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  • Floral Oval Sympathy

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    Today’s Technique Challenge (TLC528) on Splitcoast is Cluster Stamping and involves die cutting or punching a large mask then stamping inside with smaller images. I die cut an oval out of a card sized piece of copy paper where I wanted it to be on the actual card. After placing this reverse mask on top of the actual piece of card, I sponged pink ink inside and a little gray around the edges.

    Leaving the mask in place, I stamped the different flower images, then using a tiny acrylic paintbrush, I painted bleach on the flowers to remove most of the color. I also went over it a bit with a white Prismacolor pencil to smooth out the white areas. After removing the mask, I used a pierced oval around it. The greeting was stamped (using a stamp positioner to move the lines closer together) in the lower right and a fussy cut little bird was added on the left along w/ a few clear sequins. These are the Copics I used for the bird.
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    I started w/ the RV colors then thought the pink was a little too much on the cool side to go w/ the sponged pink so I added just a touch of the cherry white to warm it up. Here’s a look at the inside.
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    Thanks so much for stopping by!
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    Supplies:

    Stamps: DRS Designs –Dandelion Puff, Dogwood Branch, 4 Flower Background, Bird on Branch, May Memories Sympathy, Deepest Sympathy (inside)
    Ink: Memento tuxedo black,  Distress inks spun sugar, weathered wood
    Paper: Neenah white, sparkle dk gray heather
    Accessories:  Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, oval & pierced oval dies, bleach, small acrylic paintbrush, white Prismacolor pencil, clear sequins

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  • Birthday Balloons

    Posted on by Julie 2 Comments

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    A big congrats to Kerry, the newest Featured Stamper (FS424) on Splitcoast! She has such a fun, colorful gallery and after much browsing, I kept coming back to THIS fun card. I kept the layout, balloons and fun birthday theme, but I since I didn’t have a balloon stamp like hers, I used die cuts & a punch for my balloons, used a greeting and added a layer. 
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    Since my big balloons were die cuts & the small balloons are a punch, they don’t have lines like an image. So I die cut a large one & punched a small one and used the reverse masks as a frame to draw in my lines. Then I colored them and die cut/punched them. The layers were also die cut as well then I spritzed some shine spray on the top white layer. The Happy part of the greeting was die cut once out of the orange, once out of white and stacked, slightly off. I added some twine for the strings and a blue ribbon behind the Happy. The Birthday was stamped below the orange layer to finish it.

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    Here’s a look at the inside (above) and these are the Copics I used for the balloons. Apparently it takes a village of Copics to color in some little balloons, lol.

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    Congrats again, Kerry! Thanks so much for stopping by!
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    Supplies:

    Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Dad, Be Joyful (inside)
    Paper: Neenah white
    Ink:  Memento danube blue
    Accessories: ODBD Happy Birthday dies,  Spellbinders pierced rectangle dies, Copic markers, small balloon punch (EK Success), baker’s twine, ribbon, Heidi Swapp shine sprays

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  • ODBD March Review!

    Posted on by Julie 5 Comments

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    Today we are taking another look at the Our Daily Bread designs March release! Such beautiful images, perfect dies & gorgeous paper for spring & Easter!
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    For my Easter basket card, I started with a piece of the beautiful Shabby Rose paper. I wanted a tone on tone sort of look so I kept the colors soft. The Victorian velvet ink is a good match for the paper & I only used a couple of Copics to color in my basket. Since generally, Copics & heat embossing don’t go together (the markers tend to “melt” the embossing), I had to go about it a little differently. I could have used water color paper & water based markers, but the texture of w/c paper doesn’t allow for smooth embossing. So here are a couple of pictures showing my work around for this conundrum. (Click to make any picture larger.)
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    First, I stamped the basket w/ the Victorian velvet ink and used the two colors of Copics shown to lightly color it in. It looks pretty good like this…a no line coloring sort of look. But I really wanted it white embossed. So I used a stamp positioner to line it up again, stamped it with white pigment ink and heat embossed with white powder, as shown below.
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    As you can see, the colors go with the paper just perfectly! I fussy cut the basket, stamped some of the eggs w/ the same Distress ink & die cut them with the matching dies. I added a die cut greeting and some white grass in and behind the basket. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25 & here’s a look at the inside.

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    Supplies:

    Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Blessed Easter, Basket of Blessings
    Paper:  Neenah white, dp (ODBD Shabby Rose paper collection)
    Ink: Distress ink Victorian velvet, Colorbox frost white pigment 
    Accessories:  ODBD Vintage Flourish Pattern, Flourished Star pattern, Grass Border,Eggs dies, white detail embossing powder, Copic markers, sheer ribbon, mini bowdabra

    Please be sure to stop by all the DT blogs for more Spring & Easter inspiration!

    Julie * Cathy * Lori * Dawn * Sandee * Wanda

    Thanks so much for stopping by!
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