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Archive for April, 2019

Welcome to Mayl & to the Splitcoaststampers Fan Club May Christmas Challenge! I’m part of the challenge team again 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. Bet you’re wondering what the challenge theme is..I’d love to tell you but you’ll have to go see for yourself.

For my Christmas card, I colored & fussy cut the little bear (from a larger image) so I could put him in the driver’s seat of this cute little corvette. After I die cut the pine tree forest & snow hill, I saw there was a bit of green at the bottom of the dp I wanted to use so I colored the corvette mint green. The tiny holly & little bird were fussy cut from a snowman image. I guess since he’s a polar bear, driving w/ the top down in the winter is not a problem!

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

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

RN Polar Bears 659-07	RN Have Yourself 981-03	RN Corvette 268-01	RN Corvette die 268-01D	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D
RN Icy Snowman 659-02	RN Pine Tree Forest 5164D	RN Stitched Hills dies 5173-01D	RN Merry Christmas Lg 983-04	Copic Sketch Markers
Staples 110# White Card Stock	Memento Inks	Versafine Clair ink	Bo Bunny Altitude paper

A big congrats to Nancy, the newest Featured Stamper! She has a lovely gallery & I chose THIS to case. I kept the fish theme & layout, but used different images, different dies & a different background technique.

My bg was an accidental creation..I was cleaning the caps of my Copic markers by dropping rubbing alcohol in them then letting it drip out. Well.. no way I could waste the ink, so it’s now a bg. I also added some drops of just the alcohol to get a sort of Bokeh effect. Then I added the colored & die cut fish & starfish. I didn’t have a coral branch like Nancy used, so I die cut a bare tree & used some of it for my coral.

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

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Supplies:

 

RN Under the Sea set 3109	RN Under the Sea dies 3109D	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Circle Stitch dies 5006D	RN Stitched Hills dies 5173-01D
RN Winter Tree die 5170D	MISTI	Copic Sketch Markers	Memento Inks

For the Inspiration Challenge (IC699), we are headed to At Home. They have a ton of lovely things & I was drawn to THIS picture. 

The picture also made me think of some gold tipped white feathers I saw in a craft store a couple of years ago. For the first couple I did, I stamped, gold embossed, fussy cut then swiped the gold ink across the tips & dipped them in the gold powder. They didn’t look quite right to me. So on the rest, after I cut them out, I cut little notches in the tips before inking & dipping. I think that made all the difference. On the white bg, I gold embossed the greeting &  used the Splatter Bg just in some areas. I had these mirror gold square frames left from another project,  so I used them to add a little interest.

Here’s the inside…everything was gold embossed, as well, & I added a couple of unused feathers from the front.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

3 in 1 Feathers 884F	Thinking of You Tweetie 888D	Extra Tweet Day 882D	Splatter Bg 855H
Ultimate Metallic Ink	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Mirror Board	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D
RN Square Stitch Frame dies 5121D	RN Mirror Gold embossing powder