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Frosty the One Arm Snowman

Posted on July 30, 2012 11:53 AM by Julie Comment

I made this card for several of the Splitcoast Dare to Get Dirty Challenges….for Anna (Sweet Miss Daisy), Barbara (BAR) and Kittie (Kittie747). You can get all the details here: Dare to Get Dirty 2012 and take the Dare! (you know you want to, lol!)

We’d love to have you play along with us and there will be prizes!! You’ll need to be a Fan Club member but that’s easy as pie: Fan Club info.

The images are all from DRS Designs. I masked a bunch on this and did an out of the box treatment on the snowman and sign, added a die cut black layer and put them back on top of the big bg I cut them out of. The little dog (who stole the snowman’s arm) was cut out and attached on top of my 5.50 x 4.25 card.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs

Paper: Neenah white

Ink: Ancient Page coal, Memories sky blue

Accessories: stickles, Spellbinders sm & lg rectangle dies, Tombow markers, Mister Huey’s color mist (white)

Winter Snow

Posted on January 9, 2012 5:00 AM by Julie 9 Comments

Best of 2012 -SPLITCOASTSTAMPERS!

For my winter card, I used this wonderful Tree Branch and stamped it with indigo ink on the slate blue c/s. I shaded it just a bit using Tombow markers and added snow with a white gel pen. The two sizes of Flurry snowflakes were stamped in indigo and also denim inks. I added a few of the smaller flakes stamped and embossed with white embossing powder. More highlights were added with the white gel pen and the centers dotted with a Viva Decor Pearl Pen.

The greeting was also white embossed on a gold flecked navy piece of c/s. I attached it on top of a sentiment frame and colored in the dots. The finished card is 6.50 x 5.00.

Just for fun, I thought I’d show you my color inspiration for this challenge. I had this snowflake dp and while I was hunting for c/s to go with it, I found this Martha Stewart paint chip in my stash and those are the colors I used. This is a page in my little 9.5 x 7 notebook. I keep little leftover paper and ribbon swatches and bare bones notes on the card. It helps me remember what I did and what I used. I don’t know how many of these I’ve gone through, but they’ve really come in handy plenty of times and I don’t have to guess what I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope to see your creation for our Monday Challenge and please stop by and check out the details on all of the DT’s cards.

Jenny Gropp
Kecia Waters
Lisa Silver
Sue Kment
Julie Warner -me!
Jeanne Streiff

Supplies:

Stamps: Outlines –Tree Branch G-37, Flurry lg C-820, Flurry sm B-821, Shower C-424 (for the sentiment frame), Tiny With Warm Wishes AA-864

Paper: white, vanilla, slate blue, gold flecked navy, dp (Anna Griffin Christmas stack)

Ink: Ancient Page indigo, Adirondack denim, Colorbox frost white pigment

Accessories: Tombow markers (lt sand #990, tan #942, deep blue #565), Viva Pearl Pen ice white, embossing powder, snowflake punches (Paper Studio, Marvy, Michael’s), Snowflake border punch (Martha Stewart), white gel pen, snowflake ribbon

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Skating Away

Posted on December 30, 2011 1:07 AM by Julie 1 Comment

Best of 2011 Happy Friday before Christmas!
Are you ready? I always plan to be ready ahead of time. Best laid plans, right! Like this happy little fellow, my best plans are skating away, but at least the happy thought is there!
For my skating scene, everything except the cut out and added penguin was done on the one layer. I started by stamping the tree line then masking the snow and sponging the sky. There’s just something about a pink winter sky that I really like so I tend to use this color for winter skies. I flipped the mask to cover the sky and sponged in some snow w/ a lt blue ink. All except the pond. I penciled in where I wanted it and left it white. A little shading was added around the trees w/ markers.

After I determined where my skater would go, I stamped him again on the plastic sheet of my SAMJ (stamp-a-ma-jig), lined up the foot under where his right foot is, masked the edge of the pond, and stamped the reflection using the image on the SAMJ sheet as the stamp. It’s really harder to describe than it is to do. It’s just a simple reflection technique. After that, I covered the pond using a VersaMark pen and embossed w/ clear powder twice. Then I added a few scribbles w/ a white Permapaque marker and embossed w/ another coat of clear ep. We used to call this super embossing. It really makes it look like an icy pond.
Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:
stamps: Interlocking Snow Bg, Snow Background, Tree Line Border, One Line Happy Thoughts greeting, Skating Penguin
paper: white, pink
ink: VersaFine onyx, Memento angel pink & summer sky, Archival library green (for the tree line)
accessories: VersaMark pen, SAMJ, clear embossing powder, Tombow markers, Cuttlebug snowflake die, rhinestones

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Frosty the One Arm Snowman

Winter Snow

Skating Away