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It’s my pleasure to host the Splitcoast Featured Stamper Challenge (FS689) & a big Congrats to Karen as the newest Featured Stamper! She has a wonderful gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I loved the happy orange color & cute gingham, so I kept those, but I used different dies, different greeting & made my own gingham (instead of using dp). 

For the gingham, I put the horizontal stripe bg stamp into my Misti, stamped it one direction, using first the apricot ink then stamped it again w/ the scarlet ink. Rotated the panel, & repeated this to get the orange gingham. I made enough for the side panel & also for the die cut flower. I added a scallop circle of black under the flower, an orange gem for the center & another orange glitter gem (it was clear but I used an orange Copic on it) in the right corner. 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

RN Frases en Español #1 3306	RN Horizontal Stripe 1335	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Mixed Flower Stack die 5309-10D	RN Organic Shapeable Daisy die 5301-05D
RN Circle Scallop w/ Pierce dies 5129D	RN Color Fuse Ink set #2	RN Color Fuse Ink set #4	RN Borders 2 dies 5160-02D	MISTI
Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	Frosted Flatback Resin Stones	Versafine Clair ink

For the Splitcoast Inspiration Challenge (IC750), we’re headed to a Pinterest Tags board. My goodness, there are a LOT of tags…I tried, but I couldn’t even get to the end of that board. So many beautiful choices. I was drawn to THIS tag & THIS tag. 

Well…I started out to make my card like the first tag. I even used the same embossing folder on acetate. But I just couldn’t get it to look right. So after stamping the layered rose & leaves, I fussy cut them & thought I’d make a stripe background like the second tag. The horizontal strip bg was stamped w/ a lt green ink & the circle was die cut out of it & rotated because, to me, it would look better w/ the stripes going the same direction as the text. 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

RN Happy Mother’s Day 3311	RN Spring Meadows 3301	RN Horizontal Stripe 1335	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Circle dies 5002D
RN Circle Stitch Frames dies 5120D	RN Color Fuse Ink set #1	RN Color Fuse Ink set #4	RN Color Fuse Ink set #10	RN Color Fuse Ink set #11
Staples 110# White Card Stock	Sequins	Versafine Clair ink

A big Congrats to Karen, the newest Featured Stamper (FS688) on Splitcoast! She has a fun, colorful gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I liked the brilliant blue color & fish theme, so I kept those. But I used different images & dies & changed the layout.

This fun greeting cracks me up & the first thing I said when I read it was “we need a shark image” (or a bigger boat, lol). So the folks at Rubbernecker showed me this shark & I loved it. I colored the areas that needed it then used my out of the box technique to have him coming out of the circle. I put the layered circle w/ the shark onto a larger cobalt blue bg & die cut the different waves at the bottom to add on top.

Here are the Copics I used:

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

RN Shark 1324	RN Not Hear the Music 823-03	RN Waves die 5202-09D	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Circle dies 5002D
RN Circle Stitch Frames dies 5120D	Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	X-Press It Blending Card	Memento Inks
Copic Sketch Markers