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Cool Cats

Posted on January 10, 2025 9:56 PM by Julie Comment

Today I have a die cut, paper pieced, mid-century mod birthday card. The two cool cats were put together with an assortment of dies and the background is a partial sunrays stained glass die with only some of the pieces colored in. It has a real 50’s-60’s vibe to it.

For the Inspiration Challenge IC997, we are visiting a site called Kate McEnroe & her Pinterest Board. I was inspired by THIS picture. I really love the atomic cat look & my only problem was figuring out a way to create this pair of cool cats. I’ll admit, I had to look through a lot of dies to come up with some to piece together.

To make the cat bodies, I used a large & a small vase, since the shape was so similar. The tails were the curliques from the Get Well Soon die. The head on the small cat is actually a letter D from the Vintage Alpha set turned sideways w/ white in the center. For the large cat head, I just cut a pointy oval shape then added the punch outs from the Hugs die. A black marker was used to add the vertical pupils. The ears on the large cat are just triangular pieces. The Sunrays background was cut out of ivory & I used ink to color in some of the pieces. A pointy flower die was used for the sun shape. The black frame was made w/ 2 arched dies. After attaching it on top of the background I used the larger one to cut it the same size as the frame.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies: (click the names below the pictures to take you to the products)

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: I Thought You Knew set

Paper: Staples 110# white, ivory, black

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Brass & Bliss: Color Fuse inks set #2, set #4, set #9, set #11

Accessories: Brass & Bliss/Rubbernecker Stamps: Sunrays Stained Glass, I Thought You Knew set, Stacked Arches, Vintage Alphabet, Hugs w/ Shadow, Get Well Soon, Mixable Flower stack, Vases & Shelves dies, Detail Blending Brushes, Misti

Sunrays-Stained Glass die 5747-03D	I Thought You Knew set 36062	I Thought You Knew dies 36062D	Stacked Arches 5715D	Detail Blending Brushes
Color Fuse Ink set #2	Color Fuse Ink set #4	Color Fuse Ink set #9	Color Fuse Ink set #11	Get Well Soon die 5749-05D
Hugs die 5205-01D	Mixable Flower Stack die 5107D	Vases & Shelves die 5309-05D	Vintage Alphabet die 5742D

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Here Comes the Sun

Posted on January 4, 2025 8:56 PM by Julie Comment

Today I have an easy card with many layers. Sometimes when my card seems too easy, I add layers to pump it up or add a bit more detail or color. You could easily make this a one layer card, just omit the circles and background layers. Either way, this stamp set makes it super easy to get a watercolor look without the water.

A big congrats to Cheryl, the newest Featured Stamper FS935. She has a lovely gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I kept the layout with the circle element & rectangles, but I used different stamps, colors & dies. I also made mine a spring/summer card instead of Halloween.

For my card, I die cut the top white panel & the larger white panel. Then I put the smaller one into my Misti & stamped the parts of this multi layer, water color like set. I mixed the colors on the stamps a bit, to get a more varied look. The circles were cut out of the top right corner, layered onto to coral & stacked back into place with the greeting added on the topmost circle. Another coral layer was added behind the largest white panel, a few rhinestones were added and it was done!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies: (click the names below the pictures to take you to the products)

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: Wildflowers in the Breeze set, Wildflowers in the Wind set (greeting only)

Paper: Staples 110# white, coral

Ink: Versaclair nocturne, Brass & Bliss: Color Fuse inks set #2, set #4, set #6, set #7, set #9, set #10

Accessories: Brass & Bliss/Rubbernecker Stamps: Stitched Rectangles, Rectangles, Rectangles w/ Square Holes, Circles dies, Misti, rhinestones

Wildflowers in the Breeze 36061	Wildflowers in the Wind 36059	Circle dies 5002D	Rectangle dies 5003D	Rectangle Small Stitch dies 5013D
Rect w Square Holes dies 5602D	Color Fuse Ink set #2	Color Fuse Ink set #4	Color Fuse Ink set #6	Color Fuse Ink set #7
Color Fuse Ink set #9	Color Fuse Ink set #10	Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	MISTI
Versafine Clair ink	Rhinestones	Scotch ATG

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Mosaic Birthday

Posted on January 3, 2025 10:23 PM by Julie Comment

It’s a New Year and time for a very colorful birthday card! This was a lot of fun and only requires 2 dies. This mosaic cover is fantastic and there are so many different colors you can put behind it or die cut them, like I did, and piece them all into place. I used large paint chips for all the colors and aluminum foil for the greeting die. How fun is that?

It’s my turn to host the Inspiration Challenge IC996, and we are visiting Lifestyle for Real Life & their Pinterest Board. I was inspired by THIS picture. I knew I had the perfect die & I also have a lot of paint chips.

I die cut the mosaic twice..once out of plain white & again out of heavy white. I used a temporary adhesive tape all over a piece of white & attached it. Areas of the die were cut out of a bunch of paint chips then I played with them to get a color arrangement I liked. Since I had adhesive underneath, it made it easy to place them. I used a permanent glue under each one when I was finished then attached the heavy white outline on top. For the greeting, I glued a piece of heavy aluminum foil to a piece of card stock then die cut the wording. I also die cut 2 more out of heavy white. One to put under the words for lift & another to go under the vellum backing. I used a very heavy translucent vellum for the shadow. After piecing all of those colors, I didn’t want to cover them up. The extra die cut word has adhesive on top & bottom and was attached under the vellum with the foil word attached on top. With the word sandwich, it will attach to the front but the adhesive won’t show. Some sequins were added for a little sparkle.