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Grad Girl & Boy

Posted on June 2, 2014 12:00 PM by Julie Comment

Clean & Simple (CAS) doesn’t come easy for me, but I thought I’d give it a try for today’s CAS Challenge (CAS275) on Splitcoast to make a quick, stackable card. On the girl grad card, it’s really only 2 layers…the additional ones around the girl are really only rings I stacked inside the circle cut out. After stamping the greeting, I added two newsprint Candi dots in the upper right. They are also pretty flat and definitely stackable.

These are the Copics I used. Pretty much the same for both…just minus the pink on the boy grad.

On the Grad Boy, again it’s only 2 layers which were die cut. I cut around the boy and added some scrap metallic silver behind him. Just a few stars were stamped w/ green ink and some punched & die cut stars added. Very flat and very stackable!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs – Female Graduate, Male Graduate, Dream Big, Proud Greeting, Interlocking Star Bg

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, cottage ivy

Paper: X-Press It white, pink, black, green, small scrap of metallic silver

Accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders circle & matting basics A & B dies, Candi dots (on Grad Girl), star punches & Memory Box Precious Stars die (on Grad Boy)

Thanks so much for stopping by!If you haven’t yet, please check out the DRS Thursday Challenge. You still have a few days to enter and this week the theme is Holey Moley (use piercing or small punched holes). DRS images are not required so head on over!

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Pretty Peonies!

Posted on May 28, 2014 10:48 PM by Julie 7 Comments

Don’t you love these beautiful peony images? I think they are just gorgeous and I couldn’t wait to color them. For my first card, I’m using the Unabashedly Upbeat Challenge (PPUPBEAT1) on the Power Poppy Blog. I thought it was an awesome album cover but for some reason I remembered it having some lime green, so I added it. Anyway, I like the lime green added to the mix and that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
I played around with the images for quite a while since my images are digital and I’m not really used to using digital on a regular basis. Originally, I had the peonies and the greeting all on one page, layered on a copyright free script ledger image and a gradient background I made. You can see how it originally looked after I colored in the peonies on the image below. It looked ok, but a tad flat for me, so I printed out another background w/ just the ledger and gradient bg, fussy cut the original Copic colored peonies and put them together like you see above. I added a die cut black frame and die cut the greeting then attached my peonies on top using some dimensional silicone.

Supplies:

Stamps: Power Poppy – Peonies

Paper: X-Press It white, black

Ink: none

Accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders Resplendent rectangles, matting basics A & B dies, Gimp software (for making background)

On my second card, I used the Sketch Challenge (PPSketch1) on Power Poppy blog. Again, since my images are digital, I printed out the peonies in a medium/large size and colored them with Copics. Usually I’ll just do an out of the box treatment on the image, but I wanted the peonies to be slightly elevated so I fussy cut them and attached them to a large white oval with foam tape. The green background was die cut w/ one of the matting basics dies then embossed for a little texture. I used the Perfect Paper Crafting mini rulers to cut the 1/16th white mat before adding it all to a die cut coral layer.

I had a little trouble with the two horizontal bands, and I actually ended up using the negative from a die cut flag and backing it with a textured white strip. Two Candi dots in slightly different green shades were added as a finishing touch.

Supplies:

Stamps: Power Poppy – Peonies

Paper: X-Press It white, coral, moss green

Ink: none

Accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders petite ovals, labels 16, matting basics A & B dies, Candi dots, MFT fishtail banner dies, Lifestyle/Quickutz embossing folder (Chevron set), Perfect Paper Crafting mini layers

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Challenges: PPSketch1, PPUPBEAT1

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Wedding Cake

Posted on May 19, 2014 11:24 PM by Julie 2 Comments

Best of 2014!
The Color Challenge on Splitcoast (CC479), is a wonderful combination! Love these colors and I think they worked out super for the all the lilies on my wedding cake. And since my card is all about cake, I went for the dessert option of putting the greeting on the card front. Everyone loves wedding cake!

This card is pretty simple…only 1 layer on top of the card front. I stamped the Candle Corner and greeting directly on the top white panel and colored them. The cake was stamped on a separate piece along with several lilies. After coloring, I fussy cut the cake and a bunch of lilies and added them to the cake before attaching to my main panel. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25 and these are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by! If you haven’t yet, please check out the DRS Thursday Challenge. You still have a couple of days to enter and this week we want to see either a graduation card or a card using your school colors. DRS images are not required so head on over!
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Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs –Be Married Greeting, Wedding Ring Ensemble, Girly Swirly Cake, Easter Lily & Cross

Ink: Memento tuxedo black

Paper: X-Press It white

Accessories: Copic markers

This entry was posted in Best of 2014 CAS DRS Designs Splitcoast Challenges Splitcoaststampers Weekly Favorite Wedding/Anniversary and tagged CAS Copic DRS Designs DRS Thursday Challenge Splitcoast Splitcoast Weekly Favorite Wedding/Anniversary