Splashes of Watercolor

Rose and Chamomile - a new Power Poppy digital stamp set

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Hello, all you Power Poppy fans!  I’m so excited for you to see Marcella Hawley’s  fabulous new digital image!  This is gorgeous, folks!

Here is Rose and Chamomile:

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Just beautiful!  I absolutely adore this rose, and I think the rosehips and chamomile are perfect accents!

I wasn’t sure if I wanted to watercolor or Copic color this image…so I did both!  The rose is colored with my Copic markers but the rest of the flowers and leaves are water colored with Kuretake Zig Clean Color pens.  I was able to do this on the dry PTI Stampers Select cardstock because of its thickness and absorbency.  None of the colors ran.

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I used this week’s Pals Paper Arts #PPA304 sketch:

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Now you absolutely have to visit with the rest of the Instant Gardeners to see their elegant and fantastic creations!  We have a brand new Gardener too – Nancy Sheads of Rowhouse Greetings!  Please visit with her to see her amazing creations and to make her feel welcome!

 

• Jennifer Dove
• Barb Walker
• Broni Holcombe (That's me!)
• Cheryl Scrivens
• Debbie Olson
• Nancy Sheads
• Rhea Weigands

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That’s it for me today!  Thanks for dropping by and enjoy the rest of your week!

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The Challenge #68 - Happy Birthday Colors

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Hello, and happy Monday!  I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

It’s the second Monday of the month and that means it’s time for a color challenge at The Challenge!  I adore this bright palette!

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I wanted to keep the bright happy feel and decided a birthday card was in order, so I pulled out a few of my Dylusions ink sprays to provide the great vivid colors.  The great Shaped Sayings: Birthday die is from PTI.

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I’m entering this in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge: Happy Birthday! Happy birthday you guys!!

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I hope you’ll play along with us this week!  These colors are awesome and so much fun!  Check out what the fabulous designers have created for your inspiration:

Lesley Croghan
Anita Madden
Broni Holcombe
Claire Broadwater
Diane Jaquay
Jinny Newlin

Kim Heggins

Kimberly Wiener

Laurel Seabrook

Lee Ann Barrett

Lori Tecler

Nance Salkeld

Nina Forsyth

Rachel Bergfeld

 

This month's Featured Designer is Greta Hess

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That’s it for me!  Have a fantastic week!

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Birthday Wishes - The Challenge #66

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Well, hello, and happy Monday!  I hope you all had a very happy Easter weekend.

Today we have a new The Challenge for you!  It’s the 4th week of the month so this is a masculine inspiration challenge.

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I love the nautical theme of this photo! 

And here’s what I came up with using the Ahoy stamp set and dies from PTI.

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I’m also going to enter this into the Seize the Birthday challenge – Theme: Water.

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We hope you’ll play along with us at The Challenge!  Check out what the design team has created this week with this fun theme:

Lesley Croghan
Anita Madden
Broni Holcombe
Claire Broadwater
Diane Jaquay
Jinny Newlin

Kim Heggins

Kimberly Wiener

Laurel Seabrook

Lori Tecler

Nance Salkeld

Nina Forsyth

Rachel Bergfeld

 

This month's Featured Designer is Anita in France

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That’s it for me today!  Thanks so much for dropping by!

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Sending you Sunshine - Color Throwdown #384

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Hey there, people!

It’s time for a new edition of the Color Throwdown!  Y’all blew me away with all of your awesome entries last week!  Let’s see what you do with these great colors:

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Isn’t that a FUN combo?  I thought so!

I wanted to keep the lavender as a soft background so this is what I came up with.

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I inked up part of an Ikat background stamp in Shaded Lilac ink, misted it with water, and stamped it on a piece of watercolor paper.  When that dried, I placed it in my Misti and colored my solid flower image from Watercolor Poppies with a couple of different  Tombow Dual Brush markers, misted and stamped it onto the panel.  I let it dry, then I did the same with the leaves/stems on the same stamp using green markers.  When the entire piece was dry, I stamped the outline and the sentiment each separately with Versafine onyx ink.

I love the doodled, watercolored look of this image!  And that’s why I’m entering it into the CASology: Week #189: Doodle challenge:

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Now let’s see what you do with the Color Throwdown colors!  Head on over to the CTD blog to get all the details and then visit with the CTD girls to see their fabulous creations:

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Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders

Broni Holcombe --> You are here!

Jodi Collins

Lisa Henke

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put

Vickie Zimmer

Wanda Cullen

Leslie Miller, March 2016 Guest Designer

Our Guest Star Stamper this week is: Lee Ann Barrett

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Thanks bunches for coming by today!  Enjoy the rest of your week!

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Define Normal

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Happy Monday, y’all! 

It’s the second Monday of the month so it’s time for a brand new color palette at The Challenge!  And this one is really fun!

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Don’t you love it?

I wanted to play with another of the adorable little animals from Rubbernecker.  This one is called Dog with Big Eyes, and I just adore him!

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The background was created with Distress inks and the smooshing technique.  The dog was stamped on watercolor paper and colored with my Kuretake Zig Clean Color pens, then fussy cut and adhered with foam mounting tape.  That great sentiment is from the Crazy Talk stamp set.

I’m entering this card into the CASology #188 challenge – Laugh.

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Now it’s your turn to play with our color combo and show us what you come up with!  I can’t wait to see!

Please take a moment to visit with these awesome designers to see what  they’ve created for your inspiration:

Lesley Croghan
Anita Madden
Broni Holcombe
Claire Broadwater
Diane Jaquay
Jinny Newlin

Kim Heggins

Kimberly Wiener

Laurel Seabrook

Lori Tecler

Nance Salkeld

Nina Forsyth

Rachel Bergfeld

 

This month's Featured Designer is Anita in France

 

Thanks so much for dropping by today!

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Birthday Balloons - Color Throwdown #382

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Happy Hump Day!

It’s time for our latest Color Throwdown challenge and Barbara is our hostess this week!  Here are the beautiful colors she chose for us – Hot Pink, Green, Black and White!

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I pulled out my PTI Scene It: Celebration and Birthday Cheer stamp sets and dies to make a birthday card for my stash.  I ALWAYS need more birthday cards!

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I sponged some Evergreen Bough and Peacock Feathers Distress inks onto my watercolor paper, then spritzed it with some Cracked Pistachio Distress Spray Stain.  I die cut it with my Stitched Rectangle dies and attached it to my card base.

I die cut the balloons 3 times and layered them after stamping the center balloon in Melon Mambo ink and coating it with Glossy Accents.  The Birthday was cut twice and layered before adhering it to the card.

I used this week’s CAS(E) This Sketch #161:

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And I’m playing along with the Friday Mashup #243 – make a birthday card:

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So are you ready to play along in the Color Throwdown too?  Just check out all the details at the CTD blog and also be sure to visit with the design team members for some glorious inspiration!  And please help us welcome a brand new Guest Designer this month – the fabulous Leslie Miller!

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Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders

Broni Holcombe --> You are here!

Joan Ervin

Jodi Collins

Lisa Henke

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put

Vickie Zimmer

Wanda Cullen

Leslie Miller, March 2016 Guest Designer

Our Guest Star Stamper this week is: Michele Greenwood

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Thanks so much for dropping by!

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It's a Child's World - ADFD Showcase: Take Two

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Happy Friday!!

This week the A Day For Daisies  girls are showing off more of the It’s A Child’s World showcase of images.  I chose to color the image called Three Helpers.  Isn’t it wonderful?

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The latest challenge at the A Day For Daisies blog is to USE DIMENSIONAL FLOWERS.  I added a flower and some ribbon on top of my water colored panel before layering on my fussy cut, Copic colored image with foam mounting tape.

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I’m also entering this card in to the Card Concept #49 challenge.  My style is Clean & Layered.

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Be sure to visit with the fabulous designers at A Day For Daisies here:

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Alison Arielle Broni Cathy Cindy Jen Juliana Kathy Tanja

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Today is my final card and post as an ADFD Design Team member.  After 4 years, I felt like it was time to step down and let these girls take over.  Maybe now I’ll have a  little more personal time, which I’m sure my kids and grandkids will be glad to fill!

Have a wonderful weekend, y’all!

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Power Poppy newest digi - Flowers, Always

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***If you are looking for my The Challenge post, please click HERE.

Hello, everyone!

It’s the 15th, so it’s time for the latest beautiful digital images from Power Poppy to be released!  This month we have Flowers, Always. 

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This is what Marcella Hawley has to say about it:

I have been very intrigued with folk art and primitive art for a long time. Not the super duper primitive, so much as the decorative arts of rug hooking and quilting. Doing this research led me to stumble upon a bunch of Crewel embroidery images, and let me just say, I probably spent a weekend slobbering over the images I found! I created a clear stamp set based around this imagery, called Folk Heart — it is debuting this week, and is similar in feeling. I actually designed Flowers, Always to be in this clear set, but it's so darn WIDE, I don't think it will fit on a clear block! So, for your digital-creating pleasure, we present Flowers, Always, a 5.5" wide image. You can CROP INTO IT, you can shrink it and make a pattern, you can color it straight out, you can ZOOOOOM in, you can do whatever you want.

Flowers, Always comes with one really long sentiment to go with the very wide image!

I chose to keep the image at it’s original size.  I added it to a blank 5.5 x 4.25 base in PSE and then added the sentiment at the top.  Then I printed it on Mixed Media paper and colored it with my Kuretake Clean Color pens.

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It’s really hard to tell in the photos but the colored image is framed twice using my Stitched Rectangles dies.  I outlined the panel with my RV09 Copic marker and I added a few tiny rhinestones for interest.

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There are such beautiful creations for you to see if you visit with the Instant Gardeners!  You don’t want to miss out on that!

 

• Barb Walker
• Broni Holcombe (That's me!)
• Cheryl Scrivens
• Rhea Weigands

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You can find this gorgeous new digi set at the Power Poppy store!

I’m also entering this card into the ATCAS#18 challenge – Bloom.

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Thank you so much for dropping in today!

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ADFD Stick Horse Ride

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Happy Friday!

It’s time for Take Two of the A Day For Daisies February Club Kit.  This week I’m using Stick Horse Ride.  Isn’t she cute!?

We’re starting a new challenge this week too.  Add a touch of wood!

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I printed her on Copic X-Press it paper and colored her with my Copic markers.  I lightly sponged on some background dots and added a line of Copic V04 and some woodgrain washi tape on the left edge and 2 lines (V04 and V15) along the right edge.

I’m entering this card in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge – One Layer.

And in the ATCAS #81 – Bloom:

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You can see all the great new images at the ADFD blog (that’s where you’ll find the new challenge too!) and of course at the A Day For Daisies shop.  Please visit with the rest of the design team here:

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Alison Arielle Broni Cathy Cindy Jen Juliana Kathy Tanja

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Thanks so much for coming by today!  Enjoy your weekend and stay warm!

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Painted Hearts - Color Throwdown #379

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Hello, everyone!

It’s time for our latest Color Throwdown and this week Lynn has a beautiful color palette for us to play with.  Just in time for Valentine’s Day!

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I wasn’t sure about the combination at first until I started playing with my Kuretake Zig Clean Color pens in those colors.  Then I fell in love!

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To make my card I die cut the hearts from the patterned paper first.  Then I layered it over some watercolor paper and lightly penciled in the heart shapes.  I removed the patterned paper and used my Clean Color pens to paint the hearts similar to the ones in the inspiration photo.  When that was dry, I dripped some Heidi Swapp gold Color Shine onto the hearts, and also flicked some of the other colors over them as well.

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I die cut the LOVE from some gold shiny cardstock and some fun foam and layered them together on the card front.  I added some twine and that was it!

I’m entering this card in the Just Us Girls challenge #329:  Valentine.

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So I really hope you’ll play along with us this week at the Color Throwdown!  I can’t wait to see what you create! 

Please be sure to visit with the rest of the CTD girls here:

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Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders

Broni Holcombe --> You are here!

Joan Ervin

Jodi Collins

Lisa Henke

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put

Vickie Zimmer

Wanda Cullen

Kay Miller, February 2016 Guest Designer

Our Guest Star Stamper this week is: Bonnie Sharp

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Thank you so much for coming by today!

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