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  • 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

     


  • 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