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It’s my turn to host the Splitcoast Inspiration Challenge (IC661) & I chose Brit+Co. I love their colorful displays & I chose the picture below for my inspiration.

To make my card, I stamped the different cactus plants, colored them & the large one had a matching die but the 2 smaller were fussy cut. I used an stitch arch die to cut the window opening & to make the frame around the opening. Then I put a piece of watercolor background behind it. The greeting was stamped on a stitched tag die cut & I used my die resizing technique to shorten the tag.

Here’s a look at the inside & below it are the Copics I used.


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ArtC/Momenta Cactus & dies 28837R8	Stampabilites Trendsetter 1421627	NCC Stuck on You	Friends set 1424CSS	Wedded Bliss 1428CSS
Water Color Paper	Staples 110# White Card Stock	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Nested Tag Stitch dies 5149D	Versafine Clair ink
Copic Sketch Markers	MISTI	Brushos Water Color Crystals	Memento Inks	MFT Stitched Arch dies
Sequins	Baker’s Twine

A big congrats to Amy, the newest Featured Stamper (FS497) on Splitcoast! She has a fun little gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I liked the cute martini instead of cake, so I kept that & the layout, but I used different images, different papers & made mine a Halloween card instead of a birthday card.
To make my Halloween martini, I stamped the martini image & colored it w/ Copics. I had to put 3 different greetings together to make my greeting. I added the little bat onto the olive pick & a spider web & spider in the left corner.
I used some leftover bits & strips of paper for the bottom section & did the little semi circle cut out like Amy did. A little Wink of Stella was added to the spider & Candy word…since the word strip of paper is glitter coated, I thought hint more of sparkle would fit right in.

Here’s a look at the inside & below are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Forget Love 338F	Under the Weather -047G	Candy Cane Greeting 549H	Martini Glass	Hero Arts Spider
Stampabilities Spider Web	Jillibean Soup Witches Brew paper	Recollections Midnight Magic paper	Staples 110# white card stock	Memento Inks
Recollections Cardstock	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132	Stitched Rectangles Die Set	Copic Sketch Markers	Spellbinders Lg Circles S4-114
Wink of Stella

Today, I’m combining a few challenges from Splitcoast…first my card is for the Free For All (F4A206), to have LOVE somewhere on your project.

These are all pages from an altered book I made a while back for my sister’s birthday. Since we were born and raised in Texas, I chose to start with the book “Texas” by James Michener. I used quite a bit of text from it, but also a ton of pictures from magazines, especially Texas Monthly, clip art and stamps from a whole bunch of companies. I started by removing some pages and gluing other pages together for stability, then used a variety of colors of acrylic paints to base coat the pages. Then I would use a variety of ink colors and stamped images to create the backgrounds. Then the collage work started with all of the images. This is just a few of the pages…the entire book is around 45-50 double pages with all manner of pockets, fold outs, telescoping images, tags and pull outs. Some tell the history of Texas, some are on individual cities and regions of Texas..some tell about personal family history &  experiences, recipes, music & some are just for fun.

I love all the fun images on this page..the only thing that always bothered me is the misspelling of “y’all” on the left page. I cut this out for the size, went ahead and used it, but it still bothers me. I guess the typist just had her contractions confused, since as every Texan knows, y’all is “you all” and the apostrophe goes after the y. And just to be clear, “y’all” is singular, “all y’all” is plural, lol. 

And this page is also for the Ways to Use It (WT464), Horses as well as the Mix53.
This is a group of pages (see the angle cuts on the right?) that have a bunch of recipes and pictures of Tex-Mex food and restaurants. 

This is a couple of fun stories about Texas Rangers and since we have an ancestor who was a Ranger, it was fun to include it.

Some Texas wildflowers, state bird and postage stamps.

Another page with pretty pictures but I don’t know if you can still buy a little piece of Texas as this ad says.

And here we have some Texas music! Is there anything better? I’ve been to the Kerrville Folk Festival and it was always fabulous! And just interesting to me, but one of my cousins lived down the street from one of the ZZ Top members (I won’t say which, lol) and Buddy Holly was a cousin of my dad’s (so I guess he was cousin too) and they were born on the same day, same year. How cool! 

And this is the cover. Like I mentioned, these are just a few pages, but I hope you enjoyed them!
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