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Today’s Free For All Challenge on Splitcoast (F4A170) is to repeat something. And since I needed another wedding card (getting to be that time of year, lol), I combined the two. And for my repetition, I gold embossed one window on ivory card stock, and embossed another one using verdigris embossing powder. I die cut the verdigris window and attached the frame on top of the gold embossed window. Some subtle coloring was added to the stained glass using Copic markers.

The images are all from Our Daily Bread designs. The sentiment was also gold embossed and die cut. The window is on top of a die cut quatrefoil background and I attached it on top of a very pale green panel before attaching to my 5.50 x 4.25 card. Little dots from a gold Pearl Pen were added in the centers.

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Wonderful site for today’s Inspiration Challenge (IC389)! Such interesting stuff! I was drawn to this Apron for its colors and pattern. I love the contrast of the blue and orange and the edges of the apron pattern reminded me of a postage stamp so I used my Spellbinders postage edge dies to cut out two of the layers.

The images are from Our Daily Bread designs. I stamped the image twice..once on a confetti cream and once on an orange paper. I die cut the two, layered w/ a navy square in-between and put them on top of the original cream image, using the Triple Stamping tech. I added a little color to the horizon w/ Copic markers. The sentiment was die cut using only the end section of the die. The fishing net was stamped using the rust ink on the card front and also on the large orange bg. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25.

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The Color Challenge on Splitcoast (CC426) had some pretty colors I thought would look nice in my stained glass window. I needed a wedding card and I thought this fabulous image would be perfect.

Images are from Our Daily Bread designs. The window was black embossed, colored w/ Copics and die cut using the matching ODBD/Spellbinders die. After I die cut it, I realized it would have been much easier to emboss it twice and color only the one I wasn’t going to die cut. I would have saved me from having to put all those window pieces back in place. Oh well. I did die cut another marbled frame and attach it under the embossed one to raise it up a bit from the stained glass pieces. The white die cut window frame was attached around the window and I embossed the background w/ a Cuttlebug folder. The sentiment was also die cut and attached on top of my 4.25 x 5.50 card.

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Welcome to the  North Coast Creations May Release! We are so happy to show these fabulous new images!

For EXTRA fun today we are choosing 2 people at random who will receive a $10 gift certificate to the store for stamps just for commenting on our cards! You have until May 17, 2013 at 9:00 PM EDT to make those comments on each of the  Designer’s Blog Posts, and leave us a comment on the NCC Blog saying you completed the hop. The 2 random winners will be announced May 18, 2013 on the NCC Blog!

 For my cards, I’m using the wonderful new What’s the Scoop? & You’re the Bomb! 

Don’t you love these? So cute!

On my first card, I stamped the cone on white card stock and the ice cream on white which I splattered w/ pink ink and a water brush. Sort of a peppermint ice cream look. After I cut them out, I added stickles on the ice cream for an added sprinkles look.  The hot pink paper was embossed and the sentiment was stamped w/ the pink ink and cut out. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50.

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 And for my second card, I’m using the You’re the Bomb! set. After stamping the bomb sickle, I colored it w/ copics and die uct using a Spellbinders mega oval die and added stickles. The four different papers were die cut w/ lg scallop die, stacked on top of each other and topped w/ a piece of orange satin ribbon. The sentiment was stamped and a few select areas were colored in. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50.

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Here are all the blogs you need to leave comments on in order to be entered to win:

Sandee ~~Lori~~Cathy~~Dawn~~Julie (you are here!)~~ Angie~~Sabrina~~NCC Blog

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Congrats to Silke (silli) FS327!  She has such a big, beautiful gallery that it was hard to choose just one! I finally settled on the layout of her Penny Black card, but I noticed she has quite a few cards w/ a purple & green color combo and I really like that, so those are the colors I chose. I kept the layout and punched sides, but I changed the colors, used different images and changed the theme from Christmas to western.

The images are form DRS Designs. To begin, I sponged the green inks across the bottom of white card stock and the purple, blue-violets across the top. The cowboy garb was stamped on part of it and cut out. The rest became the layer behind the image. I used a southwest border punch down both sides of the dk purple/violet panel. The main part of the sentiment was die cut and the “Y’all” part was stamped and punched w/ the smallest one of a multi tag punch.I stamped the accessories on the white panel and attached the fussy cut hat and boot and added some shading w/ copic markers. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25.

Congrats again, Silke, enjoy your week! Thanks so much for stopping by!

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