{"id":15967,"date":"2014-04-15T18:31:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T22:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=15967"},"modified":"2015-01-05T10:59:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T15:59:21","slug":"birthday-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=15967","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Bday-Flowers-cu-03399.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-15968\" title=\"Bday Flowers cu 03399\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Bday-Flowers-cu-03399.jpg\" alt=\"Julie Warner \u2013 https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\" width=\"512\" height=\"399\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splitcoaststampers.com\/forums\/general-stamping-talk-f17\/favorites-week-ending-april-20-a-t586661.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9523 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Weekly-Favorite.gif\" alt=\"Weekly-Favorite\" width=\"200\" height=\"70\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splitcoaststampers.com\/forums\/general-stamping-talk-f17\/best-favorites-2014-a-t595458.html#post20856728\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #f497f3; font-size: 24pt;\"><strong>Best of 2014!<\/strong><\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Bday-Flowers-cu-03399.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a>Today&#8217;s Color Challenge (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.splitcoaststampers.com\/forums\/color-combinations-f43\/cc474-very-pink-pudding-4-15-14-a-t586489.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CC474<\/strong><\/a>) on Splitcoast uses some very pretty colors&#8230;pink, pistachio &amp; vanilla. The dessert option was a little tough&#8230;NO STAMPING! That may be easy for some, but it was a little tougher for me because I love to use images and I love to color them. For my card, I did manage the dessert. I relied on die cuts and punches to see me through.<a href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Bday-Flowers-cu-03399.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Bday-Flowers-03398.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-15969\" title=\"Bday Flowers 03398\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Bday-Flowers-03398.jpg\" alt=\"Julie Warner \u2013 https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\" width=\"524\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFor the vanilla panel, I used only the first half of a Memory Box die cut. The whole die says &#8220;Happy Holidays&#8221;. But I positioned it on the top of my vanilla panel, taped it place, then let the &#8220;holidays&#8221; part hang off of the cutting plate. I wasn&#8217;t sure if it would work, but it did! The birthday die is a little Sizzix sizzlet and I only used the birthday part instead of the whole &#8220;happy birthday&#8221;. The flowers, flower border and branches were all done with punches. I sponged a little darker pink ink on the petal edges and added some tiny black dots on the border flowers and tiny flowers. The big green leaves are from a poinsettia die. I used a dk pink Copic to color my rhinestone brad to match.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much for stopping by!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Julie2-sig.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12715\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Julie2-sig.png\" alt=\"Julie2 sig\" width=\"134\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSupplies:<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"90%\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"6\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody id=\"collapseobj_photoinfo\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><b>Stamps:<\/b><strong> NONE<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><b>Ink:<\/b>\u00a0 Memento pistachio (for shading leaves), Colorbox rose coral chalk ink (for shading flower petals)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><b>Paper:<\/b> vanilla, pink, lt green<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><b>Accessories:<\/b>\u00a0 pink Copic marker, black Micron pen, Spellbinders poinsettia &amp; matting basics A dies, Memory Box Happy Holidays die, Sizzix Happy Birthday sizzlet die, Floriana punch (McGill), hydrangea border, hydrangea flowers,\u00a0 &amp; branches punches (Martha Stewart), rhinestone brad, dimensional silicone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best of 2014! Today&#8217;s Color Challenge (CC474) on Splitcoast uses some very pretty colors&#8230;pink, pistachio &amp; vanilla. The dessert option was a little tough&#8230;NO STAMPING! That may be easy for some, but it was a little tougher for me because I love to use images and I love to color them. For my card, I did manage the dessert. I relied on die cuts and punches to see me through. For the vanilla panel, I used only the first half of a Memory Box die cut. The whole die says &#8220;Happy Holidays&#8221;. But I positioned it on the top of my vanilla panel, taped it place, then let the &#8220;holidays&#8221; part hang off of the cutting plate. I wasn&#8217;t sure if it would work, but it did! The birthday die is a little Sizzix sizzlet and I only used the birthday part instead of the whole &#8220;happy birthday&#8221;. The flowers, flower border and branches were all done with punches. I sponged a little darker pink ink on the petal edges and added some tiny black dots on the border flowers and tiny flowers. The big green leaves are from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[554,56,36,327,34,14,446,44],"tags":[583,468,112,145,438,128,114,448],"class_list":["post-15967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of-2014","category-birthday","category-cuttlebug","category-girlyfemininemothers-day","category-nestabilities","category-scs-challenges","category-scs-weekly-favorite","category-sponging","tag-birthday","tag-copic","tag-flowers","tag-martha-stewart","tag-memory-box","tag-punches","tag-spellbinders","tag-splitcoast-weekly-favorite"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}