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Archive for January, 2016

A big Congrats to Kathy, the newest Featured Stamper on Splitcoast! She has such a fun, cute gallery & I chose THIS to case. I kept the Easter theme and most of the colors, but I used different images, put my image inside the circle instead of next to it & used an embossing folder instead of designer paper.

Since I don’t really have any cute little kid images, I used this sassy kitty image & paired her with a pair of fun bunny ears. After coloring, I fussy cut the kitty & ears and put her in a circular window opening w/ some textured blue paper behind her. The greeting is a combo of a couple of different ones & I used a stamp positioner to split it up in order to fit the panel. The larger white panel was embossed w/ a lattice like folder & a larger pink panel was added before attaching to the card front.

Here are the Copics I used.

Congrats again, Kathy! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

My card today is a combo of the Clean & Simple (CAS361), Color (CC567), and Sketch (SC577) Challenges. The CAS is to make a sweet treat, the colors are mint, strawberry & espresso & my version of the sketch is a little morphed. Instead of the straight band mine is a curved banner & I had to move the greeting underneath.

So I stamped, colored & cut out the cupcake (my panel 3) & added some stickles to the icing. The white bg (my panel 2) was dry embossed & I had a big heart punch that fit inside the heart centerpiece almost exactly (my panel 5), so I sponged on green ink & put it behind the cupcake. The banner (my panel 4) was die cut & stamped using the pistachio & worn lipstick inks & I did remove a couple of the flags to make it shorter.  The larger layer (my panel 1)is actually just a frame that was sitting there, so I embossed it w/ frame folder & sponged the green ink over the top of it.

These are the Copics I used to color the cupcake
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Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Today’s Color Challenge (CC567) has some pretty colors & the dessert option is a Valentine. Since the colors are strawberry, mint & espresso, I couldn’t get the “espresso” out of my head so coffee was the way I went w/ my card.

I put some X-Press It c/s into my Misti, stamped the coffee cups first w/ Memento, colored w/ Copics then overstamped w/ Versafine & cut them out. I did the same to the little hearts & the greeting. I just happened to already have the crochet looking heart already die cut as well as the white topper w/ the stitched circle cut out. Love it when stuff I have laying around fits in so nicely! I added the mint polka dot dp & pretty much done.

Here’s a look at the inside. I left it blank for now. I’ll add a greeting inside later. Below it are the Copics I used.


Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

You Warm My Heart NCC80	Ornate Hearts dies CBD53	What’s Brewin’? NCC81	Double Stitched Rectangles dies CBD123	Flourished Star Pattern dies CBD75
Double Stitched Circles dies CBD136	Vintage Label dies CBD55	Copic Sketch Markers	MISTI	Memento Inks
VersaFine Inkpads	Pink Paislee –Hello Sunshine	X-Press It Blending Card