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Serendipity SSCB#38 pt 2- Sparkle & Shine!

Posted on December 17, 2014 12:00 AM by Julie 5 Comments

Welcome to the December Challenge for Serendipity Stamps! This month the challenge is Sparkle & Shine! You can get all the details over on the Serendipity Challenge Blog. The DT has the added challenge of adding gold or silver … and as always, we have a have a gift certificate up for grabs to a random player.

My card today features this beautiful holly wreath! I love gold embossing on Christmas cards but I also know that embossing powder and Copic markers can be a little tricky. If you’re careful, you can add a little color, but blending and using a blender pen are not recommended. They usually tend to “melt” the embossed powder. So in order to have the best of both worlds, I stamped the wreath w/ black, colored it with Copics then fussy cut it. I didn’t even try to cut out the tiniest little sprigs because I wanted the embossed gold version of these to show. Using gold ink & gold powder, I embossed it on another piece of white, added just a hint of color then did an out of the box treatment on it using a hexagon die. Then I attached the fussy cut version on top, a little to the side so the gold embossing would show more. The edges of the hexagon were also gold embossed. The greeting was gold embossed underneath the wreath and the other die cut layers were added before I attached it to the card.

Gold stickles were added to the poinsettia centers and stardust stickles to the red bow. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50 and these are the Copics I used.

Please be sure to visit & comment on all of the DT blogs so you’ll be entered to win!

Our Guest Designer: Nancy Penir

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Be sure to check out the after Christmas Sale! You won’t want to miss out on this!!

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Holly Wreath Cling set 413QCL

Paper: white, dk red, dp (Pebbles – Welcome Christmas)

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Encore ultimate metallic gold pigment

Accessories: Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, hexagon, squares, & bracket borders dies, Copic markers, detail gold embossing powder, Candi button, stickles, gold metal dots

Holly Wreath 413G	Wishing You the Best 286E	Copic Sketch Markers	Memento Inks
X-Press It Blending Card	AC color card stock	Pebbles Welcome Christmas	Ultimate Metallic Ink
Ranger Embossing Powder	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132	Spellbinders A2 Bracket Borders 1 S5-181
Spellbinders Squares Lg S4-126	Spellbinders Hexagon dies S4-368	Stickles	Candi Dots

Serendipity SSCB #33 Twine

Posted on July 2, 2014 12:00 AM by Julie 5 Comments

Welcome to the July Challenge for Serendipity Stamps! This month the challenge is is Twine. The design team has the added challenge HOT…(hot colors, heat embossing, what’s hot…etc). You only have to use twine. And be sure to check out the 50% Off Wood Clearance Sale, lots of $1 stamps, and Clearance stamps!
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For my card, I went with the Hot Colors option. I love beach sunset scenes so that’s the look I was going for here. I used a combination of sponging and Copic markers for the colors. I grew up in a beach town and I really love palm tree images so I thought this coconut palm would be perfect. After stamping it and the little sun/cloud image, I sponged on some hot sunset colors above the horizon and some water colors below. Normally, I would mask the tree and horizon, but I didn’t feel like cutting out a mask for the palm tree, so I sponged very close to the tree then filled in any white areas w/ Copics.

The tree and sand were colored with Copics and I used a white gel pen to add some highlights. For the twine part of the Challenge, I used a piercing mat & tool to make the two rows of holes, then used some of the yellow/orange twine from The Twinery to stitch the two layers together. I did divide the 4 strands of twine and only used 2 strands to stitch. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25 and these are the Copics & inks I used for coloring.

I’m also adding this to the Simon Says Monday Challenge…White, since this whole panel started out white.

By the way, the prize this month is an assorted pack of twine from The Twinery!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Please be sure to visit all the blogs to be entered to win!
Vickie Zimmer
Jeanne Jachna
Jenny Gropp
Julie Warner
Karen Amidon
Marybeth Lopez
Miriam Napier
Birgit Edblom (DT Alumni)
Jen Cuthbertson (July Guest Designer)

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps –Palm Tree set 004QCL, My Life 288E

Paper: X-Press It white, black

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Kaleidacolor blue breeze & desert heat ink pads, Versafine onyx (greeting only)

Accessories: Spellbinders matting basics B dies, twine (The Twinery), piercing tool & mat, needle

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Bird & Cherry Blossoms

Posted on June 21, 2014 11:38 AM by Julie Comment

Today’s Inspiration Challenge (IC446), is an ATC (artist trading card) site. So many beautiful ATC’s to see! For my card, I was inspired by THIS one. The brown/tan bg and cherry blossom reminded me of these cherry blossoms. And I thought they went perfectly with the Rustic Beauty paper which also has a cherry blossom in it, and this Bird image.

I stamped the bird, colored with Copics then cut around the areas that would need to be lifted on top of the oval frames. The cherry blossoms were stamped separately, colored and fussy cut. I tucked one branch under the edge of the oval on the right with the rest on top. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25 and these are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Cherry Blossom, Bird single

Paper: X-press it white, plum textured (DCWV), ODBD Rustic Beauty paper

Ink: Memento tuxedo black

Accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders ovals dies & Matting Basics A & B dies

This entry was posted in Birds Divinity Designs/Our Daily Bread designs Spellbinders Nestabilities Splitcoast Challenges Splitcoaststampers Weekly Favorite Thank You and tagged Birds Copic Divinity Designs/Our Daily Bread designs flowers out of the box Spellbinders Splitcoast Splitcoast Weekly Favorite Thank You