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  • My Cup of Tea

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    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com

    Today’s sketch challenge (SC369), was for me,  a real challenge! It looks great on Taylor’s Abracadabra card, but it gave me fits. It just felt awkward to me to add that strip across the bottom so in the end I just tacked on some little butterflies. Oh well.

    I used a couple of new sets from Our Daily Bread designs. I stamped the teacup full of flowers then stamped the greeting on vellum and placed it on top. IRL, the teacup is a little more obvious. The frame was stamped and the inside cut out and placed on top of the vellum. I stamped another frame in yellow and a third was white embossed on cobalt. I had to cut these two apart to fit them around the original frame.

    For my diagonal strip, I punched two strips of the cobalt and put a piece of ribbon down the middle. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50.

    Thanks so much for stopping by!

    Supplies:

    Stamps: ODBD – Special Blend, Birthday Blessings
    Paper: Neenah white, cobalt blue, textured yellow (DCWV mat stack), vellum
    Ink: Ancient Page cobalt & lemon peel, Colorbox frost white pigment
    Accessories: white embossing powders, Tombow yellow marker, ribbon, Martha Stewart doily lace border & butterfly punches, medium corner rounder

    This entry was posted in Bugs/Butterflies/Dragonflies/Ladybugs/Bees Divinity Designs/Our Daily Bread designs Embossing/Dry or Heat Girly/Feminine/Mother's Day Splitcoaststampers Weekly Favorite and tagged

  • Hello Vase

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    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com/

    Happy Monday!
    This is pretty exciting news for me…I’m now on the DT for Outlines Rubber Stamps! And for my first post, it’s a sketch for the Outlines Monday Challenge #33! Check out all the details on playing along with us for a chance to win on the Outlines Blog.

    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com

    I’m using some pretty spring images and colors for my card today. The colors in this dp are my favorite colors so I matched the colors in my images to them. The vase and flowers were cut out and added on top of some white c/s that I stamped the dots in two different colors. First I inked and stamped w/ the lime ink, then inked w/ the neptune and used a SAMJ to align the second stamping in an alternate row. A lg corner rounder was used on the two right corners. The scallop scissors didn’t match up exactly w/ the scallop border, but I think it looks fine as is. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50.
    Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you’ll join us in our Monday Challenge and please visit all the Outlines Design Team for details on their creations.

    Jenny Gropp
    Kecia Waters
    Lisa Silver
    Sue Kment
    Julie Warner -me!
    Jeanne Streiff

     

     

     

    Supplies:

    Stamps: Outlines – Hello, Bunny Tail (for the small flowers & buttefly), Dotted Flower small, Stripe Vase, Petal Strip, Small Dot Bg
    Paper: white, black, dp (Kaisercraft – Chapter One)
    Ink: Ancient Page coal, lime & neptune
    Accessories: Tombow markers, scallop scissors, black permapaque marker, lg corner rounder, water brush, SAMJ (stamp-a-ma-jig)

    This entry was posted in Bugs/Butterflies/Dragonflies/Ladybugs/Bees Girly/Feminine/Mother's Day Outlines Rubber Stamp Co Splitcoast Challenges Watercolor and tagged

  • Simple Things

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    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com

    Weekly-Favorite
    Best of 2011
    It’s almost Christmas! Only a few more days! Are y’all ready? I still have lots of wrapping and baking to do. Not really sure why I’m always behind, but no matter how well I think I plan, it always comes down to the wire. And there’s always that one gift that goes missing. According to the tracking, it’s been doing a winter vacay in Colorado since Dec 13. How do I get a deal like that, lol?

    I made this for today’s Sketch Challenge (SC364) and yesterday’s Color Challenge (CC354) at Splitcoast. Wonderful sketch and it turns out the colors are kinda nice together. Not sure I would have ever come up w/ the combo, but it’s growing on me.

    All images are Our Daily Bread designs. With these colors, I figured I would have a tough time trying to make a last minute Christmas card, so I packed that idea in pretty quickly and went w/ a spring card. I inked the clover w/ the lime ink, wiped off the little clover blooms and inked them w/ a wisteria marker. The sentiment was stamped first w/ the rose coral ink then lined up and stamped again w/ the grape ink. I used a coral marker to highlight a few of the words.

    I die cut it using the out of the box Nestie technique and added a coral layer and lacy square layer out of dp.

    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com
    For the circular element on the left, I die cut a piece of sparkly lime dp using a Cheery Lynn die. I used the same die on a piece of wisteria colored dp but did the emboss only. I attached the lime die cut on top and trimmed around the edges. Not really sure how this came about, but I put a coral like piece of c/s under the area I cut out of the lime and attached the die cut back on top, but a little off.

    I added a cuttlebug embossed strip across the bottom, w/ a little stickles and attached to a 5.50 x 4.25 card.

    Thanks so much for stopping by!

    Happy Holidays!

    Supplies:

    Stamps: ODBD – Simple Things
    Paper: white, dp (all SEI – On the Coast collection), some coral like c/s
    Ink: Archival grape, Colorbox rose coral & lime chalk inks
    Accessories: Spellbinders squares & lacy squares dies, Cheery Lynn Italian Flourish die, Cuttlebug With Love border folder, Tombow markers, stickles

    This entry was posted in Best of 2011 Bugs/Butterflies/Dragonflies/Ladybugs/Bees Cheery Lynn Dies Cuttlebug/Quickutz/Sizzix Divinity Designs/Our Daily Bread designs Spellbinders Nestabilities Splitcoast Challenges Splitcoaststampers Weekly Favorite Spring/Easter and tagged