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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.

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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

For the Inspiration Challenge (IC719) on Splitcoast, we’re heading to Dormify. A fun site (especially for back to schoolers) & I was inspired by THIS poster. I really liked the orange/blue combo.

To make my beach scene, I masked off the water & sky area & sponged in some oranges for the ground/sand, added a little brown to the sides along w/ stamping a splatter image for a little texture. The mask was reversed for the water & sky & those were sponged. I used some Tombow markers to “ink” up the palm trees & stamped them on either side. Surfer boy Zeke was colored & fussy cut & the old woody was die cut. The greeting is partly another stamp combined w/ some die cut & colored letters. I added the white wavy polaroid type frame for a little separation & to make the greeting stand out.

Here is the inside & the Copics I used:

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RN Zeke 891-03	RN Woody 567-01	RN Woody die 567-01D	RN Life is a Circus 647-04	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D
RN Island Dreams 1109	RN Splatter Bg 1231	RN Alphabet Upper Case dies 5140-01D	RN Alphabet Lower Case dies 5140-02D	RN Rectangle Scallop die 5028D
RN Square Scallop die 5027D	RN Many Happies 124SO	Memento Inks	Distress Inks	Staples 110# White Card Stock
X-Press It Blending Card	Tombow Markers

Congrats to Janeen, the newest Featured Stamper (FS647) on Splitcoast! She has a lovely gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I kept the birthday/fishing theme but used different images, different dies & different colors.

For my card, I was trying out this new Camo Bg stamp. I will not lie…I had a bit of trouble at first. First couple of times, I used it too much & just made a messy looking bg. The next 5 times, I couldn’t find a color combo I liked. It was going to be like the little fisherman’s vest..but again it looked too messy so I just used a small part of it for the vest. I finally went with sort of a watery color combo then stamped the little fish on top. A little more subtle, but I like it.

The fisherman was colored w/ Copics (except for the paper pieced vest) & I split the greeting above &  below him before adding a dark charcoal layer. The camo bg was actually done on printer paper..it was one of my practice sheets but I liked it so I just glued it to the same charcoal c/s & went w/ it.

Here’s the inside (I replaced the W in Wishes w/ an F from the Pawsitively greeting) & below it are the Copics I used.

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Supplies:

 

Proud Catch Fisherman 765K	Camouflage Bg 961G	Those Who Bait 840K	Birthday Wishes 508E	Pawsitively Birthday 727F
Memento Inks	Distress Inks	Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D
RN Rectangle Stitch Frame dies 5122D	Copic Sketch Markers