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I made this for Joanne’s fabulous Dare to Get Dirty 2012 Challenge! Check out all the Challenge details here: DTGD12Basilefamily. For my colorful card, I started by making a background on water color paper with Peerless water colors. The colors were put down in a random, almost haphazard way and when it dried, I picked an area and stamped this wonderful Poppy image (Blockheads) with black ink. I was going to leave it w/ the background, but it didn’t stand out enough, so I ended up fussy cutting it and attaching it to a white die cut panel. After figuring out where the poppy would be, I stamped just the word “poppy” onto the white bg. The layer behind it more of the plain water color bg, then another white layer. For the final water color bg, I stamped a few of the different poppy images from the set before die cutting it. I added a bright pink bow and my 4.25 x 5.50 card was finished.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you have a chance to play in the Dare to Get Dirty Challenges this week. Lots of fun, inspiration, chatter and PRIZES!

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I made this card for several of the Splitcoast Dare to Get Dirty Challenges….for Anna (Sweet Miss Daisy),  Barbara (BAR) and Kittie (Kittie747). You can get all the details here: Dare to Get Dirty 2012 and take the Dare! (you know you want to, lol!)

We’d love to have you play along with us and there will be prizes!! You’ll need to be a Fan Club member but that’s easy as pie: Fan Club info.

The images are all from DRS Designs. I masked a bunch on this and did an out of the box treatment on the snowman and sign, added a die cut black layer and put them back on top of the big bg I cut them out of. The little dog (who stole the snowman’s arm) was cut out and attached on top of my 5.50 x 4.25 card.

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Have y’all checked out the opening day of the Dare to Get Dirty Challenges on Splitcoast? I made this for Lydia’s opening challenge and also for this week’s Featured Stamper (FS286), Monika! It was hard to narrow it down to one, but I finally picked her Happy I Do Day . I kept the general layout and lots of white with the butterflies, but I changed the embossing folder and sentiment.

The sentiment is from Our Daily Bread designs. I stamped it in charcoal chalk ink and used the ODBD Eternity label die (by Spellbinders) to die cut it. On the larger label, I embossed images from the Eternity set w/ a clear sparkly embossing powder before die cutting it. The butterfly was embossed w/ the same powder onto vellum before die cutting it and the plain white layer w/ the ODBD custom butterfly die.

After using an embossing folder on the background, I traced a few of the lines w/ a VersaMark pen then heat embossed it. I added some white enamel accents around the sentiment frame and on the raised dots of the background. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50.

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