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Red Birthday Flowers

June 24th, 2017 |

Author: Julie

It’s my turn to host the Splitcoaststampers Featured Stamper Challenge so a big congrats to AJ Bodine (aka rutabagapie)! Her gallery is full of beautifully colored images & fun designs. After much browsing, I chose THIS to case. I liked the image running over onto the circular frame & the flower theme so I kept those, but I used different images, different colors & I used a die cut for the greeting instead of stamping it.

I’ve had this image for awhile & I’ve been wanting to get it out & use it. So today is the day! After coloring, I smoothed out the blends a little using Prismacolor pencils then I die cut it a couple of times w/ 2 sizes of large ovals. I didn’t have a pierced oval that large so I did it the old fashioned way…w/ the SU piercing set. The outer frame is actually popped up just a bit from the rest of the image. Due to the size of the image, there wasn’t a lot of room left for a greeting but I had a die cut that fit in pretty well. I double stacked it, black on white to give it a little depth.

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

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend!

Supplies:

Stamps: Art Gone Wild – Cup & Vine (inside – DRS Designs –Birthday Wishes, Magenta – Stenciled Flower)

Paper: Staples #110 white, X-Press It, black, dp (Pebbles -Home for Christmas)

Ink: Memento tuxedo black

Accessories: Copic markers, Prismacolor pencils, Spellbinders A2 matting basics B, petite ovals lg, grand ovals dies, Sizzix , SU piercing mat set

Cup & Vine AGC2-2762	Magenta Stenciled Flower 28031H	Birthday Wishes 778F	Sizzix Happy Drop Ins 660721
Copic Sketch Markers	Prismacolor Pencils	Memento Inks	MISTI
X-Press It Blending Card	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Recollections Cardstock	Pebbles Home for Christmas
Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132	Spellbinders Lg. Petite Ovals S4-138	Spellbinders Grand Ovals LF-110	SU Piercing Mat set

Posted in Art Gone Wild, Birthday, DRS Designs, Magenta, Prismacolor Pencils, Spellbinders Nestabilities, Splitcoast Challenges, Splitcoaststampers Weekly Favorite |

Tags: Art Gone Wild, Birthday, Copic, DRS Designs, flowers, Magenta, Misti, Prismacolor Pencils, Spellbinders, Splitcoast, Splitcoast Weekly Favorite |

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Inspired by…

September 30th, 2014 |

Author: Julie

Inspired by……

Good Morning!

A couple of weeks ago, my dear friend and fabulously talented paper crafting artist, Kittie Caracciolo honored me on her blog as an artist she is inspired by! I was so thrilled and honored by her post!

Kittie is well known in crafting circles and on Splitcoast Stampers. She joined Splitcoast in 2004 and was inducted into the Dirty Dozen in 2007. We first became friends through the challenges on Splitcoast shortly after I joined in 2007 and I’ve always been inspired by her fabulous style and genuinely sweet personality. Kittie is a wonderful water colorist and ultra talented dimensional paper artist. She serves on the Impression Obsession design team and is a new member of the Splitcoast Featured Stamper Challenge hostesses. If you’ve never visited her blog, KittieKraft, pull up a chair and prepare to be amazed.

Along with this honor, Kittie asked that I answer a few questions and share a couple other artists who inspire me.

Here are the questions!

1. What am I working on?

Even when I’m not working on a release or a challenge (I love the challenges!), I’m always working things out in my head. Right now, I’m preparing for the Our Daily Bread designs release tomorrow and also a new release for DRS Designs. That means new Thanksgiving & Christmas images/dies! I also serve on the design teams for Serendipity Stamps, North Coast Creations and as one of the Hostesses for the Splitcoast Featured Stamper Challenge on Sundays.

2. How does my work differ from others of its genre?

That’s a really tough question…I’m not sure it does. Friends tell me they recognize my cards before they even see the closeup but at the same time, they’re never sure what to expect… that’s it’s different every time. I love working with a lot of styles of images & I love to make my own backgrounds. My three biggies when designing are color, composition and construction. The main one being color. I adore color and especially contrasts. Most of the time I rely on my coloring skills to carry the card. And I love to try different techniques.

Here are some of my favorites from over the years (click on any picture to make it larger or go to original post info):

3. Why do I create what I do?

I feel driven to create and since I’m just a bit impatient, I love the almost instant gratification of creating cards..my mini artworks. I started out in water color but that grew to include a lot of other mediums. As long as I’m able to color, the method or medium doesn’t really matter. Creating for me is fulfilling, frustrating (when it doesn’t work as planned), and always gives me a sense of accomplishment when the project is finished.

4. How does your creative process work?

Usually with something I see. It could be a magazine picture or one on the internet..or a card that has a technique that I want to try. A lot of times I look at an image I want to work with and an idea or finished design will appear in my head. Sometimes it works out just as I envisioned, but most of the time it morphs and evolves as I work on it. If I get stuck, I work on backgrounds. I find they usually get me going and sooner or later, I’ll pull one out and it will be perfect for what I need at that time. I never throw things out, lol. Even if I’m not crazy about it as a whole, parts or pieces of it will usually end up in another project.

And now I get to nominate a couple of lovely ladies who are not only friends, but always so inspiring to me!

Karen Dunbrook – Snippets

I first met Karen when we were on the Innovative Stamp Creations design team in 2009 and our friendship continues through Splitcoast. Karen is always a favorite in the Splitcoast Challenges…her remarkable CAS (clean & simple) style is easily recognized. Karen currently does design work for Penny Black and is a regular in the SCS Challenges. From conversations/emails I know Karen has a super busy life as a caregiver for a group of little ones which doesn’t leave her a lot of extra time. If you haven’t, check out her blog Snippets and her SCS Gallery. You’ll be floored by her beautiful creations!

Jenny Gropp – One Krafty Kat

Jenny & I first met around 2010 or 2011 (in real life, yay!). There are a group of us in the Atlanta area and we usually get together a couple of times during the year. Recently, we all went to the CHA Hobby Show in July. Jenny and I are on the Serendipity Stamps design team and we were also on the Outlines Rubber Stamps design team. Jenny is a super talented Copic colorist and super sweet lady. She also serves on the design teams for Impression Obsession, Perfect Paper Crafting and Impressive Ideas (a stamp store where she teaches classes and handles the purchasing). If you haven’t, check out her blog One Krafty Kat and you will be amazed at her creativity!

Thank you so much for stopping by! I hope you’ve enjoyed this post and you’ll be inspired to check out the blogs of Kittie, Karen & Jenny!

Posted in Birthday, Brayered Background, Bugs/Butterflies/Dragonflies/Ladybugs/Bees, CAS, Cheery Lynn Dies, Christmas/Holiday/Winter, Cuttlebug/Quickutz/Sizzix, Deadbeat Designs, Deep Red Stamps, Divinity Designs/Our Daily Bread designs, DRS Designs, Embossing/Dry or Heat, Fall/Halloween/Thanksgiving, Get Well, Girly/Feminine/Mother's Day, Glitter, Innovative Stamp Creations, JustRite, Magenta, Masculine/Father's Day, Masking-Reverse Masking, Mike's $, North Coast Creations, Outlines Rubber Stamp Co, Pictures, Prismacolor Pencils, Recollections, Recyled, Scenes/Landscapes, Serendipity Stamps, Sparkle N Sprinkle, Spellbinders Nestabilities, Splitcoast Challenges, Sponging, Stampendous, Stamps on Fire, Stampscapes, Studio G, Sweet Stamps |

Tags: Birthday, brayer, Christmas, Copic, Deadbeat Designs, Deep Red Stamps, Divinity Designs/Our Daily Bread designs, DRS Designs, Embossing/Dry or Heat, feminine, flowers, Get Well, Innovative Stamp Creations, Magenta, masculine, Outlines Rubber Stamp Co, Pictures, Prismacolor Pencils, punches, scenes, Serendipity Stamps, Southwest, SparkleNSprinkle, Spellbinders, Sponging, Stampendous, water color, Wedding/Anniversary, winter |

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Altered Book Pgs & a Love Letter

January 31st, 2014 |

Author: Julie

Today, I’m combining a few challenges from Splitcoast…first my card is for the Free For All (F4A206), to have LOVE somewhere on your project.

For the big LOVE letters on top, I stamped the woven plaid in a couple of directions, using a couple of pink/red colors, then stamped the stacked love image on top and fussy cut the letters.

On the 4.25 x 5.50 card front, I stamped the heart background diagonally using the light pink ink. The fun mailbox is a die cut and I used a metallic silver, a metallic flecked gray and shimmery red card stock to cut it and assembled them together. On the little letter, I stamped parts of a new greeting (Hug a Nurse, You’ll Heal Better…coming soon!) and I used a stamp positioner to add the L in place of the B in Better to create the word Letter. The white scallop and narrow red frames were left overs and I stacked them and arranged the LOVE on top and the mailbox thru the frames.

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs – Stacked Love, Woven Plaid, Interlocking Heart Background

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, love letter & angel pink, Colorbox rouge & warm red chalk inks

Paper: white, shimmer red, metallic silver, metallic flecked gray

Accessories: Quickutz mailbox die, Spellbinders scallop rectangle & rectangles dies

For a couple of the following Altered Book pages, this first one is for the MIX53 challenge, Layers.

These are all pages from an altered book I made a while back for my sister’s birthday. Since we were born and raised in Texas, I chose to start with the book “Texas” by James Michener. I used quite a bit of text from it, but also a ton of pictures from magazines, especially Texas Monthly, clip art and stamps from a whole bunch of companies. I started by removing some pages and gluing other pages together for stability, then used a variety of colors of acrylic paints to base coat the pages. Then I would use a variety of ink colors and stamped images to create the backgrounds. Then the collage work started with all of the images. This is just a few of the pages…the entire book is around 45-50 double pages with all manner of pockets, fold outs, telescoping images, tags and pull outs. Some tell the history of Texas, some are on individual cities and regions of Texas..some tell about personal family history & experiences, recipes, music & some are just for fun.

I love all the fun images on this page..the only thing that always bothered me is the misspelling of “y’all” on the left page. I cut this out for the size, went ahead and used it, but it still bothers me. I guess the typist just had her contractions confused, since as every Texan knows, y’all is “you all” and the apostrophe goes after the y. And just to be clear, “y’all” is singular, “all y’all” is plural, lol.

And this page is also for the Ways to Use It (WT464), Horses as well as the Mix53.
This is a group of pages (see the angle cuts on the right?) that have a bunch of recipes and pictures of Tex-Mex food and restaurants.

This is a couple of fun stories about Texas Rangers and since we have an ancestor who was a Ranger, it was fun to include it.

Some Texas wildflowers, state bird and postage stamps.

Another page with pretty pictures but I don’t know if you can still buy a little piece of Texas as this ad says.

And here we have some Texas music! Is there anything better? I’ve been to the Kerrville Folk Festival and it was always fabulous! And just interesting to me, but one of my cousins lived down the street from one of the ZZ Top members (I won’t say which, lol) and Buddy Holly was a cousin of my dad’s (so I guess he was cousin too) and they were born on the same day, same year. How cool!