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Aloha Surfboards

Posted on August 2, 2015 9:00 AM by Julie 2 Comments

It’s day 2 of Dare to Get Dirty on Splitcoast and this is for MY (justwritedesigns) Challenge! The details are HERE, but you’ll need to be a Fan Club member…it’s easy, just click to find out how.

I had a lot of fun making this card. It’s just my style..fun, enough detail to keep me interested, a little coloring, a little fussy cutting & colorful! I started with the background. After masking off the water area, I sponged in the very orange sky using a cloud stencil I made w/ scallop scissors on a piece of acetate. The little seagulls were stamped & I used a white gel pen on the big one. The mask was reversed to cover the sky then I sponged in the water & added the highlights. I added just a touch of sand color at the very bottom. (The palm tree was also stamped on the background as well as the frame.)

Then I stamped, colored & fussy cut the surfboards. The top palm tree is actually part of the white frame. A little technique I call “into the window” and here’s a short tutorial showing how I did it. After stamping the palm tree where I wanted it & coloring it, I first die cut the large, outer frame, then determined the areas around the palm tree I would have to cut in order to slip the corner of the die under it. It turned out to be almost all of it, lol. There are actually only 2 places where the tree is still attached to the frame. (Click any pic to make it larger.)

Please pay no attention to my blue tipped fingernails, lol. That always happens when I sponge images. The inside frame die is in place & with the corner under the tree, I ran it thru the Big Shot.

All die cut & embossed! I cut 2 more heavy frames & used a little foam tape to elevate the frame & surfboards above the background.

And here’s a look at the inside. More sponging & I left off a greeting for now. Have to decide who it’s going to!

And these are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs – Seagulls (from Seaside Dock image), Palm Tree (Rubber Stampede), Surfboards (Inkadinkado) inside – Palm Trees (Cherry Pie)

Paper: Neenah white, X-Press It

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx, Kaliedacolor desert heat, caribbean sea, Distress Inks peacock feathers, antique linen

Accessories: ODBD Flourished Star Pattern dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A, Copic markers, white gel pen

Blue Fragrance

Posted on July 4, 2015 12:02 AM by Julie 3 Comments

For my card today, I’m combining 4 Splitcoast Challenges…Inspiration Challenge (IC500), I chose THIS for the colors, Free For All (F4A280) brad other than round, Mixability (MIX127) red, white & blue & the Sketch (SC547). I also have a one on one comparison I did showing how I used my MISTI. I stamped it first with Memento, colored with Copics, then overstamped with Versafine to get a deep, dark line image. And…a little picture tutorial showing step by step how I colored the blue roses. Remember, you can click on any picture to make it bigger!

After I stamped 3 of the roses images, they were all colored with Copics & fussy cut. I used just the center of one of the roses, shaped it & popped it up in the center of the rose on the right. The blue frame was made on watercolor paper using water colors then streaked & splatter with gold acrylic paint. When dry, I die cut it to make the frame. The white layers are the inside dies of the same Lacey Layered Square die set. The greeting was stamped, the cut flowers added & the diamond shaped brad for the Free for All challenge.

As promised..here’s the picture tutorial showing how I colored the roses. Using my Misti, I stamped them first with Memento.

Step 1: The B00 & B01 were added in the darkest areas.

Step 2: B14, then B16 & then B28 were added in the same, darkest areas. As the colors get darker, the closer to the center I stayed.

Step 3: I used B000 & B00 to very lightly blend, but I left a little white at the petal tips.

Step 4: I used G43 & G24 from the center of the leaves to near the edges, but left some white around the edges. G28 was added near the center veins then I went over the entire leaf with YG01. When I’m coloring leaves, no matter what shade of green, I usually add YG01 to finish…to me it just adds life and a little brightness to the leaf.

Step 5: For the flower centers, I probably wouldn’t use red normally, but it was a color challenge on the MIX & I needed to work that red in somewhere, so I used R12 to go over the entire area, then dotted R24 & R29 here there. To add a little brightness, I also dotted a little YG01 here & there. Little things can add a lot 🙂

Here’s the one on one comparison. Both were stamped first with Memento and colored with Copics. The one on the left is Memento only. The image on the right was put back into the Misti and overstamped with Versafine. The details really pop! Look closely especially at the flower center and the underside of the flower on the lower right.

And here’s the inside. I used the leftover flowers and part of the water colored background at the bottom.

Just for reference, here are all the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed the pictures.

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs –Fragrance, (inside) Home Sweet Home, Flourish Label Borders

Paper: X-Press It white, Neenah white, water color

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx

Accessories: ODBD Flourished Star Pattern, Lacey Layered Squares, (inside) Vintage Flourish Pattern, dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A dies, Copic makers, water colors, gold acrylic paint

Serendipity Stamps July Blog Hop!

Posted on July 3, 2015 12:00 AM by Julie 17 Comments

Welcome to the Serendipity July Blog Hop! We are showing off some lovely new images & dies! If you arrived here from Jenny’s Blog , you are in the right place..if not, you may want to head over there first.
The Prize – One $20 gift code will go to one random commenter from the blogs. So be sure to visit all the blogs because you don’t know which one the winner will be drawn from. You have through July 5th to leave your comments & Mary will announce the winner on her blog on July 6th. Special: Free shipping on all US orders of $15 or more Contental US only. We have something new…a “Stamp of the Month”. Each month a different image will be 50% off. This month- it’s the Winter Doe. Be sure to check out the great deals on the Clearance Stamps & sale stamps!

As a native Texan, I really love this sweet little Cowgirl! Seriously, I want to go put my boots on right now…just need to decide which pair, lol! She is a joy to color and to give her a little something special, I did what I call an “into the window” treatment. A little like out of the box, but it goes the other direction. After stamping & coloring her with Copics, I die cut it first using the larger die, then used a craft knife to cut around the top and sides in order to slip the lower left corner of the smaller die under her.
Below, you can see that the image was cut on the lines just enough to slip the die under.

Below, after die cutting I put the larger die back in place and embossed them both.

And below is how it looks finished…all ready to attach.

These are the Copics I used to color her.

I used a leftover frame I colored w/ Copics and a die cut circle w/ the star concho from the Bandana die.

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Cowgirl, Sending Smiles (inside)

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

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx (to overstamp image after coloring)

Accessories: Serendipity Howdy & Bandana dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, circles dies, Copic markers, MISTI

My next card has the wonderful Bandana & Poker Chip dies along with the fun new greeting.

After die cutting all the pieces, I stamped and colored the greeting and attached them to an embossed background. The poker chips took a little patience to paper piece all those little parts. These are the Copics I used for the greeting.

The inside is just a simple frame I colored to match along with an extra concho from the Bandana die.

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – When the Chips are Down Horizontal, Thinking of You (inside)

Paper: Neenah white, black, sparkle fleck red, sparkle fleck gray

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx (to overstamp image after coloring)

Accessories: Serendipity Poker Chip & Bandana dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, romantic rectangles 2, long rectangle dies, Copic markers, MISTI, embossing folder (Lifestyle -chevron set)

Now I’ll send you on to Karen’s Blog..I know she’l have something wonderful to share!

Here is the list in case you get lost:

Mary’s Blog

Julie Warner (you are here!)

Thanks so much for stopping by!