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It’s my pleasure to host this week’s challenge & a big congrats to Mary Beth, the newest Featured Stamper (FS772) on Splitcoast! She has a lovely gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I kept the Christmas theme & color palette, but used different dies, a stencil & turned mine vertical.

My Christmas card started w/ a Green alcohol ink bg I made I don’t even know how long ago. I used a stained glass stencil, but since I only wanted the lines (the stencil fills in the centers), I tacked it down on a piece of white & sponged the metallic gold ink all over it as you’d normally do. Carefully, I lifted the stencil & turned it inked side down on top of my AI bg & used a brayer to go over it. That left me w/ just the lines & I quickly heat embossed it w/ mirror gold powder. The large brushed gold layer was cut w/ a stitched rect die then I die cut it again w/ the candle circle. The flame parts were cut out of 2 different shades of gold, as well as the stitched frame. These were attached on top of the green bg & the greeting was also gold embossed on a narrow dk green strip. The entire candle layer is popped up on a foam layer to give it a little dimension.

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Supplies:

Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	Ultimate Metallic Ink	Stardream Paper	Kromekote white gloss card stock
Ranger Alcohol Inks

A big congrats to Jen, the newest Featured Stamper (FS731) at Splitcoast! She has a wonderful gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I liked the 3 little tags w/ images on them, so I kept that. But I used different images, dies & colors, & turned the layout to vertical.

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For my card, I came across this leftover bg piece that I had made ages ago. I love how bright & festive it is & thought it would be perfect w/ these 3 candles. The bg was done by inking the inside of the birthday embossing folder w/ a rainbow ink pad, then embossing it. I colored the candles to go w/ this bg, die cut them then added them to the 3 die cut tags. I wanted a little more separation between them & the bg so I die cut a wide-ish frame to go around the bg. It also helps to disguise the fact that this bg doesn’t run the entire length of the card front.

There were a few areas that the color on the bg had run into the white letters but a little touch up w/ a white Posca pen helped disguise it.

Here’s the inside. Just a little trimmed off piece at the bottom & I used the same rainbow ink to stamp the greeting.

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Supplies:

RN Candle set 60-0200405	RN Candle die 60-020405	RN Many Happies 124SO	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Rounded Corner Rectangle Stitch dies 5017D
RN Tag Stitch dies 5149D	Memento Inks	Copic Sketch Markers	Staples 110# White Card Stock	X-Press It Blending Card
Posca Paint Pen	Kaliedacolor ink pads	RN Crossover II	Cuttlebug Happy Birthday 37-1133	Sequins

Today’s Free For All Challenge (F4A368) on Splitcoast wants us to use a food or a food related image/theme. So I’m going w/ a tasty cupcake!

The cupcake was stamped & colored, then I used parts of 2 greetings and die cut the word “wish” twice & stacked it. After lining it up on the cupcake, I matched the colors & lines so it would blend in. A single candle was fussy cut & I made a small slit to insert it. A dry embossed dk red panel, some stickles & sequins were added to finish.

Here’s a look at the inside & below it are the Copics I used.
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Supplies:

Cupcake 463E	Hey Cupcake 365B	Birthday Candle Burst 451L	Happy Happy Day 864G	Birthday Candle 258B
Cuttlebug Birthday Wishes 37-1162	Memento Inks	Copic Sketch Markers	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Recollections Cardstock
Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132	Font One Lower Case S5-199	Stickles	Sequins