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Wish BIG

Posted on July 15, 2015 7:30 PM by Julie 1 Comment

Today’s Sketch Challenge (SC549) looked really interesting so I gave it a try. Actually my card is pretty easy…

…except for the part where after die cutting all the sections, I had to put them back together & make them fit inside the matting die. Yep..not that part. The background on top was already made & in my stash so that was easy. It’s a water color w/ Brushos & splattered w/ gold acrylic paint. The gold embossing of the stars & splatter was easy…but not the greeting. I had to do a lot of masking to combine two greetings, so not that part. And not the part where I accidentally hit the spoon sitting in the jar of embossing powder & it went everywhere…definitely not that part. But die cutting the gold star which just happened to be the exact right size of the original image was easy 🙂

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs – Shooting Star , Dream Big, Birthday Wishes, Interlocking Star Bg, Splatter Bg

Paper: water color, turquoise, cobalt blue, lime green, scrap of metallic gold

Ink: Encore ultimate metallic gold pigment

Accessories: Spellbinders A2 matting basics B & curved border dies, ODBD Sparkling Stars & Flourished Star Pattern dies, Brushos water color crystals, gold embossing powder

Serendipity SSCB#44 – My Guy!

Posted on June 3, 2015 12:00 AM by Julie 5 Comments

Welcome to the June Challenge for Serendipity Stamps! This month the challenge is My Guy (masculine card)! The Design Team has the added challenge of using texture (embossing, fabric, etc.). You can get all the details over on the Serendipity Challenge Blog. We have something new…a “Stamp of the Month”. Each month a different image will be 50% off. This month- it’s the Grill. Be sure to check out the great deals on the Clearance Stamps, too. And as always, we have a have a gift certificate up for grabs to a random player.

My first thought at this time of year for a guy card, was of course, Father’s Day. I had the idea to use the train image, but then I realized I had forgotten to get a Father’s Day greeting. So I guess necessity IS the mother of invention, lol. I searched the word dies & made the DAD out of the Day die.

For the background frame & mountain part of the scene, I used Brusho water color crystals by sprinkling them onto damp water color paper, then blending them out with a wet paintbrush. I added a bit of shimmer by washing over it with some pearlescent water colors.

Here’s the picture of the background, showing how I die cut the large piece & made a frame out of it. From the center, I found the area I wanted for the mountains and die cut a circle around it. By masking, I stamped the background part of the scene & filled in with more of the trees. I added a woodgrain embossed white front & the cut out train. The envelope ties were also fussy cut and added behind the die cut oval w/ the greeting. The upper left corner element is just a leftover piece of the water color background and a Candi dot.

The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50 and these are the Copics I used on the train image.

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Train on Track, Envelope Tie, Love You (small)

Paper: Neenah white, water color

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx (scene on w/c paper)

Accessories: Serendipity Day die, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, circles & petite ovals dies, Copic markers, Brusho water color crystals, water color shimmer paints, woodgrain embossing folder (Paper Studio), Candi dot

Please be sure to stop by and comment on all the DT blogs to increase your chances of winning! And we have a special guest this month… Tracey McNeely

Thanks so much for stopping by!

This entry was posted in Cuttlebug/Quickutz/Sizzix Embossing/Dry or Heat Masculine/Father's Day Scenes/Landscapes Serendipity Stamps Spellbinders Nestabilities Watercolor and tagged Brushos Copic Cuttlebug/Quickutz/Sizzix Dad Father's Day out of the box scenes Serendipity Stamps Spellbinders water color

Amazing Azaleas

Posted on May 14, 2015 11:20 AM by Julie 10 Comments

The theme for the Ways to Use It Challenge (WT531) is May Flowers. I recently finished this watercolor azalea card and it fits right in. Most of our azaleas in the yard have finished blooming but we have some satsuki azaleas in back that are just starting to bloom. I won this set from a challenge & I really wanted to use it for this card.

I was playing around with my recently arrived order of Brushos and for this background, I used them pretty much as you would normal watercolors. I wet the w/c paper, sprinkled on some pinks, reds, yellows & oranges then sort of blended out the heavy concentrations of color. After drying it with a heat gun, I stamped the azaleas w/ the Versafine then reverse painted them…meaning I used plain water, a paintbrush & a paper towel to lift some color from the flowers so they wouldn’t be as dark as the background. I also added some drops in the background using water. The oval was die cut out of the background, matted then replaced & the greeting stamped in the white space at the bottom. I saw that Power Poppy was having a May challenge to Cut It Out, so I stamped the azaleas again and cut them out. All of the white, non-colored azaleas were fussy cut. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50 and here’s a look at the inside. I left it blank so I could decide later what greeting to use.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Power Poppy – Azaleas

Paper: water color

Ink: Versafine onyx

Accessories: Brushos water color crystals, Spellbinders pierced rectangle & pierced oval dies, paint brushes

And since I fussy cut those Azaleas, I’m entering this is Power Poppy’s May Cut It Out Challenge!

This entry was posted in Best of 2015 Birthday Girly/Feminine/Mother's Day Power Poppy Spellbinders Nestabilities Splitcoast Challenges Splitcoaststampers Weekly Favorite Watercolor and tagged Brushos feminine flowers Power Poppy Spellbinders Splitcoast Splitcoast Weekly Favorite water color

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Wish BIG

Serendipity SSCB#44 – My Guy!

Amazing Azaleas