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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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  • Serendipity March Blog Hop!

    Posted on by Julie 34 Comments

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    Welcome to the Serendipity March Blog Hop! We are showing off some beautiful new dies & images! 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 until Sunday, March 15 to leave comments. The winner will be announced on Mary’s blog on Monday March 16.
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    For my card today, I’m using this super cute Baby Elephant and You Make Me Happy circle greeting. After coloring & fussy cutting the baby ellie, I figured out how to work out the (mostly flat) shaker pouch on the side for my sequin mix. I read about a fancy tool to seal pouches like this (reminds me of my seal a meal, but looks like a stencil cutter). Since I don’t happen to have one and I needed one right this minute, I subbed a bit. Let me show you a few pics that hopefully will explain.
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    This is the back side of the largest white layer. I started by die cutting all my layers using the matting basics & pierced rectangles. After penciling in where my side opening would be, I used part of a curved die to cut it. Actually, to make sure all the pieces would be cut the same, I used temporary tape to line them up and cut them as one.  For the pouch, I cut a triangular piece from the folded edge of a page protector…sort of like cutting a pattern on the fold. Double sided tape was applied between the protector layers on the top part (to close it), I filled it w/ sequins, then added another strip of tape at the bottom to close the pouch and attached it to the back side of my largest layer as shown.
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    This is the same piece from the front side.
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    And how they look all stacked together. That’s the curved die I used to cut the side opening. All that was left was to attach everything to the card, add my circle cut greeting and a few die cut clouds. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50 and these are the Copics I used.
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    A peek at the inside: 
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    Supplies:

    Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Baby Elephant, You Make Me Happy,  Happy BirthdayII , Cupcake & Candle ( on inside)
    Paper: X-Press It white, Neenah white, dp (Basic Grey- Kneehighs)
    Ink:  Memento tuxedo black
    Accessories:  Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, pierced rectangle, circle dies,  cloud dies, stitched hills dies, Copic markers, sheet protector, double sided tape, sequins

    This is a card I posted a day or so ago using some of the Retro Starburst Images. Just click on the pic and it will take you to the post with all the info.
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    Now, you’ll need to hop on over to Karen’s Blog. I know she’ll have something wonderful to show you! Here’s the hop list, in case you get lost:

    Thanks so much for stopping by!
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