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The Problem w/ Selfies

Posted on September 10, 2016 10:22 PM by Julie 2 Comments

A big congrats to Tracey, the newest Featured Stamper (FS501) on Splitcoast! She has a wonderful little gallery & I chose THIS to case. I kept the Halloween theme & layout but I used different images, moved the greeting to a separate layer & made mine a stamp selfie.

As you can see, the problem w/ taking a selfie (especially if you’re a pumpkin) is that you’re probably not going to get all of your little self in the picture. The pumpkin patch was stamped & colored & I also did a few extra to cut out. I die cut the polaroid frame & attached it over the pumpkin selfie & added the greeting circle on top. The greeting is actually a combo of two different ones I put together.

Here’s a look at the inside & below it are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs – Peculiar Pumpkin Patch, Monster Hugs, Halloween Arc, (inside- Batty Halloween)

Paper: Staples 110# white, X-press It white, black

Ink: Memento tuxedo black (Kaleidacolor melon melody on inside)

Accessories: Spellbinders A2 matting basics B, squares, circles, Copic markers, Misti

Pumpkin Patch 625K	Monster Hugs 975D	Halloween Arc 043E	Batty Halloween Greeting 548G
Staples 110# white card stock	MISTI	Memento Inks	AC color card stock	X-Press It Blending Card
Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132	Spellbinders Squares Lg S4-126	Spellbinders Lg Circles S4-114	Spellbinders Sm. Circles S4-116	Copic Sketch Markers

Autumn Pumpkins

Posted on August 30, 2016 9:44 PM by Julie 1 Comment

Today’s Color Challenge (CC598) is perfect for a fall card…cajun orange, curry yellow, chocolate & garden green. The dessert is to make a fall themed project.

For my autumn/Thanksgiving themed card, I started w/ the cute little pumpkins. Yeah, I know just stamping & coloring would be the normal way to go. Sigh…but I remembered seeing some pumpkins w/ another image on top & that stuck in my head. Once stuck, it’s there until I try it. So just in case you’re interested, here’s my practice sheet. I practice on copy paper all the time & usually save these for masks later on.

I did some doodling, masking, etc, but finally decided on masking the bottom & stamping the solid leaf (on the mid right) w/ brown ink on top of the pumpkin. After coloring a few to see how they’d look, I noticed that since it was copy paper, some of the color bled out when I added the shadow underneath & I liked it! It kind of looked like a reflection so I also tried to recreate that on the “good” version (upper left, above the watermark). The brown stamped leaf on the top of the pumpkin didn’t work out so well, so I went over it w/ a white gel pen & added the dots.

For the background, I stamped the sunflowers in the upper corner & the leaves in the lower left. I had to do a little out of the box to keep them intact. And while I was at it, I also cut around the parts that went into the main image so I could lift them on top. Sigh…I know it would be simpler to just do them separately & glue on top. But apparently I like to choose the road less traveled. Or the one that needs a machete to get through, lol.

Here’s a look at the inside & below it are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Fall Pops, Leaf Pops Solid, (inside –Happy Thanksgiving )

Paper: Staples #110 white, dp (Basic Grey – Green at Heart)

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, cocoa (Kaleidacolor melon melody- inside)

Accessories: Serendipity Autumn die, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, stitched rectangles

Fall Pops 1372QCL	Leaf Pops Solid 1329QCL	Happy Thanksgiving 1127D	Autumn die 065DD	Copic Sketch Markers
Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132	Memento Inks	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Basic Grey Green at Heart
Stitched Rectangles Die Set

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Serendipity September Blog Hop!

Posted on September 4, 2015 12:00 AM by Julie 23 Comments

Welcome to the Serendipity September Blog Hop! We are showing off some wonderful new 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.

The Prize – One $20 gift code will go to one random commenter from the blogs. So be sure to visit all the blogs because you don’t know which one the winner will be drawn from. You have through Sunday Sept 6 to leave comments on the blogs for a chance to win a $20 Gift Certificate to SS. Mary will announced a winner on Monday Sept 7. Special: Sale is Buy 3, get a 4th free. Lowest priced item is free! Good Thurs 9/3 through Monday 9/7. We have something new…a “Stamp of the Month”. Each month a different image will be 50% off. This month- it’s the Japanese Maple . Be sure to check out the great deals on the Clearance Stamps & sale stamps!

For my card, I stamped the pumpkins on one panel with Memento and colored them with Copics using the Pointillism technique…basically, a lot of dots, lol. I also did the shadows under the pumpkins the same way. Since it was still in my Misti, I over stamped with Versafine so the details would really pop. I used a pierced rectangle die but I resized it to make it shorter. The sunflowers were done the same way, except I only used the Pointillism on the centers and they were fussy cut. The pumpkins & sunflowers are from the new Fall Pops set. The new Autumn die was cut out of black & a black Oak Leaf die were added.

On the inside, I used the left overs (the leaf & Autumn are embedded in the textured white layer).
And these are the Copics I used.

Supplies: