Hues to Use--Power Poppy Guest Designer

A couple of months ago, I received an email from Julie Koerber at Power Poppy who Coordinates the "Hues to Use"challenge each week.  She was asking me if I would like to participate as a guest

designer for one of their challenges.  Well, duh, I jumped at the chance as I love Power Poppy stamps and digis and I love to color, so it was a no brainer.

The Hues to Use challenge is every Tuesday, and Julie provides you with three colors

and a picture depicting those colors.  You then enter a card using those colors on a
 Power Poppy Stamp or Digi.

In the days that followed, Julie sent me the three colors I would

be working with.  My heart sank, eggplant purple, orange, and a buttery cream color.

Purple and orange are probably the two most unused colors in my stash of paper, markers, pencils

and embellishments.  But, I do love a challenge (and I had already said yes) so I went

to work  choosing a Power Poppy image from my stash that I thought I

could incorporate these colors into.

I won't lie,  there were four or five starts to coloring the image up
 before I began to see that I could do this!

So without making you read or wait any longer here is my card

as a guest designer for Power Poppy's Hues to Use this week.

For my card, I chose the digi, Cup of Columbine, and colored it up with Copic Markers.

I knew I wanted to make a shaped card, so I chose a Spellbinder's Grand Die

Label 4.  I cut an Egg Plant purple mat for the Copic Colored image, then

attached them to a white card cut from the same die set.  The purple mat and

front of the card were embossed with a Creative Expressions 8 1/2x11 embossing

folder, Braided Vines.

Next, I stamped and embossed the word Enjoy, from Jillibean, and cut

 it out with the matching die in the set.

 I then cut two more of the word Joy from white  card stock

 and glued them to the back of the orange

       embossed original to give it  some dimension when adding it to the card.

 The word Everyday was stamped 

on white card stock and embossed with the same orange embossing powder

and die cut with the glag die from the same set.

A few purple sequins were finishing touches to the card.

Thank you Julie for nudging this old gal and long time stamper

out of her comfort zone.  I appreciate the opportunity afforded to

me by guest designing this week.

Thanks friends for stopping by today.  Have a great day.  Until later.....

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