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Serendipity January Blog Hop!

Posted on January 20, 2016 12:00 AM by Julie 30 Comments

Welcome to the Serendipity January Blog Hop! We are showing off a fabulous new Balloon die & featuring some fun birthday images along with it! If you arrived here from Jenny’s Blog , you are in the right place..if not, you may want to head over there first. This is also for the Featured Stamper (FS468). Congrats to Michele! I chose THIS to case. I kept the bright colors & birthday & balloons theme, but I used a large reverse die and sponged on my background.

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 January 24 to leave comments on the blogs for a chance to win. Mary will announce a winner on Monday January 25. Each month a different image is 50% off. This month- it’s the Party Background. The special for the hop is free shipping on all US orders of $15 or more good January 20 -24. Be sure to check out the great deals on the Clearance Stamps! On the third Wednesday of every month., we’ll be celebrating with a Blog Hop! For another chance to win, be sure to play along with our monthly challenge. You can get all the details on the challenge HERE.

To make my very sparkly birthday card, I first die cut two layers out of white using two of the matting basics. Then the Party Balloons Reverse die was die cut in the smaller layer. On the larger layer, I used Distress inks to sponge on the different colors then attached the balloon layer on top. I also sponged one big balloon cut out and the Happy die and attached them. The Party Bg was stamped across a narrow strip using the Kaleidacolor ink & the Birthday was stamped on top. I added stickles to the Happy & the one balloon on top and used a clear Wink of Stella on the other balloons. Since we’re combining the hop w/ the monthly Challenge of Stripes, my colors were put on in stripes (or wide bands) and the Party Bg on the strip is a stripe format.

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps –Party Background, Happy Birthday

Paper: Neenah white

Ink: Distress Inks in squeezed lemonade, ripe persimmon, worn lipstick, candied apple, peacock feathers. twisted citron, cracked pistachio; Kaliedacolor Caribbean sea, Versafine onyx

Accessories: Serendipity Happy & Party Balloon Reverse dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies, stickles, Wink of Stella

Now I’ll send you on to Karen’s blog..I’m sure she’ll have something fabulous to show you! Please be sure to visit all of the DT Blogs to increase your chance of winning! Here’s the order in case you get lost.

Mary’s Blog

Jenny Gropp

Julie Warner (you are here!)

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Hey, Cupcake!

Posted on April 27, 2015 11:18 AM by Julie 1 Comment

For the Clean & Simple Challenge (CAS322) today on Splitcoast, the challenge to make a card with a cupcake on it. I had this big grin piggie & a fun “Hey, Cupcake!” greeting. So as I’m putting my card together, I start thinking…I need a really little cupcake. What to do? I started looking at my punches, figuring I should be able to put something together. The bottom of the cupcake is a little teacup punch. I cut off the handle & drew a few lines to make the cake part. The frosting part is a little cloud punch & I drew a few lines to look like frosting. I had a little candle punch, so that was handy. I think it’s just the right size!

The Wordy Birthday greeting was stamped 3 times on the background & I added a narrow strip of black to the upper & lower edges then added my cupcake bearing pig on top. I used a black glaze pen to add the 3 black dots in the lower right corner. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50 and these are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by! There’s still time to enter the DRS Thursday Challenge..Bloomin’ Beautiful..just have some kind of flower on your card. DRS images are not required so head on over & link up!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs –Birthday Party Pig, Hey, Cupcake, Wordy Birthday greeting

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx (for greetings)

Paper: X-Press It white, black

Accessories: Spellbinders square, label 22 dies, Copic markers, black glaze pen, small teacup, small cloud & small candle punches

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Birthday Balloons

Posted on March 21, 2015 11:01 PM by Julie 2 Comments

A big congrats to Kerry, the newest Featured Stamper (FS424) on Splitcoast! She has such a fun, colorful gallery and after much browsing, I kept coming back to THIS fun card. I kept the layout, balloons and fun birthday theme, but I since I didn’t have a balloon stamp like hers, I used die cuts & a punch for my balloons, used a greeting and added a layer.

Since my big balloons were die cuts & the small balloons are a punch, they don’t have lines like an image. So I die cut a large one & punched a small one and used the reverse masks as a frame to draw in my lines. Then I colored them and die cut/punched them. The layers were also die cut as well then I spritzed some shine spray on the top white layer. The Happy part of the greeting was die cut once out of the orange, once out of white and stacked, slightly off. I added some twine for the strings and a blue ribbon behind the Happy. The Birthday was stamped below the orange layer to finish it.

Here’s a look at the inside (above) and these are the Copics I used for the balloons. Apparently it takes a village of Copics to color in some little balloons, lol.

Congrats again, Kerry! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Dad, Be Joyful (inside)

Paper: Neenah white

Ink: Memento danube blue

Accessories: ODBD Happy Birthday dies, Spellbinders pierced rectangle dies, Copic markers, small balloon punch (EK Success), baker’s twine, ribbon, Heidi Swapp shine sprays

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