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Archive for January, 2017

 
Congrats to Carolyn, the newest Featured Stamper  (FS521) on Splitcoast! She has a wonderful gallery & I really fell for THIS one. I liked the matching border & embossing folder but since I don’t have any like that, I used a different folder, different image & made mine monochromatic instead of rainbow colors.

My winter card has a white background embossed w/ a folder that has the dots on top & snowflakes below. The folder has a blank band in between the two, but it’s covered up by my image panel. The image was stamped w/ the navy blue ink onto a stitched panel & I added just strips of the dk blue card stock on top & bottom. Only the first part of the greeting was stamped on a white circle & backed w/ a dk blue stitched circle. Just a little stickles was added on the trees for some winter sparkle.

Here’s the inside…I must apologize for how blotchy it looks. I was anxious to get it in the mail & already wrote a message inside before I took the picture. The picture suffers some from photo editing to try to blot it out, lol.

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Supplies:

Winter Homestead 134F	Winter Wonderland 257D	Uplifting Words 1398QCL	Speech Bubble set 1400QCL
Snowflake Sm. 356C	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Recollections Cardstock	MISTI
Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	Stitched Mats Long & Skinny	VersaFine Small Inkpads	Memento Inks
MFT Blueprints 18 dies	Stickles	Crafter’s Companion Christmas Elegance EF6-CHEL

Today’s Mixed Media Challenge (MIX209) asks us to Make it Frosty. While it may look a little simple, believe me, there’s a lot going on here.
First I brayered a really large acrylic block  using a blues rainbow pad, spritzed the block w/ water, then smushed it around w/ a water brush & stamped it onto the card stock. Sort of a variation on Wrinkle Free Distress. After it dried a little, I spritzed it w/ a spray I made w/ thinned white acrylic paint. Then the trees &  snowflakes were white embossed on top. Well…my Wrinkle Free Distress was wrinkle free until I heat embossed. 😉  I added a white die cut frame & half of the Snowy Days greeting on an oval. 

Here’s a look at the inside.

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Supplies:

 

Snowy Days Greeting 1123F	Silhouette Majestic Pines 757L	Snow Bg 187H	Kaliedacolor ink pads
Staples 110# White Card Stock	VersaFine Small Inkpads	Colorbox Pigment Ink	Detail White Embossing Powder
Gina Marie Up/Down In/Out ovals	Gina Marie Up/Down In/Out rectangles	Inkessentials Mini Mister	Ranger brayer	Acrylic Paint

Today’s Sketch Challenge (SC629) on Splitcoast looked fun & I only made a couple of small adjustments by moving the hearts onto the squares & adding the greeting off to the side.

To make my Valentine card, I stamped the 3 hearts on little squares. Then I die cut larger squares out of the white front layer & backed them with black. They seemed to need a little something, so I die cut little frames out of white & put them on top of the cutout squares.
I had the red die cut border on the right already in my stash & I thought it accented the other colors perfectly. The greeting was stamped on another square & backed with a couple of black squares turned on an angle.
Here’s a look at the inside.

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Supplies:

Triple Silhouette Hearts 662F	Sm Valentine’s Day 603C	Valentine’s Full of Love 273F	Memento Inks
Staples 110# White Card Stock	Recollections Cardstock	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132
Spellbinders A2 Bracket Borders 1 S5-181	Spellbinders Squares Lg S4-126	Spellbinders Squares Sm S4-128	MISTI