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The Splitcoast Inspiration Challenge (IC707) is a fabric site full of colors & patterns. I was inspired by THIS fabric for the bright colors. From the thumbnail, it looked floral to me so that’s the direction I went.

Instead of embossing resist, I did the reverse on my background. I sponged on the Distress inks, dried it w/ a heat gun then used my embossing buddy over to make sure it was really dry. (It probably would have been easier to emboss, then sponge, but sometimes it’s hard to get all of ink off of the embossing & I wanted it to be really crisp & white.) Then the azaleas were white embossed on top. The white front was die cut twice w/ a stitched curve die to make the split thru the center. After adding the greeting, I die cut some tiny flowers out of leftover background pieces & attached them.

Here’s a look at the inside. The azalea image is a 2 part stamp & while I only used the outline on the front, I used both here on the inside. There’s also a matching die for it, if you’re interested. 

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Supplies:

 

RN Azalea Sunrise 1014	RN Altogether Wonderful 1050-03	RN Happy Birthday 3031	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Borders 3 dies 5160-03D
RN Rectangle Stitch Frame dies 5122D	RN Sm Flowers #2 die 5210-05D	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Versafine Clair ink	Distress Inks
Colorbox Pigment Ink	Ranger Embossing Powder

It’s my turn & my pleasure to host the Splitcoast Featured Stamper Challenge (FS645). So a big congrats to Michelle! She has a lovely gallery & after browsing her entire gallery, I kept coming back to THIS. I kept the Hot Air Balloon theme & layout, but I used dies instead of a stamp, different colors & a shaving cream bg instead of a watercolor bg.
 My version is pretty simple..I sponged a white piece of c/s w/ yellow & orange Distress inks, then die cut one of just the yellow for the outline & the inserts out of the red/orange part. The greeting was white embossed on black & the sky circle is a remnant piece of  shaving cream bg.

Here’s the inside. I used the negatives of the balloon & clouds as a stencil to sponge thru them.

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Supplies:

 

RN Brush Butterflies 3018	RN Cloud die set 5147-02D	RN Hot Air Balloon die 5209-02D	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Nested Banner Stitch dies 5151D
Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	Distress Inks	Colorbox Pigment Ink	Ranger Embossing Powder
Sequins

For the Splitcoast Inspiration Challenge (IC706), we have fun site of little felted animals. After much browsing, I chose THIS for my inspiration. It seems I don’t have any llama (or sheep or fox) images so I made mine all pigs.

I used Leonard & his cool gang instead of llamas. They look kind of like a DooWop group..all in step. big Billboard Leonard & all the DooWops were colored w/ Copics & fussy cut along w/ all their accessories. I had this shaving cream bg w/ the circle cut out left over from last week’s card. So I stamped some stars on top, put a white circle frame around the opening & put Leonard inside & all the DooWops across the bottom. The greeting is made of 3 different ones.

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

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

Billboard Leonard 711D	Leonard Pig 718D	4 in 1 Fashion Accessories 927D	Flakey Friends 501E	Interlocking Star Bg 819H
Miles Apart Greeting 066F	You’re So Sweet 546D	In the Accessories 155D	Memento Inks	Distress ink reinkers
Staples 110# White Card Stock	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Circle Stitch dies 5006D	RN Circle Stitch Frames dies 5120D	Copic Sketch Markers