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Archive for February, 2021

A big congrats to Gem, the newest Featured Stamper (FS734) on Splitcoast! She has a beautiful gallery & after much browsing, I chose THIS card to case. I kept the layout, w/ the flowers & strips across the top, but I used stamped & watercolored flowers instead of die cut flowers, different colors & made my strips wider.


For my card, I stamped the florals onto 90# watercolor paper & used Brushos & water to paint my peonies. I like how vibrant the Brushos colors are & I used them like regular watercolors..mixed the powder in a palette w/ water & painted. The purple strips were die cut by cutting the purple once w/ a lg stitched rectangle die, then moving the bottom up to cut the strips. The flowers were cut using the matching die & the leaves were fussy cut.

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Supplies:

RN Poetic Peonies 3405	RN Poetic Peonies dies 3405D	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Wishes die 5205-05D	AC color card stock
Staples 110# White Card Stock	Strathmore Water Color Paper 90#	Versafine Clair ink	Brushos Water Color Crystals	RN Crossover II

For the Inspiration Challenge, we are headed to Retro Stage, a vintage inspired clothing store. I was inspired by THIS dress. Ok..I changed the color from blues to purples & the snowflakes into hydrangea petals, but otherwise, they’re identical!

Since I had already stamped the hydrangeas together & colored them, I used my out of the box technique to die cut them. I took a few extra pics of this, & you can also click the green link to take you to the original tutorial.

First step, pick the die you want to use & determine which parts of your image will go “outside of the box” or circle, in this case. I used my craft knife to cut around those areas & lift them above the die (the stem is also cut out & on top of the die). Only the parts under the die will be cut when I run it thru the machine.

Here it is after I ran it thru the machine.

You can see, only the areas on the right which were under the die, were cut by the machine.
For the lg background, I sponged it using the purple inks, going from darker at the bottom & fading to the white on top. A little water was splattered on it to add the spots. The die cut hydrangea petals were sprinkled around & the greeting added along w/ some gems.

For the lg background, I sponged it using the purple inks, going from darker at the bottom & fading to the white on top. A little water was splattered on it to add the spots. The die cut hydrangea petals were sprinkled around & the greeting added along w/ some gems.
Here are the Copics I used.

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Supplies:

RN Heavenly Hydrangeas 3407	RN Heavenly Hydrangeas dies 3407D	RN Poetic Peonies 3405	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Circle Stitch dies 5006D
RN Color Fuse Ink set #8	RN Color Fuse Ink set #6	Staples 110# White Card Stock	X-Press It Blending Card	Copic Sketch Markers
Memento Inks	Rhinestones

It’s my honor to host the Splitcoast Featured Stamper Challenge (FS733) so a big congrats to Dawn, the newest FS! She has such a fab gallery & after a lot of browsing, I chose THIS card to case. I kept the Easter theme w/ bunnies & eggs, but I used different images & dies, stamped bunnies instead of die cut & changed the layout a bit.

For my little Easter card, after stamping & die cutting the little bunnies, I stamped & colored in some grass for them to sit on, on the top panel. I die cut a lg oval out of it & attached it on top of a sponged bg w/ the Easter eggs stamped on top. Prismacolor pencils were used to add a little extra color, then I thought it looked too bright, so I covered it w/ a piece of vellum before attaching it under the oval. A stitched oval frame was added over the opening after the greeting strip was added but before the bunnies were attached. 

Here are the Copics I used for the bunnies.(the chicks are another set, but I used all the same Copics for both sets, so that’s why they’re in the pic)

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Supplies:

RN Bunnies set 3402	RN Bunnies dies 3402D	RN Easter Egg Bg 1329	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Oval Stitch dies 5008D
RN Oval Stitch Frame dies 5123D	RN Color Fuse Ink set #1	RN Color Fuse Ink set #4	RN Color Fuse Ink set #11	Staples 110# White Card Stock
X-Press It Blending Card	The Paper Cut Vellum	Copic Sketch Markers	Memento Inks	Prismacolor Pencils