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Serendipity SSCB#54 – Emboss/Deboss!

Posted on April 1, 2016 12:00 AM by Julie 1 Comment

Welcome to the April Challenge for Serendipity Stamps!
This month the challenge is Emboss/Deboss! You can get all the details over on the Serendipity Challenge Blog. Today, I day only..a special No Foolin’ Sale! 50% Off coupon – “AprilFool” will get you 50% off the highest priced item in the cart. Sale items included! And all the Mini Grab Bags are 50% off too! April’s “Stamp of the Month” is 50% off & this month- it’s the Adirondack Chair!. Be sure to check out the great deals on the Clearance Stamps! And as always, we have a gift certificate up for grabs to a random player.

My birthday card came together really quick. I knew I wanted to use this fun new Little Critters dies & Meow Mix set. So I’m looking thru my paper stash & find I have these blue polka dot frames left over from something else. I thought they’d look really cute w/ an embossed, yellow glitter bg. After die cutting the yellow glitter paper, I embossed it w/ a numbers folder then added my polka dot frames & a couple of smaller layers in the center.

The kitties were die cut a bunch of times out of the 3 papers. On the white kitties, I positioned the first part of the greeting & stamped it on each kitty. The rest of the greeting was stamped on a left over die cut arrow. I added some little balloons and a few threads of blue embroidery thread wrapped around one kitty tail.

Here’s a look at the inside using some left overs.

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps –Meow Mix set (inside – Happy Birthday II)

Paper: Staples white, DCWV glitter matstack, dp (Pebbles – Family Ties)

Ink: Versafine deep lagoon

Accessories: Serendipity Little Critters dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies, blue embroidery floss, Cuttlebug embossing folder (Numbers Collage)

Please be sure to comment on all the DT blogs. It will be much appreciated & will also increase your chances of winning! This month our special Guest Designer is Sue McRae.

Julie Warner (you are here!)

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Meow Mix set 1397QCL	Happy Birthday II 552E	Little Critters dies 075HD	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132
VersaFine Small Inkpads	Staples 110# White Card Stock	DCWV Glitter Matstack	Pebbles-Family Ties	Momenta Arrow dies
Cuttlebug Numbers Collage folder

Purrfectly Wonderful Easter

Posted on January 30, 2016 10:46 PM by Julie 1 Comment

A big Congrats to Kathy, the newest Featured Stamper on Splitcoast! She has such a fun, cute gallery & I chose THIS to case. I kept the Easter theme and most of the colors, but I used different images, put my image inside the circle instead of next to it & used an embossing folder instead of designer paper.

Since I don’t really have any cute little kid images, I used this sassy kitty image & paired her with a pair of fun bunny ears. After coloring, I fussy cut the kitty & ears and put her in a circular window opening w/ some textured blue paper behind her. The greeting is a combo of a couple of different ones & I used a stamp positioner to split it up in order to fit the panel. The larger white panel was embossed w/ a lattice like folder & a larger pink panel was added before attaching to the card front.

Here are the Copics I used.

Congrats again, Kathy! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs- Purrfectly Comfortable Kitty, Purrfectly Birthday Greeting, Cool Beans Easter Greeting

Paper: Neenah white, textured blue (DCWV mat stack), pink

Ink: Memento tuxedo black

Accessories: Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, circle dies, Copic markers, Darice embossing folder (wire fence)

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ODBD December Another Look & a Tutorial!

Posted on December 18, 2015 7:58 AM by Julie 5 Comments

Today we are taking another look at the Our Daily Bread designs December release! Aren’t you over the moon with these beautiful images & fabulous dies? As a special treat, I’m including a little tutorial on how I did the double die cutting. The stitched circle around the horses is part of the white stitched frame. Tricky, huh? It’s actually a combination of out of the box & into the window. I will mention, I do both of these techniques on a regular basis so I don’t have a problem coloring my image first. If you’re trying this for the first time, you may want to color afterwards. That way if you have to try again, you won’t be out a lot of time & effort coloring it.
This is also for IC524 Inspiration Challenge & THIS was the button I was inspired by.
After I stamped my image w/ Memento onto a 4.25 x 5.50 piece of X-Press It, I colored it w/ Copics. The horses were colored to resemble Indian Paints. I still had the image in my Misti, so I over stamped it w/ Versafine to really sharpen the details. Now comes the Double Die Cutting how to…(click any picture to make it bigger.)

To finish, I stamped the mill scene onto textured chocolate using the sepia ink twice then added the highlights w/ a white Prismacolor pencil. The leftover outer stitched circle frame was colored w/ a Copic & put back around the image. A punched fence was attached behind the image & the oval stitched greeting added on top.

Here’s a look at the inside & below it are the Copics I used.

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs–Saddle Up (retired, replaced w/ Horses), Living Water

Paper: X-Press It white, textured chocolate

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx (to over stamp after coloring), Versafine sepia (greeting & background)

Accessories: ODBD Double Stitched Rectangles, Rectangles, Pierced Ovals,Double Stitched Circles, Flourished Star Pattern dies, Copic markers, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A dies, Misti, Martha Stewart fence punch, white prismacolor pencil

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Please be sure to stop & visit all of the DT Blogs. You’ll find so much inspiration on ways to use this fabulous release!
Julie * Amy * Cathy * Robin * Sandee *

Dawn * Lori * America

Living Water	Horses	Double Stitched Rectangles dies CBD123	Rectangles dies CBD122	Double Stitched Circles dies CBD136
Pierced Ovals dies CBD172	Flourished Star Pattern dies CBD75	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	Picket Fence punch M284101	X-Press It Blending Card
AC color card stock	Memento Inks	VersaFine Inkpads	Prismacolor Pencils