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Archive for December, 2020

A big congrats to Kath, the newest Featured Stamper (FS723) on Splitcoast! She has a beautiful gallery & I chose THIS to case.  I kept the central greeting surrounded by greenery & spritzed color, but I used different images, dies & added a few layers.

For my card, I got out a stencil & used some shimmery gold, pale red & pale green sprays. I wasn’t really in love w/ the way it looked but I noticed I still had quite a bit of the shimmery spray on the stencil, so I put it face down on another piece of white card stock. Then I spritzed it a little more & used just the gold on a couple of the smaller layers. On the diamond part of the layer, I added some of the pale red spray. The pinecones, holly & berries were colored & die cut to add on the corners.

Here are the Copic I used on the images:

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

RN Winter Wonderland 3338″	RN Winter Wonderland dies 3338D”	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Rectangle Combo #4 die 5217D	X-Press It Blending Card
Staples 110# White Card Stock	Memento Inks	Copic Sketch Markers	Heidi Swapp shine spray	RN Crossover II
MISTI

For the Splitcoast Inspiration Challenge (IC784), we are headed to Bathhouse Soapery. They have some lovely things & I was inspired by THIS. I loved the elf legs poking out of the sugar scrub.

I’m not sure how I arrived at my card, exactly…I tried an elf shoes image, but it was too big to have them sticking out of something. So I used this cute gnome & a very large cup of cocoa. And I had to split the gnome in half to have his head show above the cup, so he’s obviously the tall gnome in his family. When I started putting it together, it looked a little blank, so I added a window & put a piece of patterned paper behind it, & some little presents below it.

Here are the Copics I used:

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

RN Michael Winter Gnome 1255-01	RN Michael Winter Gnome die 1255-01D	RN Window 4 Pane dies 5157D	RN Winter Cocoa die 5217-06D	RN Christmas Mini die 5338-02D
RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	Staples 110# White Card Stock	X-Press It Blending Card	Copic Sketch Markers	Tonic Snowflake punch 2
Pebbles Home for Christmas	Pebbles Welcome Christmas	Memento Inks

Congrats to Gayle, the newest Featured Stamper (FS722)! She has a lovely gallery & I chose THIS to case. I mainly went w/ the one on the left, keeping the cardinal & greenery, but I used different images & dies & used a different layout.

I stamped the lantern & colored it w/ Copics. Did a little out of the box to keep from cutting off the top of the lantern & the tip of the cardinal’s tail (trust me..birds do not like you messing w/ their tails).

On the kraft layer, I stamped the new pinecone all over w/ the Distress oxide ink but a left a space for the greeting. The pine green circle was dry embossed & I rubbed some gold rub n buff type paste over the top of it. A white gel pen was used to add some highlights to the greeting.

Here are the Copics I used:

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Cardinal Holly Lantern 112K	Sm Pine Cone 106B	Deco Peace & Joy 355G	Memento Inks	Distress Oxide Inks
Copic Sketch Markers	Cuttlebug 37-1153 Textile	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Circle Stitch dies 5006D	Staples 110# White Card Stock
X-Press It Blending Card	AC color card stock	MISTI	White Gelly Roll Pen