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  • Wonderful Day

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

    Happy Sunday!
    Today, the Featured Stamper Challenge (FS268) on Splitcoast is…EVERYONE! Each of us is our own Featured Stamper! So pick one of your own cards, CASE (copy and share everything), remembering to change at least 2 things, then play along!

    I found out one important thing with this challenge, I found it much harder to CASE myself than I would have imagined. To me, it’s just hard to pick a card I’ve previously made then make another with changes. I find myself wanting to make the same card. I usually don’t have that problem when CASEing someone else. In the end, I kept the layout and most of the details, but changed the colors, the stamps used and the embossing folder. Here’s the original card from April 2011, called Butterfly Dreams.

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

     

    And here is my CASE of this card:

    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.comSee what I mean? They look like sisters. One a butterfly, the other a dragonfly. The images on the new dragonfly card are all from Our Daily Bread designs. After sponging the background, I stamped the cattails , small dragonfly and flourish image around them to make the frame. I used a little bleach to remove the color in select areas.

    The white background was embossed with a Sizzix folder and some stickles was added to the images. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50.

    p.s If you read Cindy’s Featured Stamper post, then you know I’m one of the new Featured Stamper Challenge team! I’m so excited to be working along side Bridget Finlay, Judy Rozema and Stacy Morgan to bring you the FS challenge. And good luck and best wishes to Cindy in her new job and thanks for the wonderful Featured Stampers she brought to us!

    Thanks so much for stopping by!

    Supplies:

    Stamps: ODBD – Faithful Friend, Flourished Verses, With Heartfelt Sympathy
    Paper: Neenah white, black
    Ink: Ancient Page coal, Memento pear tart, bamboo leaves, cottage ivy, lulu lavender, grape jelly, angel pink
    Accessories: Spellbinders petite ovals lg & sm, bleach & an acrylic paintbrush, stickles, black Permapaque marker, Sizzix embossing folder (Dots, Flowers & Rick Rack)

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  • You Are a Blessing!

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

    Welcome to Our Daily Bread Designs‘  Alumni Team’s bi-monthly For the Love Blog Hop.  If you arrived here from the  blog of thevery talented Rosemary Dennis, then you’re in the right place. If not, you may want to go to the ODBD Blog  and start from the beginning. This week the Alumni team along with some of the ODBD designers are featuring a hop for the For the Love of ODBD Backgrounds! 

     

    For my card, I used two backgrounds: the Large Bird Background and the Wood Background.

     

    The two backgrounds were stamped with the pigment ink and the edges sponged w/ the same ink and a little of the darker fluid chalk ink on the very edge.

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

     

    On the sentiment/label, I placed a mask where the sentiment would be and inked the rest DTP (direct to paper) with the pixie dust ink at the top, papaya cream ink in the middle and rose coral ink at the bottom. After it dried,  I removed the mask and stamped the label and sentiment with black ink.  I really wanted to use gray ink, but it just looked too washed out. I used a white gel pen to add the tiny white dots around the flowers. It was die cut w/ the coordinating Spellbinders Labels 18 die.  I die cut a flourish out of some left over DTP c/s and added the two little punched birds and a double bow. The finished card is 6.25 x 4.50 (A6).

     

    Thanks so much for stopping by! I’m also adding this to the Inspiration Challenge at Splitcoast (IC328).

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    Supplies:

    Stamps: ODBD – Lg Bird Background, Wood Background, Flourished Verses, Bird & Butterfly Labels
    Paper: Neenah white, peach textured (DCWV Matstack)
    Ink: Ancient Page coal, Colorbox papaya cream pigment, Fluid Chalk rose coral, VersaMagic pixie dust
    Accessories: Spellbinders Labels 18 die, ribbon, Cheery Lynn Fanciful Flourish die, Mini Bowdabra, white gel pen, Martha Stewart cardinal punch (for the wings), McGill bird punch

    This entry was posted in Birds Cheery Lynn Dies Direct to Paper (DTP) Divinity Designs/Our Daily Bread designs Spellbinders Nestabilities Splitcoast Challenges Splitcoaststampers Weekly Favorite and tagged

  • Skating Away

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    Best of 2011 Happy Friday before Christmas! 
    Are you ready? I always plan to be ready ahead of time. Best laid plans, right! Like this happy little fellow, my best plans are skating away, but at least the happy thought is there!
    For my skating scene, everything except the cut out and added penguin was done on the one layer. I started by stamping the tree line then masking the snow and sponging the sky. There’s just something about a pink winter sky that I really like so I tend to use this color for winter skies. I flipped the mask to cover the sky and sponged in some snow w/ a lt blue ink. All except the pond. I penciled in where I wanted it and left it white. A little shading was added around the trees w/ markers.


    After I determined where my skater would go, I stamped him again on the plastic sheet of my SAMJ (stamp-a-ma-jig), lined up the foot under where his right foot is, masked the edge of the pond, and stamped the reflection using the image on the SAMJ sheet as the stamp. It’s really harder to describe than it is to do. It’s just a simple reflection technique. After that, I covered the pond using a VersaMark pen and embossed w/ clear powder twice. Then I added a few scribbles w/ a white Permapaque marker and embossed w/ another coat of clear ep. We used to call this super embossing. It really makes it look like an icy pond.
    Thanks so much for stopping by!

    Supplies:
    stamps: Interlocking Snow Bg, Snow Background, Tree Line Border, One Line Happy Thoughts greeting, Skating Penguin
    paper: white, pink
    ink: VersaFine onyx, Memento angel pink & summer sky, Archival library green (for the tree line)
    accessories: VersaMark pen, SAMJ, clear embossing powder, Tombow markers, Cuttlebug snowflake die, rhinestones


    This entry was posted in Animals/Pets Best of 2011 Christmas/Holiday/Winter DRS Designs Embossing/Dry or Heat Spellbinders Nestabilities Splitcoast Challenges Splitcoaststampers Weekly Favorite Sponging/Color Blending Watercolor and tagged