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Sweet Watermelon Birthday

Posted on August 9, 2014 10:32 PM by Julie 1 Comment

A big Congrats to Katie, the newest Featured Stamper (FS392) on Splitcoast! It’s kind of funny, but a few weeks ago when I was asked to guest host the Queen For The Day challenge, the new Queen was Katie, who was also on my list for next up on the Featured Stamper challenge. So I just switched weeks and waited a little while to feature Katie. I chose THIS fun card of Katie’s to case. I kept the watermelon, colors & layout, but I used different images, left off the dry embossing and stamped my own black/white background. I’m also adding this to a couple of Dare to Get Dirty Challenges…DTGD14cathymac & DTGD14DiniA.

This is actually a 1 layer card. I die cut the main panel out of a 5.25 x 4 inch piece of white card stock & on the left over frame, I stamped the checkerboard bg. For the main panel, I masked off the area on the left and stamped the watermelon border. After masking it, I sponged on several colors of green ink & stamped the lines bg w/ the darker greens, removed the mask & colored the watermelon. The watermelon & ant image was stamped on a scrap of white, colored & fussy cut. I trimmed the checkerboard around it a bit to fit in the space. I used a SAMJ to rearrange the greeting a bit. Added some twine & a button then attached it back into the narrow checkerboard frame. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50 and these are the Copics I used.

Congrats again, Katie! Thanks so much for stopping by! If you haven’t yet, please check out the DRS Thursday Challenge! This week, show us your Chevrons &/or Arrows (stamped, die cut, hand drawn, whatever). DRS images are not required so head on over and link up your creation!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs- Lines O’Plenty, Watermelon Border, Watermelon & Friend, Checkerboard Background,Sweet Birthday Greeting,

Paper: white

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Kaleidacolor fresh greens

Accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies, SAMJ (stampa-ma-jig), twine, button,

ODBD August Release!

Posted on August 1, 2014 7:58 AM by Julie 33 Comments

Best of 2014!
Welcome to the Our Daily Bread designs August Release! We have such a fun release this month…we’re going to the beach! These images & dies are fun, fun, fun!

First the Prize Information:

Three winners will be randomly chosen from the comments left on the designers blogs to receive a $15 Gift Certificate to the ODBD Store, to be used toward the purchase of ODBD Stamps found in the “stamps column” of the website.
You have until August 2, 2014 at 9:00 p.m. EDT to leave your coments!
The Winners will be posted on the ODBD Blog on August 3rd, so be sure to check back there to see if you won!

For my first card, I stamped the wonderful Anchor scene, colored it with Copics then did a bit of my out of the box technique on the right side using a classic oval die. I kept the colors a little toned down to coordinate with the background paper I wanted to use. The larger black oval and wide black panel were done with the embossing folder stamping technique. I sprayed one side of an embossing folder w/ sparkly silver & gold sprays, then pressed a piece of black card stock inside. There is no texture since I didn’t emboss it…just sparkle! On the teal woodgrain patterned paper, I stamped the little anchor & compass rose with teal ink & the fishing net background on the right side with gold ink. The two different braided ropes w/ shells were something I’ve had in stash for quite a while. The smaller one was glued around the oval and the larger one tied in a bow and added. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25 & these are the Copics I used.

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Anchor the Soul, Smooth Sailing, Fishing Net Background

Paper: X-Press It white, black, dp (Paper Studio – ETC collection)

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, teal zeal, Encore ultimate metallic gold

Accessories: Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies, classic oval dies & Labels 21 dies, Copic markers, braided twine w/ shells, Heidi Swapp gold & silver shine sprays, Lifestyle Crafts embossing folder (Tide set)

On my second card, I went with a fun tropical color combo and lots of sparkle. I had some pieces of striped paper w/ lines of sparkle already in it so I used a couple of rainbow ink pads to sponge in those colors on the stamped, die cut flip flops. I also used them to stamp the big sand dollar then stamped the greeting on top. It was die cut with one of the circle ornament dies and I used a scallop circle on the teal layer. The little teal border was die cut with an edge of a scalloped long rectangle die I used on both sides. I added a few gems and stickles in tropical colors to the flip flop straps. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25.

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Flip Flop Fun, Life is Better, Ocean Treasures

Paper: X-Press It white, teal, dp (SEI -)

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Kaleidacolor Melon Melody & Caribbean Sea

Accessories: ODBD Circle Ornament dies, ODBD Flip Flop dies, ODBD Flip Flop Border dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies, scallop circle & scallop long rectangle dies, stickles, gems

Thanks so much for stopping by! Please be sure to stop by and comment on all the team blogs so you’ll be in the prize drawing!

Julie * Cathy * Paula * Grace * Chris * Lori * Dawn * Sandee *

Lisa * Angie * Sabrina * Wanda * Audrey * Silke

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Be Happy Flowers

Posted on July 26, 2014 9:39 PM by Julie 2 Comments

A big congrats to Heidi (stamptek), the newest Featured Stamper (FS390) on Splitcoast! What a beautiful, colorful gallery she has! I chose THIS card to CASE. I just loved the flowers and trimmed edge w/ the embossing on the right, so I kept those. I used different images, different embossing folder and different colors.

For my version, I stamped the outline flowers w/ worn lipstick close to the edge of piece of white card stock then trimmed around them. On an acrylic block, I smushed the lipstick & marigold ink pads, then spritzed the rubber of my solid flower image and pressed it to the inked block then stamped them on another piece of white c/s. I used a stamp positioner to line up the outline ( but slightly off, to keep a bit of the white) and stamped it in black on top. I used the matching die to die cut them and attached them down the side. The left side was die cut and I sponged the two Distress inks, pulling them near the flower edge.

The coral panel on the right was die cut & embossed & attached under the edge of the flowers. I added just a bit more color to the flowers w/ a couple of Copic markers then added the big black gem centers & the greeting in the upper left. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50.

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

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – 1304M Flower Pops, Flower Pops Negative Set 1318QCL, Be Kind Be Happy Be Well 1312F

Paper: X-Press It white,coral, black

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx (for greeting), Distress Inks marigold, lipstick

Accessories: Copic markers, Serendipity Flower Pops dies, Lifestyle Crafts embossing folder (honeycomb set), gems, SAMJ (stampa-ma-jig), Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B

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