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Serendipity SSCB#31 – Flowers!

Posted on May 7, 2014 12:00 AM by Julie 8 Comments

Welcome to the May Challenge for Serendipity Stamps! This month the challenge is Flowers…stamped, die cut, designer paper, dried…whatever you have. The sale at Serendipity Stamps this week is 20% off the alphabets category. Good through 5/14. And as always, we have a have a gift certificate up for grabs to a random player.

For the design team, we have the added challenge of using one of beautiful Floral Alphabet stamps.

I chose to use the Floral Alphabet S and Lg Wild Sunflower images for my card. I first stamped the Lg Sunflower onto a handwritten text designer paper and the Floral S onto white. I colored both with Copics, then die cut them both. I used my out of the box technique for the Sunflower, used a craft knife to cut & “lift” the lower petals & leaf of the sunflower, then attached it to several more die cut layers. The Floral S was attached off center to a die cut black piece then inserted under the “lifted” petals & leaf.

The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50 and these are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Please be sure to visit all of the Design Team!

Julie Warner (you are here!)

Karen Amidon

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Floral Alphabet S 518E, Wild Lg Sunflower 550L

Paper: X-Press It white, designer paper (handwriting text & solid black = Paper Studio) (black/cream dot = SEI Moonrise)

Ink: Memento tuxedo black

Accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders Adorning squares, squares, matting basics A & B dies

Blue Sunflower

Posted on January 23, 2012 5:00 AM by Julie 2 Comments

Since we’re doing (mostly) blue cards today, mine showcases this wonderful Sunflower image done in blues w/ a little coral for an accent color. I think I’ve said this before but I try not to let reality get in the way of how I color things. You’ll probably never see a sunflower this color in real life, but I like it! And because I love a good contrast, I paired the shades of blue w/ a nice corally-orange dot paper. A big scallop die was used on the bottom strips and the 2 shades of blue paper are actually the flip sides of one sheet of textured c/s. I used a pennant die for the sentiment, added a little twine bow and some beautiful little Swarovski crystals. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25.

Here are the Tombow markers I used to color my sunflower and the ink I used to stamp the images.

And last but not least, is my notebook page along with supplies I used. If you haven’t tried the Picksey Pick Ups, they are fabulous! Makes working w/ those little crystals an absolute breeze!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Please be sure to visit all of the Outlines DT and leave them a little love!

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

Supplies:

Stamps: Outlines – Sunflower H-81, Leaf 1 Med D-134, Set 8 Script Greetings

Paper: Neenah white, double sided blue texture (Cricut) dp (SEI – Happy Day)

Ink: Ancient Page cobalt, Colorbox Fluid Chalk rose coral (for dp edges)

Accessories: Tombow markers, Swarovski Crystals (sun & crystal AB) , big scallop edge die & pennant die (Spellbinders), Twine (pink sorbet), Picksey Pick Ups

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Sunflower Day

Posted on October 11, 2010 1:14 AM by Julie 7 Comments

Happy Columbus Day!

This card was made for two challenges at Splitcoast: yesterday’s Featured Stamper (FS192) and today’s Technique Lover’s Challenge (TLC294). For the FS challenge, I chose Jenn’s CAS Trees. I kept the 3 repeated images and horizontal layout, but used different images and offset them slightly. I also changed the colors. For the TLC challenge, I used damp water color paper but instead of stamping with ink, I scribbled water color crayons directly onto the stamp, misted it, then stamped onto the w/c paper.

All images are Innovative Stamp Creations. After I colored, misted and stamped the sunflower block individual sunflower 3 times, I used a lt brown gel pen to add a little definition and cross hatching to the images. I used deckle scissors to cut out the blocks and attached them to a piece of turquoise card stock. I stamped the greeting in the lower right then used a white gel pen to highlight and a dk orange pen to shadow the letters. It’s attached to a white, 5.5 x 4.25 (A2) card. The sunflowers were added and a cut out butterfly. I made 3 faux brads and attached them to the lower right card front.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:
stamps: ISC – Nesting, Flowers Watercolor Effect
paper: water color, turquoise
ink: Ancient Page turquoise
accessories: Caran d’ache water color crayons, white & dk orange gel pens, deckle scissors, mist sprayer

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Serendipity SSCB#31 – Flowers!

Blue Sunflower

Sunflower Day