Archive for January, 2011

Fun challenges at Splitcoast this week! I’ve been working on the sketch (SC317) off and on since Wed. and when I saw today’s challenge (F4A49) to use a warm color and something fuzzy, I thought it would be perfect to use my sparkle n soft on some of the butterflies and the color is definitely warm…even red hot, lol!

All images, glitters and adhesives are from Sparkle N Sprinkle.For my musical themed Valentine, I stamped the music label then die cut it w/ the coordinating Spellbinders labels 13. I stamped the sentiment and die cut it w/ a classic oval die (fits inside perfectly!). I stamped part of the flourish w/ a glue pad onto the front left of a 4.25 x 5.5 vanilla card, then sprinkled it w/ the fire engine glitter.

I applied the dbl sided tape to c/s, punched the smaller butterflies and sprinkled w/ either glitter or the sparkle n soft (like flower soft w/ glitter). I coated a wide strip of the tape coated c/s w/ the tomato red tinsel glitter.

The lower edge of the black panel was punched and I used a cream marker to doodle around the edge. On the horizontal band, I stamped the music flourish and added some red w/ a marker.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:
stamps: Sparkle N Sprinkle – Music Labels set 424
paper: vanilla, black
ink: Ancient Page coal, Tsukineko glue pad
accessories: Spellbinders labels 13 & classic oval dies, fire engine red glitter, cherry sparkle n soft, tomato red glitter tinsel, Martha Stewart multi butterfly punch & shell border punch, 1/2 dbl sided tacky tape, red Permapaque marker, Tombow red marker, Marvy cream marker

Happy Friday!

It’s my day to post on the DRS Designs Blog. And since it’s been so cold and windy, I have a frosty winter card to share. I hope you’ll drop by and  leave me a note.

What an interesting color challenge (CC307) at Splitcoast! I wasn’t sure I’d like these colors, but they’re growing on me. I wanted to use a purple c/s, but I don’t have eggplant, so I used the black and layered it w/ lavender. I used the eggplant, suede, red and a little green (for some reason I had it in my head that artichoke was one of the colors) for the colors in my butterflies.

All images are Our Daily Bread designs. For my bg, I stamped the lg butterfly bg image w/ the white chalk ink and did what I think is close to the Black Magic tech. I actually learned this tech around 1999 or 2000 in a class I took from Helene Metievier (from Magenta Rubber Stamps). I don’t think it had a name then and Helene used pigment ink, but the chalk works just fine and it dries much faster.

After I stamped the bg, I used the Prismacolor pencils to color over the solid white images. It may look like I made a lot of layers of this bg, but it was actually only one 5.25 x 4 pc. I cut it into 2 frames w/ lavender layers in between. On both of the layers, I made a faux layer by drawing a frame w/ a white marker.

The large butterfly was stamped on white w/ black ink, colored w/ the Prismas and die cut using the matching ODBD butterfly die. The sentiment was stamped on the lavender and die cut w/ a Spellbinders diamond shape. A few curled strips were added for the butterfly tail.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:
stamps: ODBD – Lg Butterfly Bg, Single Butterfly, Faith, Brocade Borders
paper: black, lavender
ink: Ancient Page coal, VersaMagic cloud white chalk
accessories: Prismacolor pencils, Spellbinders classic diamond die, white Permapaque marker