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Flowers Bloom

Posted on July 13, 2024 9:47 PM by Julie Comment

When you want to send a card of encouragement, sympathy or feel better, this floral set is perfect. The greetings are as lovely as the flowers and even come with a larger word Hope that has a matching die! Add a pretty background and you are set to go.

A big congrats to Laura, the newest Featured Stamper (FS910)! She has a wonderful gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I kept the large floral & white background, but I used a stamped, colored & die cut flower instead of embossed. I also used different dies & added a mixed media paper behind the white cover.

After coloring & die cutting the floral image, I added a cardboard layer under it to give it strength & a little lift. I had a mixed media background in my stash. On its own, it was just a mix of colors made with acrylic paint. I stamped the News Paper Bg over it to add a little something extra & attached it behind the Diamond Cover front. The first part of the greeting is stamped directly on top of it & the die cut Hope added underneath.

Here are the Copics I used: (the BV00 was used to underpaint the flowers & leaves in the shadow areas).

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: Ruffled Flower Bouquet set, News Paper Bg

Paper: Staples 110# white

Ink: Memento tuxedo black,

Accessories: Brass & Bliss/Rubbernecker Stamps: Offset Diamond Cover, Ruffled Flower Bouquets set dies, MISTI , Copic markers

Ruffled Flower Bouquet 36034	Ruffled Flower Bouquet dies 36034D	News Paper Bg 35022	Offset Diamond Cover die 5712D	Staples 110# White Card Stock
Scotch ATG	Copic Sketch Markers	MISTI	Memento Inks

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Just Bees

Posted on August 7, 2020 11:26 PM by Julie Comment

For the Splitcoast Inspiration Challenge (IC766), we are headed to Allen Designs Studio & after much browsing, I chose THIS for my inspiration.

My card features these cute little bees & sunflowers on a Slimline card. I’m really loving these new dies! After I die cut the white front & all the flowers & bees, I put them together. For the background, I found a leftover piece of mixed media I made, who knows how long ago, using metallic acrylic paints. I liked the colors so I die cut circles bigger than the openings (to show thru the little dots surrounding the circles), then cut them again w/ smaller circles. I used a honeycomb die on the smaller circles, then put them back inside, leaving out a few of the hexagons.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Rubbernecker Stamps: Kittie Says Phrases #1 (retired)

Paper: Staples 110# white, black, green, yellow, brown

Ink: Memento tuxedo black

Accessories: Rubbernecker Stamps: Slimline OPC Circle Dash, Circle, Bee w Hive, Bee w Honey Pot, Honeycomb dies, Acrylic paint

Bee w/ Hive die 5324-01D	Bee w/ Honey Pot die 5324-02D	Honeycomb die 5304-03D	Circle Stitch Sm. dies 5012D	Slimline OPC Circle Dash die 5325-02D
Slimline Nested Stitch dies 5326D	Memento Inks	Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	Acrylic Paint

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Flowers in a Bottle

Posted on May 22, 2020 10:41 PM by Julie 1 Comment

For the Splitcoast Inspiration Challenge this week (IC755), we’re headed to A Cottage in the City (or their Pinterest Board). After much back & forth, I couldn’t decide which I liked more..THIS or THIS..so I combined the two. I used the wood plank wall from the first for my background & the flower in the bottle for my main image.

For the background, I stamped the wood grain fence in gray ink then sponged on the lt blue, antique linen & gray inks to resemble the different wood planks. It looked a little too bright & new, so I took some thinned down white acrylic paint & dry brushed it on top & also spritzed some to get the drops.

On the main image, after stamping the flowers, I masked just the one lower petal & stamped the bottle. I used a Copic multiliner to extend the stems. I also took a couple of quick pics to show the basics of my out of the box die cutting method. You can also see the original tutorial HERE.

Align your die where you want it to cut. Use a craft knife to cut around any areas that will go outside of the die cut boundaries & lift them over the die. You’ll have to go into area inside the die just a bit, but if you cut right on a thicker black outline, it will be almost invisible. Or in this case, I cut the top petals, then slid the die down under these areas. Now run this thru your die cut machine. Since these petals are on top of the die, they won’t be cut off.

All cut & it turned out perfectly! I wanted it over to the side like this to give me room for the greeting. I ended up putting it on a separate piece & I used the craft knife to cut a slit down the side of the bottle & tucked the left edge of the blue greeting flag into the slit.

Here are the Copics I used:

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Rubbernecker Stamps: Woodgrain Fence, Sending Love, Brushed Flower #4

Paper: Staples 110# white, lt blue

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Distress ink antique linen, Rubbernecker Color Fuse ink set #9, set #7

Accessories: Rubbernecker Stamps: Rectangle Stitch dies, Copic Sketch Markers, Sequins, white acrylic paint

RN Brushed Flower #4 1313-04	RN Woodgrain Fence 1334	RN Sending Love 1319-07	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Watercolor Wine Bottle 974
RN Color Fuse Ink set #9	RN Color Fuse Ink set #7	Distress Inks	Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock
Memento Inks	Sequins	Copic Sketch Markers	Decoart Acrylic paint