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Summer Watermelon

Posted on August 5, 2016 11:38 AM by Julie 1 Comment

I made this for 2 Splitcoast challenges..Free for All (F4A337) Think Cool, and Tricia’s DTGD challenge. We’d love for you to join in & for all the details go to the Dare to Get Dirty Forum ..but you’ll need to be a Fan Club member. It’s sooooo easy!

To make my watermelon card, the big watermelon was stamped, colored & over stamped. I had the white die cut layer already there w/ the rectangle window cut out, so I made a black frame layer for it & attached it over the image. Parts of the two greeting were used and split up like you see. The checkerboard was stamped directly on the white layer & the fussy cut watermelon border was added on top.

I added some ants here & there because what’s a picnic w/o ants, right? I added a little black glaze pen to the watermelon seeds to make them shiny. Below are the Copics I used.
Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs – Watermelon Border, Watermelon & Friend, 4 in 1 Garden Bugs, Checkerboard Bg, Summer Story, Sweet Birthday

Paper: Staples 110# white, black

Ink: Versafine onyx, Memento tuxedo black

Accessories: Copic markers, Misti, Spellbinders A2 matting basics B, Lil’ Inker Long Skinny Stitched Mats, ODBD pierced rectangles dies, black glaze pen

4 in 1 Garden Bugs 941C	Summer Story 881C	Watermelon Border 095H	Watermelon & Friend 798H
Checkerboard Bg 342P	Sweet Birthday 161E	Staples 110# white card stock	MISTI
Memento Inks	AC color card stock	X-Press It Blending Card	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132
Pierced Rectangles dies	Copic Sketch Markers	Stitched Mats Long & Skinny	Sakura Quickie Glue Pen

Cattails & Dragonflies

Posted on June 25, 2016 1:17 PM by Julie Comment

Has it been crazy hot where you are? And humid, too? A walk outside around here is feeling like walking through a steam room. It’s pretty bad when it feels as if you’re wearing the air like a wetsuit. As Dr. Suess might say…I do not like the heat. I do not like it one bit. I do not like it even one little bit. For today’s Inspiration Challenge (IC551), we have a Pinterest Board full of Tim Holtz inspiration. I was inspired by THIS card.

(I DO like these colors. I do like them a lot.) And cattails & dragonflies are what you’d probably see in a hot, humid area. You can tell it’s hot because of the blazing orange above the dragonflies. I die cut a stitched rectangle out of the white linen c/s then sponged on the oranges from the top down and the green/turq from the bottom up. Then I put it into my Misti, stamped the cattails & dragonflies w/ Memento, added some color w/ Copics, then over stamped w/ Versafine. Just a touch of the splatter bg. was added here & there. The greeting was die cut in a double stitched circle & I sponged the outer circle w/ the same colors.

Funny thing about the bottom…I scored the top fold in the wrong place which made the front shorter & back too long. Instead of rescoring it (which would make it look funny & all), I cut off the excess on the back & added a sponged strip w/ part of the grid border on top. I guess another case of a mistake turning into an opportunity for change.

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

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs – Long Tall Cattails, On My Mind, 4 in 1 Garden Bugs, Splatter Bg, (inside: Cheerful Smiles)

Paper: Staples 110# white, Neenah white linen

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx, Distress inks carved pumpkin, ripe persimmon, cracked pistachio, peacock feathers

Accessories: Copic markers, Lil’ Inker stitched rectangles dies, Impression Obsession (IO) grid border die, ODBD double stitched circle dies, Misti

4 in 1 Garden Bugs 941C	Long Tall Cattails 605H	On My Mind 031D	Splatter Bg 855H	Cheerful Smiles 1107G
Staples 110# White Card Stock	Neenah Linen cardstock	MISTI	VersaFine Inkpads	Memento Inks
Distress Inks	Stitched Rectangles Die Set	Double Stitched Rectangles dies CBD123	IO Square cutout die172-1	Copic Sketch Markers

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Awesome Butterfly

Posted on June 11, 2016 11:12 PM by Julie 5 Comments

A big congrats to Robin, the newest Featured Stamper (FS488) on Splitcoast! After much browsing, I picked THIS card to case. I kept the basic layout but used different images, different colors & made a water color bg instead of using designer paper. I’m also combining this with the Inspiration Challenge (IC549) & THIS was my abstract inspiration.

To make my background, I sprayed parts of the w/c paper w/ water then sprinkled on the Brushos crystals & spritzed w/ water again. Most of the time, I used a heat gun to dry it in between colors so they wouldn’t make mud. When completely dry, I stamped the butterfly corner w/ Versamark & clear embossed. Then I used a very wet paintbrush to wet the areas inside the embossed flowers & a paper towel to lift some of the color.
The butterfly on top was heat embossed w/ white ink & white powder on a separate piece of painted bg & die cut w/ the matching die. The You was also die cut out of the same bg.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

I’m also adding this to the Simon Says Monday Challenge-Summer Garden
and Virginia’s View Challenge #22

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – You Bless Me So (retired), Butterfly Corner, Butterfly Single

Paper: Staples 110# white, water color, Neenah linen

Ink: Colorbox frost white pigment, Versamark, Versafine onyx

Accessories: ODBD Pierced Rectangles, Circles, Butterfly(retired) dies, Spellbinders matting basics B dies, Brushos water color crystals, clear & white embossing powders

Butterfly Corner	Butterfly Single	Pierced Rectangles dies CBD147	Pierced Circles dies CBD162	Colorbox Pigment Ink
Brushos Water Color Crystals	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Versamark ink	Ranger Embossing Powder	Strathmore Water Color Paper 90#
Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132	VersaFine Inkpads	Neenah Linen cardstock