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ODBD December Another Look & a Tutorial!

Posted on December 18, 2015 7:58 AM by Julie 5 Comments

Today we are taking another look at the Our Daily Bread designs December release! Aren’t you over the moon with these beautiful images & fabulous dies? As a special treat, I’m including a little tutorial on how I did the double die cutting. The stitched circle around the horses is part of the white stitched frame. Tricky, huh? It’s actually a combination of out of the box & into the window. I will mention, I do both of these techniques on a regular basis so I don’t have a problem coloring my image first. If you’re trying this for the first time, you may want to color afterwards. That way if you have to try again, you won’t be out a lot of time & effort coloring it.
This is also for IC524 Inspiration Challenge & THIS was the button I was inspired by.
After I stamped my image w/ Memento onto a 4.25 x 5.50 piece of X-Press It, I colored it w/ Copics. The horses were colored to resemble Indian Paints. I still had the image in my Misti, so I over stamped it w/ Versafine to really sharpen the details. Now comes the Double Die Cutting how to…(click any picture to make it bigger.)

To finish, I stamped the mill scene onto textured chocolate using the sepia ink twice then added the highlights w/ a white Prismacolor pencil. The leftover outer stitched circle frame was colored w/ a Copic & put back around the image. A punched fence was attached behind the image & the oval stitched greeting added on top.

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

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs–Saddle Up (retired, replaced w/ Horses), Living Water

Paper: X-Press It white, textured chocolate

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx (to over stamp after coloring), Versafine sepia (greeting & background)

Accessories: ODBD Double Stitched Rectangles, Rectangles, Pierced Ovals,Double Stitched Circles, Flourished Star Pattern dies, Copic markers, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A dies, Misti, Martha Stewart fence punch, white prismacolor pencil

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Please be sure to stop & visit all of the DT Blogs. You’ll find so much inspiration on ways to use this fabulous release!
Julie * Amy * Cathy * Robin * Sandee *

Dawn * Lori * America

Living Water	Horses	Double Stitched Rectangles dies CBD123	Rectangles dies CBD122	Double Stitched Circles dies CBD136
Pierced Ovals dies CBD172	Flourished Star Pattern dies CBD75	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	Picket Fence punch M284101	X-Press It Blending Card
AC color card stock	Memento Inks	VersaFine Inkpads	Prismacolor Pencils

Ride ‘Em Cowboy!

Posted on June 11, 2015 10:46 AM by Julie 2 Comments

ETA: Just found out this card was Published in Just Cards, Summer 2015, Vol 38!
The Ways to Use It Challenge (WT535), has us heading west & using a cowboy theme in honor of John Wayne. I have this cute little cowpoke & silhouette riders so this is my western theme card.

After stamping, coloring and fussy cutting the little cowboy, I added him to a white frame I stamped w/ just the rope portion of the image. For the inside area, I sponged on yellows, oranges & a bit of red at the top, then stamped the silhouette cowboys & the stars in a combination of sky blue and soft pool because I wanted them visible, but not so dark that the greeting wouldn’t show up well when I stamped it on top.

The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25 and these are the Copics I used to color the cute little cowboy.

Thanks so much for stopping by! If you haven’t, please mosey on over and check out the DRS Thursday Challenge...Just Beachy! Use a beach, water or sea theme & DRS images are not required!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs – Saddle Up Greeting, Saddle Up Cowboy, Cowboy Silhouette, Starry Background

Paper: Neenah white, black

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Kaleidacolor melon melody & desert heat, Memories sky blue, HA soft pool

Accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies

Shamrock Lattice

Posted on February 20, 2015 11:06 AM by Julie 1 Comment

Today’s Free for All Challenge (F4A261)on Splitcoast has 2 requirements..St. Patrick’s Day theme & use one of the tutorials in the SCS Resources section. I went with THIS tutorial on creating a frame using Spellbinders nestabilities.

After using two sizes of Labels 22 to make my frame, I also die cut a fancy lattice, used part of it behind the frame and the rest for the lower part of my card front. The Infinity Shamrock was stamped w/ green ink, then I added a light green shading to it before stamping the greeting on top with black. I attached it on top of the lattice and a green panel behind the lattice before attaching to my card. The shamrock swag was colored & fussy cut.

Thanks so much for stopping by! If you haven’t yet, please be sure to check out the DRS Thursday Challenge! This week, it’s a color challenge using spring greens. DRS images are not required so head on over and link up!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs – Infinity Shamrock, Irish Inventory, Shamrock Swag

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, cottage ivy

Paper: Neenah white, green

Accessories: a few green Copic markers, Spellbinders Labels 22, rectangle & fancy lattice dies

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