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For the Inspiration Challenge (IC728), we’re headed to a fashion clothing site. I did a lot of browsing & my inspiration came mostly from THIS dress. I liked the khaki & deep green combo but I couldn’t resist adding a little red.

I really love the look of Prismacolor pencils on kraft colored card. I used a combo of the black & rhubarb inks to ink the pinecone then used the Prismas to color it. The image was masked & I stamped the pine bough w/ the northern pine ink. The snow was added w/ a white Posca paint pen & I used a paintbrush & some thinned white paint to add the snow splatters. I sponged around all of the edges w/ a Brilliance moonlight white ink pad to add a little more of the snowy look. 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Pine Cone w Bow 1001G	Pine Bough 467K	Joy to You 640G	Prismacolor Pencils	Cuttlebug Herringbone embossing folder 37-1915
Staples 110# white card stock	MISTI	Memento Inks	AC color card stock	Decoart Acrylic paint
Posca Paint Pen	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Rounded Corner Rectangle Stitch dies 5017D	Double Stitched Circles dies CBD136	Brilliance Inks

Congrats to Kari, the newest Featured Stamper (FS661) on Splitcoast! She has lovely, growing gallery & I chose THIS card as my inspiration. I kept the western theme & framed boxes, but I used different images & colors, different layout & changed it from a cowgirl to a cowboy.

For my version, I made a western themed birthday card. Originally, the 3 squares were going to be in a line down one side. But in order to have this much of the images in the square, it made them too big to stack. So the Cowboy was moved to his own side &  put on top instead of inside a cut out square. 

With the layout having so much going on, I kept the color palette simple & stuck to 2 colors, since most guys don’t want things too fussy, anyway. I added a piece of a barbed wire die cut (hey, guys don’t really “get” ribbon & I’m pretty sure the butterflies like Kari used, would be wasted on them, lol) & put the greeting under the cowboy.

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

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

Cowboy Line Dancer 686G	4 in 1 Cowboy Gear 697M	Western Word Square 634H	Saddle Up Greeting 877F	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D
Memento Inks	Versafine Clair ink	Staples 110# White Card Stock	X-Press It Blending Card	Gina Marie Barbed Wire & Howdy
AC color card stock	Copic Sketch Markers	MISTI	Double Stitched Rectangles dies CBD123

For today’s Color Challenge (CC759) on Splitcoast, the colors are mango, rose & pear. To be honest, these colors are not on my go to list & I don’t have these colors, so I came as close as I could. 

For my card, I first inked a craft sheet w/ distress oxide inks, misted then pressed my paper to it. After I dried it, the leaves were stamped, masking as I went. I pressed some mini Distress inks to a solid version of the leaf, spritzed it then stamped it inside the outline leaves. It still didn’t look right, so I used a paintbrush & some embossing ink & painted inside the leaves & clear embossed them to make them stand out a bit more. The green pear top layer was die cut & the window was cut using my resizing technique to make it longer than a std rect. The 3 little leaves are from a couple of small punches. The fall part of the greeting was stamped & the hello is a double stacked die cut. 

Here’s the inside: 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

Open Leaf 584D	Fall Leaf w Acorn 471F	Med. Silhouette Leaf 701D	Goodbye Summer 350F 207G	Hayrides Harvest 624H
Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	Double Stitched Rectangles dies CBD123	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Versafine Clair ink
AC color card stock	Ranger Embossing Powder	Distress Inks	Distress Oxide Inks	Inkssentials Craft Sheet
MFT Hello & Thanks dies	Sm. Pumpkin/Leaf punches EK Success