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  • Merry Christmoose!

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

    Super TLC challenge (TLC348) on Splitcoast today! I like using images to make a border or background. For this, I used a little Santa hat all around the border on the 5.5 x 4.25 card front.

    All images are DRS Designs. For the main image, I stamped the Christmoose circle twice, die cut one w/ a circle, colored the other and cut it out. I added a little cardboard under it b4 attaching it over the base image.

    On all the Santa hats, I added some Puffy paint (like Liquid Applique). Just dot or spread it on, wait a few minutes then carefully heat it w/ the heat gun and poof!

    The turquoise layer was embossed and and I rubbed a little white chalk ink over the top. The black grid layer was done using an old TLC tech, TLC235 . Fun and fast! One of my fave techniques.

    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com/
    Thanks so much for stopping by!

     

    Supplies:

    Stamps: DRS Designs – Merry Christmoose, Santa hat
    Paper: white, black, turquoise
    Ink: Ancient Page coal, neptune
    Accessories: Tombow markers, water brush, velveteen ribbon, Spellbinders circles, Sizzix ef (Thank You set #5), brayer, drywall mesh, acrylic white paint, white Puffy paint

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  • Peaceful Cardinal

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

    Happy Friday!
    Thanks so much for stopping by and  I’d love for you to drop in and check out my card on the DRS Designs Blog today.

    Julie Warner- thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com
    Ever have one of those days where you know exactly what card you want to make? Clear picture of it in your head and you sit down and make it. Happens to me all the time… NOT!! I still have the picture of that card in my head but it really isn’t thiscard. The scenic bg oval is close to what I pictured but it didn’t have the cardinal in front. But the Cardinal on Branch wanted to be there and he was downright insistent! So there you have it!

    So maybe the cardinal worked out to be a good choice and in the end, I’m pretty happy w/ it. For the oval snow scene, I picked a couple of oval dies for the pine green and top white layer and after cutting them, I penciled in the oval on the front of my 5.50 x 4.25 white card. I placed a reverse mask (the same oval cut out of a piece of scratch paper placed over the surrounding card front). Using torn edge strips for masks for the ground, I sponged in the sky and added a little blue for the snow.

    I used pine green and dk brown markers to ink the Pine Bough and stamped it on top of the scene. For the top layer, I used the same markers to ink the pine cones from the cardinal image and used a stamp positioner to place them. The cardinal and one pine cone were stamped on a separate piece, colored w/ markers and cut out. The sentiment only from the Three Wisemen Peace image was stamped in the lower left. I added stickles on the branches for a little sparkle.

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

    Supplies:
    stamps: Cardinal on Branch, Three Wisemen Peace, Pine Bough
    paper: white, pine green
    ink: VersaFine onyx, Memories sky blue, Distress ink dried marigold
    accessories: Tombow markers, Spellbinders oval dies, stickles

     


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  • 2 Birds, 1 Ball

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

    Fun challenge on Splitcoast today! Make your own backgrounds (F4A85)!

    The weekend is almost here and some of you are probably planning on a friendly golf game. The only golf I’ve ever played is miniature, but there are a lot of golfers in my family. So I think this would be the perfect masculine birthday card for one of them. All except my aunt Mary, that it is, lol. She LOVES to play golf. You could use it for other occasions, but I used the Above Par Birthday Greeting on the inside.

    This golfer reminds me a little of my husband. A long time ago, in a city far, far way,  we lived in a partially finished subdivision and he was out in front practicing his swing. He used to hit balls across the several unfinished streets and pay neighbor kids to shag the balls. So he’s out there one day and my daughter and I are on the couch in the living room. All of a sudden, there is a big CRASH, my glasses fly off my face and this golf ball lands about 3 inches in front of the tv. I wish I had a picture of the look on his face. When he shanked that ball, it hit the curb across the street and bounced back through the front window of our house. I guess if he had hit it any harder, he’d have hit two birds w/ one ball. Me and the tv, lol.

    All images are DRS Designs. For my self made backgrounds, I used a little stack of pigment inks that comes in coordinating colors to stamp the Golf word repeatedly. I also used it to make the narrow woven plaid strip. Golfer Duff was colored with markers and given a little out of the box treatment.The finished card is 4.25 x 5.5.

    Thanks so much for looking!

     

     

     

    Supplies:
    stamps: Golfer Duff, Golf, Woven Plaid
    paper: white, moss
    ink: VersaFine onyx, Colorbox Pumpkin Patch Queue pigment inks
    accessories: Tombow markers, brads

    I’m also entering this is the Dolce Stamps & Cards –DSAC02  Fall colors challenge


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