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Sailboat Summer

Posted on July 4, 2016 12:18 PM by Julie Comment

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Today’s Technique Challenge (TLC593) is reverse masking. Easy peasy & something I do a lot. On this little summer scene, I put the image into my Misti, stamped the sailboat, colored it w/ Copics, then masked it. I used a reverse mask for the horizon to cover the sky & sponge in the sea; put a round mask on the sun & flipped the horizon mask to cover the sea so I could sponge in the sky; then took off the sun mask & covered the sky w/ a reverse mask of the sun & sponged in the sun itself. Whew! That was easier to do than to explain. I even confused myself trying to write all that.

After all the sponging & masking was done, I added some white highlights w/ a gel pen, put it back into my Misti & over stamped w/ Versafine (all the coloring & sponging had dulled the original Memento lines quite a bit). I die cut it, added a narrow black layer then put a white die cut panel on top. The white panel has a square die cut to let the sailboat show thru & I rounded the corners. I was going for a kind of polaroid look for the frame.

Here are the Copics I used. Some of these were used to fill in little areas around the boat that were revealed when I took off the boat mask.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs – Sailboat, Summer Story Greeting

Paper: Staples 110# white, X-press It white, black

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx, Kaleidacolor inks melon melody, desert heat, caribbean sea

Accessories: Copic markers, Lil’ Inker stitched rectangles dies, Impression Obsession (IO) mini nautical dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics B, squares dies Misti, med. corner rounder, white gel pen

Sailboat 887F	Summer Story 881C	Staples 110# white card stock	MISTI	VersaFine Small Inkpads
Memento Inks	Recollections Cardstock	X-Press It Blending Card	Kaliedacolor ink pads	IO Mini Nautical DIE184-L
Stitched Rectangles Die Set	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B	Spellbinders Squares Lg S4-126	Med. Corner Rounder	White Gelly Roll Pen

Cattails & Dragonflies

Posted on June 25, 2016 1:17 PM by Julie Comment

Has it been crazy hot where you are? And humid, too? A walk outside around here is feeling like walking through a steam room. It’s pretty bad when it feels as if you’re wearing the air like a wetsuit. As Dr. Suess might say…I do not like the heat. I do not like it one bit. I do not like it even one little bit. For today’s Inspiration Challenge (IC551), we have a Pinterest Board full of Tim Holtz inspiration. I was inspired by THIS card.

(I DO like these colors. I do like them a lot.) And cattails & dragonflies are what you’d probably see in a hot, humid area. You can tell it’s hot because of the blazing orange above the dragonflies. I die cut a stitched rectangle out of the white linen c/s then sponged on the oranges from the top down and the green/turq from the bottom up. Then I put it into my Misti, stamped the cattails & dragonflies w/ Memento, added some color w/ Copics, then over stamped w/ Versafine. Just a touch of the splatter bg. was added here & there. The greeting was die cut in a double stitched circle & I sponged the outer circle w/ the same colors.

Funny thing about the bottom…I scored the top fold in the wrong place which made the front shorter & back too long. Instead of rescoring it (which would make it look funny & all), I cut off the excess on the back & added a sponged strip w/ part of the grid border on top. I guess another case of a mistake turning into an opportunity for change.

Here’s a look at the inside & below it are the Copics I used for the cattails & dragonflies.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs – Long Tall Cattails, On My Mind, 4 in 1 Garden Bugs, Splatter Bg, (inside: Cheerful Smiles)

Paper: Staples 110# white, Neenah white linen

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx, Distress inks carved pumpkin, ripe persimmon, cracked pistachio, peacock feathers

Accessories: Copic markers, Lil’ Inker stitched rectangles dies, Impression Obsession (IO) grid border die, ODBD double stitched circle dies, Misti

4 in 1 Garden Bugs 941C	Long Tall Cattails 605H	On My Mind 031D	Splatter Bg 855H	Cheerful Smiles 1107G
Staples 110# White Card Stock	Neenah Linen cardstock	MISTI	VersaFine Inkpads	Memento Inks
Distress Inks	Stitched Rectangles Die Set	Double Stitched Rectangles dies CBD123	IO Square cutout die172-1	Copic Sketch Markers

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Enjoy the Beach

Posted on June 20, 2016 12:15 PM by Julie Comment

For today’s Clean & Simple (CAS382) Challenge on Splitcoast, the topic is Wing It..use birds, butterflies, bees, etc. So I have a few little seagulls on my beach scene, flying just outside of the spotlight scene.

This scene was pretty easy to create. I already had the die cut circle so I put it into my Misti, stamped it w/ Memento, then sponged on the sky, hills & water, colored the sand, sun & tree w/ Copics, then over stamped w/ Versafine. After die cutting the larger white panel, I lined up where I wanted the circle, removed it & stamped the scene again on the background then added the greeting & seagulls. I added a couple of narrow black frames & done!

Here’s a look at the inside.

Thanks so much for stopping by! If you haven’t, please check out the DRS Thursday Challenge..this week it’s a color challenge w/ nice beach colors. There’s a nice prize up for grabs & DRS images are not required to enter!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs –Beach Sunrise, seagulls (from Seaside Dock), Enjoy Today (inside- Sending Sunshine, Palm Tree)

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx, Kaleidacolor melon melody, desert heat, caribbean sea

Paper: Staples 110# white, black

Accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders A2 matting basics B, ODBD double stitched circles dies, Lil’ Inkers stitched rectangles dies, Misti

Beach Sunrise 768L	Seaside Dock 1111K	Enjoy Today 1145C	Sending Sunshine 094D	Palm Tree 886G
Memento Inks	VersaFine Small Inkpads	Kaliedacolor ink pads	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132	Double Stitched Circles Dies
Stitched Rectangles Die Set	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Recollections Cardstock	Copic Sketch Markers	MISTI