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Star Ornament

Posted on October 23, 2011 12:09 AM by Julie 3 Comments

Congrats to Deb Saaranen, the Featured Stamper (FS246) on Splitcoast today! I first met Deb in June/July 2009, her last month on the SCS Dirty Dozen and my first month there. We were also together on the Our Daily Bread designs DT in 2010. She has such a wonderful gallery and I chose her Memorial Day Poppy to case. I kept similar colors and layout, but made mine a Christmas card, used different images and used punched bands instead of the flourishy dp Deb used. I also added a bow instead of a flower.

All images are Our Daily Bread designs. For my version, I used 2 polka dot papers and one solid dp. On the center, dk bg polka dot dp, I added 3 punched bands across the center. The sentiment was die cut using a Spellbinders rectangle and a Nestie resizing techinique I developed to make it smaller to fit the sentiment. It’s attached to a ribbon tag die cut. The star was stamped w/ white pigment ink and die cut using the new compatible Holiday Tags dies. The center panel has narrow bands on top and bottom before it was attached to the larger polka dot dp. the finished card is 5.5 x 4.25.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: ODBD – Christmas Door, Holiday Ornaments

Paper: white, wine red & white w/ red polka dot dp (DCWV Christmas Collection), dk red w/ white dot dp (unknwn)

Ink: Ancient Page bordeaux, Colorbox frost white pigment

Accessories: ribbon, Spellbinders ribbon tags 2, holiday ornaments & rectangle dies, Martha Stewart modern garland border punch, EK Success Chinese knot punch, rhinestones

Happiness Shared

Posted on September 14, 2011 4:32 PM by Julie 3 Comments

Best of 2011

Very interesting sketch today (SC350 ) at Splitcoast! At first it seems simple, but those angles at the top and bottom got a little tricky when I wanted to add a narrow layer.

For my monochromatic card, I stamped the quote (Our Daily Bread designs), die cut it along w/ a ridged grey layer. They’re attached to a labels 17 die cut stamped w/ a fancy label image. I used some stripe dp for my bg panel and used a Scor-Buddy to add some scored diagonal lines on the right card front.

The dahlia is a new EK Success punch. You punch a long line then roll it up to create the flower. I made a Faux Brad (I have another tutorial HERE) out of the grey for the flower center and added a few branches. The finished card is 5.5 x 4.25.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Stamps: ODBD – Seeds (Blessings Collection), Fancy Labels

Paper: vanilla, dove gray ridged, dp (Cosmo Cricket -Everafter collection)

Ink: Memento London Fog

Accessories: Spellbinders labels 17 & petite ovals, Martha Stewart branch punch, EK Success dahlia punch, Scor-Buddy, Tombow dk grey marker

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ODBD April Release Blog Hop!

Posted on April 1, 2011 7:58 AM by Julie 220 Comments

For my card, I’m using the beautiful new Mother’s Day set. To make it even more fabulous, there is a matching poppy die for the gorgeous poppy image! Sweet! After copper embossing, coloring and die cutting, I layered a second die cut poppy on top of the base image for a little dimension. I used the exclusive ODBD Elegant Ovals die (made by Spellbinders) for the double frame around the poppy. I made a lattice behind it using a trellis border punch and raised the entire rose pink panel from the white layer to enhance the lattice window effect. I doodled around the edge w/ a white gel pen and added a lg daisy punch border across the bottom.

The proverb has rounded corners to mimic a long word window punch. I added a dp layer before attaching to a 4.5 x 6.25 (A6) white card. A large yellow gem was attached to the center of the poppy.

Next, hop on over to Debi Southard’s blog to see what amazing project she has to share!

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: ODBD – Mother’s Day

Paper: Neenah white, pink rose, dp (SEI SunnyDay collection)

Ink: Encore UM bronze metallic pigment, VersaFine Onyx

Accessories: ODBD poppy die, ODBD Elegant Ovals die set, Tombow markers, water brush, Ranger copper embossing powder, lg yellow gem, Martha Stewart trellis edge punch, EK Success lg daisy border punch, sm. corner rounder, white gel pen

I am also adding this to these challenges:
Paper Romance #44 (add bling – well, that’s a big honkin’ jewel, isn’t it?)
Tuesday Throwdown (floral)
SCS Ways to Use It (Flower Frenzy WT316)

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