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Sending Love & Hugs

Posted on March 22, 2025 9:47 PM by Julie Comment

I have another Sneak Peak of the Floral Release coming 3/26/25. This time it’s a large, floral background set. This image would be awesome if the flowers were individually colored, but I kept my clean & simple by creating a brayered background to add color. You could also try it over any leftover backgrounds you have or do a black & white. Endless choices for this lovely image.

A big congrats to Darlene, the newest Featured Stamper FS946! She has a super gallery & after much browsing, I chose THIS card to case. I kept the big floral background w/ a simple greeting, but I used different images, different colors, turned mine vertical & left off a layer,

To make my background, I used a piece of glossy card, a little brayer & a selection of little ink pads. I started w/ the yellow at the top & brayered it about 1/3 of the way down. Then added a little of the apricot on top of the lower part of the yellow. Then the 2 bright pinks, followed by the purple at the bottom. Since it’s glossy, you just have roll over it a few time to get good coverage & remove any streaks. I let it dry for a few minutes, then used the embossing buddy over it before putting it into my Misti & stamping w/ Versaclair. Since it’s a big image, I repeated this in any areas that didn’t look dark enough. I knew the Versaclair would not dry totally on the glossy, so I heat embossed it w/ clear powder. It was die cut w/ the largest stitched rectangle & to make sure the embossing didn’t flake off the edges, I used the heat tool around where it was cut. The greeting was stamped, die cut & I added a peach colored band behind it that I used an edger die on, & put the cutaway portion of one but in black, down the center. A few rhinestones were added here & there.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope to see you at the IG Release Hop. (You will be able to find it at @brassandblisscraftco or on my account @julie_justwritedesigns on Instagram, Wed morning 3/26/25.)

Supplies: (click the names below the pictures to take you to the products)

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: Floral Background set

Paper: Staples 110# white, white glossy (for brayered bg), strip of peach, strip of black

Ink: Versaclair nocturne, Brass & Bliss: Color Fuse Inks set #1, set #2, set #5, set #6

Accessories: Brass & Bliss: Sm Stitch Rectangle, A2 Narrow Rectangles, Classic Edge Cuts dies, MISTI, rhinestones, clear embossing powder, small brayer

Floral Background 37012	Classic Edge Cut dies 5807-01D	Rectangle Small Stitch dies 5013D	Narrow A2 Rectangle dies 5728D	Color Fuse Ink set #1
Color Fuse Ink set #2	Color Fuse Ink set #5	Color Fuse Ink set #6	Scotch ATG	Ranger Brayer
Kromekote white gloss card stock	MISTI	Versafine Clair ink	Ranger Embossing Powder	AC color card stock
Rhinestones

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Hello Friend

Posted on March 21, 2025 9:41 PM by Julie Comment

And hello Spring! Some flowers are blooming now and others are getting there as the first day of Spring officially arrives. This is a sneak peak of a fabulous Floral release scheduled for next Wednesday (3/2/25) and we will have a hop over on IG (instagram) you won’t want to miss! My bright floral card is not at all hard to make & the bright colors really pop against the black of the background.

For the Inspiration Challenge IC1007, we are visiting Dutch Bulbs & their Pinterest Board. THIS picture of bright flowers was my inspiration. I took the plastic sheet the stamps come on & used the printed image to put on top of various backgrounds to see what would look good against the black. I came across a little square w/ bright colors brayered onto it. It wasn’t big enough, so I got the rainbow pads I’m pretty sure I used, & made a larger background. Then I positioned the image around to see what I liked best, put the image & the background into my Misti & stamped it several times w/ the Versaclair nocturne to get good coverage.

Here is a picture of the brayered background I made. As you can see, it’s not perfect or arranged in any way. It’s just bright colors brayered on in a haphazard manner. No need to get too precise as only the colors will show through.

This is how it looked after I stamped it & die cut it w/ the coordinating die. Using the printed plastic sheet makes it easy to see where to stamp it. Since there was a lot of black ink on it, I used a heat tool to dry it before I die cut it.

The image was layered onto a piece of card board for a little elevation, before adding a peach & narrow black mat behind it. The greeting was stamped, die cut & I also used the greeting die to cut 2 out of black to use as a shadow above & below.

Thanks so much for looking. Hope to see you at the IG Release Hop. (You will be able to find it at @brassandblisscraftco or on my account @julie_justwritedesigns on Instagram, Wed morning 3/26/25.)

Supplies: (click the names below the pictures to take you to the products)

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: Hello There set

Paper: Staples 110# white, black, peach

Ink: Versaclair nocturne, Kaleidacolor Birthstone & Bouquet rainbow pads

Accessories: Brass & Bliss: Rectangles, Sm. Stitch Rectangles, Hello There set dies, Misti, brayer

Hello There set 37010	Hello There dies 37010D	Rectangle Small Stitch dies 5013D	Rectangle dies 5003D	Staples 110# White Card Stock
AC color card stock	MISTI	Versafine Clair ink	Kaliedacolor ink pads	Scotch ATG
Ranger Brayer

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Greatest Friends

Posted on March 8, 2025 9:58 PM by Julie Comment

I have a very clean and simple card today. Perfect for a friend as a thank you, or thinking of you, or just to say hi. It features a pretty floral image and big block letters for the greeting. It’s actually much longer but I used just some of the words. Since the lines are individual, it was easy to just use what I wanted. Some simple framing and it’s done!

A big congrats to Andrea, the newest Featured Stamper FS944. The first thing I noticed about her gallery is she has a lot of lovely Christmas cards, with a few others. A lot of great ideas there! I chose THIS card to case. I kept the pink flowers and clean layout, but I used different images, dies & added a deckle frame.

After coloring & die cutting the flowers, I used a deckle frame die to cut out the white frame & also a piece of card board to elevate it off of the background. It seemed like it needed something, so I cut a slightly smaller frame out of a mauve pink using a couple of plain rectangle dies. The greeting was split & I only used part of it. The flowers were popped up on foam in order to have them level w/ the frame.

Here are the Copics I used:

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies: (click the names below the pictures to take you to the products)

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: Floral Memories set

Paper: Staples 110# white, mauve pink

Ink: Versaclair nocturne

Accessories: Brass & Bliss: Deckle Frame, Rectangles, Floral Memories dies, Misti, Copic markers

Floral Memories set 37002	Floral Memories dies 37002D	Rectangle dies 5003D	Deckle Frame dies 5176-01D	Copic Sketch Markers
Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	MISTI	Versafine Clair ink	Scotch ATG