White Day

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A few beautiful pictures from our last Summer Colors Day, "White"! I think I surprised everyone with white today - now I want to see green, anyone else? Maybe one more day? Once again thank you everyone that participated! It was an amazing turnout with over 2100 images. I thought using Instagram was much more convenient than flickr, did you? Let me know what you think - what was your preference?

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Here's a sampling of some of today's fabulous whites!

sangthebird

cathy_vandenberg

meandering_mari

tangledgarden

lisamsiebert

lisasolomon

stilzitat

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Summer Colors Week - Friday + Final Giveaway (Prize Pack)!

Happy 1st day of summer! First off wow, we've had over 1700 entires at last look - so thanks everyone! And to announce the winners from yesterdays giveaway. Congrats to @molliegreen who won the Projecteo Instagram projector! And, congrats to @sabinebrandt @grillfusiondesign and @heyladygrey who each won the @Stickygram (instagram magnet) sets! Email us for info! 

This week has been amazing here and as its the last day of #summercolors13 week for our final giveaway we're offering up a prize pack we think you'll love filled with some of our favourite things from our Chinatown Night Market stall this summer!  

Top: 1. An animal die-cut letterpress card by Blackbird Letterpress  2. An anchor bamboo brooch by Cabin + Cub  3. A tic-tac-toe game stamp kit by Yellow Owl Workshop 4. Vancouver Special magnet by Henderson Drygoods 5. Handprinted tea towel by Bookhou 6. An Air + Water Pendant (18k. and 22k. gold) by Yellow Owl Workshop!

So the color is WHITE and the same rules to enter are the same as the other days except no worries on tagging 

1) follow us on instagram  @poppytalk

2) upload an image with white in it using hashtag #summercolors13

3) leave a comment on our instagram post for this giveaway

Thanks so much for participating and making it a magical, colorful week! Good luck! I'll announce the winner at the end of the day tomorrow in the instagram comments section!
(Deadline to enter) 4pm pacific today fri jun 21/13

Click here to enter! 

Update: Thank you everyone, this giveaway is now closed. Congrats to Nancy Straughan, the winner of this giveaway.

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Red Day

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Hey red, one of summer's best colors!  From vintage coolers to beach balls, your shades bring much spirit and happiness! Heaps of beautiful pics today, have you been visiting our summer colors feed this week? So good!  Join us on instagram at #summercolors13 for one more day (new color announed shortly)!  Here's a few inspiring reds from today.

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jenniferhohner

 

lovegreendog

dembymalibu

lucky14handmade

carol_and_co

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Thursday's Red + Projecteo + StickyGram Giveaway!

Just two days left of Summer Colors Week and it's been so inspiring!  Thursdays color is next and as you can see - its Red! And we have a fun Projecteo (a mini instagram projector) we're purchasing for today's winner! But thats not all! We also have 3 sets of StickyGram (instagram magnets) courtesy of the folks from StickyGram for 3 lucky winners as well! 
 

So 4 prizes in all to giveaway! Will it be you? To enter the giveaway portion, here's the details: 

1) Follow us on instagram @poppytalk
2) Upload an image with red in it (no products please) and use the hashtag #summercolors13 
3) Comment at our color announcement post for red on instagram tagging one friend. 

The winner will be announced tomorrow eve when we announce Fridays color. Good luck!

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Blue Day

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It was a beautiful dreamy blue summer colors day. I loved all the different shades from turquoise to indigo filled with happy faces, blue skies, deep hued waters and places nice to be.  Thank you folks for taking us away, away into the wild blue yonder.  Congrats to Cori Kindrid who won the beautiful Clare Elsaesser print. And big thank you to Clare for donating, so generous of you! Follow Clare online at tastesorangey.blogspot.com, etsy.com/shop/tastesorangey,   instagram and at Poppytalk Market ! 

Here is just a sampling of what was:

rollandtumblepress

hulsaseventy

cblmixedmedia

jenniferhohner

cstarevents

thistletea

mofunkdesigns

lucky14handmade

xantheb

See more of blue day by clicking here.

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Welcome Summer Colors Week!

Please join us this week (June 17-21/13) for our 4th Annual Summer Colors Week! This year to play along just upload the color of the day (posted at our instagram the night before) all week long using hashtag #summercolors13 . Todays color? Yellow! You can check out all the lovely colors in the tag by clicking here (if you're not on the app). And if you wish to enter the daily giveaway as well, this:

1) Follow @poppytalk on instagram
2) Upload your daily color image to instagram with hashtag #summercolors13
3) Comment and tag one friend (eg: @poppytalk) at the daily giveaway post on instagram! Here is a link to Monday's.

Todays' giveaway:  A beautiful hand printed pouch from the folks at Bookhou!

I will announce the winner (picked at random) at the same time as the next days color announcement post. Good luck! Huge thank you to @bookhou for donating todays' beautiful giveaway!  Also meet me back here later today where I'll post a few of your images from instagram along with some pins too!

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