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  • Blue Ornaments

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    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com/

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    Best of 2011

    Terrific challenges for yesterday and today! Didn’t have a chance to do the Featured Stamper (FS244)  yesterday so I’m combining it w/ today’s Technique Challenge (TLC346). Congrats to Julie! Loved her gallery and I chose Lace Edges to case. I kept the layout and colors similar but used different images, added the ornaments and used some embossing down one side instead of the punched border.

    All images are Our Daily Bread designs. My stacked background was done by first stamping the snowflake bg w/ the sky blue ink. I stamped portions of the lg snowflake w/ sky blue & true blue pigment inks. The star like ornament was stamped w/ silver and the edges were sponged.

    The 2 ornaments & sentiment were stamped w/ the midnight ink and I added some color to the ornaments w/ markers & a silver gel pen. On the right side of the ultramarine layer, I embossed only the right side of a lg frame embossing folder.

    Originally, the crochet lace under the sentiment tag was white and it was going to stay that way. But I had a little mishap w/ an ink pad so I just colored the whole piece dk blue. Oh well. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50.

    Thanks so much for stopping by!

     

     

    Supplies:

    Stamps: ODBD – Holiday Ornaments, Snowflake Swirl Bg, Lg Snowflake
    Paper: white, ultramarine
    Ink: Colorbox midnight, silver, sky blue & true blue pigment inks, Memories sky blue
    Accessories: Tombow markers, Spellbinders ribbon tag trio 3 & holiday tags dies, crochet lace, silver ribbon, silver cord, silver gel pen, Sizzix Christmas 2 embossing folder

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  • Flashback Friday – Glitter Minis

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    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com/
    Today, I thought I’d try something different. Focus on something I made a while back but for some reason, never made to Splitcoast. The challenge today is Mostly Blue for F4A82.

    Mini Ledger from Innovative Stamp Creations

    This line is ideal for Artist Trading Cards, when you need a quick Mini-Card! Even accents the pages on a small Mini Book too! The tab image is super easy to use as you’ll see in the sample below you can use almost any of the phrases on the inside of the tab to accent your card, etc!

    I made a trio of little mini cards using a technique similar to the one Here. I kept the same general layout and colors for my set of 3×3 mini cards. The main images were stamped with Stazon onto acetate and stickles was added to the back side. The acetate was then attached to the backgrounds which were mad by stamping various elements of the Mini Ledger set and sponging ink around the edges. The notebook edge was done with a spiral punch. The tabs were inked then pressed against the mini ledger ( Kissing Technique) before stamping onto white card stock. This gives just a hint of the lines. The sentiment was then stamped in black inside the tab.

    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com/

    The little chipboard hearts and flower were first pressed against the Kpad (for color) then stickles was added on top.  Finished mini cards measure 3 x 3.

    Thanks so much for stopping by!

    Stamps: ISC -Mini Ledger, Flowers Watercolor Effect, Bush Flowers, Make a Note, Nature Silhouette II, Sketch of Roses II
    Paper: white, teal, lt blue, lt green, acetate
    Ink: Stazon black, VersaFine Onyx, Kaleidacolor Caribbean Sea, Brilliance Moonlight white
    Accessories: spiral punch (SU), black permapaque marker, stickles, small chipboard hearts & flower

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  • ISC May Reworking the Butterflies

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    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com
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    Best of 2011

    Instead of a new release, this month we’re taking images of our choice and reworking, or using them again. Betsy says she gets a lot of request for more art using some of the butterfly images. We all buy images, maybe use them a few times, then move on to new stuff.  So this month, we’re using images from our stash and let me tell you, I used a whole bunch of different images from a lot of different releases. And I’ll mention here that NO Designer Paper was used. A lot of background images and inks were used to create the different looks.
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    For inspiration on this first card, Betsy provided a link to a couple of pictures and I chose this Montage. I went very literal for my card. For the blue and green background, I used several texture background images from Textured  Backgrounds and Dimensional Elements Edges 1.  For the tan panel, I colored the inside of the embossing folder w/ a green marker and embossed it. All edges were sponged w/ the tea dye and chocolate inks. The frame was shortened to fit the central panel using a SAMJ and after coloring the butterfly w/ markers, I cut it out and attached it on top. The finished ivory card measures 5.5 square.

    Supplies:

    Stamps: ISC -Textured  Backgrounds,  Dimensional Elements Edges 1, Beautiful Butterflies III, Fruitful (frame), Tropics (greeting)
    Paper: ivory, blue, sage, tan
    Ink: VersaFine Onyx, Ancient Page chocolate, Distress Ink Tea Dye, Colorbox white pigment
    Accessories: Cuttlebug Bird Call embossing folder, Tombow markers, brads, small pin, SAMJ (stamp-a-ma-jig)

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    On the second card, I used sponging and masking to create the main panel. A while back, I saw this card by TheresaCC when she was the featured stamper at Splitcoast. I loved the layout but didn’t have a chance to try it out until now. I stamped and masked the daisies and background leaves then stamped the daisies again on a separate piece of c/s. When I saw that the ribbon placement would cover the original images, I cut out the second set and attached them on top. The pink, blue and green inks were sponged onto the white panel w/ the image masks in place. The finished card measures 4.25 x 5.5.

    Supplies:

    Stamps: ISC – Oriental Nature Elements, Nature Silhouettes II, Nature Silhouettes III, Artful Décor, Silhouette Butterfly ATC, Marvels of Nature III (tiny butterflies)
    Paper: Neenah white, baby blue, black
    Ink: VersaFine Onyx, Memories soft baby blue & baby pink, Distress Ink shabby shutters, Colorbox baby blue pigment ink
    Accessories: Tombow markers, wide polka dot ribbon

    Thanks so much for stopping by!
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