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Archive for March, 2016

Today’s Sketch Challenge (SC586) has sort of a grid layout. I thought this paint chip down the side was a good representation of the divided side panels.

This is a very quick card…I already had the white panel that the circle cut out of it so I stamped, colored & fussy cut the dogwoods to add in the opening. It’s backed w/ a chocolate panel that all I had to do was trim the length. The greeting was added in Versafine sepia ink & I used a bracket border die for the paint chip. 

Here are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Supplies:

Dogwood 1092H	Spring is Coming 731G	X-Press It Blending Card	Staples 110# white card stock
MISTI	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	Spellbinders Lg Circles S4-114	Spellbinders A2 Bracket Borders 1 S5-181
The Paper Cut Layering Swatches	Memento Inks	Copic Sketch Markers	VersaFine Small Inkpads

Today’s CAS Challenge (CAS370) is Going in Circles. Plenty of circles on these cute toadstools & I added a circle element on top w/ the toadstool house image.

I just love coloring these toadstools! I stamped them across the front of my panel, colored them then die cut. The greeting was split so it would better fit on the panel & I added the die cut circle element w/ a die cut flowery petal thingy behind it. Basically just coloring…nothing fancy.

Here are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Toadstool 405F	Toadally Wonderful 455E	Mushroom House 019C	X-Press It Blending Card	Staples 110# white card stock
MISTI	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B	Spellbinders Lg Circles S4-114	Spellbinders Sm. Circles S4-116
Memory Box Seville Buckle 98217	Recollections Cardstock	Memento Inks	Copic Sketch Markers	VersaFine Small Inkpads

Happy Easter!

And a  big congrats to Jenn, the newest Featured Stamper (FS477) on Splitcoast! She has such a wonderful, colorful gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I really liked the color combo so I kept that (though mine ended up more purple than violet, lol), but I changed the snowflakes into stars & made my own background since I couldn’t find the dp she used. 

To make my background, I sponged the violet ink from the bottom up & the pistachio ink from the top down onto a piece of white card stock.  Water drops from a water brush were splattered across the panel to make pale circles. Then I used a dot stencil and a white marker to add whiter dots & I also used a dry marker I touched to the surface of the 2 ink pads to make darker small dots. For the bigger dots I used a pencil eraser touched to the ink pads & also a white pigment ink pad. I also used the tiny star image stamped here & there w/ the violet & pistachio inks.
The finished bg was die cut twice & I turned the larger, outer layer around & put it back around the main panel. Then I added all the die cut & sponged star frames. The greeting was stamped w/ the Versafine purple ink, die cut & the edges sponged. 

Here’s a look at the inside. I used the panel I cut the star frames from, sponged it as I did the front. 
Congrats again, Jenn! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Shine On	Double Stitched Stars dies CBD128	Sparkling Stars dies CBD79	Flourished Star Pattern dies CBD75	Double Stitched Rectangles dies CBD123
Circles dies CBD142	Rectangles dies CBD122	Staples 110# white card stock	Colorbox Pigment Ink	Distress Inks
VersaFine Inkpads	Memory Box Tiny Dots stencil 88589	Niji Waterbrush	Permapaque markers