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Sending Flowers

Posted on August 11, 2014 5:47 PM by Julie 1 Comment

Today’s Technique Challenge (TLC494) is all about embossed water color (it’s also a revisit of TLC168). Love water color and I thought these flower images and dies would be perfect for white embossing then water coloring.

On water color paper, I white embossed the big Flower Pops Background then used water brushes and Peerless water colors to add the color. I started out trying to use the colors from the CAS285 Challenge, but I’m not sure I can get away with calling this clean & simple…though it wasn’t complicated. For the die cut flowers & leaves, I white embossed the line versions, then painted the water colors directly on the solid versions and stamped over. I attached these to a white panel w/ a die cut border on which I stamped the greeting. The large background was attached underneath.

Just for fun, here’s the inside. Since I don’t use designer paper that often, I often either stamp or use leftover die cuts and images to add to the inside. These were leftover strips from die cutting the border.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – 1304M Flower Pops, Flower Pops Negative Set 1318QCL, Flower Pops Background 1316L, Sending Lots of Love 971D, Happy Birthday 931D (inside)

Paper: X-Press It white, water color

Ink: Versafine onyx (for greeting), Colorbox frost white pigment

Accessories: Serendipity Flower Pops dies, white embossing powder, water brushes, Peerless water colors, Marianne Creatables die (Anja die)

Sweet Watermelon Birthday

Posted on August 9, 2014 10:32 PM by Julie 1 Comment

A big Congrats to Katie, the newest Featured Stamper (FS392) on Splitcoast! It’s kind of funny, but a few weeks ago when I was asked to guest host the Queen For The Day challenge, the new Queen was Katie, who was also on my list for next up on the Featured Stamper challenge. So I just switched weeks and waited a little while to feature Katie. I chose THIS fun card of Katie’s to case. I kept the watermelon, colors & layout, but I used different images, left off the dry embossing and stamped my own black/white background. I’m also adding this to a couple of Dare to Get Dirty Challenges…DTGD14cathymac & DTGD14DiniA.

This is actually a 1 layer card. I die cut the main panel out of a 5.25 x 4 inch piece of white card stock & on the left over frame, I stamped the checkerboard bg. For the main panel, I masked off the area on the left and stamped the watermelon border. After masking it, I sponged on several colors of green ink & stamped the lines bg w/ the darker greens, removed the mask & colored the watermelon. The watermelon & ant image was stamped on a scrap of white, colored & fussy cut. I trimmed the checkerboard around it a bit to fit in the space. I used a SAMJ to rearrange the greeting a bit. Added some twine & a button then attached it back into the narrow checkerboard frame. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50 and these are the Copics I used.

Congrats again, Katie! Thanks so much for stopping by! If you haven’t yet, please check out the DRS Thursday Challenge! This week, show us your Chevrons &/or Arrows (stamped, die cut, hand drawn, whatever). DRS images are not required so head on over and link up your creation!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs- Lines O’Plenty, Watermelon Border, Watermelon & Friend, Checkerboard Background,Sweet Birthday Greeting,

Paper: white

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Kaleidacolor fresh greens

Accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies, SAMJ (stampa-ma-jig), twine, button,

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Be Happy Flowers

Posted on July 26, 2014 9:39 PM by Julie 2 Comments

A big congrats to Heidi (stamptek), the newest Featured Stamper (FS390) on Splitcoast! What a beautiful, colorful gallery she has! I chose THIS card to CASE. I just loved the flowers and trimmed edge w/ the embossing on the right, so I kept those. I used different images, different embossing folder and different colors.

For my version, I stamped the outline flowers w/ worn lipstick close to the edge of piece of white card stock then trimmed around them. On an acrylic block, I smushed the lipstick & marigold ink pads, then spritzed the rubber of my solid flower image and pressed it to the inked block then stamped them on another piece of white c/s. I used a stamp positioner to line up the outline ( but slightly off, to keep a bit of the white) and stamped it in black on top. I used the matching die to die cut them and attached them down the side. The left side was die cut and I sponged the two Distress inks, pulling them near the flower edge.

The coral panel on the right was die cut & embossed & attached under the edge of the flowers. I added just a bit more color to the flowers w/ a couple of Copic markers then added the big black gem centers & the greeting in the upper left. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50.

Congrats again, Heidi! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – 1304M Flower Pops, Flower Pops Negative Set 1318QCL, Be Kind Be Happy Be Well 1312F

Paper: X-Press It white,coral, black

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx (for greeting), Distress Inks marigold, lipstick

Accessories: Copic markers, Serendipity Flower Pops dies, Lifestyle Crafts embossing folder (honeycomb set), gems, SAMJ (stampa-ma-jig), Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B

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