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Archive for May, 2018

I made these for the Splitcoaststampers Fan Club June 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. You’ll need to be Fan Club member but that’s easy…just click the blue link to find out how.
This was a lot of fun to make. It took a little engineering w/ the light string image but I think it accurately represents what has surely happened to us all at one time or another. And if I could have gotten away w/ it, I would have totally left them like this & called it a day. This tangled mess of lights is one reason my tree is now one of those that comes w/ lights already on it, lol. I used a stamp a ma jig to position the light string into the chaotic mess it is then colored it & added the plug on the side. I stamped just a few pine branches & 1 ornament to give the impression of the unlit tree off to the side. The greeting was made up of little die cut letters. A while back, I saw one of those hand drawn joke cards w/ this idea & thought I could create something similar. 

Here are the Copics I used.

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And just because I bought this set on clearance over a year ago & have never used it…I made a second card. Very easy since the stamps & matching dies pretty much do all the work. Stamped the whole image on the sand card stock, then again several more times on white, colored them, die cut them & popped the layers up on the original. 

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Ornaments Galore 655K	Christmas Light String 1054H	Pine Bough 467K	Copic Sketch Markers
Memento Inks	Lil’ Inker Stitched Rectangles Die Set	Sizzix Tree Blueprint 659379	MFT Diagonal Stitched Rectangle dies
Sizzix Holiday #1 661600	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Recollections Cardstock

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A big congrats to Sylvia, the newest Featured Stamper on Splitcoast! She has a lovely gallery & I chose THIS to case.I kept the cute dinosaur theme but changed almost everything else..different images, different colors & different layout.

After stamping, coloring the cute little dinosaur, I made a little forest scene on the white panel by stamping the 2 trees & masking as I went. The front most tree was stamped separately & fussy cut. I drew a box around the trees & colored in the sky & added some punched clouds. 

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


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You Are Dino-Mite NCS4-193	Happy Camper NCC62	Double Stitched Rectangles dies CBD123	Copic Sketch Markers	Memento Inks
Staples 110# White Card Stock	MISTI	All Night Media cloud punches

 
For the Inspiration Challenge (IC651) on Splitcoast, Brenda chose a lovely site & I chose THIS for my inspiration. 
I started by die cutting the circle out then making a watercolor bg on it & splattering it w/ white paint. I put it back together & put the whole front panel into my Misti & I had to stamp the silhouette trees several times to get them dark enough. Part of a greeting was added & a die cut Wish. I used a white marker to fill in the moon & add the sparkling lines to the “stars”. A little Wink of Stella was added to the moon & stars, as well.

Here’s a look at the inside. 

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Silhouette Majestic Pines 757L	Birthday Candle Burst 451L	Birthday Wishes 778F	Starry Bg 124H	Staples 110# White Card Stock
Memento Inks	MISTI	Posca Paint Pen	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132
Watercolor pan set	Double Stitched Circles Dies	Celebrate & Wish dies	Wink of Stella