to fit the space you want to use. I printed it onto watercolor paper, then I tried using my reinkers from my copic markers to paint the sky. I used the makers for the flowers and I also used some Chameleon markers. This is big wide ribbon for my bow. I added the pearls for the corners.

You can find this challenge on at this site .

Allsorts Challenge #401 Paper piecing

I made this for the paper piecing challenge being held over on the Allsorts challenge blog. Paper piecing is one of my favorite techniques. I used 2 kinds of design paper for this digital stamp from Power Poppy. I cut out the leaves and glued them over the print I did on the pink design paper.  I had first intended to cut the tulips out as well, but I really liked the pink background, so then I just added some shading to the tulips with one of my pink copic markers. The sentiment is from Sweet and Sassy (I think).

PP Power and Sparkle November challenge

Love the Power and Sparkle challenge for November that I found over on their blogsitehttp://powerpoppy.blogspot.com/:
 I love this pink and white houndstooth paper I found in the bargains at Tuesday Morning a while back. It came in handy for this Think Pink challenge theme. I used Power Poppy's holly digital and fancy cut it out to spread cross the front of my card. I love silver with pink so I added the silver metallic ribbon too. A few diecut berries I added and I popped my holly up with dimensionals. Thanks, Power Poppy for getting me well on my way to getting my cards done before November is over.

CCEE1643 Recipe card

This week Joanne is haveing us doing a ‘recipe’ card. You must use circular and square elements, flower(s), dry embossing, and bling of some sort.

I used a Power Poppy digital image for my flowers. I like the fact that you can make the image to be any size you would like it to be for a card.  I colored it with copic markers. I embossed the card base, which is a square. I had this doily I had made with my Martha Stewart circular punch. I added some bling in between the leaf pattern. . Joanne hit my favorites for this card. I love embossing, florals, and a little bling is always the perfect embellishment. 

Please visit the CCEEblog site to see all the lovely creations of the others on the team. 

Just add ink 328

The Just Add Ink challenge this week is to just add P. So, I used this  Peonies digital image from Power Poppy that I colored with my Chromatix markers. I also used pink because it starts with P.

It's always fun to have a little Friday stamp time. 

June's Power Poppy's Power and Spark Challenge

The deadline is upon us, so I decided to take part in this month's Power and Spark Challenge over on Power Poppy's blog. I am mailing this card to sweet mother of one of my childhood friends. She is in a nursing home now and hope this will brighten her day.

Check out this challenge over on the Power Poppy Blog here. I used Power Poppy's Flowering Branches digital design. I used copic markers for the coloring.