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A big Congrats to Kandie, the newest Featured Stamper (FS534) on Splitcoast! She has a wonderful little gallery & I chose THIS to case. I kept the tree & birds & most of the layout, but I used different images, different colors & made my a thank you/sympathy card.

I masked off the die cut blue/grey panel & stamped the Woodgrain Bg across the top 2/3 w/ the weathered wood ink & added just a little gray in between areas. The greeting was stamped below in the majestic blue ink then I added the die cut tree & birds & a dividing strip w/ a little Candi dot.

Here’s a look at the inside.

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Woodgrain Bg 626P	Sympathy Thanks 129D	Friendship Doubles 1065F	Copic Sketch Markers
Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	Lil’ Inker Stitched Rectangles Die Set	Stitched Mats Long & Skinny
RN Small Birds die 5147-06D	MB Arborscello Tree die 98155	Candi Dots	Distress Inks
VersaFine Inkpads

 
Welcome to the April Blog Hop for Serendipity Stamps! If you arrived here from Jenny’s Blog,  you are in the right place..if not, you may want to head over there first.
 
The Prize – One $20 gift code will go to one random commenter from the blogs. So be sure  to visit all the blogs because you don’t know which one the winner will be drawn from. You have through Sunday April 24 to leave comments on the blogs for a chance to win. Mary will  announce a winner on April 25. Each month a different image is 50% off. This month- it’s the Adirondack Chair.. The special is free shipping on all US orders $20 and up  – good Wed through Sunday 4/20 – 4/24. Be sure to check out the great deals on the Clearance Stamps!   On the third Wednesday of every month., we’ll be celebrating with a Blog Hop!  For another chance to win,  be sure to play along with our monthly challenge. You can get all the details on the challenge HERE.

For my card, I put the Adirondack Chair image in my Misti, stamped it w/ Memento, colored w/ Copic markers, overstamped w/ Versfine then sprinkled w/ detail black embossing powder & heat embossed it. I pretty much had to do it in this order to use the Copics w/ the heat embossing…Copics tend to “melt” the ep (& ruin your markers) if you try to use them after heat embossing..especially if you do a lot of blending. I die cut the gray frame using 2 sizes of the matting basics dies. For the dry embossed cherry tree, I arranged the image inside the embossing folder, then put one of the embossing frames on top to keep it from embossing the area over the chair. I sort of matched up the branch embossing on the gray frame & embossed it, as well. The stamped, colored & fussy cut geraniums on the side.

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

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Marybeth Lopez

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Adirondack Chair 712G	Sm. Geranium 1113D	Thinking of You 171F	Sending Love 971D	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131
Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132	Spellbinders Decorative Labels 28 S5-191	VersaFine Small Inkpads	Staples 110# White Card Stock	X-Press It Blending Card
Recollections Cardstock	Momenta Arrow dies	Memento Inks	MISTI	Ranger Embossing Powder
Cherry Blossom embossing folder	Permapaque fine tip markers	Prismacolor Pencils	Distress Inks	Darice Embossing Frames

 
Today’s Technique Challenge (TLC528) on Splitcoast is Cluster Stamping and involves die cutting or punching a large mask then stamping inside with smaller images. I die cut an oval out of a card sized piece of copy paper where I wanted it to be on the actual card. After placing this reverse mask on top of the actual piece of card, I sponged pink ink inside and a little gray around the edges.

Leaving the mask in place, I stamped the different flower images, then using a tiny acrylic paintbrush, I painted bleach on the flowers to remove most of the color. I also went over it a bit with a white Prismacolor pencil to smooth out the white areas. After removing the mask, I used a pierced oval around it. The greeting was stamped (using a stamp positioner to move the lines closer together) in the lower right and a fussy cut little bird was added on the left along w/ a few clear sequins. These are the Copics I used for the bird.

I started w/ the RV colors then thought the pink was a little too much on the cool side to go w/ the sponged pink so I added just a touch of the cherry white to warm it up. Here’s a look at the inside.

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