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Serendipity SSCB#40 – All You Need is Love!

Posted on February 4, 2015 12:00 AM by Julie 8 Comments

Welcome to the February Challenge for Serendipity Stamps! This month the challenge is All You Need is Love! You can get all the details over on the Serendipity Challenge Blog. For the Design Team, we have the added challenge of non-traditional colors for a guy. The sale this week is a 40% Off Coupon. 40% Off the highest priced item in cart when you use the code “40fromhigh215” Expires 2/11 and as always, we have a have a gift certificate up for grabs to a random player.

I’ll admit…I was stumped for a while trying to figure out the non-traditional part for a guy. Then I remembered I had this wonderful Marble Feathers Background and I thought if I brayered a background w/ a non-traditional rainbow of colors then stamped it on top, it might just work. After I did that, I die cut the large rectangle then the large Heart out of it. I hand cut a slightly larger heart out of black to border the marbled heart.

The Love was die cut twice out of white & once out of black to shadow it, then the 2 white die cuts stacked on top for dimension before the black cut was added a little lower. The U and arrow were done the same way (except reversed colors) and added below the heart.

Here’s a little look at the inside. I used some of the left over marbled background and the Mini Scroll Heart die.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Kara Vrabel

Karen Amidon
Marybeth Lopez
Miriam Napier
Vickie Zimmer
Jeanne Jachna
Jenny Gropp
Julie Warner (you are here)

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Marble Feathers Background 753L, Happy Valentine’s Day II 688C

Paper: white, black

Ink: Versafine onyx, Kaleidacolor Baby Powder

Accessories: Serendipity Mini Scroll Heart, Solid Heart & Love dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, Font One uppercase alphabet & Shoot (arrow) dies, brayer

Never Stop Dancing

Posted on February 3, 2015 6:36 PM by Julie 1 Comment

I’m back with another card for the Color Challenge (CC516) and this time I’m also combining it with the Technique Challenge (TLC519) to put the sentiment “down under”. For the dessert option on the Color Challenge, it was to use vellum. I actually have two different vellums on mine..the one covering the dp is a white w/ melon mambo pink dots all over it. I also have a plain white vellum strip with the bird and music stamped on it. I colored it on the backside and pierced all around the edges.

The dp behind the pink dotted vellum is only black & white but I added a little light pink to some areas. The layers were all die cut then I cut a curved separation at the bottom in order to stamp the greeting on the bottom layer of dk pink dp. I added some sequins and a few gems for sparkle.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Music Speaks

Paper: white, dp (dk pink =Basic Grey -Kneehighs, black/white print – Glitz), pink dot vellum, white vellum

Ink: Stazon black

Accessories: Spellbinders A2 matting basics A&B, Copic markers, sequins, pink gems

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Full Gauge Valentine

Posted on February 3, 2015 11:00 AM by Julie Comment

The Color Challenge(CC516) on Splitcoast today is Pink, White & Melon. I don’t have those exact colors, but I did have a sprayed, stenciled & sponged background leftover with a mix of colors that I hope comes close enough. The pieces you see are what I had left from a long ago project.

The square cut outs down the side were already there (from an IO border die). I used a couple of stencils on my background then sprayed and sponged through the stencils. The gauge was die cut with a circle then the bottom section cut off and used on the right of the greeting w/ a little flower on top. I tell you, not much goes to waste on my craft desk.

The white background was embossed with some tiny little hearts and the heart on the gauge was paper pieced from a tiny section of the background. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50.

Thanks so much for stopping by! If you haven’t yet, you still have a few days to enter the DRS Thursday Challenge. This week, So Shapely! Just use 2 different shapes…that’s it! DRS images are not required and there’s a nice prize up for grabs.

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs- –Valentine’s Full of Love Greeting, Love Meter

Paper: Neenah white, water color

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Kaleidacolor desert heat

Accessories: Impression Obsession Sq. Cutout die #172-1, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, labels 28, circle dies, Cuttlebug embossing folder (Love Language combo), Prima flower, rhinestone brad, Heidi Swapp shine sprays, stencils, SU ticket corner punch