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It’s my pleasure to host the 700th Inspiration Challenge (IC700)! Wow! That’s a lot of inspiration. And I chose a place that was a discussion of colors. For my first card, I was inspired by THIS. I love all the blue butterflies.

After coloring & die cutting the butterflies, I sponged the Distress inks onto my white panel, then sprayed it w/ thinned out white acrylic paint. I thought it still needed more, so stamped over the sponged areas w/ the same Distress inks using a splatter bg image.

Here’s the inside & the Copics I used for the butterflies.

My second card is all about shades of gray & black. My moonlit scene was inspired by THIS picture.

After die cutting the birches & grasses out of black, a circle of white & a bg out of gray, I sponged on a little black & gray onto the gray bg.

I used white & lt. gray Prismacolor pencils to add some depth & shading to the moon, birches & grasses.

Here’s the inside.

Supplies:

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RN Brush Butterflies 3018	RN Fluttering Butterflies dies 3018D	RN Splatter Bg 1231	RN Birch Trees die 5167-02D	RN Stitched Hills dies 5173-01D
RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Nested Banner Stitch dies 5151D	RN Rectangle Stitch Frame dies 5122D	RN You’re What Happened 642-15	RN Grass #2 die 5210-21D
RN Floral Frame die 5211D	RN Circle Stitch dies 5006D	RN Oval Stitch dies 5008D	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Prismacolor Pencils
AC color card stock	Decoart Acrylic paint	Posca Paint Pen	Distress Inks	Memento Inks
Versafine Clair ink

Welcome to April & to the Splitcoaststampers Fan Club April Christmas Challenge! I’m part of the challenge team again this year & the bonus is I’ll have a bunch of Christmas cards finished in plenty of time for Christmas this year. You’ll need to be Fan Club member but that’s easy…just click the blue link to find out how. Bet you’re wondering what the challenge theme is..I’d love to tell you but you’ll have to go see for yourself.

For my Christmas Wishes card, I used an embossing folder on the white bg, then paper pieced some strips for a faux woven bg. I used part of a box of Christmas cards I bought that are supposed to have a picture inserted so the entire back is 5×7 piece of this heavy weight Christmas print w/ little red foil accents. After I glued them, I embossed it all again.  The rest was just die cutting the holly out of green glitter card, the Wishes & backing oval out of red glitter card, then attaching a red foil frame over the bg. 

Here’s the inside.

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Supplies:

 

RN Have Yourself 981-03	RN Holly #1 die 5162-08D	RN Oval Stitch dies 5008D	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Rectangle Stitch Frame dies 5122D
RN Wishes die 5205-05D	Staples 110# White Card Stock	DCWV Glitter Matstack	Mirror Board	VersaFine Inkpads
Cuttlebug Matelasse embossing folder 2001945

Welcome to the Our Daily Bread designs Dec. Release Blog Hop! If you arrived here from  Becca’s fabulous blog, you are in the right place! If not, you should start at the ODBD Blog so you don’t miss a thing! There are lots of goodies up for grabs this month…. so be sure to follow the rules to qualify to win one of the prizes!

Merry Christmas!!!

Isn’t this a wonderful set? I love the clover and little bees and the quotes are beautiful! For my card, I stamped and water colored two of the clover images and used the fabulous matching die to cut them out.  I love fussy cutting, but give me a die like this, and I’ll hang up my scissors in a heart beat! I also die cut piece of card board to attach under one of the clovers for a little lift. After stamping the quote on some gold parchment c/s, I attached a black frame with a Spellbinders label 17 cut out of the middle.

The beautiful honeycomb background image was stamped on top of a subtle dp pattern. the black/cream dot pattern is another dp pattern. I didn’t have the right size brads in black, so I used a black Permapaque marker to color some white brads and heat set to dry them. The finished ivory card is 5.5 x 4.25.

Your next stop in this hop will be to Sabrina’s beautiful blog!

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Supplies:
stamps: ODBD Simple Things, Honeycomb Background
paper: ivory, gold parchment, dp (DCWV La Creme -under the honeycomb) & ( SEI- Moonrise collection), black, water color paper
ink: Ancient Page coal
accessories: ODBD clover die, Spellbinders labels 17, Tombow markers, water brush, black Permapaque marker, brads, ribbon