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Dance in the Puddles

Posted on February 20, 2018 11:25 PM by Julie 1 Comment

Today’s Color Challenge (CC675) is a denim blue, lime green & purply fig color. Love the first 2..not so crazy about the last one. This was my solution to using these colors together.

Though there’s not much to this card, it gave me trouble from start to finish. Sigh…one of those days. After I used the distress inks to sponge the bg, I used my Misti to stamp these silhouette wellies & umbrella. That was a chore all in itself. I tried a bunch of different inks & colors but the black chalk ink looked the best w/ this bg. I still had to add a few of the lines back in w/ a white gel pen. And a little color was added w/ a green & a pink marker.

Then I proceeded to somehow get ink in places I didn’t mean to but thankfully, it was covered up by the placement of the images. Here’s a look at the inside.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Sparkle N Sprinkle – Spring Swirl 425 (inside – DRS Designs- Sunny Birthday)

Paper: Staples 110# white

Ink: Versamagic midnight black chalk ink, Distress inks twisted citron, shabby shutters, tumbled glass, stormy sky, milled lavender, seedless preserves, Versafine onyx, Memento flannel gray

Accessories: Tombow markers, Lil’ Inker stitched rectangle dies, MFT stitched flags dies

Sparkle N Sprinkle Spring Swirl 425	Sunny Day Birthday Greeting 592G	Memento Inks	Distress Inks	Versamagic chalk ink
Staples 110# White Card Stock	Lil’ Inker Stitched Rectangles Die Set	MFT Stitched Fishtail Flags	Tombow Markers	MISTI

Stained Glass Easter

Posted on February 19, 2018 10:44 AM by Julie 2 Comments

Today’s Technique Challenge (TLC678) & Clean & Simple (CAS469) are both about backgrounds. The TLC wanted us to make a stained glass bg & I totally cheated on this one. I promise, if I have time, I’ll come back & do it right. 😉

I put the Stained Glass Oval image into my Misti then stamped the image w/ Memento desert sand. I knew I wanted to gold emboss it but since I also wanted to color it w/ Copics & the two don’t play well together, so it was stamped first w/ an ink color that would allow me to see the lines but also disappear when embossed.

After coloring it, I over stamped it w/ gold pigment ink then heat embossed it w/ gold powder. I die cut a piece of lilac card stock & a larger piece of sage green then cut the ovals out of the centers. The Happy Easter Cross was stamped, colored & I cut around the top to let more of the stained glass show through then attached it behind the oval frames & then on top of the stained glass background.

Here are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs – Oval Stained Glass, Happy Easter Cross

Paper: Staples 110# white, pale lilac, pale sage

Ink: Encore ultimate metallic gold, Memento tuxedo black, desert sand

Accessories: Misti, Spellbinders pierced rectangles, pierced ovals, classic oval dies, sequins

Copic Sketch Markers	Oval Stained Glass – 199P	Happy Easter Cross – 705F	Memento Inks	Staples 110# white card stock
MISTI	Spellbinders Pierced Rectangles Dies	Spellbinders Pierced Ovals Dies SCD-007	Spellbinders Classic Ovals Lg.S4-110	Ultimate Metallic Gold Ink
Recollections Cardstock	Sequins

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Silk Snowflake

Posted on February 5, 2018 10:49 PM by Julie 1 Comment

When I saw the technique challenge on Splitcoast (TLC676) was a fancy fold, the first thing I thought was “it’s gonna be trouble”. I was right. But at least I had resigned myself to that fact going in. And it was really only trouble for a few reasons…

1. I also decided I HAD to give the Gilded Faux Silk another try (first time was horrible). It made the sliding top really stiff & hard to fold.
2. My measurements were a little different so I had to reverse engineer it. Sheesh! Will I never learn?
3. I keep getting sucked into the bottomless pit of hubby’s plumbing reconfigurations. Not only has he acquired every plumbing tool known to man, he also constantly borrows MY crafting tools. Apparently, my tools are better than his tools, lol. And I have to help him reengineer the problem. (He’s NOT a plumber..he’s not even particularly mechanically inclined, lol.)

So..the gilded faux silk turned out better this time, probably because I needed snowflakes & blue & that looks good together. The fold finally cooperated. But then a fourth problem..silver & fancy folds are very HARD to photograph. It is what it is & here it is.

And here’s a look at the inside. I went simple since the front was an engineering feat!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs –Blizzard of Thanks, Interlocking Snow, Snow Bg, Med. Filigree Snowflake (inside:Brush Thank You )

Paper: Staples 110# white, lt blue, cobalt blue, metallic silver

Ink: Kaliedacolor blue breeze, Distress ink blueprint sketch, chipped sapphire, Encore ultimate metallic silver, Versamark, Versafine majestic blue

Accessories: Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, exquisite circles, snowflakes, circles dies, Reverse Confetti squared off tag topper die, ODBD double stitched circle, snowflakes dies, silver embossing powder

Blizzard of Thanks 545F	Interlocking Snow 015H	Snow Bg 187H	Med. Filigree Snowflake 673F
Brush Thank You 1095H	Distress Inks	VersaFine Small Inkpads	Ultimate Metallic Ink
Kaliedacolor ink pads	Detail Silver Embossing Powder	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Recollections Cardstock
Spellbinders Exquisite Circles S4-384	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132	Spellbinders Lg Circles S4-114
Double Stitched Circles Dies	Snowflakes dies	Spellbinders Snowflake Wonder S4-085	Reverse Confetti Squared Off Tag Topper dies

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