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Archive for September, 2020

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

I admit I had a little trouble with this. I started w/ a piece of black card stock & inked the inside of the embossing folder w/ Versamark & first dry embossed it then heat embossed w/ a clear, sparkly powder. To me, the words didn’t really show up enough, so I inked over the raised letters w/ white pigment ink & heat embossed it again w/ white powder. It’s still really sparkly & it has a snowy, distressed look. The smaller black panel was die cut & dry embossed w/ the same folder. The ornaments were die cut once out of silver glitter paper & again in black. I pieced the two together then used a black Wink of Stella on the black pieces. The Noel was also die cut out of the silver glitter paper.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

MB Clairmont Ornament die 98944	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	Darice Christmas Collage 1219-228	Embossed Dots Rectangles dies	Versamark ink
Colorbox Pigment Ink	Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	DCWV 16×20 Glitzy Neutrals	Ranger Embossing Powder
Wink of Stella

It’s my pleasure to guest host the Watercolor Wednesday Challenge (WCW018) on Splitcoast. The technique I chose is Watercolor on embossed paper. I thought it looked interesting but easy enough for everyone.

Since I wanted to make a Halloween card, I chose a couple of Halloween themed embossing folders to go w/ my cute little die cut owl. I embossed the large bg w/ the wordy folder then followed the instructions on the video using bright, Halloween colors of my Peerless watercolors. After it dried, I thought the words didn’t really pack the punch I wanted so I inked the inside of the folder w/ black soot Distress oxide ink & embossed the watercolored bg again. Much better! Now the words really show up.

I did the same for the little orange Wicked strip & perched my owl on it.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

RN Build an Owl die 5335-01D	RN Build an Owl Halloween Add Ons die 5335-02D	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Sun Moon die 5147-07D	Distress Oxide Inks
Sizzix Halloween embossing folders 657465	Sizzix Halloween debossing folders 660045	Peerless Watercolor sheets set	Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock
Canson Water Color Paper 140#	RN Crossover II

A big congrats to Holley, the newest Featured Stamper  (FS712) on Splitcoast! She has a wonderful gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I kept the horizontal layout w/ the 4 critters, so I kept that, but I used gnomes instead of animals, different colors & left off the ribbon.

For my card, I colored & die cut these cute little gnomes, then die cut the large white layer. I used an inside rounded squares die to cut out the 3 openings then backed it w/ a white lattice pattern piece. The greeting was stamped on one of the square cutouts & the other 2 were backed w/ a shades of purple paint chip. I also used it to cut the line of grass across the bottom.

Here are the Copics I used. Since I colored them separately, there’s a different pic for each gnome.



Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

RN Garden Gnomes 3323	RN Garden Gnomes dies 3323D	RN Slimline Nested Stitch dies 5326D	RN Slimline Inside Rounded Squares die 5327-03D	RN Slimline OPC Geometric Squares die 5331-01D
RN Slimline Grass die 5328-02D	X-Press It Blending Card	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Paint Chips	Memento Inks
RN Crossover II