Welcome to the Serendipity Stamps November Blog Hop! We are showing off some beautiful new winter images & dies! If you arrived here from Jenny’s Blog , you are in the right place..if not, you may want to head over there first.
Prize info:
- A $20 gift certificate is up for grabs and the winner will be chosen randomly from one of the blogs.
- Commenters have until Monday 11-17 to leave a comment. The winner wil be posted on Marys blog on 11-18.
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For my Christmas card in non-tradiontal colors, I started with a piece of water color paper, a handful of Distress Ink pads, a teflon craft sheet & water spritzer. I started by pressing the pink inks onto the craft sheet, spritzing with water then dabbing part of the water color paper onto it. I dried it w/ a heat gun, then did the same with the teal, blue & greens…one at a time and drying in between colors. Dabbing here & there and drying in between colors keeps them from blending together and making mud. Then I stamped the Poinsettia Background on top w/ the Versafine and used an opaque cream marker to color in the centers & a black marker around the edge.
I used the Poinsettia & Leaf to stamp the big single poinsettia a couple of times on ivory, colored them w/ Copics & fussy cut them. The small poinsettia (from the big background image) was done the same way. I thought it looked a little too busy, so I added a narrow strip of blue vellum down the side before adding the poinsettias. The Joy die was die cut 3 times out of the cream and twice out of black to shadow it. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50 and these are the Copics I used for the poinsettias.
Thanks so much for stopping by! Please be sure to visit all the DT blogs! Here’s the order in case you get lost.
- Mary’s Blog
- Karen Amidon
- Marybeth Lopez
- Miriam Napier
- Vickie Zimmer
- Jeanne Jachna
- Jenny Gropp
- Julie Warner
Supplies:
| Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Poinsettia Bg , Poinsettia & Leaf Outline , Wishing You |
| Paper: water color, textured blue & cream (DCWV – pastel matstack), ivory, pale blue vellum, black |
| Ink: Versafine onyx, Memento tuxedo black, Distress Inks spun sugar, Victorian velvet, tumbled glass, evergreen bough, broken china |
| Accessories: Copic markers, Serendipity Joy die , Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies, crystals, stickles, black Permapaque marker |
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Beautiful color choices and I love the added strip of vellum . Gorgeous card Julie, hope you have a wonderful weekend.
Love the soft colors and shadow! Great job! Had technical difficulties commenting on Jenny’s post, but wanted to say that stacking the die cuts makes them so sturdy and I love the idea of making your own background paper!
Beautiful, beautiful! The color choices are so unique and I love the card!
Fabulous, as always, Julie! Love the colors and beautiful BG paper you made. So, so talented!
Amazing card – gorgeous non-traditional colour choices! I love the beautiful background too! This is one of my favourite cards on the hop – love everything about it!
I love the colors. So soft and pastel. A break from the bright red and green that is so prevalent during the season.
thanks for sharing a beautiful card.
The colors are gorgeous and the background is amazing! I love the vellum too!
Gorgeous card Julie! I love the color scheme and that amazing background you created. So unexpected, the touch of blue, vellum and sprinkle of gems. Really stunning.. .dont mind me.. just staring a while longer! Swoon!
I LOVE this card and I LOVE the pastel colors you’ve used. I am going to try your how-to for the background of the card, I love tutorials! AND I love this poinsettia stamp!
This is from the heart, your thoughtful artistic use of the Serendipity Stamp line is in my opinion, the best offering on the blog hop. The clear color and design without being over done is Amazing!!!!!!!
Your cards never fail to amaze and inspire. This card is so pretty; the color choices are soft and so well matched. I really like the way you’ve popped the die cut against its shadow. Just lovely!
Beautiful card! You managed to make it look like Christmas even with the nontraditional colors!
With a great background, soft colors and lots of dimension, you have created a very pretty card, Julie.
Love the non-traditional colors. Beautiful!!!
Amazing card! Love the background you created and the non-traditional Christmas colors!
Julie, I am absolutely in awe of your talent. Such a beautiful card. I wish I had the talent to reprodece it – I will definitely try. Btw, the colors are my favs.
Exquisite job. Great coloring and fussy cutting.
What a wonderful and awesome color combo….Your card turned out really nice.
Well done
Gorgeous colors!
Interesting color choice. Love the card.
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Really pretty cards! I love the colors and the beautiful lay-out!
Gorgeous card! I love the beautiful color combo you used and pretty background technique! Awesome poinsettia stamp!
Nice background.
Love the card! Love how you used the cut JOY! Great new product release! Thank you for sharing!
Drooling!! GORGEOUS!! Love these colors and fabulous coloring… as always!!