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Circle Flowers

Posted on June 6, 2015 11:30 AM by Julie 2 Comments

The Inspiration Challenge (IC496) today on Splitcoast is a Pinterest board w/ all manner of wreaths. I was inspired by THIS wreath with its colorful circles of flowers. I was also inspired by This card I saw on Pinterest..I thought the circle flowers were really cute.

I picked some different colors of card stock and punched out all the circles in different sizes. I think the largest is 1 1/2″ and the smallest is 1/2″. I could have used circle dies, but my trusty old punches were feeling neglected. The leaf is also a punch and the stems were made by just trimming some strips.

When I attached all the circles, I purposely had the centers a little wonky…I thought it just added character. The white background was embossed with a honeycomb pattern and I only used a portion of the Wordy Birthday Greeting. I love that greeting because you can pick & choose what parts you want to use (if you don’t want the whole thing) and the fonts are all different. I ran out of the green card stock I used for the leaves, so I used a couple of green Copics to color the edges of the largest layer.

Thanks so much for stopping by! If you haven’t, please check out the DRS Thursday Challenge..this week, Over the Top (have your greeting on top). DRS images are not required!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs –Wordy Birthday Greeting

Paper: Neenah white, butter, lemon, turquoise, teal, peach, coral

Ink: Versafine onyx

Accessories: Spellbinders ovals & fancy framed tags dies, circle punches, leaf punch, honeycomb embossing folder (Darice), green Copic markers

Ray of Sunshine

Posted on June 3, 2015 6:27 PM by Julie 3 Comments

The Sketch Challenge today on Splitcoast (SC543) was pretty challenging to me to get all those squares to fit and trim off the angle at the bottom. At least it wasn’t a tilted sketch…generally, I have a real problem handling those, lol.

For my 4 squares, I die cut 4 squares, left the die in place, stamped the smiley sun faces, used a reverse mask & sponged the yellow & oranges onto the suns. I used yellow & orange Copics to carefully color in the rays & edges of the squares, then attached them to ODBD lacey squares die cut out of turquoise. The white layer was die cut w/ a curved border. I used a lacy curved border to cut another edge along w/ a matching on in turquoise then attached them under the original cut edge. On the marigold layer, I partially embossed the Sunburst bg die then attached it all to a turquoise layer. The greeting was added on top of where the circle area is in the Sunburst bg.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Hello Sunshine, Sunshine Blessings

Paper: Neenah white, marigold, turquoise

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, bahama blue, Kaleidacolor melon melody (yellows & oranges only)

Accessories: ODBD Sunburst Background, Flourished Star Pattern, Layered Lacey Squares dies Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, circles, squares, lacey circles, curved borders dies, Copic markers, small circle punches

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Saddle Up Sunset

Posted on June 2, 2015 6:41 PM by Julie 2 Comments

The Color Challenge on Splitcoast (CC533) is gray, cantaloupe & coral. I wasn’t sure how well they would work for me, but I think they’re growing on me. I think the main problem is I have so little gray card stock and most of it is a warm gray. I did find a piece of cool gray (I much prefer it) so I was in business! Then I just had to create the other colors with a combo of distress inks.

Since I wasn’t doing a floral, the cantaloupe & coral colors seemed like a perfect sunset combo. The big oval was one I had laying around, so I found the big die I used to cut it, put it back in the die & sponged on the colors. After I stamped the silhouette horse with the worn lipstick, I added just a touch of shading w/ a lt rouge Copic & a few stamped stars at the top. I also sponged a small panel w/ the lipstick, marigold, persimmon & some weathered wood at the top then stamped the cowboy garb & fussy cut them. I stamped this again on white & paper pieced the sponged hat & boot on top. I used a frame embossing folder on the large white bg & a stamped fence I also fussy cut.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs –Cowboy Garb, Saddle Up Greetin, Picket Fence, Starry Background

Paper: Neenah white, gray textured (Recollections)

Ink: Versafine onyx, Distress Inks worn lipstick, dried marigold, ripe persimmon, weathered wood

Accessories: Copic markers, Cuttlebug embossing folder (Grace’s Frame), Spellbinders petite ovals, A2 matting basics A & B dies

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