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Christmas Boots

Posted on December 16, 2023 10:02 PM by Julie Comment

A Christmas card with a southwest flavor, featuring boots, cactus & Christmas trees. Perfect for family and friends living in the southwest.

It’s my turn to host the Featured Stamper Challenge (FS880) so a big congrats to Karen! She has a wonderful, growing gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I kept the colors & Christmas theme but used different images, dies, and layout & turned the elf boots into cowboy boots.

For my southwest Christmas card, I die cut all the parts & pieces out of the different colors of card stock & pieced them all together. On the boot shafts, I used part of a piercing die to get the pattern & put some stickles on the white parts of the Santa hat. The boots were popped up just a bit.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Rubbernecker Stamps: Winter Wreath set (greeting)

Paper: Staples 110# white, brown, tan, green, red, Rubbernecker Stamps: Ho Ho Ho paper pad

Ink: Versaclair nocturne

Accessories: Rubbernecker Stamps: Rectangle Stitch, Stitched Circles, Cactus, Winter Door parts, Cowboy Boots & Hat, Winter Sign, Floral Swirl Pierced dies, Crossover II, MISTI, stickles

Staples 110# White Card Stock

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Feliz Navidad

Posted on December 3, 2021 10:37 PM by Julie Comment

It’s my pleasure to host the Splitcoast Inspiration Challenge (IC835) this week & we’re visiting Touch of Class & their Pinterest Board. THIS is the picture that inspired my card.

My southwest Christmas card is pretty easy to make. I die cut the sun out of pale yellow, the sandy hills out of tan, the mountains out of brown & the cactus out of a couple of shades of green. I sponged the edges to give them some depth then added the tiny Christmas lights to a couple of the cactus & used a gold gel pen to connect them. All of the scenery is attached to a pale grey bg.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Rubbernecker Stamps: Christmas Phrases Lg & Sm

Paper: Staples 110# white, brown, tan, green, blue, grey, yellow, red

Ink: Versaclair nocturne, Rubbernecker Stamps: Color Fuse inks set #2, set #3, set #10,

Accessories: Rubbernecker Stamps: Rectangle Stitch, Circles, Southwest Hills, Cactus, Slimline Hills, Tiny Ornaments dies, Crossover II, gold Gelly Roll pen, MISTI

Staples 110# White Card Stock

AC color card stock

MISTI

Versafine Clair ink

Metallic Gelly Roll pens

This entry was posted in Christmas/Holiday/Winter Rubbernecker Stamps Scenes/Landscapes Southwest Splitcoast Challenges Sponging/Color Blending and tagged cactus Christmas Misti Rubbernecker Southwest Sponging/Color Blending

Desert Sunset

Posted on November 19, 2021 10:15 PM by Julie 1 Comment

For the Splitcoast Inspiration Challenge (IC833), we’re going to a wonderful Lighthouse Pinterest Board where I found THIS lovely picture.

For my southwest card, I started w/ a background I made quite a while ago. I thought the purples & oranges were good colors for a desert sunset scene. The bg was done by smooshing the Marvy metallic markers onto a rubber brayer, spritzing w/ water & rolling it over a piece of white card. If I remember correctly, I did it once w/ the yellow, orange & silver colors & again w/ the purples & silver. The hills & cactus plants were die cut out of a few shades of purple & I used part of the leftover orange areas for the cowgirl, cowboy & roadrunner. They were also popped up on foam to give them a little depth.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: none

Paper: Staples 110# white, several shades of purple

Ink: none

Accessories: Rubbernecker Stamps: Rectangle Stitch,Southwest Hills, Cowgirl & Cowboys, Western Animals, Cactus dies, Crossover II, Marvy Metallics markers, rubber brayer