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A big Congrats to Monique, the newest Featured Stamper (FS680) on Splitcoast! She has a fabulous gallery & it was hard to pick, but I finally decided on THIS card to case. I kept the blue flowers theme & intricate bg cut out, but I used different images & dies & left off a few layers.

After coloring the blue daisies, I die cut them w/ a rounded stitched rectangle die. I used my out of the box die cutting technique to keep from cutting off the petals on the left side.  On the white bg, I die cut the left side w/ a circle lattice die & added just a few of the centers back in then backed it w/ navy blue. The butterfly was colored w/ the same colors & die cut w/ its matching die & I split the greeting..white embossing half on navy & stamping the rest on the white bg. I used a word window punch on the “Happy” part.

Here are the Copics I used. (I also used a few Prismacolor Pencils in similar colors on top.)

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Supplies:

 

RN Daisy Bouquet #4 1320-03	RN Brush Butterflies 3018	RN Fluttering Butterflies dies 3018D	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Happy Birthday 1319-06
RN Circle Lattice 5026D	RN Rounded Corner Rectangle Stitch dies 5017D	Copic Sketch Markers	Prismacolor Pencils	Memento Inks
Staples 110# White Card Stock	Hammermill 100# Digital Copy card stock	AC color card stock	Colorbox Pigment Ink	Ranger Embossing Powder
McGill multi word window punch

It’s my pleasure to host the 700th Inspiration Challenge (IC700)! Wow! That’s a lot of inspiration. And I chose a place that was a discussion of colors. For my first card, I was inspired by THIS. I love all the blue butterflies.

After coloring & die cutting the butterflies, I sponged the Distress inks onto my white panel, then sprayed it w/ thinned out white acrylic paint. I thought it still needed more, so stamped over the sponged areas w/ the same Distress inks using a splatter bg image.

Here’s the inside & the Copics I used for the butterflies.

My second card is all about shades of gray & black. My moonlit scene was inspired by THIS picture.

After die cutting the birches & grasses out of black, a circle of white & a bg out of gray, I sponged on a little black & gray onto the gray bg.

I used white & lt. gray Prismacolor pencils to add some depth & shading to the moon, birches & grasses.

Here’s the inside.

Supplies:

Thanks so much for stopping by!

 

RN Brush Butterflies 3018	RN Fluttering Butterflies dies 3018D	RN Splatter Bg 1231	RN Birch Trees die 5167-02D	RN Stitched Hills dies 5173-01D
RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Nested Banner Stitch dies 5151D	RN Rectangle Stitch Frame dies 5122D	RN You’re What Happened 642-15	RN Grass #2 die 5210-21D
RN Floral Frame die 5211D	RN Circle Stitch dies 5006D	RN Oval Stitch dies 5008D	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Prismacolor Pencils
AC color card stock	Decoart Acrylic paint	Posca Paint Pen	Distress Inks	Memento Inks
Versafine Clair ink

A big congrats to Diana, the newest Featured Stamper (FS636) on Splitcoast! She has a really wonderful, fun gallery & I chose THIS to case. I really liked the kraft bg & the little butterfly, so I kept those. But I used different images, turned mine vertical & added an embossed border.

For my CAS card, I stamped the flowers w/ Versaclair then added the white dots w/ a Posca paint pen & a little red dot for the center. On the butterfly, I used a white Prismacolor pencil. I stamped all but the Wishes part of the greeting, then substituted the Wishes die cut in its place.

Here’s the inside.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

RN Wishes Buds 1240 3	RN Brush Butterflies 3018	RN Fluttering Butterflies dies 3018D	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Wishes die 5205-05D
Prismacolor Pencils	Posca Paint Pen	Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	Versafine Clair ink
Sizzix Ornate Frames #656989	MISTI