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Serendipity April Blog Hop #1!

Posted on April 5, 2017 12:00 AM by Julie 18 Comments

Welcome to the April#1 Blog Hop for Serendipity Stamps!

If you arrived here from Miriam’s blog, you’re in the right place..if not, you may want to head over there first.

The Prize – One $20 gift code will go to one random commenter from the blogs. So be sure to visit all the blogs because you don’t know which one the winner will be drawn from. You have through Sunday April 9 to leave comments on the blogs for a chance to win. Mary will announce a winner on April 10 on her Blog. Each month a different image is 50% off. This month- it’s the Dogwood Branch! On the first & third Wednesdays of every month., we’ll be celebrating with a Blog Hop!

To make my Happy, happy birthday card, I die cut the white panel w/ the fabulous new Happy Background die. Wow! Does it ever make a birthday card attention grabbing & easy. I love that you can leave the big Happys in or push them out, like I did here to let some of the color of the bg paper show through. I stamped the Birthday onto a stitched flag w/ a navy ink & added a stacked die cut paper button for trim.

Here’s a look at the inside. Since the paper I used behind the white Happy panel on the front is double sided, I die cut out a rectangle from the card front so that the other side of the dp shows thru on the inside. I used that cut out of the card to stamp my inside greeting on.

Please be sure to comment on all the DT Blogs..it will be so appreciated & also increase your chances of winning!

Julie Warner (you are here!)

Vickie Zimmer

Marybeth Lopez

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Birthday (inside – Make a Wish, Candle)

Paper: Staples #110 white, dp (Pebbles – Family Ties)

Ink: Versafine majestic blue

Accessories: Serendipity Happy Bg die, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A dies, Lil’ Inker stitched rectangle dies, MFT stitched flags, blueprint 18 dies

Birthday 828D	Happy Bg die 082ND	Make a Wish set 1391ECL	Candle 1162C
VersaFine Small Inkpads	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Pebbles-Family Ties	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131
Lil’ Inker Stitched Rectangles Die Set	MFT Blueprints 18 dies	MFT Stitched Fishtail Flags

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Mail Dog

Posted on March 23, 2017 10:59 AM by Julie Comment

Today’s Ways to Use It Challenge (WT628) is a tribute to National Puppy Day. While I don’t have a dog in real life, I do have a cute one on my card & he’s learned to put mail in the mailbox. What a champ! And on the subject of dogs…the last dog I had was a blonde cocker spaniel named Tigger. We also had a conure (parrot) we named Odie. We called him Odie (after the cartoon dog on Garfield) because he thought he was a dog. He learned to bark from Tigger, but his bark sounded kind of far away. We realized he was imitating the dog when he was barking from the back yard. The parrot we have now is named Linus (after the character on Charlie Brown). He also barks because he learned it from Odie. Guess I also have a thing for cartoon characters, lol. Here’s a pic of Odie on his favorite cup.

To make my mail dog card, I put together 3 different images..the dog w/ the fence is one. Originally he had a big stick in his mouth but I drew a letter to replace the stick. The lovebirds on the branch is another & the third is the mailbox, which originally had a big smiling daisy w/ a letter in its leaf. So there was some masking going on here. After I colored everything, I used a self made cloud stencil & sponged in the sky, & stamped a lines bg, tone on tone on the blue frame.

Here are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs – Doggie Dilemma, Lovebirds, Happy Mail, Lines O’ Plenty Bg, Just a Note

Paper: Staples 110# white, lt blue, black

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, summer sky

Accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, lg & sm petite ovals, nested pennants dies

Doggie Dilemma 254H	Happy Mail 429G	Lovebirds Branch 413H	Lines O’ Plenty Bg 366H
Just a Note 244B	Copic Sketch Markers	Memento Inks	Staples 110# White Card Stock
Recollections Cardstock	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132	Spellbinders Lg. Petite Ovals S4-138
Spellbinders Sm. Petite Ovals dies S4-140	Spellbinders Nested Pennants S5-028

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Half Tone Happy

Posted on March 18, 2017 9:09 PM by Julie Comment

A big congrats to DJ Rants, the newest Featured Stamper (FS528) on Splitcoast! We were on the ODBD team together for quite a while & I’ve been an admirer of her fab gallery for a long time. After much browsing, I chose THIS to case. I kept the birthday theme & most of the layout, but I used different images, different paper & left off the top frame.
To make my birthday card, I die cut 3 white panels then sponged each of them from the top left inward, letting it fade to white in the lower right. I stamped & die cut the big Happy on the largest layer so the section wouldn’t be missed when the other layers were added on top. The little birthday was stamped on the lower right of the top panel. I also die cut 2 more big Happy dies out of white to shadow the stamped version.

Here’s a look at the inside.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Altenew – Halftone Happy, (inside: Pink & Main -Wishes)

Paper: Staples 110# white, dp (American Crafts – Spring)

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Distress inks carved pumpkin, ripe persimmon, candied apple

Accessories: Altenew Happy die, Lil’ Inker stitched rectangle, long skinny stitched dies, Misti, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies, button die (MFT Blueprints 18), baker’s twine

Altenew Halftone Happy	Altenew Happy die	Pink & Main Wishes set	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131
Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132	Lil’ Inker Stitched Rectangles Die Set	Stitched Mats Long & Skinny	Staples 110# White Card Stock
Memento Inks	Distress Inks	American Crafts -Spring	MISTI
MFT Blueprints 18 dies	Baker’s Twine