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Pinwheels Wishing

Posted on April 2, 2016 7:11 PM by Julie 1 Comment

A big congrats to Simone, the newest Featured Stamper (FS478) on Splitcoast! She has a wonderful gallery with beautiful CAS designs! There are several I picked to case, but I kept coming back to THIS one. I just love the 3 little pinwheels so I kept that, but I used different images, added more layers & left off the gems.

To make my 3 pinwheels, I die cut 3 sizes of squares out of kraft c/s then gold heat embossed the Log Cabin Quilt on one side of all three. On the reverse sides, I used a pencil eraser to make the gold polka dots.

I shared my easy method of making pinwheels from a square shape in THIS post, but basically, just cut from the 4 corners in to almost the center as shown below. (The first is the Log Cabin side, the pic below it is the reverse side w/ the pencil eraser dots.)

After you have the corners cut, just bring one point of each side in to the center & attach. It doesn’t matter which you start w/, just make sure to fold the same point on each side.

After I die cut all the layers & the greeting, I inked up the greeting & gold embossed it, too. I also gold embossed the center of the Dresden Quilt image then used different sized circle punches & added these to the centers of my pinwheels.

Here’s a look at the inside using some leftover strips & circles.

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

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Log Cabin Quilt (retired), Dresden Quilt Stamp (retired), (inside –Wishing Words)

Paper: Staples 110# white, kraft

Ink: Encore Ultimate Metallic Gold pigment

Accessories: ODBD Double Stitched Rectangles, Squares, Rectangles, Lavish Layers, Wishing dies, detail gold embossing powder, multi circle punch

Wishing Words ICS61-139	Double Stitched Rectangles dies CBD123	Rectangles dies CBD122	Lavish Layers dies CBD149	Squares dies CBD140L
Ultimate Metallic Ink	RN Mirror Gold embossing powder	Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	Multi Circle Punch

ODBD December Another Look & a Tutorial!

Posted on December 18, 2015 7:58 AM by Julie 5 Comments

Today we are taking another look at the Our Daily Bread designs December release! Aren’t you over the moon with these beautiful images & fabulous dies? As a special treat, I’m including a little tutorial on how I did the double die cutting. The stitched circle around the horses is part of the white stitched frame. Tricky, huh? It’s actually a combination of out of the box & into the window. I will mention, I do both of these techniques on a regular basis so I don’t have a problem coloring my image first. If you’re trying this for the first time, you may want to color afterwards. That way if you have to try again, you won’t be out a lot of time & effort coloring it.
This is also for IC524 Inspiration Challenge & THIS was the button I was inspired by.
After I stamped my image w/ Memento onto a 4.25 x 5.50 piece of X-Press It, I colored it w/ Copics. The horses were colored to resemble Indian Paints. I still had the image in my Misti, so I over stamped it w/ Versafine to really sharpen the details. Now comes the Double Die Cutting how to…(click any picture to make it bigger.)

To finish, I stamped the mill scene onto textured chocolate using the sepia ink twice then added the highlights w/ a white Prismacolor pencil. The leftover outer stitched circle frame was colored w/ a Copic & put back around the image. A punched fence was attached behind the image & the oval stitched greeting added on top.

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

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs–Saddle Up (retired, replaced w/ Horses), Living Water

Paper: X-Press It white, textured chocolate

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx (to over stamp after coloring), Versafine sepia (greeting & background)

Accessories: ODBD Double Stitched Rectangles, Rectangles, Pierced Ovals,Double Stitched Circles, Flourished Star Pattern dies, Copic markers, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A dies, Misti, Martha Stewart fence punch, white prismacolor pencil

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Please be sure to stop & visit all of the DT Blogs. You’ll find so much inspiration on ways to use this fabulous release!
Julie * Amy * Cathy * Robin * Sandee *

Dawn * Lori * America

Living Water	Horses	Double Stitched Rectangles dies CBD123	Rectangles dies CBD122	Double Stitched Circles dies CBD136
Pierced Ovals dies CBD172	Flourished Star Pattern dies CBD75	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	Picket Fence punch M284101	X-Press It Blending Card
AC color card stock	Memento Inks	VersaFine Inkpads	Prismacolor Pencils

Origami Bow

Posted on October 31, 2015 11:02 AM by Julie 1 Comment

This is for today’s Inspiration Challenge (IC517) & also for Robin’s HYCCT1520 challenge, Candy Stripers. Since I had promised Robin I would make something for her challenge, I purposely chose a red & white picture for the inspiration challenge. THIS is the picture I was inspired by.

Recently I came across a tutorial on how to create an Origami Bow.I just loved the way it looked so I cut a 5″ square of the striped paper & set out to fold the bow. I’ve done a little origami folding before so it was pretty easy. The bow will work on pretty much any size of paper as long as it is square. I did a couple of test sizes w/ copy paper first & thought the 5″ square was the perfect size for my card. This paper is medium weight, probably about 24#. I wouldn’t use paper that was very much heavier because the folds won’t stay. After I folded it, I did add some thin white strips on the edges of the bow part. The draping folds show white because this paper is striped on one side & white on the other. I also added a small white die cut bow on top. The textured white front was a leftover & had the square already cut out so I backed it w/ more of the stripe paper & liked how it looked like a present so I added a white strip down the center & attached the bow on top.

Here’s a look at the inside.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: ODBD –Christmas Tunes

Paper: textured white, red/white stripe dp (Cricut)

Ink: Versafine onyx

Accessories: ODBD Flourished Star Pattern, Small Bow, Vintage Flourish Pattern (inside), Beautiful Borders (inside) dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, square dies

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