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Hello Fall Leaves

Posted on October 1, 2019 4:10 PM by Julie Comment

For today’s Color Challenge (CC759) on Splitcoast, the colors are mango, rose & pear. To be honest, these colors are not on my go to list & I don’t have these colors, so I came as close as I could.

For my card, I first inked a craft sheet w/ distress oxide inks, misted then pressed my paper to it. After I dried it, the leaves were stamped, masking as I went. I pressed some mini Distress inks to a solid version of the leaf, spritzed it then stamped it inside the outline leaves. It still didn’t look right, so I used a paintbrush & some embossing ink & painted inside the leaves & clear embossed them to make them stand out a bit more. The green pear top layer was die cut & the window was cut using my resizing technique to make it longer than a std rect. The 3 little leaves are from a couple of small punches. The fall part of the greeting was stamped & the hello is a double stacked die cut.

Here’s the inside:

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs – Open Leaf, Fall Leaf w Acorn, Med. Silhouette Leaf, Goodbye Summer (inside: Hayrides Harvest )

Paper: Staples 110# white, green pear

Ink: Versaclair shady lane, Distress inks dried marigold, tattered rose, worn lipstick, Distress oxide inks in peeled paint, dried marigold, tattered rose, worn lipstick

oAccessories: Rubbernecker Rectangle Stitch dies, double stitch rectangle dies, MFT Hello & Thanks dies, Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A , clear embossing powder, embossing ink, craft sheet, sm. leaf punches

Open Leaf 584D	Fall Leaf w Acorn 471F	Med. Silhouette Leaf 701D	Goodbye Summer 350F 207G	Hayrides Harvest 624H
Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	Double Stitched Rectangles dies CBD123	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Versafine Clair ink
AC color card stock	Ranger Embossing Powder	Distress Inks	Distress Oxide Inks	Inkssentials Craft Sheet
MFT Hello & Thanks dies	Sm. Pumpkin/Leaf punches EK Success

North Pole Piggy

Posted on September 30, 2019 8:39 PM by Julie Comment

Welcome to October & to the Splitcoaststampers Fan Club October Christmas Challenge! You’ll need to be Fan Club member but that’s easy…just click the blue link to find out how. Bet you’re wondering what the challenge theme is..I’d love to tell you but you’ll have to go see for yourself.

My card is all on one layer, so there was a little masking going on. I started by stamping & coloring Leonard, then I masked him & stamped the pine bough to resemble a little Charlie Brown Christmas tree & added a few ornaments. I die cut the window then used a reverse mask of it to stamp the North Pole & reindeer. The snow bg was stamped w/ the tumbled glass. I thought it needed something so I stamped part of the light string on the top of the window then added stickles to the lightbulbs & snowflakes. I did a little cutting around the top of Leonard in order to insert the corner of the window frame underneath him.

Here are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs – Leonard Pig’s Christmas List ,Feeding Reindeer , North Pole Sign, Snow Bg, Christmas Light String, Sm. Happy Holidays

Paper: Staples 110# white

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Distress ink tumbled glass

oAccessories: Rubbernecker Rectangle Stitch, Window 4 Pane dies, Stickles, Copic markers

Leonard Pig’s Christmas List 1047G	Feeding Reindeer 188F	North Pole Sign 518E	Pine Bough 467K	Snow Bg 187H
Christmas Light String 1054H	Sm. Happy Holidays 515C	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Window 4 Pane dies 5157D	Staples 110# White Card Stock
Copic Sketch Markers	Memento Inks	Stickles	Distress Inks

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Tree in a Leaf

Posted on September 7, 2019 9:25 PM by Julie Comment

Congrats to Rebecca, the newest Featured Stamper (FS657) on Splitcoast! She has a lovely gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I kept the fall leaf theme w/ the big central leaf, but I used different images, different colors & a different technique.

For my fall card, I started by die cutting a large leaf shape & using the negative as a mask to sponge Distress inks in the fall colors. Then I stamped the Single Fall Tree in Distress oxide ink in ground espresso. I used a water brush & more of the distress inks to add a little splatter.

For the larger bg, I used the woodgrain bg, but not in the conventional sense. I used a technique I learned probably 15 yrs ago but I don’t see it used these days. I wanted the bg to look a little more solid, so I used a hair dryer to slightly heat a piece of fun foam then pressed it to the woodgrain bg. What I got was a solid version of the woodgrain. (See pic below.) The green block is made of fun foam & I inked it so you could see it better. This works w/ any stamp, it just looks better w/ some. I will caution you, do not use a heat gun..it’s just too hot & will melt the foam into a solid hard mess. I have an old, not very powerful hair dryer I kept just for things like this 😀 . I used my solid foam “stamp” & Distress inks in vintage photo & walnut stain for the bg.

Here’s the inside.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs –Single Fall Tree, Woodgrain Bg, Beauty of Autumn (inside: Goodbye Summer, Open Leaf )

Paper: Staples 110# white

Ink: Distress inks ripe persimmon, dried marigold, crushed olive, fired brick, walnut stain, vintage photo, Distress oxide ink in ground espresso

oAccessories: Misti, Rubbernecker Rectangle Stitch, Deckle Rectangle, Splatter Leaves dies, fun foam, hair dryer

Single Fall Tree 468F	Woodgrain Bg 626P	Beauty of Autumn 704D	Goodbye Summer 350F 207G
Open Leaf 584D	MISTI	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Deckle Rectangle dies 5176D
RN Splatter Leaves dies 3019D	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Distress Inks	Distress Oxide Inks