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Serendipity October Blog Hop!

Posted on October 19, 2016 12:00 AM by Julie 22 Comments

Welcome to the October Blog Hop for Serendipity Stamps! If you arrived here from Jeanne’s blog, you’re in the right place..if not, you may want to head over there first.

The Prize – One $20 gift code will go to one random commenter from the blogs. So be sure to visit all the blogs because you don’t know which one the winner will be drawn from. You have through Sunday October 23 to leave comments on the blogs for a chance to win. Mary will announce a winner on October 24. The sale this week will be free shipping on US orders of $25 or more good Wed the 19th through Sunday the 23rd. There’s no coupon code required. Each month a different image is 50% off. This month- it’s the Pumpkin Border. On the third Wednesday of every month., we’ll be celebrating with a Blog Hop! For another chance to win, be sure to play along with our monthly challenge. You can get all the details on the challenge HERE.

This is also for the Splitcoast Featured Stamper, Bev! I chose THIS card to case, keeping the Christmas theme & layout, but I used different images, water colored my image & used a die cut greeting. For my card, I used this beautiful Poinsettia. I just love poinsettias & I can’t wait for the stores to get them in for Christmas. This image just said “water color” to me but instead of using my usual pan w/c, I used Brushos water color crystals. I sprinkled a few reds & greens on a blank palette then added water & painted w/ them as if they were pan w/c. Since this is a large image, I was pretty sure I was going to have to use my out of the box technique w/ the chosen die. I’ve shown this technique before, but a dear friend of mine, Kittie Caracciolo, who works w/ dies like you wouldn’t believe, mentioned that she just doesn’t “get” the out of the box. So here it is again 🙂 Once you understand the principal, it’s pretty easy. And it’s probably my most used & favorite technique. You can click the green link above for the original tutorial & you can also click any of these pictures to enlarge them.

The reason I didn’t fully cut out the little branches before die cutting is because they are so fragile & it’s easy to break them off. After die cutting, I’ll fully trim them out.

The most important thing to remember is that anything that falls out of the box, must be lifted above the die or else it will be cut off.

Here’s a look at the inside.

Please be sure to comment on all the DT blogs. It will be much appreciated & will also increase your chances of winning!

Julie Warner (you are here!)

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Poinsettia Lg

Paper: Staples #110 white, water color, red pepper, dp (Paper Studio- Holly on Black, HOTP- Green Plaid, both retired)

Ink: Versafine onyx

Accessories: Serendipity Celebrate & Season’s Greetings dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies, Brushos water color crystals, MFT diagonal stitched rectangle dies

Poinsettia Lg 673K	Celebrate die 037ED	Season’s Greetings die 068FD	VersaFine Small Inkpads
MISTI	Brushos Water Color Crystals	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Water Color Paper
The Paper Cut Layering Swatches	MFT Diagonal Stitched Rectangle dies	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132

Autumn Leaves

Posted on September 24, 2016 10:29 PM by Julie 2 Comments

It’s my turn to host the Featured Stamper (FS503) challenge over on Splitcoast. A big congrats to Penni, the newest FS! I chose THIS to case because I really liked the colors. So I kept the colors, but used a water color background instead of designer paper & changed it from a birthday card to a fall card.
The w/c bg was made by lightly misting the w/c paper, sprinkling the Brushos, then misting again, a little more heavily. When dry, I die cut the whole panel w/ a large rectangle then die cut the Reverse Leaves die down the side. I lined this panel up on a die cut orange panel & put the leaves die back in place to cut through the orange panel. I wanted the leaf detail to show up when I put the orange leaves back in place. A stacked die cut Autumn was added & the other half of the greeting was stamped below it. One stamped maple leaf was fussy cut & 2 orange leaves added.

Here’s a look at the inside.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend!

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Autumn Leaves, Maple Leaf sm, ( inside- Uplifting Words, Speech Bubble set)

Paper: Staples #110 white, teal, orange (DCWV matstack), water color

Ink: Versafine onyx

Accessories: Serendipity Autumn, Leaves Reverse dies Spellbinders A2 matting basics A dies, MFT Diagonal Stitched Rectangles dies, Lil’ Inker stitched rectangle dies, Brushos water color crystals

Autumn Leaves 334D	Uplifting Words SS-1398-K	Speech Bubble set 1400QCL	Autumn die SSDIE-065-D	Leaves Reverse Die SSDIE-078-H
Maple Leaf Sm 642C	VersaFine Inkpads	Brushos Water Color Crystals	Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock
Water Color Paper	DCWV Brights matstack	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	MFT Diagonal Stitched Rectangle dies

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Birthday Cityscape – Dare to Get Dirty

Posted on August 6, 2016 7:58 AM by Julie Comment

This was made for Lydia’s Dare To Get Dirty challenge on Splitcoast & we’d love for you to join in so for all the details go to the Dare to Get Dirty Forum ..but you’ll need to be a Fan Club member. It’s sooooo easy! You still have a little time to enter the challenges, but this is last challenge on the last day of DTGD16.

This card looks simple, but it was off the charts aggravating! I was having one of THOSE days. I dropped or lost most everything I touched. And for the life of me, I can’t figure out why my supplies want to hide. When I drop them in the middle of the floor, they will scoot or shoot half way across a room to get under a piece of furniture like they’re sliding into home! And this requires getting down on my knees w/ a flashlight & long stick (yes I have one just for this purpose) to retrieve them. Dies are the worst..they are the same color as the hardwood floor..& they require the magnet extension on my screwdriver. I had to carry around so many retrieval tools, I felt like a vacuum cleaner w/ full attachments.

Anyway, the scene was stamped across the blank spot in an Embossing Folder Stamped piece. I didn’t like the way the stamped embossing folder piece turned out so the white topper covered it all up, lol. I also stamped the scene on the white then added a little mitre cornered frame around it. The black zigzag was die cut, the greeting & sequins added.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Deep Red Stamps – Amsterdam; The Stamps of Life – greeting

Paper: Staples 110# white, scrap of black

Ink: Versafine onyx, Distress Inks tumbled glass, broken china, cracked pistachio, mermaid lagoon

Accessories: Spellbinders A2 matting basics A, Lil’ Inker stitched rectangles, Paper Smooches borders 1 dies, sequins, Misti, Darice embossing folder (rain/umbrella -but you’d never know it!)

Amsterdam Waterfront	TSOL Mini Banners 2 Cut	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	Stitched Rectangles Die Set	PS Borders 1 dies
VersaFine Small Inkpads	Distress Inks	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Recollections Cardstock	MISTI
Darice Umbrella embossing folder	Sequins