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For the Splitcoast Inspiration Challenge (IC775), we’re headed to the Eyelet Outlet. They have a lot of fun stuff & I chose THIS for my inspiration. Love all the coffee go cups!

I adore these new coffee cats from Rubbernecker. There’s also a matching die, but I didn’t use it for this. So cute! And the new background images are right up my alley because I love making my own backgrounds. For this card, I used the yellow, orange & cinnamon Color Fuse inks to sponge the gradient color down a white panel. Since it had so much ink on it, I used a heat gun to help dry it before putting it in my Misti & stamping the bg w/ the acorn Versaclair. The cute little coffee cat was also stamped w/ the acorn ink & I water colored it & added a ground line so it wouldn’t look like he was floating.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

RN Coffee Cats set 3330	RN Wavy Lines Bg 1356	RN Circle Stitch dies 5006D	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Color Fuse Ink set #1
RN Color Fuse Ink set #2	RN Color Fuse Ink set #3	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Strathmore Water Color Paper 90#	RN Crossover II
MISTI	Versafine Clair ink	Watercolor pan set	Baker’s Twine

A big congrats to Jacqueline, the newest Featured Stamper (FS713) on Splitcoast! She has a fab gallery & after much browsing, I chose THIS card to case. I kept the circle & trees but used some stamps instead of all dies, different dies & made mine a Christmas card.

For my Christmas card, I colored & die cut the cute little critters then die cut a large white panel. I used a stitched hill die to cut it in half, then sponged the upper half & splattered w/ water. I also stamped a random dot image w/ Picket Fence ink & used a white Posca pen to add some bright white snow dots, then I put the panel back together. The circle w/ the trees was die cut once out of pine green & once out of white, again stamping the dots w/ white onto the green version & stacked them a little off. I added a  white stitched frame on top of the green one then attached it to my panel & added the animals.  I saw I had enough room for a greeting & thankfully was able to add it this late in the process by using my Misti.

Here are the Copics I used:

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Supplies:

RN Woodland Animals #2 3325	RN Woodland Animals #2 dies 3325D	RN Woodland Animals #3 3326	RN Woodland Animals #3 dies 3326D	Not So Many Dots 1338
RN Christmas Phrases Lg/Sm 3328	RN Color Fuse Ink set #6	RN Color Fuse Ink set #7	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Circle Stitch Frames dies 5120D
RN Winter Trees in Circle die 5336-03D	Versafine Clair ink	Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	RN Crossover II
Memento Inks	Copic Sketch Markers	X-Press It Blending Card	Distress Inks	Posca Paint Pen

It’s my pleasure to host the Splitcoast Inspiration Challenge (IC774) & we’re headed to the Fat Quarter Shop. They also have a fab Pinterest Board.  My inspiration comes from THIS quilt fabric panel.


I used the 3 new Woodlands Animals sets for my card. These sets are so cute & there are so many wonderful scenes you can build w/ them. After coloring all the animals, they were die cut. The lg tree on the right was fussy cut & the other trees & grass were stamped directly on the back panel & colored. The top panel where I attached the animals is a new slimline die w/ 3 openings.

Here are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

RN Woodland Animals #1 3324	RN Woodland Animals #1 dies 3324D	RN Woodland Animals #2 3325	RN Woodland Animals #2 dies 3325D
RN Woodland Animals #3 3326	RN Woodland Animals #3 dies 3326D	RN Slimline Nested Stitch dies 5326D	RN Slimline Inside 4 Corners Circle die 5332-03D
Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	RN Crossover II	Memento Inks
Copic Sketch Markers	X-Press It Blending Card