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  • Winter Forest

    Julie Warner - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com

    Weekly-Favorite

    Happy Friday!

    For today’s Free for All Challenge (F4A150), we are to make a frosty friendship card. And for the Queen for the Day Challenge (QFTD146), everyone is the queen and we are to pick a card of our own and case it.  I think my little winter forest scene fits the bill on both counts. I cased my card Summer Cranes and kept the same framed layout but made it a winter scene and changed the hot summer colors into cool winter shades.

    The image is a sneak peek from DRS Designs. Since the scene is so complete all on its own, I decided to keep it simple and just let the image do the talking. I used two different rainbow ink pads to ink it up…first I used the varied greens, then tapped the bottom half against the varied blues. The moon/sun part was wiped off and I ink it w/ the black ink. I added a bit of shadowing and some color to the moon/sun using Copics.

    The oval frames were die cut and I used the white pigment ink to stamp the sentiment and little stars across the top. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50.

    Thanks so much for stopping by!

    Supplies:

    Stamps: DRS Designs – Forest Scene, Just Because, Starry Background
    Paper: white, marine blue, kelly green
    Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Kaleidacolor fresh green & blue breeze, Colorbox frost white pigment
    Accessories: pellbinders petite oval dies, Copic markers

  • Winter Snowflakes

    Julie Warner - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com

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    Happy New Year!

    When New Year comes around, I know I’ll need a birthday card for one of my sisters-in-law. And since she’s the only true winter birthday and lives where they usually have snow, I thought this greeting and all the snowflakes would be perfect. The images are all from DRS Designs. 

    Winter and snowflakes always make me think of shades of icy blue. So I stamped the Lg Filigree Snowflake and 4 in 1 Snowflakes with white pigment ink and white embossed them for the large background. Then I sponged on all the blue inks then stamped a few more of the 4 in 1 snowflakes on top with clear ink and clear embossed them. I like the dimension the different inks and embossing give t the background. The Winter Wording Square was also white embossed and sponged before cutting out and attaching to a white layer. On the inside I stamped the Snow Doubt Birthday Greeting on the inside. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50.

    Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a Great New Year!

    Supplies:

    Stamps: DRS DesignsLg Filigree Snowflake, 4 in 1 Snowflakes, Winter Wording Square
    Paper: Neenah white
    Ink: Colorbox frost white pigment, VersaMark, Kaleidacolor Blue Breeze
    Accessories: white & clear embossing powder, ribbon
    Techniques: embossing, emboss resist, sponging

     


  • ODBD December Release Blog Hop!

    Julie Warner - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com

    Hello friends! Welcome to the Our Daily Bread designs December Release Blog Hop!  You might want to start at the ODBD Blog so you don’t miss anything!

    Julie Warner - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com

    I love these new snowflake sets! To me snowflakes are just so happy! I’m using the new Sparkling Snowflakes, Bookmarks-Snowflakes and 2 previously released sets for the sentiments, Perfect Gift and Holly Tag. I also used the Bookmark Dies to die cut the bookmark.

    Julie Warner - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com

    For the bookmark, I stamped it with the indigo pigment ink and embossed it with the stardust powder then die cut it with the bookmark die. The sentiment was stamped with the silver pigment ink and embossed with the same powder and die cut with an oval die. I made the bookmark double sided thinking it would make a lovely Christmas tree ornament until after the holidays. Then it could be used as a traditional bookmark. On my coordinating card, I embossed the snowflakes on the cobalt blue background and also stamped most of them again using the cobalt dye ink. I embossed one extra small snowflake and die cut it w/ a circle die to add in the center of the white holiday tag ornament star I hung from the white bow. The sentiment was also embossed on white, die cut attached to a larger cobalt oval then to a white die cut fancy tag. I added some crystals for a little extra bling.

    Julie Warner - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com

     Thanks so much for stopping by!

    Julie2 sigSupplies:

    Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Sparkling Snowflakes, Bookmarks-Snowflakes, Holly Tag, Perfect Gift
    Paper: neenah white, cobalt blue
    Ink: Encore Ultimate Metallic silver pigment, Versacolor indigo pigment, Archival cobalt dye ink
    Accessories: Spellbinders circle, petite oval, holiday tags & fancy tags 2 dies, ODBD exclusive Bookmark dies (by Spellbinders), stardust embossing powder, ribbons, crystals, mini bowdabra