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Sunshine Balloons

Posted on April 17, 2016 12:07 AM by Julie 2 Comments

A big congrats to Barbara, the newest Featured Stamper (FS480) on Splitcoast! She has such a fun, colorful gallery. I chose THIS to case. I kept the same layout w/ the layered square, but I used different images, different colors & changed it from a Christmas card to a birthday card.

I put the balloon in my Misti, stamped w/ Memento, colored w/ Copics then over stamped w/ Versafine. I also did 1 extra center section for both balloons to pop up. I already had the stitched white square so I die cut a slightly larger black layer for it & used a piercing tool to add the little windy swirls (for the TLC581) around the balloons.

For the background, I sponged the blue from the upper left corner in & the orange from the lower right in, directly on the card front. Yikes! I hardly EVER do that..I can count on 1 hand how many times I colored or stamped directly on a card front, & have fingers left over! I’m such a klutz, it’s like a recipe for disaster w/ me. But somehow, I lucked out this time & even managed to stamp the greeting w/o totally flubbing it. I just kept telling myself, “it’s only paper, it’s only paper”.

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

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

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs- Hot Air Balloon, Sending Sunshine, (inside – Sunny Day Birthday)

Paper: Staples white, X-Press It white, black

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx, Distress inks tumbled glass & spiced marmalade

Accessories: Copic markers, Stitched Rectangle dies, Misti, ODBD Stitched squares & squares dies, sequins, piercing tool

Hot Air Balloon –583F	Sending Sunshine 094D	Sunny Day Birthday Greeting 592G	Staples 110# white card stock
MISTI	VersaFine Small Inkpads	Distress Inks	Memento Inks
Copic Sketch Markers	Sequins	Stitched Rectangles Die Set	Double Stitched Squares dies
Squares dies

Wise Owl Teacher Thank You

Posted on April 8, 2016 10:37 AM by Julie 1 Comment

Today’s Free For All Challenge (F4A329) is teal & red. My teal is slightly on the turq side (I’m down to scraps of true teal..need to get some!) & my red is slightly on the vermillion side because it went better w/ the shade of teal.

Since it’s getting close to the end of the school year & a lot of people like to make cards for those special teachers. This also continues the DRS Challenge from yesterday to use a die cut. My original intent was to use the Owl & the Open Bible & then I thought, what goes w/ books? Reading glasses! Around here, anyway, because I have terrible eyesight. Then I pulled out the Teacher Tools & saw that the stump the owl was sitting on, matched up just about perfectly w/ the pencil cup in other image. If I had done it before hand, I would have masked the apple, but since the owl was already done, I just masked him & did an extra apple to add on top. The book was stamped twice & I used a Micron pen to scribble the “writing” & popped up the extra image to give it some dimension.

The teal bg was embossed w/ an apple folder & the Thanks word was die cut once out of the vermillion & once out of white & double stacked a little offset. The glasses were die cut & I put some thin plastic behind them to simulate the lenses.
Here’s a look at the inside & below it are the Copic colors I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by! If you haven’t yet, please be sure to check out the DRS Designs Thursday Challenge..this week To Die For (use a die cut). DRS images are not required & there’s a nice prize up for grabs!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs – Owl, Teacher Tools, Book (inside – Teacher )

Paper: Staples white, X-Press It white, bright turq/teal, textured vermillion

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx

Accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders A2 matting basics B die, Stitched Rectangle dies, eyeglasses die, apple embossing folder (Quickutz), Cuttlebug die/ef set, Misti

Oswald Owl 132H	Teacher Tools 792G	Open Bible 745C	Teacher Greeting 475G
Memento Inks	Copic Sketch Markers	Stitched Rectangles Die Set	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B
MISTI	VersaFine Small Inkpads	TE Eyeglasses die	DCWV Brights matstack
Staples 110# White Card Stock	X-Press It Blending Card	Quickutz Apple embossing folder	Cuttlebug With Gratitude 37-1163
Recollections Cardstock

Spring Dogwoods

Posted on March 30, 2016 10:39 AM by Julie 1 Comment

Today’s Sketch Challenge (SC586) has sort of a grid layout. I thought this paint chip down the side was a good representation of the divided side panels.

This is a very quick card…I already had the white panel that the circle cut out of it so I stamped, colored & fussy cut the dogwoods to add in the opening. It’s backed w/ a chocolate panel that all I had to do was trim the length. The greeting was added in Versafine sepia ink & I used a bracket border die for the paint chip.

Here are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs – Dogwood Branch, Spring is Coming

Paper: Staples white, chocolate, paint chip

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx & sepia

Accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A, circles, bracket borders dies, Misti

Dogwood 1092H	Spring is Coming 731G	X-Press It Blending Card	Staples 110# white card stock
MISTI	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	Spellbinders Lg Circles S4-114	Spellbinders A2 Bracket Borders 1 S5-181
The Paper Cut Layering Swatches	Memento Inks	Copic Sketch Markers	VersaFine Small Inkpads