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  • Serendipity SSCB #33 Twine

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    Stroll On the Beach cu 04036Welcome to  the July Challenge for Serendipity Stamps! This month the challenge is is Twine. The design team has the added challenge HOT…(hot colors, heat embossing, what’s hot…etc). You only have to use twine. And be sure to check out the 50% Off Wood Clearance Sale, lots of $1 stamps, and Clearance stamps!
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    For my card, I went with the Hot Colors option. I love beach sunset scenes so that’s the look I was going for here. I used a combination of sponging and Copic markers for the colors. I grew up in a beach town and I really love palm tree images so I thought this coconut palm would be perfect. After stamping it and the little sun/cloud image, I sponged on some hot sunset colors above the horizon and some water colors below. Normally, I would mask the tree and horizon, but I didn’t feel like cutting out a mask for the palm tree, so I sponged very close to the tree then filled in any white areas w/ Copics.

    Stroll on the Beach 04033The tree and sand were colored with Copics and I used a white gel pen to add some highlights. For the twine part of the Challenge, I used a piercing mat & tool to make the two rows of holes, then used some of the yellow/orange twine from The Twinery to stitch the two layers together. I did divide the 4 strands of twine and only used 2 strands to stitch. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25 and these are the Copics & inks I used for coloring.

    I’m also adding this to the Simon Says Monday Challenge…White, since this whole panel started out white.

    Stroll on the Beach copics 04030By the way, the prize this month is an assorted pack of twine from The Twinery!


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    Thanks so much for stopping by! Please be sure to visit all the blogs to be entered to win!
    Vickie Zimmer
    Jeanne Jachna
    Jenny Gropp
    Julie Warner
    Karen Amidon
    Marybeth Lopez
    Miriam Napier
    Birgit Edblom (DT Alumni)
    Jen Cuthbertson (July Guest Designer)

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    Supplies:

    Stamps: Serendipity Stamps –Palm Tree set 004QCL, My Life 288E
    Paper: X-Press It white, black
    Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, Kaleidacolor blue breeze & desert heat ink pads, Versafine onyx (greeting only)
    Accessories: Spellbinders matting basics B dies, twine (The Twinery), piercing tool & mat, needle

     

     

     


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  • Peacock Feathers Birthday

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    I    ‘m combing two Splitcoast challenges for this card..yesterday’s Color Challenge (CC483) and today’s Sketch Challenge (SC493). This card went together pretty quickly since I didn’t do any coloring or fussy cutting. I used two new dies I just received..the peacock feather and the stitched layers. The large white background was also embossed with a peacock feathers folder. I stamped a peacock feather multiple times on the narrow vertical & horizontal panels using a rainbow ink pad with just the right colors for the color challenge. The greeting was stamped inside the die cut circle and I sponged a little turquoise ink inside the die edges. A little stickles was added to the feather and done. 

    Thanks so much for stopping by!

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    Stamps: DRS Designs – Peacock Feather, Birthday Flower Circle
    Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, Kaleidacolor caribbean sea
    Paper: X-Press It white, moss green
    Accessories: Spellbinders peacock feather, circles & matting basics  A & B dies, Lil’ Inkers stitched rectangle dies, stickles, Cuttlebug peacock feathers embossing folder

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  • Serendipity SSCB#31 Pt 2- Flowers & Resist!

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    Julie Warner – https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com
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    Welcome to Pt. 2 of the May Challenge for Serendipity Stamps! This month the challenge is Flowers…stamped, die cut, designer paper, dried…whatever you have.  The sale at Serendipity Stamps this week is Buy 3, Get the 4th Free..  Good through 5/28.  And as always, we have a  have a gift certificate up for grabs to a random player.

    For the design team, we have the added challenge of using a resist technique.
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    Julie Warner – https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.comI chose a morphed version of embossing resist. Morphed because I also added the twist of bleach. Most of the time I’ll white emboss the image when I’m doing emboss resist, but it just didn’t work very well with this geranium image. So I black embossed it on water color paper. A note about the paper…this isn’t the good stuff…it’s water color paper from the kid’s art supply section. I’ve found when I’m embossing, it does a better job than the good stuff. It’s smoother and not as heavy but it still stands up to water very well. After embossing, I used a combination of techniques. I added color all over w/ a large paint brush, water & some dye reinkers. To make it a little more intense, I also sponged on some extra colors using two Kaleidacolor ink pads. I also splattered a bit here and there then wet it down a bit to soften the splatter. Now for the twist..I took a tiny acrylic paintbrush dipped in bleach and bleached some color back out inside the flowers & leaves. The embossed lines kept the bleach from traveling. If you try this, you must use an acrylic paintbrush…the bleach will totally eat up the natural hair bristles. To further define the image, I added a hint of shadow using a red Copic & a green Copic below the flowers & leaves.

    After die cutting the panel, I added a slightly larger, fussy cut black layer. Black die cut elements were added to the corners on the white layer. After matting this on black, I attached it back on top of the original water color bg the image was cut from. The die cut Hello was also shadowed in black. 

    Thanks so much for stopping by! Please be sure to visit all the team blogs to be entered to win! 
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    Supplies:

    Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Lg Geranium 1112J
    Paper: X-Press It white, black, water color paper (kid’s art supply section)
    Ink:  Versfine onyx,  Kaleidacolor melon melody & desert heat
    Accessories:  Serendipity Hello die 027DD, Serendipity Floral Frame die 022RD, Copic markers, Spellbinders matting basics A & B, Labels 28 dies, bleach, tiny acrylic paintbrush, dye reinkers, black embossing powder

     

     


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