• Tag Archives Sponging/Color Blending

  • Spring Basket

    Posted on by Julie 1 Comment

    Best of 2011

    Happy Friday!
    Is it spring yet where you live? Seems like overnight, everything started blooming here. So  the idea of making a basket shaped card with flowers all over it just stuck in my head and that’s the direction this took.

    As I was deciding how to go about making the basket, I took a folded A2 (4.25 x 5.5) card and saw that the butterfly wreath would make the perfect handle. I stamped a little more than half of the wreath on the top part of the card and used two oval dies to cut it out by inserting the card only part way into the die cut machine. All of the flowers and butterflies were colored w/ markers and cut out.

     

    For the front, I cut strips of card stock, embossed w/ a plaid folder and sponged on the different colors of chalk inks. After weaving the strips, I attached it to the card front and added narrow border w/ mitered corners as a frame.

    Thanks for stopping by!

    Supplies:
    stamps: Spring Wording Square, Butterfly Oval, Three Butterflies, Single Flower Blossom
    paper: white
    ink: VersaFine onyx, chalk inks in wisteria, ice jade, French blue, pixie dust
    accessories: Sizzix plaid embossing folder, oval dies, markers


    This entry was posted in Best of 2011 Bugs/Butterflies/Dragonflies/Ladybugs/Bees Cuttlebug/Quickutz/Sizzix DRS Designs Girly/Feminine/Mother's Day Spellbinders Nestabilities Sponging/Color Blending Spring/Easter Watercolor and tagged

  • SNS Nontraditional Mother’s Day Hop!

    Posted on by Julie 55 Comments

    Welcome to the Sparkle N Sprinkle Nontraditional Mother’s Day Blog Hop!


    If you arrived here from Judy Rozema’s fabulous blog, you’re in the right place. If not, you may want to go to the SNS blog and start from the beginning.
    Hopefully you have been enjoying the beautiful cards presented by my fellow Sparkle Team designers. Our Mother’s Day inspired hop is nontraditional because we’re displaying cards which honor special women in our lives, whether they are Moms or not. We hope you will enjoy these feminine cards, and perhaps create something special for the dear women who regularly and meaningfully touch your life.

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

    For my cards, I made two different color versions of the same card. I think this will work well not only for Mother’s Day, but birthday, thinking of you, really anytime you want to send a card to special girlfriend or relative. The backgrounds were both done with pigment inks from the same collection. I used a little more coral and apple green on the pink card and more of the fresh green and amber on the green card. The floral background was stamped with the black ink and it was carefully cut out. The remainder of the background was used for the middle layer.

    The sentiment was stamped first with a combination of the same pigment inks. After lining it up with a SAMJ, I over stamped it using the black ink and die cut it. The ribbons were colored with markers to match and I tied them through the die cut buckles. The flowers in the backgrounds were colored in with the white gel pen and glitter was added to them. The finished cards measure 5.5 x 4.25.

    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com/
    Thanks for leaving a comment before hopping on over to Linda Loew’s fabulous blog for further inspiration. Good luck to you!

     

    Supplies:

    Stamps: Sparkle N Sprinkle – Leafy Floral Background, Love & Laughter
    Paper: white, marbled pink, mossy green
    Ink: VersaFine Onyx, Colorbox Arboretum Petal Point
    Accessories: Spellbinders buckles & labels 4 dies, ribbon, Tombow markers, Quickie glue pen, Bubblegum Pink glitter, white gel pen, black Permapaque pen, SAMJ (stampa-ma-jig)

     


    This entry was posted in Birthday Direct to Paper (DTP) Girly/Feminine/Mother's Day Glitter Sparkle N Sprinkle Spellbinders Nestabilities Splitcoast Challenges Sponging/Color Blending and tagged

  • ODBD Oct Release Blog Hop!

    Posted on by Julie 162 Comments

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

    Welcome to Our Daily Bread designs’ October Release Blog Hop!

    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com/Weekly-Favorite
    BEST OF 2010

    For my card, I used the new Randi’s Song set. I love the leaf block and beautiful script. I had some left over background from long ago projects and the colors just said Fall to me. I stamped the leaf block image 6 times onto an alcohol ink background (polished stone technique) and cut out three of the leaves to pop them up on the base image.  On the marigold layer, I stamped the script multiple times with the gold ink. I also stamped the shadow leaf with gold ink and the leaf veins using a Kpad. It’s attached to another background I call Gilded Rainbow (here’s the tutorial for this technique). The dk redwood brown layer was cut with deckle scissors and all layers were edged with a gold leafing pen. I wrapped some gold thread around the brown layer then attached it to a 8.5 x 4 (fits a #9 business envelope) card. The card was also marigold in color, but since I couldn’t find just the right color of rich paprika, I sponged it with color until I liked it.

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

    Thanks so much for stopping by!

     

    Supplies:
    stamps: ODBD – Randi’s Song
    paper: marigold, redwood brown, alcohol ink background & gilded rainbow background
    ink: Kaleidacolor Autumn Leaves, Brilliance Galaxy Gold, Ancient Page coal
    accessories: deckle edge scissors, Krylon gold leafing pen, gold thread


    This entry was posted in Best of 2010 Brayered Background Divinity Designs/Our Daily Bread designs Fall/Halloween/Thanksgiving Splitcoast Challenges Splitcoaststampers Weekly Favorite Sponging/Color Blending and tagged