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This is for another Dare to Get Dirty Challenge. For all the details of the DTGD challenges, go HERE…but you’ll need to be a Fan Club member.  

I finally finished a background I could live with for Lydia’s DTGD challenge. There are still several fails hanging around. And since the Free for All Challenge on Friday was birds, I colored this digi image & added it along w/ a greeting stamped on a chat bubble die cut.
Here’s the inside & the Copics I used for the bird.

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This was for another DTGD Challenge, the Color Challenge & also the Fan Club Christmas Challenge.

I used Copic markers & a gold Krylon on glossy paper to make my bg layer & the poinsettia petals. The greeting was stamped onto the brushed gold w/ the warm violet ink & heat embossed w/ a transparent sparkly powder. Then all I did was put it all together.
Here’s the inside.

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FTHS Inner Tube Chick digis	Uplifting Words 1398QCL	Christmas 1383	Have Yourself 1377E	Merry x3 663D
Sending Smiles 1361E	Copic Sketch Markers	Copic Various ink refills	Isopropyl Alcohol 91%	Memento Inks
Versafine Clair ink	Colorbox Fluid Chalk inks	Watercolor pan set	Krylon Metallic Leafing pens	Stampendous embossing powder
Staples 110# White Card Stock	Kromekote white gloss card stock	Lil’ Inker Stitched Rectangles Die Set	Memory Box Poinsettia Ribbon die 99182	MFT Stitched Arch dies
Penny Black Chat Bubble dies	Pierced Rectangles dies	Merry Mosaics dies	Peaceful Poinsettias dies	Sequins

It’s my turn to host the Splitcoaststampers Featured Stamper Challenge (FS508) so a big congrats to Jeanne, aka Penny627! She has such a wonderful gallery & after much browsing, I chose THIS to case. I didn’t have a cute little Halloween girl, but I had a cute little Christmas girl. So I kept the basic layout & circle element, but I used different images, different colors & since there isn’t a die for this cutie, I did a complicated out of the box/into the window for her. 

Sigh…I’m not gonna lie..it took me quite a while to color this lovely, then it took me longer to figure out how I was going to handle her, since she’s a bit bigger than I thought when I ordered her. To make the circle opening, after a lot of consideration, I traced around the smallest Grand circle die & used a craft knife to cut away the area around her that fell inside the circle. I used the same circle along w/ the largest of the regular circle dies to cut the silver glitter layer & put it behind her. The card started out to be 5.5″ square, but I just felt uneasy w/ it, so I cut it down to fit A2 & added just a touch of snowflake embossing on the lower corners & strips of the silver glitter on either side. It changed the look a bit, but I like the partial circle a lot better. I added a die cut Joy out of the silver glitter above the Happy Holidays that is part of the red designer paper I used to back the image.

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


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PB Fairy Holly 40-173	Sizzix Holiday thinlits 660058	Spellbinders Lg Circles S4-114	Spellbinders Grand Circles LF-114
X-Press It Blending Card	DCWV Glitter Matstack	Studio Calico Magical	Copic Sketch Markers
Memento Inks	Crafter’s Companion Christmas Elegance EF6-CHEL