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  • ODBD April Release Another Look!

    Posted on by Julie 5 Comments

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    Today we are taking another look at the Our Daily Bread designs April Release! Don’t you just love the umbrella & cloud dies and the fun sets to go with them? Seems like I’ve been using them non-stop since they first arrived! For my card today, I wanted to use bright, happy colors to go with these fun dies & images. I just had it in my head that little polka dots are happy so I went searching my stash for them.

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    I came up with some bright pink, blue & lime green dotty paper so that’s what I used. I die cut the white front, then die cut the clouds out of it to use as a negative. The positive clouds were die cut out of the blue dotty paper and added behind.  The greeting was stamped first using the 3 colors of neon ink then overstamped with the black. I think the hint of color really adds a nice touch. The umbrella was cut once out of pink, once in white and the inserts were also cut out of pink. I attached the inserts on top of the white version then rounded it and attached it to the pink version. The grass was cut from the lime green and I added a few tiny punched flowers. After die cutting the gate out of white, I trimmed the top off to make it even and attached it over the grass. The umbrella and a few raindrops were added on top.

    Here’s a look at the inside using some leftovers.

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    Please be sure to visit all of the team blogs for more inspiration!
    Julie * Sandee * Cathy * Lori * Dawn * Wanda * 

    Sabrina * Lisa

    Thanks so much for stopping by!
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    Supplies:

    Stamps: Our Daily Bread –April Showers, Showers of Blessings (inside)
    Paper: Neenah white, polka dot dp (Making Memories, Recollections)
    Ink: Memento tuxedo black, HA pink, blue, green neon inks
    Accessories: ODBD Flourished Star Pattern, Clouds & Raindrops, Umbrellas , Grass Border, Gilded Gate dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies, tiny flower punch 

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  • Silver Glitter Lining

    Posted on by Julie 1 Comment

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    The Technique Challenge on Splitcoast (TLC529) today is all about using the negative part of a die cut and lots of glitter in different colors. Immediately, I thought of doing this umbrella in a rainbow of colors and adding silver glitter to the bottom of the clouds.

    It took me way longer than it should have. Oh well…live & learn. The reason it took longer is…the first time I die cut the pieces, one of cloud dies slipped & made a mess, so I had to do it over. Which was a little tricky…I had to die cut the whole layer first, then arrange all the pieces, leaving room for the greeting.
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    Ok, so that was done. Then I had a brilliant (IMHO) idea to use a sheet of one sided sticky label paper instead of tape. I die cut all the images again…but I die cut them from the wrong side. So I did it over. Sigh…I’m sensing a pattern here. I also die cut the umbrella inserts out of the sticker paper because I wanted the masks of release paper. Once again, wrong side..you see where this is going. 

    So I place the release paper masks on the areas of the umbrella then use navy glitter on the frame & handle. I pull one mask off at a time and add the other colors. I peel the mask partly back from the bottom of the clouds, add silver glitter, then clear glitter on the tops. Those little raindrops almost made me lose it completely, lol. But I prevailed. Then I temporarily stuck all the glittered images in place from the back side, put permanent adhesive on their back sides and pressed them to the card front. That part actually worked fairly well (yay!!). Then I took the miscut front, trimmed it to match the good one and edged it w/ pink markers before attaching it behind the real front because I wanted a little more dimension. Greeting stamped & I added a glitter button thingie in the upper right. 

    Whew! And it sounded so simple! Thanks so much for stopping by!
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    Supplies:

    Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Showers of Blessings
    Paper: Recollections heavy white, sticky label sheet
    Ink:  Versafine onyx
    Accessories: ODBD Flourished Star Pattern, Clouds & Raindrops, Umbrellas dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A dies, extra fine glitter in various colors, pink Copics, silver glitter button

     


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  • April Rainbows

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    Seems I’ve been making a lot of rainbow/umbrella/rain cards lately! But I love umbrellas and the challenge today on the Ways to Use It Challenge (WT526) is April Showers..so I wanted to play. Today I’m using a new greeting & one of the cutest (in my opinion) umbrella images around. Both are from DRS Designs. After coloring & fussy cutting 2 umbrellas (one to pop up on top), I took a piece of white card stock and cut a bunch of bands using large & small petite oval dies then colored them individually w/ Copics. After putting them back together, I added a white layer w/ a circle cut out on top and added the greeting & some raindrops.
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    I added the umbrella and some stickles on the raindrops and where the bands of the rainbow come together. For the frame, I took the piece I cut the white layer out of, colored it to match my rainbow then put it back around the white layer. Here are the Copics I used and it took about a jillion of them!
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    Here’s a look at the inside.
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    Thanks so much for stopping by! If you haven’t, please check out the DRS Designs Thursday Challenge...this week it’s Birthday Blues (make a birthday card & use the color blue somewhere). DRS images are not required and there’s a nice prize up for grabs.
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    Supplies:

    Stamps: DRS Designs –Umbrella Raindrop Background, Rainbow Greeting, Sending You Sunshine Greeting(inside)
    Ink: Memento tuxedo black,  Versafine Onyx (greeting), Kaleidacolor blue breeze (raindrops)
    Paper: Neenah white
    Accessories:  Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, petite oval & circle dies, Copic markers, stickles (inside= cloud punches, circle die, Memory Box seville buckle (behind sun)) 

     


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