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  • SSCB #20 Watercolor


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

    Welcome to a new challenge for Serendipity Stamps! The Serendipity Challenge this week is Watercolor!  

    While I love to water color, I also love to make water color backgrounds…just free form swaths of color…then stamp on top of them. I love the random patterns of color I get and how they look with the images on top. A lot of times when I’m making water color backgrounds, I’ll make an extra, or two, and stash them away. This is one of those extras. I don’t even remember when I did it. It’s basically just large bands in different colors. After I decided where I wanted the image and stamped it, and added some highlights with a white gel pen.

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

    The frame was die cut with a large oval then I used a Japanese screw punch with the smallest bit I have to punch the holes all around the edge. The greeting was stamped underneath to finish my 4.25 x 5.50 card.

    Thanks so much for stopping by and be sure to check out all of the Watercolored Wonders from the Serendipity Design Team!

    Jeanne Jachna
    Marybeth Lopez
    Miriam Napier
    Pauline Pollington
    Anya Schrier –not posting this time  😥
    Jenny Gropp
    Vickie Zimmer
    Julie Warner – you are here!
    Karen Amidon 

     

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    Supplies:

    Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Vases, Thinking of You
    Paper: Neenah white, watercolor paper
    Ink:  Versafine onyx
    Accessories:  Peerless water colors, Tombow markers, white gel pen, Spellbinders lg oval die, Japanese screw punch w/ 1.5mm bit, black Permapaque marker

     


  • SSCB#17 Serendipity Stamps – Butterfly Challenge

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


    For my card, I used this beautiful Zinnia image, stamped it on white, then did an out of the box Nestie technique and colored it with Copics. An extra butterfly and large zinnia were also colored and fussy cut. Now I’m fairly sure my “butterfly” could be a moth in disguise, but I’m going with it. The greeting was stamped on the gold card stock and I added a gold shadow w/ a Copic marker on one side and used a white gel pen highlight on the other side of the letters before die cutting it.

     

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

    Before I attached the extra Zinnia on top of the base image, I cut and lifted a few of the petals. The finished card is A2 (4.25 x 5.50), and these are the Copics I used to color everything.

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

     

    Check out all the Butterflies from the DT for this challenge:

    Jeanne Jachna
    Marybeth Lopez
    Miriam Napier
    Pauline Pollington
    Anya Schrier

    Jenny Gropp

    Vickie Zimmer

    Julie Warner – you are here!

     

    Thanks so much for stopping by!

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    Supplies:

    Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Zinnia, I Just Wanted to Say
    Paper:  Neenah white, brilliant blue textured, harvest gold
    Ink: Memento tuxedo black
    Accessories:  Spellbinders rectangle die, Copic markers, banner die

  • Poppies on White

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

    Weekly-Favorite
    A big congrats to Vicki, the Featured Stamper on Splitcoast (FS329)!  What a wonderful gallery she has! I chose her Thanks card to case. I kept the layout and flower theme, but I used different images, different colors and a different embossing folder.
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    I had a background I had water colored using reinkers, and I liked the colors, so I stamped the poppy image on top. I really wanted a white bg like Vicki’s so I fussy cut the poppies and placed them on a very lightly sponged die cut oval. A bow and die cut tag w/ the sentiment were added. I used a strip of dp and for the very narrow orangey strip, I just ran an apricot Copic marker down a piece of white c/s to get the color. The white bg was embossed and then everything was attached to my 4.25 x 5.50 white card. I added a bow (it was white and I colored it w/ Copics) and a few black pearls to finish it.

    Congrats again and enjoy your week, Vicki! Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great Memorial Day!

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    Supplies:

    Stamps: Hero Arts (poppies), Stampendous (greeting)
    Paper: Neenah white, dp (Basic Grey -Green at Heart), water color
    Ink: Versamark, Versafine onyx, Memento tuxedo black, rosebud, angel pink
    Accessories: Spellbinders petite oval die, ODBD/Spellbinders tag die, black pearls, dye reinkers for w/c bg, Quickutz embossing folder (Dainty set)