• Tag Archives Sponging/Color Blending
  • To Have & To Hold

    Julie Warner – https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com
    Time for another Color Challenge on Splitcoast (CC461) and week 2 for me as a Guest Designer for the Color Challenge! What lovely colors we have this week…Tempting Turquoise, Coastal Cabana and Crisp Cantaloupe with a dessert of a frame (either stamped, cut out or drawn). So on my card I used a huge amount of a cantaloupe clone and tiny amounts of the turquoise & cabana. Instead of white, I used ivory for my neutral and for dessert, I included a die cut window frame.

    I stamped the greeting, die cut and with the die in place, lightly sponged on the pink & salmon inks ( I don’t have the exact colors so I used a combo to achieve the color). The lily corners were stamped several times, colored w/ Copics and fussy cut along w/ 1 small butterfly. The cantaloupe background piece was spritzed w/ bleach to get the splotchy look.

    Julie Warner – https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com
    After die cutting the window frame out of ivory, I added a piece of vellum behind it before attaching all the pieces. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50 and these are the Copics I used.
    Julie Warner – https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com
    Thanks so much for stopping by!

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    Supplies:

    Stamps: DRS Designs – To Have & To Hold Greeting, Lily Corner, Three Butterflies
    Ink:  Memento tuxedo black & angel pink, Versafine onyx (for greeting), Adirondack salmon
    Paper: ivory, cantaloupe, vellum
    Accessories:  Copic markers, Cheery Lynn window die, ODBD Elegant Oval die, bleach in a fine mist sprayer

     


  • It’s Snowing!!

    Julie Warner – https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com
    Well, it may not be snowing right now, but it is soooo cold here! This is the deep south, y’all! And as of 9:20 pm EST, it was 13 degrees! The water outside from the rain last night has long since turned to ice and we’re on our way to a predicted 6 degrees tonight (-10 with the wind chill).

    So with the winter deep freeze around here, I have two cards to share…one for the CAS challenge today (Snowflakes CAS254) and the other for the Color Challenge tomorrow. The card above is for the CAS challenge and it was super simple. ..especially since I already had the white mega oval die cut in my stash. I stamped the greeting 3 times w/o reinking and added a few snowflakes on it.

    The navy panel was stamped w/ the white chalk ink and I added some additional snow dots w/ a white gel pen. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25.

    Supplies:

    Stamps: DRS Designs  –Let it Snow, 4 in 1 Snowflake, Snowflake Scroll, Snow Background
    Ink:  Memento Paris Dusk, Colorbox popcorn white chalk ink
    Paper: white, navy
    Accessories:  Spellbinders mega oval die, white gel pen, stickles, rhinestone

    I was asked to be a guest designer for the Color Challenge on Splitcoast for the month of January! The colors for CC460, are Rich Razzleberry, Island Indigo and Night of Navy. I don’t have the exact colors, but I found some inks and Copics which are very close and they seemed like good winter colors to me, so that’s the direction I went

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    Best of 2014!
    I’m so happy and honored to be a Guest Designer for the Color Challenge this month and no one was more surprised than me, lol! And along with the colors , I included the dessert of splatters.

    After masking a wide band, I stamped the winter trees in black and added a circle mask for the moon and used torn paper mask snow and sky areas. I sponged on the two inks for the night sky and and a little of the teal for the snow. I added some shadows and used the white ink and splatter background to add the snow. A white gel pen was used to bring out some of the splatters a bit more.

    I added the narrow strips down the sides (colored navy with Copics) and the greeting in the lower right. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50.
    Julie Warner – https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com
    Supplies:

    Stamps: DRS Designs  DRS Designs – Winter Tree Line, Warm Wishes, Splatter Background, Single Tree
    Ink:  Memento Paris Dusk, lilac posies, teal zeal, Colorbox popcorn white chalk ink, Versafine onyx
    Paper: white
    Accessories:  Copic markers, white gel pen, 7/8 circle punch

    Thanks so much for stopping by!
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  • ODBD December Release!

    Julie Warner – https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com

    Welcome to the Our Daily Bread designs December Release! 

    For my first card, I white embossed all the little flowers and greeting on white card stock then die cut them w/ the matching die. On the greeting flower, I left the die in place and sponged on the berry ink. On the other flowers, I sponged on the lawn, berry & peacock inks. The curvy white strip on top is a couple of left over pieces from die cutting a labels 17. The strips were pierced, attached on top of the two rows of flowers w/ ribbon on top. The large 5.25 x 4.0 white panel was also pierced around the edges. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25. 

    Supplies:

    Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Ornate Borders & Flowers, Ornate Borders Sentiments
    Paper: Neenah white
    Ink:  Distress Ink festive berries, mowed lawn & peacock feathers, Colorbox frost white pigment
    Accessories:  ODBD Ornate Borders & Flowers dies, Spellbinders labels 17 die, ribbon, baker’s twine, button, piercing tool & mat, white embossing powder

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    On my second card, I started by using a brayer and a large rainbow ink pad to cover a large piece of white card stock. After stamping the Ornate Background, I added some highlights w/ a white gel pen and a white Prismacolor pencil. I then added black enamel dots all over the design. The two border/frame images were stamped, colors and die cut w/ the matching dies. The greeting was die cut w/ a small petite oval and I cut along the edges of the design to insert it. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25.

    Supplies:

    Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Ornate Borders & Flowers, Ornate Borders Sentiments, Ornate Background
    Paper: Neenah white, pale pink, butter yellow
    Ink:  Versafine onyx, Big & Juicy sunset rainbow ink pad
    Accessories:  ODBD Ornate Borders & Flowers dies, Spellbinders small petite oval dies, Copic markers (for greeting layers), Ranger enamel accents in black. white gel pen, white Prismacolor pencil

     

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