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Congrats to Karen, the newest Featured Stamper on Splitcoast! She has a lovely little gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I liked the wreath on the brick wall, so I kept that. But I used different stamps, dies & colors & used a stencil for my brick instead of an embossing folder.

On my bg, I sponged Brilliance gold & lightning black inks thru the brick wall stencil. While the stencil was still in place, I stamped the splatter bg using the same inks to give the bricks a little texture. IRL, it’s very gold & shimmery! The wreath was stamped, colored & I used my out of the box die cutting technique & a circle die to cut it. Large script greeting fit perfectly inside the wreath & I stamped it in black first, then again in the lightning black so it has a nice shimmer, too. A gold circle layer was added & done!

Here are the Copics I used for the wreath:

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

RN Merry Christmas Script 1256-01	RN Wreath w/ Berries 1252	RN Splatter Bg 1231	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Circle Stitch dies 5006D
RN Brick Wall Stencil 4008	Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	Copic Sketch Markers	Memento Inks
Brilliance Inks

Congrats to Jan, the newest Featured Stamper (FS659) on Splitcoast! She has one fab gallery & it was really hard to pick just one. But THIS card really stayed w/ me so I picked it to case. I kept the big, patterned die cut letters & most of the colors, but I used different stamps, different dies & turned it into a Christmas card. 

For my version, after coloring the many moose (mooses? meeses? I know the plural is the same as the singular..it just looks weird, kwim?), they were die cut w/ the matching dies. The bg was sponged w/ Distress inks & splattered w/ water. On the Merry letters, I sponged the Brilliance ink onto red c/s using several new Rubbernecker stencils, spritzed it w/ shimmer spray,  then die cut them. I added some Washi tape toward the top & a couple of stitched snow hills at the bottom before adding the moose herd. The Christmas was white embossed on black & tucked under the washi tape.

Here are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

RN Have Yourself 981-03	RN Moose set 3013	RN Moose dies set 3013D	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Stitched Hills dies 5173-01D
RN Alphabet Upper Case dies 5140-01D	RN Sand Stencil 4004	RN Square & Rectangle Stencil 4007	RN Stars Stencil 4006	RN Vertical Lines Stencil 4010
Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	Distress Inks	Brilliance Inks	Copic Sketch Markers
Tsukineko Shimmer Spritz	Ranger Embossing Powder

For the Splitcoast Inspiration Challenge (IC720), we are going to Burton & Burton. There were a lot of things I wanted to use for inspiration, but I kept coming back to THIS picture. 

After I die cut the trees, deer & a white front, I sponged the Distress inks down another white panel, then splattered it w/ some picket fence Distress stain.  The die cuts were attached (I used a black Prismacolor pencil on the birch trees) & the little scene was spritzed w/ a shimmer spray.  

After I decided how tall to make my little scene, I used my Resizing Technique to divide the top white panel in two, then shorten them (this technique works for making die cuts smaller as well as larger!). I had some corrugated white cardboard saved from a light bulb pkg, so I used it to pop up the 2 white panel a bit. Stickles was used on the white snowflake & a few clear sequins for additional sparkle. Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

RN Merry Christmas Lg 983-04	RN Deer Family dies 5162-10D	RN Birch Trees die 5167-02D	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Sm. Snowflake die 5100-04D
Staples 110# White Card Stock	Prismacolor Pencils	Distress Inks	Distress Stains	Sequins
Stickles	Tsukineko Shimmer Spritz	Versafine Clair ink