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:
Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Winter Homestead, Winter Wonderland (inside –Uplifting Words, Speech Bubble set, snowflake ) |
Paper: Staples #110 white, dk blue |
Ink: Versafine majestic blue, (inside -Memento summer sky) |
Accessories: Spellbinders A2 matting basics A, stickles, Misti, Crafter’s Companion embossing folder, MFT blueprints 18 dies (circles), Lil’ Inker long skinny stitched mats dies |
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:
Stamps: DRS Designs – Snowy Days, Majestic Pines, Snow Bg |
Paper: white |
Ink: Versafine majestic blue (greeting), Kaliedacolor blue breeze, Colorbox frost white pigment |
Accessories: white embossing powder, Misti, thinned white acrylic paint in sprayer, brayer, In & Out rectangle & oval dies |
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.
Thanks so much for stopping by!
Supplies:
Stamps: DRS Designs – Triple Silhouette Hearts, Sm Valentine’s Day (inside – Valentine’s Full of Love) |
Paper: white, black, red |
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, love letter |
Accessories: Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, bracket border, lg & sm squares dies, Misti |