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Sweet Apples

Posted on July 5, 2014 12:16 PM by Julie 1 Comment

Just a quick card for today’s Inspiration Challenge (IC448) on Splitcoast. I was inspired by THIS picture. I love the 3 little apples and they remind me of the 3 apples in this image. To me these look like red delicious so that’s the way I colored them. After coloring, I fussy cut them to add to my kraft panel. For some reason I usually think of a kraft background when I see these apples. See the border? It’s part of a larger image, meant for the back of a card or an envelope. I inked just one of the borders of it and stamped around the edges then used a white gel pen to accent it. The kraft panel and card front were die cut with a stitched border die set.

The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25 and these are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by! If you haven’t yet, please check out the DRS Thursday Challenge. This week…Pennants, Flags & Banners! DRS images are not required, so head on over!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs –Handmade Fragile, Apple Trio, Sweet Birthday Greeting

Paper: X-Press It white, kraft

Ink: Memento tuxedo black

Accessories: Lil’ Inkers stitched rectangles dies, Copic markers, white gel pen, Perfect Paper Crafting mini rulers

Birthday Aster

Posted on July 2, 2014 9:48 PM by Julie 1 Comment

Today’s Sketch Challenge (SC495) is an easy fun one, and this is the card I created using it. Almost total die cuts with a stamped greeting. I used the “Happy” part of a greeting from the Patriotic Pennants set and the “birthday” uses the alphabet from the Pennant Swag Alphabet set. I die cut the 3 sizes of asters, one each in white & yellow, then stacked them on top of each other. I added some lacy yellow borders die cut with a border die on the edges of my horizontal band. Some yellow & blue crystals were added for some sparkle.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Patriotic Pennants, Pennant Swat Alphabet

Paper: X-Press It white, textured yellow (DVWV), dp (ODBD Christian Faith collection paper)

Ink: Memento danube blue

Accessories: ODBD Pennant dies, ODBD Aster dies, ODBD Beautiful Borders dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies, crystals

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Crayon Birthday

Posted on June 28, 2014 11:53 PM by Julie 4 Comments

A big congrats to Barb, the newest Featured Stamper (FS386) on Splitcoast! She has a lovely gallery and I chose THIS card to case. I kept the oval and similar colors but I used a vertical layout and made a melted crayon background (a cousin of encaustic wax) for the WT485 challenge, instead of using designer paper.

This was the first time I’ve tried the melted crayon background and I loved playing around with it. I made quite a few…it was hard to stop! Since I really like how this background turned out, I kept everything else simple…a greeting on a white frame and some die cuts. I don’t think I’ve had this much fun with crayons in a long time!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Congrats again, Barb!

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps –Happy Birthday (from Everyday Small Words 469J)

Paper: X-Press It white, glossy white

Ink: Memento tuxedo black

Accessories: Cheery Lynn Dandelion dies, Cheery Lynn Pretty Pretty Bows die, Spellbinders matting basics A & B, petite oval dies, crayola crayons, craft iron

I’m also entering this in the Simon Says Wed Challenge- Anything Goes!

Everyday Words small horiz 469J	X-Press It Blending Card	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132
Cheery Lynn Dandelion die B453	Memento Inks	Cheery Lynn Pretty Bows die B422	Spellbinders Lg. Petite Ovals S4-138