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  • Birthday Flowers

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    Julie Warner – https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com
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    Best of 2014!
    Today’s Color Challenge (CC474) on Splitcoast uses some very pretty colors…pink, pistachio & vanilla. The dessert option was a little tough…NO STAMPING! That may be easy for some, but it was a little tougher for me because I love to use images and I love to color them. For my card, I did manage the dessert. I relied on die cuts and punches to see me through.

    Julie Warner – https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com
    For the vanilla panel, I used only the first half of a Memory Box die cut. The whole die says “Happy Holidays”. But I positioned it on the top of my vanilla panel, taped it place, then let the “holidays” part hang off of the cutting plate. I wasn’t sure if it would work, but it did! The birthday die is a little Sizzix sizzlet and I only used the birthday part instead of the whole “happy birthday”. The flowers, flower border and branches were all done with punches. I sponged a little darker pink ink on the petal edges and added some tiny black dots on the border flowers and tiny flowers. The big green leaves are from a poinsettia die. I used a dk pink Copic to color my rhinestone brad to match.

    Thanks so much for stopping by!

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    Supplies:

    Stamps: NONE
    Ink:  Memento pistachio (for shading leaves), Colorbox rose coral chalk ink (for shading flower petals)
    Paper: vanilla, pink, lt green
    Accessories:  pink Copic marker, black Micron pen, Spellbinders poinsettia & matting basics A dies, Memory Box Happy Holidays die, Sizzix Happy Birthday sizzlet die, Floriana punch (McGill), hydrangea border, hydrangea flowers,  & branches punches (Martha Stewart), rhinestone brad, dimensional silicone

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  • ODBD April Release!

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    Julie Warner - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com
    Welcome to the Our Daily Bread designs April release! Can you believe it’s already April? Well, you won’t believe this month’s release, either! We are talking some fabulous dies, papers and images! I am really loving this Vintage Flourish Pattern die! And the chalkboard background images are terrific!

    Prize Details:

    • Three winners will be randomly chosen from the comments left on the designers blogs to receive a $15 Gift Certificate to the ODBD Store, to be used toward the purchase of ODBD Stamps. 
    • You have until April 2, 2014 at 9:00 p.m. EDT to leave your comments! 
    • The Winners will be posted on the ODBD Blog on April 3rd, so be sure to check back there to see if you won!

     I kept picturing neon colors behind a black pattern so for my pair of neon birthday cards, I first colored half of an 8.5 x 11  piece of white card stock with a rainbow of fluorescent Copics mixed with a bit of neon Sharpies. On the one above, I did a  swirly hodgepodge and on the one below I  did rainbow stripes. Then I stamped the Chalkboard Fan background with versafine onyx.  I used versafine because I consistently get a better black coverage with large, detailed images like this one.  On the one above, I used the Vintage Flourish die to die cut the entire background, then die cut another out of white. I covered a piece of white paper with adhesive (just used my ATG big gun) and stuck the white version to it. Call me crazy, but I took all the neon piece (negative bits that are usually discarded) and pieced them into the corresponding spaces on the white version. Then I placed the die back over it and ran it through the embossing cycle again just to make sure it all stuck in place.  I used the largest center die to cut out the large neon center frame and used the smallest insert to cut the scrolly frame. So I actually got all of the neon pieces out of the one background! Not too shabby! The greeting was stamped w/ neon pink ink and the  frame w/ black then fussy cut.The white layer was stamped w/ black and die cut. 

    Julie Warner - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com
    This one was a bit simpler. I added a die cut white frame that I pierced all the way around and a smaller white frame that was stamped with black. The scrolly center was done the same as above except in white. So in reality, I actually was able to make two A2 sized birthday cards out of 1 piece of 8.5 x 11 white card stock (not counting the actual cards). Not too bad, considering all the parts and pieces! These are the Copics & Sharpies I used for both cards.Julie Warner - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com

    Thanks so much for stopping by! Please be sure to visit all of the DT blogs so you’ll be entered to win!

     Chris * Sandee * Grace * Stacy * Dawn * Julie * Lori * Cathy * 

    Sabrina * Silke * Wanda * Angie * Audrey * Lisa

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    Supplies:

    Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Flourish Label Borders, Chalkboard Fan Background, Mini Tags 3
    Paper: X-Press It white
    Ink:  Versfine onyx, HA neon pink
    Accessories: ODBD Vintage Flourish Pattern die, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A dies, Copic fluorescent markers, Sharpie neon markers, paper piercing tool

     

     


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  • Birthday Boat

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    T    oday’s Ways to Use It challenge (WT472) is to make a long card. I haven’t made one in a quite a while and I thought this image would fit nicely in a long format. The card itself is pretty simple…stamped & colored the image then die cut the frames & attached them on top of the image. The greeting was stamped directly on the 6.25 x 3.50 card front. The little Candi dots were added…well, the bottom one was added when I saw a mystery smudge & had to cover it. One didn’t seem right, so I added another just above it. Then mystery smudge #2 appeared up on top, so 3 Candi dots it was!

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    Anyway, these are the Copics I used.
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    Thanks so much for stopping by! If you haven’t yet, please check out the DRS Thursday Challenge. This week… Leftovers Again? Use scraps & leftovers on your project. DRS images are not required, so head on over and link up your creation.
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    Supplies:

    Stamps: DRS Designs – Birthday Multi Greeting, Seaside Dock
    Ink:  Memento tuxedo black
    Paper: X-Press It white, black
    Accessories:  Copic Markers, Spellbinders sm & lg deckled rectangle dies, Candi dots (newsprint, white gel pen

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