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  • SSCB #20 Watercolor

    Posted on by Julie 8 Comments


    Julie Warner – https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com

    Welcome to a new challenge for Serendipity Stamps! The Serendipity Challenge this week is Watercolor!  

    While I love to water color, I also love to make water color backgrounds…just free form swaths of color…then stamp on top of them. I love the random patterns of color I get and how they look with the images on top. A lot of times when I’m making water color backgrounds, I’ll make an extra, or two, and stash them away. This is one of those extras. I don’t even remember when I did it. It’s basically just large bands in different colors. After I decided where I wanted the image and stamped it, and added some highlights with a white gel pen.

    Julie Warner – https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com

    The frame was die cut with a large oval then I used a Japanese screw punch with the smallest bit I have to punch the holes all around the edge. The greeting was stamped underneath to finish my 4.25 x 5.50 card.

    Thanks so much for stopping by and be sure to check out all of the Watercolored Wonders from the Serendipity Design Team!

    Jeanne Jachna
    Marybeth Lopez
    Miriam Napier
    Pauline Pollington
    Anya Schrier –not posting this time  😥
    Jenny Gropp
    Vickie Zimmer
    Julie Warner – you are here!
    Karen Amidon 

     

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    Supplies:

    Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Vases, Thinking of You
    Paper: Neenah white, watercolor paper
    Ink:  Versafine onyx
    Accessories:  Peerless water colors, Tombow markers, white gel pen, Spellbinders lg oval die, Japanese screw punch w/ 1.5mm bit, black Permapaque marker

     


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  • Poppies on White

    Posted on by Julie 3 Comments

    Julie Warner - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com

    Weekly-Favorite
    A big congrats to Vicki, the Featured Stamper on Splitcoast (FS329)!  What a wonderful gallery she has! I chose her Thanks card to case. I kept the layout and flower theme, but I used different images, different colors and a different embossing folder.
    Julie Warner - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com

    I had a background I had water colored using reinkers, and I liked the colors, so I stamped the poppy image on top. I really wanted a white bg like Vicki’s so I fussy cut the poppies and placed them on a very lightly sponged die cut oval. A bow and die cut tag w/ the sentiment were added. I used a strip of dp and for the very narrow orangey strip, I just ran an apricot Copic marker down a piece of white c/s to get the color. The white bg was embossed and then everything was attached to my 4.25 x 5.50 white card. I added a bow (it was white and I colored it w/ Copics) and a few black pearls to finish it.

    Congrats again and enjoy your week, Vicki! Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great Memorial Day!

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    Supplies:

    Stamps: Hero Arts (poppies), Stampendous (greeting)
    Paper: Neenah white, dp (Basic Grey -Green at Heart), water color
    Ink: Versamark, Versafine onyx, Memento tuxedo black, rosebud, angel pink
    Accessories: Spellbinders petite oval die, ODBD/Spellbinders tag die, black pearls, dye reinkers for w/c bg, Quickutz embossing folder (Dainty set)

     


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  • Green Leaves

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    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com/

    Weekly-Favorite

    This is for several challenges on Splitcoast. First the Inspiration Challenge (IC377), and I was inspired by this Fish Pin. For the Mixability Challenge (MIX4), we are to use water based mediums and I used water based reinkers and shaving cream on top of water to create my background. And last but not least, the LOVEFEST2013H challenge by Unity, colors and a picture. I used the colors as my starting point.

    For my card, I used a shaving cream background, stamped the image on top. This technique has been around a while and here’s a link if you’d like the directions: Shaving Cream Technique. To make sure the image was dark enough, I also used black embossing powder and heat embossed it.

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    I left a narrow border around the image when I trimmed it and then attached it to  dk green layer w/ a punched side and then a gold textured layer. A little sponging was added to the gold layer, the large lt green textured layer and also the 5.5 x 4.25 ivory card. The sentiment was stamped in two directions on the lt green layer and I sponged over the top of some added embossing on the left side.

     

    Thanks so much for stopping by!

    Supplies:

    Stamps: Innovative Stamp Creations – Nature’s Beauty
    Paper: vanilla, dk green, lt green textured, gold textured
    Ink: VersaFine Onyx, various Brilliance & Adirondack dye reinkers, Kaleidacolor Creole Spice rainbow pad (used to sponge the c/s edges)
    Accessories: detail black embossing powder, shaving cream, border punch (All Night Media), mini brad, Cuttlebug organic flourish embossing folder

     

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