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It’s my pleasure to host the Splitcoast Inspiration Challenge (IC752) this week & we’re headed to the Canva Pinterest Boards. They have a website, but their Pinterest Boards are a lot more user friendly. I was inspired by THIS picture. I really loved the bright colors!

For my card, I white embossed the squiggly frame & greeting. I used a set of scallop circle dies for my wreath & added the die cut flowers on either side. Since I didn’t have a bird large enough, I used a stacked butterfly. The orange strip was fan folded & stretched across. These bright happy colors remind me of a Cinco de Mayo parade & I marched in a lot of those during my years in the school marching band.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

RN Frases en Español #2 3307	RN 3 Line Frame 1058-01	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Circle dies 5002D	RN Circle Scallop dies 5029D
RN Mixable Flower Stack die 5106D	RN Stacked Butterflies die 5306D	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Colorbox Pigment Ink	Ranger Embossing Powder
AC color card stock

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