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It’s my pleasure to host the first Inspiration Challenge of June (IC757)! And such an inspiring site we have w/ Design Pool & their Pinterest Boards. THIS is the picture that inspired my card. 

I have a card today w/ most of the fish going one way & the one fish going the other. Doesn’t seem to bother him…he’s smiling! I think that’s probably me, lol. My mom always said I have a mind of my own & growing up, in order to get me to do something, she had to make me think it was my idea. Anyway, for my scene, I stamped the background fish w/ teal ink onto some turquoise paper that had been spritzed w/ a little bleach. I added just a touch of color to the fish. The main character was was stamped on white & fussy cut. I added a little stickles to him & to the stamped bubbles. The porthole was die cut (yay! I found a die that fit!). On the teal bg, I embossed it w/ a wave folder & some of it cracked, revealing the white core. So I just went w/ it & sanded off some of the high points to reveal the white. 

The greeting was split w/ half on the front & the rest inside. Below it are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

Go with the Flow 1049E	3 in 1 Ocean Floor 1040H	Porthole 1039L	Bubbles 130A	School of Fish 1038E
Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Circle dies 5002D	RN Waves die 5202-09D
RN Nested Banner Stitch dies 5151D	Memento Inks	Stickles	We R Memory Keepers Tide embossing folders	Copic Sketch Markers

For the Color Challenge on Splitcoast (CC793) today, we have 2 blues & a red. Perfect colors for a Patriotic card! 

I’m using a new soldiers silhouette image. I know these will look great as a dark silhouette, but I wanted to see how they’d look if I used another (inked) image to ink them. It’s an old technique called “stamp kissing“. I used the stars & stripes border to ink the silhouettes (I put them in my Misti so I could do it more than once). I like how they turned out..as if they’re draped in the stars & stripes. I separated the greeting, above & below, & used the same inks to stamp them. The piece down the side is a piece of sticky back paper w/ red, white & blue narrow strips stuck to it. The lower section has stars stamped w/ white. Just to add a little something extra, I also punched some stars & added them to the soldiers & also a couple on the bg.

On the inside I stamped the stars & stripe border onto a sort of triangular piece & added it down the left side.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

Silhouette Soldiers 1032M	USA Thanks to Our Brave 766G	Stars & Stripes Border 938P	Let Freedom Ring 802D	Starry Bg 124H
Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	MISTI	Memento Inks
Fiskar’s Star punch	Colorbox Pigment Ink

Congrats to Teresa, the newest Featured Stamper (FS691)! She has lovely gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I kept the framed floral w/ greeting underneath, but I used different images, changed the oval layers to rectangular, & made mine a sympathy card.

For my sympathy card, I’m using these lovely calla lilies & a stained glass oval on top.  The lily & frame are all one image, but I didn’t want the stained glass on top of the word frame, so I did them separately. I could have just left off the word framing, but I like how the big sympathy greeting echos the word frame. I die cut the white frame & inside rectangle first, then stamped the 2 parts of the lily & added a green frame. After coloring the lily, I stamped the stained glass on top w/ the gray ink & added just a hint of color here & there. I also added just a bit of color to the large greeting.

Here are the Copics I used:

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

Calla Lily Sympathy 587L	Deco Deepest Sympathy 973F	Stained Glass Oval 199P	Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock
RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Rectangle dies 5003D	Copic Sketch Markers	Memento Inks	MISTI