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Archive for April, 2018

I made this for the Splitcoaststampers Fan Club May Christmas Challenge! I’ve been having so much fun being a part of the challenge this year & the bonus is I’ll have a bunch of Christmas cards finished in plenty of time for Christmas this year. It’s a lot of fun & I hope you’ll head on over & join us. You’ll need to be Fan Club member but that’s easy…just click the blue link to find out how.

For my CAS Christmas card, I put a piece of sand colored card stock into my Misti then stamped the image. The holly & greeting are all one image, so it’s easy to use. First I colored the holly w/ Copics then did a Prismacolor pencil overlay & added some white inside the lines above & below the greeting. Here’s where the Misti is invaluable..lines tend to disappear when you use Prismas, so I stamped it again to bring them back. I masked the holly greeting & stamped the snowflakes w/ white pigment ink & heat set to dry. A few snowflakes were punched out of white glitter paper to add some sparkle.

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


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Season’s Greetings Holly Spray 487L	Interlocking Snow 015H	Deco Peace & Joy 355G	Memento Inks	Staples 110# White Card Stock
AC color card stock	Copic Sketch Markers	Colorbox Pigment Ink	Prismacolor Pencils	DCWV Glitter Matstack
Lil’ Inker Stitched Rectangles Die Set	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132	MISTI	Tonic Snowflake punch 2	Marvy 5/8” Snowflake Punch LV-CP25
Recollections 3/8” Snowflake Punch

A big congrats to Donna, the newest Featured Stamper! I had a hard time choosing, but finally narrowed it down to THIS. I kept the colorful chevrons & birthday (my bday greeting is on the inside), but I used different images, different layout & mine’s a retro theme.

I stamped the tv & paper pieced the fun paper for the screen. It kind of reminded me of those test patterns (remember those?). So I also added some retro images from a couple of old PSX border stamps.
Here’s a look at the inside.

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Supplies:

Amuse 89129B Stay Tuned	All Night Media TV Frame 271F	PSX Retro Borders C-3231 & C-3233	Memento Inks	Staples 110# White Card Stock
AC color card stock	American Crafts -#Summer		Double Stitched Circles dies CBD136	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132
Sequins

For the Splitcoast Inspiration Challenge (IC647), we have Replacements, LTD. as our site. It’s a beautiful site & I have used their wonderful replacement service in the past to fill in missing or broken pieces of china. They also helped me identify some crystal that belonged to my great grandmother. While I was browsing the casual china, I happened on THIS picture (also below). It looked like a Cinco de Mayo fiesta to me so I went w/ a southwest theme.

To make the serape on the side, I used two plaid images, which until you stamp them across each other, are just stripes. I inked the stripes using Tombow markers in red, yellow & green then colored a wide strip & used fringe scissors on it to make the lower border. The image was stamped, colored & die cut w/ a little out of the box to keep the boot tip & rope from being cut off. I used Prismacolor pencils to add the sunset colors behind the image. For the greeting, I stamped it once in the Morocco ink, moved it a tad & stamped it again in brown ink to get the slight shadow.

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


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Supplies:

Cowboy Garb 1121K	Saddle Up Greeting 877F	Better in Cowboy Boots 236D	Lg Orig Plaid 641P	Open Plaid 631P
MFT Basic Stitch Lines dies	MFT Stitched Arch dies	Memento Inks	Staples 110# White Card Stock	X-Press It Blending Card
AC color card stock	Copic Sketch Markers	MISTI	Tombow Markers	Prismacolor Pencils
Fringe Scissors