The Write Stuff

Archive for January 30th, 2021

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