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| Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – 1304M Flower Pops, 1305E Flower Corner, 1303E Happy Mother’s Day. |
| Paper: X-Press It white, pink, black |
| Ink: Memento tuxedo black |
| Accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders curved border dies, stickles, Japanese screw punch, Candi dots, black Permapaque marker, dimensional silicone adhesive |
My second card features the new 1307 Mason Jar, 1306F Wildflowers and the Dandelion & Puff flowers from the 1304M Flower Pops set.
This was just a tad tricky to put the flowers in the jar and have it look “correct”. I first stamped the flowers and masked the stems before stamping the mason jar on top. I stamped just the top of the mason jar on a separate piece and after coloring everything, I cut out the 2 horizontal bands of the jar and attached them on top of the corresponding area on my base image. I added a little splatter and the greeting (469J). On the background, I stamped the 2 flowers using the grape & posy inks and I used generational stamping with these…meaning I stamped them more than once before reinking. Here are the Copics I used for this card.
| Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – 1307 Mason Jar, 1306F Wildflowers, Dandelion & Puff flowers from 1304M Flower Pops set, Everyday Small Words 469J |
| Paper: X-Press It white, dk violet |
| Ink: Memento tuxedo black, grape jelly, lilac posy |
| Accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders matting basics A & B dies, Perfect Paper Crafting mini rulers |
My third card is one I posted earlier and you will also find it HERE.
After stamping and coloring the aprons image, I used my out of the box technique to die cut it. I used more dies for the red, yellow & green layers and also an embossing folder on the red & green layers. I edged the panels with a black marker and stamped the greeting & added a die cut pair of cherries. These are the Copics I used for this.
| Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Hi There, Aprons 1308F |
| Paper: white, red, yellow, green |
| Ink: Memento tuxedo black |
| Accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders long rectangle, circles, labels 33 & fresh fruit dies, Quickutz stacking flower dies, Cuttlebug embossing folder (Swiss dots), black Permapaque marker |
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Posted in Birthday, Girly/Feminine/Mother's Day, Perfect Paper Crafting, Serendipity Stamps, Spellbinders Nestabilities, Splitcoast Challenges, Splitcoaststampers Weekly Favorite | 
Tags: Birthday, blog hop, Copic, flowers, Mother's Day, Perfect Paper Crafting, Serendipity Stamps, Spellbinders, Splitcoast, Splitcoast Weekly Favorite | 
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Today’s Ways to Use It Challenge (WT476) is Trees, since today is Arbor Day. So for my card, I have a cute pair of owls in a tree. My card is pretty simple…I started with a kraft panel, die cut a circle out and embossed it with a fine woodgrain pattern. I added two die cut chocolate brown rings around the circle. One little owl was stamped on a larger white piece & colored with Copics. I decided he needed a friend so I stamped, colored and cut out another little owl and added them both inside the circle. After I added the greeting flag, it looked sort of bare so I die cut some leaves in 2 colors of green and added them
Thanks so much for stopping by! If you haven’t yet, please check out the DRS Thursday Challenge. This week,Tag You’re It! Use or make a tag. DRS images are not required, so head on over and link up your creation!
Supplies:
| Stamps: DRS Designs –Oswald the Owl, Whooo’s Special |
| Ink: Memento tuxedo black |
| Paper: white, kraft, chocolate brown, olive green, grass green |
| Accessories: Copic markers (several browns), Sizzix leafy branch die, Spellbinders circle dies, Woodgrain embossing folder (Paper Crafts) |
What a super color combo for today’s Color Challenge (CC475) on Splitcoast! Love these bright, high contrast colors! The red & orange remind me of poppies, so that’s the direction I went. I spent most of my time fiddling with background…the rest was quick & easy.
On the background, I started by using a large water color brush and a couple of red & orange reinkers. I also splattered a bit using the brush. Then I took a couple of stencils and sponged on some real red thru the stencils. I die cut the poppies & the little squares out of this. The greeting was stamped in a combo of the two blue inks. I don’t have any little enamel dots, but I did find these sort of metallic ones. They weren’t quite blue enough, so I added a little more blue w/ a Copic marker.
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Supplies:
| Stamps: North Coast Creations – Floral Sentiments 3 |
| Paper: water color, white linen, pacific blue |
| Ink: Memento bahama blue, teal zeal, real red |
| Accessories: blue Copic marker, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies, metal dots, IO die (for tiny squares), red & orange reindeers, Perfect Paper Crafting mini rulers |
