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Flowers & Dots

Posted on May 23, 2015 11:14 AM by Julie 1 Comment

What a great Pinterest board for today’s Inspiration Challenge (IC494)on Splitcoast! I have the Design Seeds site bookmarked, but it’s great to see so many of their pictures all on one page. For my card, I was inspired by the colors & flowers of THIS picture.

I started by stamping the large greeting then die cutting the bottom with a curved border. After masking off the edges & bottom of the black layer, I stamped the polka dot border w/ white pigment ink. The small white bottom is the rest of the curved border section but I trimmed off more of the bottom to open up the space then stamped the dots w/ black ink. The flowers were colored and fussy cut & I added a few sequins here & there.

The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25 & these are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by! If you haven’t, be sure to check out the DRS Thursday Challenge. This week it’s a color challenge & DRS images are not required & there’s a nice prize up for grabs!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs – Polka Dot Background, Polka Dot Flower Trio, Butterfly Kisses Greeting

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx (for the greeting), Colorbox frost white pigment

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

Accessories: Spellbinders A2 matting basica A & B, curved borders dies, Copic markers, sequins

Dotty Pinwheel

Posted on May 18, 2015 6:49 PM by Julie Comment

The Clean & Simple Challenge (CAS325) on Splitcoast today asks us to use Wheels of some sort..so I chose a Pinwheel! I’ve had these cute little dies for a while but this is the first time I’ve used them. I also have a tutorial on how to make your own pinwheels if you don’t have dies. Pinwheel Tutorial.
So I die cut 6 small & 6 large pinwheel arms out of a blue/white double sided paper. I used a dot border stamp to add the blue polka dots on the white side. A fading dot border die was used down the left side then I backed it with the same paper & stamped a greeting and added the pinwheel.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs – Polka Dot Background, Sunny Days Greeting

Ink: Memento danube blue, Adirondack stonewashed

Paper: Neenah white,double sided blue/white

Accessories: Memory Box fading dot border die, Lil’ Inkers lg & sm pinwheel dies, white brad

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Grad Boys

Posted on April 29, 2015 9:54 PM by Julie Comment

Well the Sketch Challenge on Splitcoast (SC538) seemed like a real challenge and I needed some Grad cards, so these are what I made. I did have to flip sides with the sketch and put that little bar (#4) at the bottom.

Two of my husband’s nephews are graduating soon, so I really needed to get these made. I think the sketch worked out great and as long as I was making one, another didn’t seem like a big deal. The only changes were the colors. I used the colors of their respective schools. I did find my new Misti purchase helped me out a lot on these cards. I used it to stamp the grad boy once with Memento (so I could color with Copics) but I left it just where it was while I colored it. Then I inked the image with Versafine and stamped on top. With solid images like this, it really made a difference.

And this is for the second nephew. Identical except for the colors.

Here’s a look at the inside…the second one is the same, just different colors.