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  • ODBD December Recap

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    BEST OF 2013!

    Today we are taking a look back at Our Daily Bread designs December Release. Don’t you love these fabulous frames and matching dies? And there are so many wonderful greetings for so many occasions.

    For my colorful card, I decided to use the corner image to make a sort of kaleidoscope type design. I used a stamp positioner to make the central 4 square image and to match it up on the corners.I colored everything with Copics and die cut w/ a large square. I used the beautiful corner dies in blue to frame the square and the insides were trimmed off and used to frame the sentiment. A black micron pen was used to make the little dots around the design. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50 and these are the Copics I used.Birthday Kaleidascope copics 02461

    Thanks so much for stopping by! Merry Christmas!
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    Supplies:

    Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Ornate Borders & Flowers, Ornate Frames Sentiments
    Paper: Neenah white, brilliant blue
    Ink:  Memento Tuxedo blcak
    Accessories:  ODBD Ornate Borders & Flowers dies & ODBD Decorative Corner dies, Copic markers, Spellbinders square die, black micron pen

     

     

     

     


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  • Serendipity SSCB #26 -Chalk

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    Julie Warner – https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com
    Weekly-FavoriteWelcome to a new challenge for  Serendipity Stamps! The Serendipity Challenge this week is Chalk.

    I will admit..it’s been a long time since I’ve used my chalks or chalk pencils. On top of that, I have a bit of bronchitis and the chalk dust really gave me coughing fits, lol. Anyway, I stamped the lovely wine image, masked it and rubbed and scribbled pink and purple chalks over the background, After I removed the mask, I used the chalk and chalk pencils to add color to the image. I then used an eraser to remove color in areas for highlights. Since it’s hard to do really detailed shading with chalk, I had decided in the beginning I would go for an Impressionistic type still life look. The coughing got to be too much with the chalk dust and the colors still didn’t look shaded enough, so I took out my Prismacolor pencils and added more shading. It was starting to look a little better, but I still wasn’t happy with it.

    Julie Warner – https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com
    It’s funny where inspiration comes from, but as I was pondering what to do next, I noticed an animated short film on tv. The style was very cartoonish but I started looking at the backgrounds in the scenes. They were very mottled and had these cross hatch markings all over it and I really liked the way they looked. So I took a white Prismacolor pencil and did the scratchy bg on the top. I also used the Ink Spots image to add a little something something along the shaded edges. The framed image was so large, I had no place to put the greeting except over the image, so I added it with the Versafine onyx ink.

    Thanks so much for stopping by! Please stop by and visit all of the Design Team blogs! You’ll  be amazed!
    Jeanne Jachna
    Marybeth Lopez
    Miriam Napier
    Pauline Pollington
    Jenny Gropp
    Vickie Zimmer
    Julie Warner     – you are here!
    Karen Amidon
    Anya Schrier

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    Supplies:

    Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Wine & Cheese, Everyday Words set, Ink Spots
    Paper: Neenah white, dk blue violet
    Ink:  Memento tuxedo black & lulu lavender, Versafine onyx
    Accessories: Spellbinders labels 8 die, chalks (pastel sticks), pastel pencils, Prismacolor pencils

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  • SSCB #20 Watercolor

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

    Welcome to a new challenge for Serendipity Stamps! The Serendipity Challenge this week is Watercolor!  

    While I love to water color, I also love to make water color backgrounds…just free form swaths of color…then stamp on top of them. I love the random patterns of color I get and how they look with the images on top. A lot of times when I’m making water color backgrounds, I’ll make an extra, or two, and stash them away. This is one of those extras. I don’t even remember when I did it. It’s basically just large bands in different colors. After I decided where I wanted the image and stamped it, and added some highlights with a white gel pen.

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

    The frame was die cut with a large oval then I used a Japanese screw punch with the smallest bit I have to punch the holes all around the edge. The greeting was stamped underneath to finish my 4.25 x 5.50 card.

    Thanks so much for stopping by and be sure to check out all of the Watercolored Wonders from the Serendipity Design Team!

    Jeanne Jachna
    Marybeth Lopez
    Miriam Napier
    Pauline Pollington
    Anya Schrier –not posting this time  😥
    Jenny Gropp
    Vickie Zimmer
    Julie Warner – you are here!
    Karen Amidon 

     

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    Supplies:

    Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Vases, Thinking of You
    Paper: Neenah white, watercolor paper
    Ink:  Versafine onyx
    Accessories:  Peerless water colors, Tombow markers, white gel pen, Spellbinders lg oval die, Japanese screw punch w/ 1.5mm bit, black Permapaque marker

     


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