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  • Sparkle N Sprinkle Blog Hop!

    Posted on by Julie 65 Comments

    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.comWelcome to our Not so Macho Masculine Blog Hop brought to you by the Sparkle Team of Sparkle N Sprinkle!

    If you arrived here from Barbara Bruder’s blog, you are in the right place! If not, you’ll probably want to go to the SNS Blog and start from the beginning.


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    Best of 2011

    I’m going to share two different cards made using the same set, 1900 Cars set 285. For the travel card above, I used two different map papers, a new banner die set and labels 17  from Spellbinders. The antique autos on both cards were colored using a combination of  markers and Prismacolor pencils. For the Travel greeting, I used a bookplate die and bowed it slightly when I attached it.

    On the Classic card below, I cut out the roadster and also an extra left side (facing the viewer) and layered it on the base image for a little extra dimension. The background scene was stamped, masked, sponged and then colored w/ markers. The white frame used a lg oval Spellbinders die and a dot border embossing folder which I used a stylus to hand emboss around the frame.  Both cards measure 5.5 x 4.25. The Travel and Classic cards w/ full instructions are also on the SNS website.

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

    Your next stop will be Jill Jacobson’s Blog, so hop on over! By the way, the product you can win from my blog is a jar of Berry Pudding Glitter Tinsel. If you haven’t tried it, please check it out. It’s fabulous! And this color is just scrumptious! Thanks so much for stopping by!

     

     

     

    Supplies:

    Stamps: Sparkle N Sprinkle – 1900 Cars, Scenery set 349 (for Classic card)
    Paper: Neenah white, dk red,  2 different designer/map papers
    Ink:VersaFine Onyx, Kaleidacolor Melon Melody, Desert Heat & Riviera  rainbow pads
    Accessories:White gel pen, Prismacolor pencils, Tombow Markers, 1/2″ Double Sided “Tear-ific” Tape SAT04, 1/8” Tear-ific Tape SAT02, Spellbinders Labels 17, petite ovals & Banner Basics 2 dies, Sizzix bookplate die, Cuttlebug dot border embossing folder, stylus, sponges, Stamp-a-ma-jig (SAMJ)

    More challenges for this:
    Stamps R Us – masculine
    SCS WT322 -trees, SCS FS223
     Kaboodle Doodles – lots of layers
    Cards for Men – someone special
    Tuesday Throwdown – die cuts
    Timeless Tuesday Challenge – anything goes!


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  • ODBD May Release Blog Hop!

    Posted on by Julie 176 Comments

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

    Hello everyone! I hope you are enjoying the May Our Daily Bread
    designs Blog Hop! The sticks in the bread basket are soooo excited
    this month about all the sets being released! I know you will enjoy
    this hop and will love all the new sets!

    If you got here from the wonderful blog of  Chris Olsen, you are in the right place! If
    not, you might want to start at the Our Daily Bread designs Blog and
    hop from there!

    (You can always click on any picture to enlarge.)

    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.comWeekly-Favorite

    I have two cards to share today. It didn’t start out to be two but it evolved that way and parts of one are used on the other. This one started as a watercolor background on lightweight watercolor paper. After it dried, I die cut the image out of the background then used a slightly larger die to make the background opening larger. On the 5×5 ivory card front, I stamped the Vintage Border across the bottom, added a little color to the centers and used the Vintage Border Die across the bottom half only to cut the card edge. I made a few more of the borders on another piece of c/s, die cut them and added them under the frame and around the top of the sentiment tag.

    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com
    A lot of times, when I have an image like this fabulous Porch image (designed by Dina Kowal) all inked up, I’ll stamp it more than once. Just in case something happens to the first or I want to layer for depth or to have one for later. This was the extra one and while it was sitting there, I thought I’d add a little color.  Then the narrow frame piece from the first card was added to see how it looked. For the die cut Vintage Border peeking out around from around the frame, I double stamped it; once w/ the Kpad and again w/ the black ink.  I scored a border on the front of the 5×5 ivory card.

    From here hop on over to Connie McCotter’s blog,  I know she’ll have something fabulous to share!

    Thanks so much for stopping by! 

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

     

     

     

    Supplies:

    Stamps: ODBD – Porch & Vintage Border
    Paper: ivory, water color paper
    Ink: Kaleidacolor Caribbean Sea, VersaFine Onyx
    Accessories: ODBD Vintage Border die, Spellbinders long rectangles (rezized to a lg square), Peerless watercolors, Tombow markers, Scor-It board, white gel pen (for highlights)

     

     


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  • ISC April Release Day 3

    Posted on by Julie 6 Comments

    Delicate Swirls Butterfly Stamp Line

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    For my card, I picked the Tropical Dramaturgy from  color link site Betsy gave us. I love tropical colors and I tried to incorporate as many as i could. I first made the background on lightweight water color paper by painting bands of dye reinker colors with a large paintbrush onto the dry paper. I used part of it for the background and I  black embossed the butterflies on the rest.  The narrow black frame was a leftover piece from another project where I had die cut some squares out of it.

    For the banner, I stamped the image w/ lighter colored ink, cut it out and used the reverse side. The daisy border was also painted w/ dye reinkers after it was punched.  The little black butterflies were punched out of black embossed c/s. The finished card measures 5.5 x 4.25.

    Thanks so much for stopping by! Please be sure to visit all the Architects.

    Kathy Tucker
    Julie Warner (you are here)
    Karen Dunbrook

     

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    Supplies:

    Stamps: ISC -Delicate Swirls Butterfly
    Paper: water color, black
    Ink: VersaFine Onyx, various Adirondack reinkers
    Accessories: Quickutz oval die,  black ep, small butterfly punch (All Night Media), Daisy border punch (EK Success)

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