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Serendipity SSCB#40 – All You Need is Love!

Posted on February 4, 2015 12:00 AM by Julie 8 Comments

Welcome to the February Challenge for Serendipity Stamps! This month the challenge is All You Need is Love! You can get all the details over on the Serendipity Challenge Blog. For the Design Team, we have the added challenge of non-traditional colors for a guy. The sale this week is a 40% Off Coupon. 40% Off the highest priced item in cart when you use the code “40fromhigh215” Expires 2/11 and as always, we have a have a gift certificate up for grabs to a random player.

I’ll admit…I was stumped for a while trying to figure out the non-traditional part for a guy. Then I remembered I had this wonderful Marble Feathers Background and I thought if I brayered a background w/ a non-traditional rainbow of colors then stamped it on top, it might just work. After I did that, I die cut the large rectangle then the large Heart out of it. I hand cut a slightly larger heart out of black to border the marbled heart.

The Love was die cut twice out of white & once out of black to shadow it, then the 2 white die cuts stacked on top for dimension before the black cut was added a little lower. The U and arrow were done the same way (except reversed colors) and added below the heart.

Here’s a little look at the inside. I used some of the left over marbled background and the Mini Scroll Heart die.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Please be sure to visit and comment on all the DT blogs to increase your chance of winning! Our special Guest Designer is:

Kara Vrabel

Karen Amidon
Marybeth Lopez
Miriam Napier
Vickie Zimmer
Jeanne Jachna
Jenny Gropp
Julie Warner (you are here)

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Marble Feathers Background 753L, Happy Valentine’s Day II 688C

Paper: white, black

Ink: Versafine onyx, Kaleidacolor Baby Powder

Accessories: Serendipity Mini Scroll Heart, Solid Heart & Love dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, Font One uppercase alphabet & Shoot (arrow) dies, brayer

Serendipity SSCB#39 – Hidden Gems!

Posted on January 7, 2015 12:00 AM by Julie 3 Comments

Welcome to the January Challenge for Serendipity Stamps! This month the challenge is Hidden Gems! You can get all the details over on the Serendipity Challenge Blog. The sale this week is Buy 3 Get 1 Free. Good through January 14 and as always, we have a have a gift certificate up for grabs to a random player.

For my hidden gem, I used the wonderful Winter Town and a sort of spotlight technique. I also did something I rarely do…I didn’t color a single thing. At first I wanted to white emboss it on navy card stock, but the image is so detailed, it just couldn’t be done. So I went in the reverse direction and stamped it with navy ink onto white card stock. Just the spotlight area was stamped again on a smaller, taller piece and I added some “snow” with the Ink Spots image and few snowflakes cut from the Snow die.

I used the Marble Feathers background on the navy card stock layers. You can see it a bit more on the card inside along with some trimmed off navy strips and some stamped snowflakes & one fussy cut snowflake.

Please be sure to visit and comment on all the DT blogs to increase your chance of winning! Our special Guest Designer is:
Kimberly Wiener

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Winter Town 292L , Ink Spots 321D, Marble Feathers 753L, Snowflake small 356C, Snowflake Cling set 1335G

Paper: Neenah white, navy

Ink: Adirondack denim

Accessories: Serendipity Snow 039DD die, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies

This entry was posted in CAS Christmas/Holiday/Winter Serendipity Stamps Spellbinders Nestabilities and tagged Serendipity Stamps Spellbinders winter

Serendipity Blog Hop!

Posted on January 2, 2015 12:05 AM by Julie 33 Comments

Happy New Year & welcome to the Serendipity January Blog Hop! We are showing off some beautiful new Border & Valentine dies! If you arrived here from Jenny’s Blog , you are in the right place..if not, you may want to head over there first.

Prize info:

A $20 gift certificate is up for grabs and the winner will be chosen randomly from one of the blogs.
Commenters have until Jan 4 to leave a comment. The winner wil be posted on Marys blog on Jan 5.

On my first card, I couldn’t wait to use the new Heart Scroll Border die. After die cutting it in white, I die cut the scallop part in a blue-violet designer paper and just a narrow border of the lime green dp from the same paper pad. The beautiful Tulip Vase was colored with Copics and die cut using an out of the box technique.

Here’s a picture showing you a bit about doing this out of the box using a die. Basically, lightly pencil the inside of the die and make cuts around the areas that will be above the die then lift them so they will not be cut. Then die cut & emboss as usual. Please see the link above for more detailed info.

Here’s a part I rarely show…this collection of dp has some of my fave colors and I’m running low, so I die cut the fancy lime green layer behind the tulips out of the backing layer in order to not use another sheet. With the blue-violet layer on top of the larger lime green, the cut out will never be missed 🙂 The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50 and these are the Copics I used.

Here’s a peek at the inside.

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Tulip Vase

Paper:X-Press It white, dp (SEI – On the Coast)

Ink: Memento tuxedo black

Accessories: Serendipity Heart Scroll & Border, Love, Happy, Valentines, & Day dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, Labels 28 & Decorative Labels 28 dies, Copic markers,

My second card was pretty quick. Minimal coloring and mostly die cuts.

The Bird with Hearts was stamped with the greeting just below it then die cut. The hearts were stamped again on some red glitter sticker paper and fussy cut.

The Heart & Scroll border and the Mini Scroll Heart & Scallop Heart dies were also die cut out of the red glitter paper. I die cut an extra scallop heart out of white then hand trimmed it close to the red glitter scroll heart. The dove was lightly shaded with a couple of cool gray Copics. Here’s a look at the inside.

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Bird with Hearts, My Only Heart, Happy Valentine’s Day II

Paper:X-Press It white, red glitter sticker paper, red linen

Ink: Memento tuxedo black

Accessories: Serendipity Heart Scroll & Border, Heart Scroll & Heart Solid dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies, cool gray Copic markers

Here’s the hop order in case you get lost:

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Tulip Vase 443G	Love d ie 011DD	Happy Bg die 082ND	Valentine’s die 047ED	Day die 041CD
My Only Heart 190D	Bird w/ Hearts 176E	Valentine’s Day II 688C	Heart Scroll die 001GD	Heart Solid die 003GD
Copic Sketch Markers	Memento Inks	X-Press It Blending Card	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132
SEI- On the Coast	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Spellbinders Labels 28 S5-127	Spellbinders Decorative Labels 28 S5-191