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Congrats to Gayle, the newest Featured Stamper (FS722)! She has a lovely gallery & I chose THIS to case. I mainly went w/ the one on the left, keeping the cardinal & greenery, but I used different images & dies & used a different layout.

I stamped the lantern & colored it w/ Copics. Did a little out of the box to keep from cutting off the top of the lantern & the tip of the cardinal’s tail (trust me..birds do not like you messing w/ their tails).

On the kraft layer, I stamped the new pinecone all over w/ the Distress oxide ink but a left a space for the greeting. The pine green circle was dry embossed & I rubbed some gold rub n buff type paste over the top of it. A white gel pen was used to add some highlights to the greeting.

Here are the Copics I used:

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Supplies:

Cardinal Holly Lantern 112K	Sm Pine Cone 106B	Deco Peace & Joy 355G	Memento Inks	Distress Oxide Inks
Copic Sketch Markers	Cuttlebug 37-1153 Textile	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Circle Stitch dies 5006D	Staples 110# White Card Stock
X-Press It Blending Card	AC color card stock	MISTI	White Gelly Roll Pen

It’s my honor to host the Splitcoast Inspiration Challenge (IC779) this week, & we are headed to Plaid Crafts where I chose THIS as my inspiration.

For my little turkey, I die cut the turkey & all the feathers, along w/ some leaves & pumpkins out of gold, rust, kraft, brown & olive card stock. I die cut 4 of the turkey bodies, because originally I was going 3D but found that it worked great instead of adding a lot of fun foam to elevate him & keep him from flattening out. I took some extra pics to show what it looks like. Two of the turkey bodies were scored down the middle & one was attached on either side of the front turkey, then a flat turkey body was attached to the back side. The feathers were scored w/ a piercing tool & half were attached to the back of the front turkey & half attached to the back turkey, giving it even more of a dimensional look.

This is the turkey front.

Here’s the bottom view, showing the the extra, scored turkey bodies attached to the front & back turkeys.

Here’s a side view, showing the feathers split between the front & back turkey bodies.

Another side view, showing where I added a pop dot to stabilize it. It’s really not necessary, as the folded side turkeys really help it keep its shape.


The white & rust colored ovals were die cut, the greeting added & attached to a die cut piece of designer paper.

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Supplies:

RN Kittie SaysFriends 3327	RN Turkey die 5334-01D	RN Pumpkins & Ivy die 5215-05D	RN Tiny Leaves w Acorns #3 die 5334-03D	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D
RN Oval Stitch dies 5008D	Versafine Clair ink	Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	RN Crossover II

We have a fun Get Spooked Challenge on the Ways to Use It (WT816) today. So I think this card will definitely fit right in. For the bg, I used the Wrinkle Free Distress tech on some lightweight watercolor paper using some yellow, orange & purple Distress inks.

When it dried, I used the splatter bg to stamp over it w/ gold ink & used gold embossing powder. Then I put the panel in my Misti & stamped the graveyard & crow.  Leaving the panel in place, I put the white layer w/ the oval cut out on top & stamped the grim reaper, took the white panel off & stamped him again. The tombstone & ghost were stamped on white & fussy cut.

Here’s the inside:

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Supplies:

4in1 Halloween Silhouettes 1152D	Spirt of Halloween 010D	Flying Ghost 008C	Grim Reaper 963G	Silhouette Graveyard 579H
Frightful & Delightful 1148F	RIP Tombstone 570B	Splatter Bg 855H	Staples 110# White Card Stock	MISTI
RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Oval Stitch dies 5008D	RN Mirror Gold embossing powder	Distress Inks	Memento Inks
Ultimate Metallic Ink