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Archive for January, 2021

Welcome to February!  And it’s time for the Splitcoaststampers Fan Club Feb.  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. Hint..I’m really loving the new theme for this year. I’m also combining this w/ the Inspiration Challenge & THIS was my inspiration.


For my Christmas card, I die cut the slimline scallop die, took the center pieces out, then put the frame part into my Misti & stamped the diagonal stripe w/ red ink. Then I die cut all the reindeer, birds & gnomes in different colors & put them all together. I added a red layer behind the candy stripe front & popped up the gnome couple & reindeer.

Here are the Copics I used on the reindeer. I forgot to stick in the G19 I used on the scarf of the reindeer on the left.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

RN Diagonal Stripes c1399	RN Slimline OPC Scallop die 5322-01D	RN Gnome Couple die 5217-09D	RN Reindeer & Birds die 5337-01D
Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	Memento Inks	Copic Sketch Markers

A big congrats to Gayle, the newest Featured Stamper (FS730) on Splitcoast! She has a wonderful gallery & I was really intrigued by her 12 days of Christmas series & I chose THIS one to case. I liked the repetition of a single image, done in different colors so I kept that. I used different images, dies & colors & made mine a Thank You card. Gayle had 9 ladies &  actually, I had a 9th bird, but he just wouldn’t fit so I’m going w/ only 8. 

This card was a lot of fun to make. I love rainbows & I love birds so a bunch of rainbow birds is the best of both worlds. They kind of look like a chorus line, don’t they? After stamping, coloring & die cutting them, all I had to do was arrange them on the slimline layers. Fitting the greeting was probably the hardest part. When you use up this much real estate, it doesn’t leave a lot of space so this was my solution. So I put the 8th bird down on the greeting level to kind of even things out.

I even gave them eyes to match their plumage. Are these a color coordinated bunch of birds, or what?

It also takes a bunch of Copics to color these characters. The R’s went on reddish bird. The B’s on blue bird. The Y’s + the YR24 went on yellow bird. The rest of the YR’s went on orange bird. BG’s on teal bird. G’s on green bird. YG’s on yellow-green bird (the one in front). And RV’s on pink bird. The C2 was only used to shade their eyes.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

RN Bird w Feathers 895-25	RN Bird w/ Feathers die 895-25D	RN Sweet Peony 3314″	RN Thanks set 3335	RN Slimline Nested Stitch dies 5326D
RN Slimline Scallop w/ Stitch dies 5329-01D	Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	Memento Inks	Copic Sketch Markers

For the Splitcoast Inspiration Challenge (IC791) we’re headed to Shindigz (a party supply place) where I found THIS picture for my inspiration. I loved the color on the birches.

For my card, after die cutting the lt blue panel, I stamped it w/ the white ink using the dot bg. The birches were die cut & I used B66 & B32 Copics to shade the edges. The leaves on the bg were stamped using a couple of the blue ink & the ones on top were die cut & shaded w/ the same Copics.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

RN Wintery Friends 3337″	RN Organic set #2 3202	Not So Many Dots 1338	RN Birch Trees die 5167-02D	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D
RN Sm Leaf Group die 5110D	RN Color Fuse Ink set #7	Versafine Clair ink	Distress Inks	Staples 110# White Card Stock
AC color card stock	Copic Sketch Markers