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Welcome to October & to the Splitcoaststampers Fan Club October Christmas Challenge! You’ll need to be Fan Club member but that’s easy…just click the blue link to find out how. Bet you’re wondering what the challenge theme is..I’d love to tell you but you’ll have to go see for yourself.

My card is all on one layer, so there was a little masking going on. I started by stamping & coloring Leonard, then I masked him & stamped the pine bough to resemble a little Charlie Brown Christmas tree & added a few ornaments. I die cut the window then used a reverse mask of it to stamp the North Pole & reindeer. The snow bg was stamped w/ the tumbled glass. I thought it needed something so I stamped part of the light string on the top of the window then added stickles to the lightbulbs & snowflakes. I did a little cutting around the top of Leonard in order to insert the corner of the window frame underneath him.

Here are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

Leonard Pig’s Christmas List 1047G	Feeding Reindeer 188F	North Pole Sign 518E	Pine Bough 467K	Snow Bg 187H
Christmas Light String 1054H	Sm. Happy Holidays 515C	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Window 4 Pane dies 5157D	Staples 110# White Card Stock
Copic Sketch Markers	Memento Inks	Stickles	Distress Inks

For the Splitcoast Inspiration Challenge (IC720), we are going to Burton & Burton. There were a lot of things I wanted to use for inspiration, but I kept coming back to THIS picture. 

After I die cut the trees, deer & a white front, I sponged the Distress inks down another white panel, then splattered it w/ some picket fence Distress stain.  The die cuts were attached (I used a black Prismacolor pencil on the birch trees) & the little scene was spritzed w/ a shimmer spray.  

After I decided how tall to make my little scene, I used my Resizing Technique to divide the top white panel in two, then shorten them (this technique works for making die cuts smaller as well as larger!). I had some corrugated white cardboard saved from a light bulb pkg, so I used it to pop up the 2 white panel a bit. Stickles was used on the white snowflake & a few clear sequins for additional sparkle. Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

RN Merry Christmas Lg 983-04	RN Deer Family dies 5162-10D	RN Birch Trees die 5167-02D	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Sm. Snowflake die 5100-04D
Staples 110# White Card Stock	Prismacolor Pencils	Distress Inks	Distress Stains	Sequins
Stickles	Tsukineko Shimmer Spritz	Versafine Clair ink

For the Inspiration Challenge (IC719) on Splitcoast, we’re heading to Dormify. A fun site (especially for back to schoolers) & I was inspired by THIS poster. I really liked the orange/blue combo.

To make my beach scene, I masked off the water & sky area & sponged in some oranges for the ground/sand, added a little brown to the sides along w/ stamping a splatter image for a little texture. The mask was reversed for the water & sky & those were sponged. I used some Tombow markers to “ink” up the palm trees & stamped them on either side. Surfer boy Zeke was colored & fussy cut & the old woody was die cut. The greeting is partly another stamp combined w/ some die cut & colored letters. I added the white wavy polaroid type frame for a little separation & to make the greeting stand out.

Here is the inside & the Copics I used:

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

RN Zeke 891-03	RN Woody 567-01	RN Woody die 567-01D	RN Life is a Circus 647-04	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D
RN Island Dreams 1109	RN Splatter Bg 1231	RN Alphabet Upper Case dies 5140-01D	RN Alphabet Lower Case dies 5140-02D	RN Rectangle Scallop die 5028D
RN Square Scallop die 5027D	RN Many Happies 124SO	Memento Inks	Distress Inks	Staples 110# White Card Stock
X-Press It Blending Card	Tombow Markers