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Archive for May, 2020

Welcome to June!  And it’s time for the Splitcoaststampers Fan Club June 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.

For my fairly CAS Christmas card, I put the stripe bg image into my Misti, inked it first w/ Versamark, then w/ the crimson dye ink. I knew I wanted to heat emboss it so using the Versamark under the dye ink gives it a little more open time. I used a very sparkly red tinsel powder & IRL this card is soooo sparkly! The stripes are actually horizontal on the image so I turned my panel to have them diagonal, then turned it again to stamp them going the other way.

The big greeting was also embossed in the same manner & layered onto a slightly larger, red scallop circle. The white top section was cut w/ a center angled die & I added a red scallop die cut border under it, but the lg greeting circle covered up most of it.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

RN Merry Christmas w/ Holly 1256-06	RN Horizontal Stripe 1335	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Circle Stitch dies 5006D	RN Circle Scallop dies 5029D
RN Borders 1 dies 5160-01D	Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	RN Color Fuse Ink set #4	Versamark ink
Ranger Embossing Powder	MISTI

It’s my pleasure to host the Splitcoast Featured Stamper Challenge (FS695) so a big congrats to Chrysi! She has a wonderful gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I kept the blues & watery looking bg but used different images, dies & swapped out a curved flower for the curved palm tree.

For my card, I made a watercolor bg which originally was going to be the feature of the card, but to my eyes, just wasn’t that impressive. So it’s now a background & I think it works better there. The flower image is a layered, multi part stamp & I used some different blues & greens to stamp it onto the circle. The partial greeting was white embossed onto the cobalt blue.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

RN Summer Bloom 3310	RN Wishes Your Way 1319-03	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Rectangle Combo #4 die 5217D	RN Hugs die 5205-01D
RN Circle Stitch dies 5006D	RN Color Fuse Ink set #8	RN Color Fuse Ink set #9	RN Color Fuse Ink set #10	MISTI
Watercolor pan set	Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	Water Color Paper	Colorbox Pigment Ink
Ranger Embossing Powder

Such terrific nail art for the Splitcoast Inspiration Challenge (IC756)! WOW! There are really some jaw dropping nails on that Pinterest Board & I kept coming back to THIS picture. Those colors really got me going!

So what to do? I figured the only way I was going to get colors close to those was to bring out the Copic Fluorescent markers. They hardly ever get used & they were just chomping at the bit. After stamping & coloring the daisies (& a few extra), I die cut using my out of the box technique & fussy cut the other 3. On the narrow layer behind the daisies, I used a brayer & a melon rainbow pad to bring in a little more color.

For the split background, I white embossed the dots on the black & stamped the dots in black on the white, then white embossed the greeting on a little word window black strip.

Here are the Copics I used:

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Supplies:

 

RN Daisy Bouquet #1 1317-02	RN Kittie Says Phrases #1 3308	Not So Many Dots 1338	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	Copic Sketch Markers
Memento Inks	Colorbox Pigment Ink	Kaliedacolor ink pads	Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock
Ranger Embossing Powder	McGill multi word window punch