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  • Happy Birthday, Randi -ODBD Blog Hop!

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

    If you arrived here from Lisa’s blog, you are in the right place. If not, you may want to start at the ODBD Blog so you won’t miss anything. Today, we have a special Happy Birthday Blog Hop for our dear friend and DT member, Randi! In her blessed life, she has faced so very much and if you’d like to read a little about her recent battle, please take a moment to read the story behind the ODBD stamp set, Randi’s Song, named in her honor. Kelley will be giving away a Happy Birthday set to 3 people chosen from the comments.  All you have to do is hop along and leave a Happy Birthday wish for Randi on the ODBD Blog. And if you feel so inclined, you can leave her a Happy Birthday wish on her blog: Randi’s Blog. She hasn’t been able to create in a while, but she does stay connected and I’m sure she’ll see your message.

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

    This is my birthday card & bookmarks to Randi. I hope she like them! I used several different sets and dies to create it and the double sided bookmarks. For the daisy background, I used markers to color in the background and add just a hint of color to the daisies. The sentiment was die cut, sponged and layered on top of two Memory Box die cuts. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50.

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

    This shows one side of the bookmarks and if you flip them over, this is what they look like on the reverse side:

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

    Now I’ll send you on your way to Lori’s blog! Thanks so much for stopping by!

     

    Supplies:

    Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Daisy Background, Bookmarks-Eagles, Bookmarks-Trees, Birthday Blessings, Bookmarks-Verses, Mini Tags 3
    Paper: Neenah white, 2 shades of textured pink (DCWV mat stack), dp (Basic Grey – Out of Print collection)
    Ink: Ancient Page coal, Memento angel pink
    Accessories: Spellbinders labels 16 & circle dies, ODBD exclusive bookmark dies, Memory Box Seville Buckle & Tilda Swirl dies, Tombow markers, stickles, ribbon

    This entry was posted in Birds Birthday Divinity Designs/Our Daily Bread designs Girly/Feminine/Mother's Day Glitter Spellbinders Nestabilities Splitcoast Challenges Splitcoaststampers Weekly Favorite Sponging Watercolor and tagged

  • Butterfly Garden

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

    Best of 2012 –SPLITCOASTSTAMPERS!

    Have you checked out the Splitcoast Featured Stamper (FS288) yet? Jean (naturecoastcrafter) has a lovely gallery and I chose her Here Comes the Sun to case. I kept the horizontal layout and flowers and butterfly, but I changed the colors, the images and added some flourishes.

    The images are from Our Daily Bread designs. The small flowers on the small layer are actually from a bookmark, but with a little masking, they work here, too. For the backgrounds, I sponged on colors from a Blue Breeze Kaleidacolor ink pad. Then I did a technique called Water Stamping that my friend Bev Gerard did a tutorial on this past week on Splitcoast. I love the soft, marbled look it gives. I stamped a portion of the same Daisy Background in black across the bottom. I like the way it helps “ground” everything. Just a few hightlights were added were a white gel pen. A sweet little Cheery Lynn flourish was added in the lower left corner and I used a Marianne Designs corner die in the upper right.  The butterfly was white embossed onto vellum,  sponged w/ the same blue inks and die cut using the matching die. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25.

    Thanks so much for stopping by! Congrats again to Jean!

    Supplies:

    Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs- Bookmarks-Verses, Bookmarks-Trees,  Butterfly, Daisy Background
    Paper: Neenah white
    Ink: VersaFine onyx Colorbox frost white pigment
    Accessories: ODBD butterfly die, Spellbinders rectangle & deckle rectangle dies, white embossing powder, Cheery Lynn small flourish die, Marianne Designs corner die

    This entry was posted in Best of 2012 Bugs/Butterflies/Dragonflies/Ladybugs/Bees Cheery Lynn Dies Christian Divinity Designs/Our Daily Bread designs Masking-Reverse Masking Spellbinders Nestabilities Splitcoast Challenges Splitcoaststampers Weekly Favorite Sponging and tagged

  • DTGD Bluebonnet Sky

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

    Hi y’all! This is my last Dare to Get Dirty Challenge sample and this one is for the challenge I’m hosting!

    Well, this is the view I wish I had! And I wouldn’t mind a pair of them highfalutin’ boots, neither! Think if I call up Nocona Boots and ask them to make a pair, they’d go for it? Anyway, the inside says “Have a Texas sized Birthday” and this one is going to my Dad. He still lives in Texas. I don’t think he’d wear the kinda girlie looking boots, but he’ll like the view, too.

    For my inset window scene, I sponged on the greens at the bottom and the blue and purples at the top. Since the green and purple don’t play well together, I left just a smidge of white between the two. When I had the color intensity I wanted, I stamped the silhouette scene on top then die cut it. I cut a very narrow white layer to back it, then put it back on top of the background it was cut from. The white layer has a larger rectangle die cut window and I added some backing layers to elevate it slightly. The little bluebonnets and sentiment were stamped directly on the bottom. I had a little of the sponged background left, so I stamped the boots and hat onto this and cut them out. The finished card is 6.50 x 5.00.

    Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you have a chance to play in the Dare to Get Dirty Challenges this week. Lots of fun, inspiration, chatter and PRIZES! This is the final challenge, but y’all still have until Aug 6th to upload your creations in the Dare to Get Dirty Forum on Splitcoast.


    Supplies:

    Stamps: Magenta (cowboy silhouettes), Deadbeat Designs (sentiment, bluebonnets), Cowtown (boots), (hat)
    Paper: Neenah white
    Ink: VersaFine onyx, Kaleidacolor Riviera, Distress Inks mowed lawn, shaded lilac
    Accessories: Spellbinders long rectangle dies,

    This entry was posted in Birthday Deadbeat Designs Magenta Masculine/Father's Day Scenes/Landscapes Spellbinders Nestabilities Splitcoast Challenges Splitcoaststampers Dirty Dozen Sponging and tagged