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  • ISC – June Release Day 2

    Posted on by Julie 11 Comments

    What are your Favorite Flowers? Daisies, Poppy or Sunflowers?

    This line has a lovely Spanish script, which would add a lovely accent as a background on any card, etc. The flowers on this sheet; Favorite Flowers are bold and simply lovely! The words are quite large. This line lends itself for lovely cards for that special person or friend in your life!

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

    For my card,  I stamped the Spanish script with black ink on white card stock. On a piece of water color paper, I stamped the script using resist ink and heat set it. I used a mister to wet the paper and floated in various colors of dye reinkers. I was hoping for more resist with the script, but it absorbed some of the inks and ended up looking more like faint stripes. When it dried, I black embossed the flowers on it and cut them out. I used a large corner rounder on all the layers.

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

    I had a piece of drywall mesh sitting on my work table so I placed it over a small piece of white card stock and sponged on ink from two different Kpads.  After removing the mesh, I black embossed the greeting and cut it out with a Spellbinders oval die.

    Please stop by and visit all the ISC Architects. I know they’ll have something wonderful to share with you!

     

    • Joanne Grzelak
    • Judi Rose
    • Karen Dubrook
    • Kathy Tucker
    • Julie Warner (you are here!)

     

    Thanks so much for stopping by! Your comments are always read and much appreciated.
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    Supplies:

    • stamps: Innovative Stamp Creations
    • paper: white, black, water color
    • ink: VersaFine onyx, black pigment, Kaleidacolor spectrum & calypso rainbow pads, various dye reinkers
    • accessories: lg corner rounder punch, black Permapaque marker, Spellbinders  petite oval, black detail embossing powder, ribbon, drywall mesh

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  • ISC May Artistic Projects Day 3

    Posted on by Julie 9 Comments

    Monochromatic Cards.

     

     

    Stampers are alwaJulie Warner - justwritedesigns https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.comys mesmerized by colors,  huh? What a lovely way to use your scraps or possibly colors you’d never consider experimenting with! So, we challenge you to give it a try and share your results! Plus, one more thing, the Rustic Artsy Swirls sheet is on SALE!

    Here’s a link to a Monochromatic Color Chart: http://websitetips.com/colortools/sitepro/

     

    For my card, I stamped the background on turquoise paper with lime ink. I used the tiny specks and teal ink on teal, olive and grass green card stock, then stamped the different sizes of flowers and cut them out. The sentiment and butterflies were stamped on grass green c/s that was spritzed with bleach. A little color was added to the large butterfly with a marker.

    On the green frame, I used an embossing border to create my frame and sponged it w/ calypso blue ink. The teal card was also stamped with the specks background image.

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

    View more MC cards:

    Kathy Tucker
    Joanne Grzelak
    Julie Warner     (you are here!)
    Karen Dunbrook

    Thanks so much for stopping by! Your comments are always read and much appreciated!

    Supplies:
    stamps: ISC – Rustic Artsy Swirls, Odd Findings, Background Series Little Specks, Let it Bloom
    paper: grass green, teal, olive, turquoise
    ink: Ranger Archival teal, Ancient Page lime, calypso blue
    accessories: stylus (to shape flowers), foam tape, Cuttlebug flourish borders embossing folder, word window punch, spritzer w/ bleach

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  • ISC April Inspiration Challenge

    Posted on by Julie 8 Comments

    This month, ISC has an Inspiration Challenge for you! Betsy chose this wonderful picture for the inspiration piece. Don’t you just love the colors and images? Want to win a free sheet of ISC images? To be eligible to win, use the picture as your inspiration and create a card or other project using ISC images only, and link your creation to the ISC Blog by May 9th.


    Weekly-Favorite

    And this is my version. I really picked up on the orange colors, the flower and butterflies. Although it may look like there are layers or cut outs, there’s really only one layer attached to the card, three punched butterflies and one die cut sentiment. I started with a piece of white c/s slightly smaller than my 4.25 x 5.5 (A2) white card. I stamped the medium and small Bush Flowers with black ink, masking when needed. I added just a touch of color by lightly swiping sponges w/ yellow, orange and pink inks haphazardly across the flowers. I colored over all of the petals w/ a VersaMark pen and clear embossed them. A few specks of embossing powder were spread out around the flowers, but I like the splatter look so I left them and even added a few more.

    Yellow, orange, pink, ginger and cranberry inks were then sponged over the entire piece and I used more of the darker colors around the flowers to add more contrast. The excess ink was wiped off of the clear embossed flowers. The script from Odd Findings was stamped over the top with ginger ink.  I stamped a butterfly from  Friends are Special using the yellow, orange and cranberry inks on a scrap of white then I used a butterfly punch. The punch didn’t exactly line up w/ the image, but I like it anyway.  I traced around it on a piece of white and cut the inside out, leaving just a white frame of the butterfly. I used this as my base to attach to the card and popped the butterfly up on top. I added two more small punched white butterflies and the sentiment (also from Bush Flowers). I edged the entire piece w/ a black marker and added a piece of cardboard underneath for a little dimension before attaching it to my card.

    Thanks so much for stopping by! Your comments are always read and much appreciated!

    Be sure to check out the rest of the ISC Architect’s creations. Links are on the side bar. ———————>

     

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    Supplies:
    stamps: Innovative Stamp Creations
    paper: white
    ink: Ancient Page coal, Adirondack ginger & cranberry, Stamp It orange & pink
    accessories: black Permapaque marker, Martha Stewart monarch butterfly punch, small butterfly punch (All Night Media), Spellbinders mega oval set

     

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