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It’s my turn to host the Splitcoaststampers Featured Stamper Challenge (FS560)! A big congrats to Jennie, the newest Featured Stamper! She has a big, beautiful gallery & after much browsing, I settled on THIS to case. I kept the pumpkin & Thanksgiving theme but used different images, a little different layout & only a strip of dry embossing instead of a full bg.
For my gold pumpkin card today, I gold embossed this lovely Filigree Pumpkin onto ivory c/s then die cut it & added a gold pierced circle layer behind it. The square panel behind them is a small bg I made w/ Distress oxide inks & stamped over it w/ gold ink using the Splatter Bg.  The larger ivory layer has the greeting gold embossed & I also added a little gold embossing all around the edges. The long rust color strip was a leftover that I dry embossed w/ an embossing folder.

Here’s a look at the inside.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

Filigree Pumpkin 334G	Script Happy Thanksgiving 339F	Thanksgiving Thinking of You 177E	Splatter Bg 855H
Staples 110# White Card Stock	Recollections Cardstock	Distress Oxide Inks	Detail Gold Embossing Powder
Ultimate Metallic Ink	Spellbinders Squares Lg S4-126	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	Spellbinders Lg Circles S4-114
ODBD Pierced Circles dies	Cuttlebug Ornamental Iron set 37-1921

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It’s my turn to host the Featured Stamper Challenge (FS559) on Splitcoast. So a big Congrats to Jeanette, the newest Featured Stamper. I spent oodles of time in her big, beautiful gallery & finally narrowed it down to THIS card. I kept the Christmas poinsettias & most of the layout, but I used different images, different colors & left off a few of the layers.

I also have a little mini tutorial to go along with this card. I knew immediately I wanted to water color it, but I wanted it to be loose, not necessarily contained by the lines. I love stamping on top of free flowing watercolor backgrounds so that was my plan for this. Instead of pan or tube watercolors, I used Brushos. I lightly wet part of the watercolor paper w/ a spritzer, then sprinkled on the reds, pink & orange colors, then spritzed it again. In areas where the color seemed too concentrated, I took a wet paintbrush & blended it out. I let this dry a little, then repeated it w/ the greens, trying not to go over the red areas.

I used a plastic sheet placed up against the corner inside my Misti & stamped the image. This allowed me to position the paper to stamp the image where I wanted. Since it was big enough, I stamped it twice to use on two different cards.

I decided to deepen the color just a bit inside the leaves/petals of the poinsettia & the easiest way to do this is w/ watercolor pencils.

Instead of using the pencil directly on the image, I used a waterbrush to pick up color from the pencil tip, then painted it onto the image.

Since this poinsettia image in on the large size, I trimmed away most of the background around the left side of the image in order to have more of the citron green show. A dk green layer was added behind the poinsettia & also behind the citron layer. The greeting was stamped off the to left to help balance the composition and keep the eye flowing across the card. The blank citron areas give the eye a place to rest & draw the eye to the bright reds of the image. I could have added just a few sequins & I may go back & do that, but I’m pretty satisfied w/ composition as it is w/ the odd number of items (2 flowers + 1 greeting). Odd numbers are just more pleasing to the eye. 

Here’s the inside:

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

Poinsettia Lg 673K	Celebrate Each Day 153D	Celebrate the Magic 951E	Brushos Water Color Crystals
White Gelly Roll Pen	VersaFine Inkpads	MFT Diagonal Stitched Rectangle dies	Kaliedacolor ink pads
AC color card stock	Staples 110# White Card Stock	MISTI	Niji Waterbrush
Koh-i-noor Watercolor Pencils	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132

A big congrats to Rochelle, the newest Featured Stamper (FS557)! She has a sweet gallery & after browsing, I chose THIS to case. I kept the Christmas snow globe but left off the shaker & used different images & dies.

I love this big snow globe and the Christmas Village images fit perfectly inside it. Just had to decide which ones to use. Finally decided on the lovely Gazebo &  Lamp Post & added a couple more trees for balance. After stamping the globe, I die cut a circle almost the same size out of copy paper & used the left over as a reverse mask to stamp the images inside & keep them from going out of the edges.

After coloring everything, I used a white gel pen to add snow where I wanted it &  then some stickles for sparkle. The Triple Holly was fussy cut &  added & the greeting was stamped on the red & I used the white gel pen to highlight the letters. 

Here’s a look at the inside & below it are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Supplies:

 

Holly Days 1069E	Christmas Lamp Post 238H	Christmas Village Gazebo 643G	Christmas Village 4 in 1 119D	Snow Globe 368M
Beautiful Holiday Greeting 353G	Triple Holly 1004F	Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	Stitched Rectangles Die Set
Copic Sketch Markers	Memento Inks	Stickles	White Gelly Roll Pen	MISTI