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Archive for April, 2020

Welcome to May!  And it’s time for the Splitcoaststampers Fan Club May Christmas Challenge! We have a year of new Christmas Challenges!  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.

My card started w/ the little square of blue watercolor bg. I wish I had made more of it, but this was all I had left of this particular one. So I framed w/ a mirror gold square frame & added some die cut stars & moon on it. The gold glitter trees & deer were die cut out of some gold glitter wrapping paper. For the moon, I did cut one out of the gold glitter & another out of white. Then I placed the white one back in the die, moved over a bit, to trim a little more of it so the gold glitter would show around the edges. The greeting was gold embossed & I used gold leafing pen to edge the white panel before attaching it to the card.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

RN Merry Christmas Lg 983-04	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Evergreen Tree dies 5217-01D	RN Sm Star Outline die 5100-06D	RN Sun Moon die 5147-07D
RN Deer Family dies 5162-10D	RN Square Stitch dies 5005D	RN Square Stitch Frame dies 5121D	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Ultimate Metallic Ink
RN Mirror Gold embossing powder	Brushos Water Color Crystals	Water Color Paper	Krylon Metallic Leafing pens	Mirror Board

Congrats to Gloria, the newest Featured Stamper (FS690) on Splitcoast! She has a lovely gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I kept the layout & flower theme, but I used different images, dies & swapped out the stripe paper for a stamped woodgrain.

After coloring the daffodils, I die cut it first w/ a rectangle stitch die then used the bottom half of a marquee die to cut the lower section. I took a few picture to show how I did this.

This is the die I used for the lower half. I used the largest die because I saw that it was large enough to go all the way across to sides so I placed it where I wanted the bottom cut to be.

After placing the image panel & die on top, I put the top plate on top, but only to the point where I want it to stop cutting (which is halfway up the die). By having the top plate stop here, it will only cut to that point.

Here it is after die cutting! I do this technique quite a lot, so it doesn’t matter to me if I’ve colored it yet or not. If you’re trying it for the first time, you may want to wait to color until after you’ve cut it, in case you need to start over because it didn’t work the way you wanted. For the lower part of the card, I stamped the woodgrain bg w/ the dark green ink. 

Here are the Copics I used:

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

RN Brushed Flower #11 1318-01	RN Woodgrain Fence 1334	RN Summer Bloom 3310	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Marquee 2 Stitch dies 5101-02D
RN Color Fuse Ink set #10	MISTI	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Hammermill 100# Digital Copy card stock	Versafine Clair ink
Sequins	Copic Sketch Markers	Baker’s Twine

Such a wonderful photo site for the Splitcoast Inspiration Challenge (IC751)! I was inspired by THIS picture.

I started by stamping the fairy & masking her. A reverse circle mask was placed around her & I sponged in the colors for the blue planet. Then I placed the circle mask on top of it & used black acrylic paint over the entire area.

After it dried, I added some different blues above a circular line I drew to represent the planet she’s sitting on. White acrylic paint splatters were added for the starry sky. I stamped another fairy, colored & fussy cut her to add on top of the stamped one & I white embossed the greeting on the dark planet.

Here are the Copics I used:

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

Fairy w/ Globe 1009F	Love You to the Moon 580D	Memento Inks	Copic Sketch Markers	Colorbox Pigment Ink
Ranger Embossing Powder	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Decoart Acrylic paint	Distress Inks