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Archive for June, 2012

This is a little Sneaky Peek of some fabulous new images to be released on tomorrow morning’s ODBD Release! I made this for the Splitcoast Featured Stamper this week (FS282), Loll Thompson! Congrats to Loll! What a fab gallery! I chose her Sail the Ocean Blue card to case. I kept the ship at sea theme,  the general layout and red, white & blue theme, but I had to change the card format to fit my image and added a couple more layers. I used different images, papers and made a band w/ punched out stars in place of the twine.

After stamping the ship image, I sponged on some different blue inks and added just a touch of red to a few areas. The compass rose was stamped on the navy background w/ indigo ink and on the little side pieces of the sentiment w/ fired brick ink.  The horizontal band was assembled with leftover strips and I punched the white band w/ a small star punch. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25.

I hope you’ll stop back by to view all the fabulous art the team has put together with the gorgeous new sets and you’ll also be eligible to win some fantastic prizes.

See you tomorrow!

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This is something I haven’t done in a long while…combine 3 Splitcoast Challenges! WT380 (use a window or door), F4A122 (piercing), and IC342! I have a window on my white plank house, I added some piercing on the banner and sentiment and my inspiration is This cute picture w/ the house and trees.

The images are from Our Daily Bread designs. I used a Cheery Lynn window die and a doily lace border punch for the the window. I added a little punched teacup just for fun. The white plank house was done with a plastic frosting embossing sheet I found in the baking section of my local craft store. It’s only one piece of clear plastic, but if you use a tan embossing mat under the card stock, it works just like an embossing folder. I used a lt sand marker in the recessed areas. The grassy border was stamped at the bottom and I added some teeny tiny little punched flowers and attached the die cut tree and fussy cut picnic basket. I sponged on some green and brown inks onto the tree.  The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50.

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Best of 2012 –SPLITCOASTSTAMPERS!

Happy Thursday!
I hope your week has gone well. For today’s Ways to Use It Challenge (WT380), we are to use a door or window. I think my gate counts as a door. Hope so!

Poor Leonard! Do you think his muddy little friend is embarrassing him? This is one of those cards that started out much differently but took a left turn somewhere. And then it just kept going…and going… It seems like I must have used 57 different stamps on this, lol.

The images are all from DRS Designs. The fence is made up of 3 different fences that I stamped, cut out and pieced together. Leonard with the billboard was stamped a couple of times and I cut out his hooves and nose of the second one to add on top of my stretched sign. I did have to use a stamp positioner to rearrange the greeting a little. The card is 5.50 x 4.25.

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