{"id":16337,"date":"2014-05-07T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T04:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=16337"},"modified":"2014-05-11T11:47:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T15:47:06","slug":"serendipity-sscb31-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=16337","title":{"rendered":"Serendipity SSCB#31 &#8211; Flowers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Sunflower-cu-03575.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16361 \" title=\"Sunflower cu 03575\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Sunflower-cu-03575.jpg\" alt=\"Julie Warner \u2013 https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\" width=\"501\" height=\"565\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splitcoaststampers.com\/forums\/general-stamping-talk-f17\/favorites-week-ending-may-11-2014-a-t587528.html\"><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\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Welcome to the May\u00a0Challenge for<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #99ccff;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.serendipitystamps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">Serendipity Stamps<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>! <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">This month the challenge is Flowers&#8230;stamped, die cut, designer paper, dried&#8230;whatever you have. \u00a0 The sale at Serendipity Stamps this week\u00a0is 20% off the alphabets category. \u00a0Good through 5\/14. \u00a0And as always, we have a\u00a0\u00a0have a gift certificate up for grabs to a random player.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For\u00a0the design team, we have the added challenge of using\u00a0one of beautiful <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.serendipitystamps.com\/category\/alphabets.html\" target=\"_blank\">Floral Alphabet stamps<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"pibfi_pinterest \" style=\"color: #f8bc54;\"><a style=\"color: #f8bc54;\" href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SS-Button_design-team_res.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SS-Button_design-team_res.jpg\" alt=\"SS Button_design team_res\" width=\"270\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Sunflower-03574.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16365 \" src=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Sunflower-03574.jpg\" alt=\"Julie Warner \u2013 https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\" width=\"516\" height=\"684\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I chose to use the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.serendipitystamps.com\/alphabets\/518E.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\"><strong>Floral Alphabet S<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.serendipitystamps.com\/product\/550L.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\"> Lg Wild<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\"><strong>Sunflower<\/strong><\/span><\/a> images for my card. I first stamped the Lg Sunflower onto a handwritten text designer paper and the Floral S onto white. I colored both with Copics, then die cut them both. I used my out of the box technique for the Sunflower, used a craft knife to cut &amp; &#8220;lift&#8221; the lower petals &amp; leaf of the sunflower, then attached it to several more die cut layers. The Floral S was attached off center to a die cut black piece then inserted under the &#8220;lifted&#8221; petals &amp; leaf.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50 and these are the Copics I used.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Sunflower-copics-03570.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16370 \" src=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Sunflower-copics-03570.jpg\" alt=\"Julie Warner \u2013 https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\" width=\"479\" height=\"389\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Thanks so much for stopping by!\u00a0<\/span><\/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><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Please be sure to visit all of the Design Team!<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff; font-size: 14pt;\"><a style=\"color: #f8bc54;\" href=\"http:\/\/marybethstimeforpaper.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Serendipity%20Stamps\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Marybeth Lopez<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff; font-size: 14pt;\"><a style=\"color: #f8bc54;\" href=\"http:\/\/miriamsdelirium.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Serendipity%20Stamps\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Miriam Napier<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff; font-size: 14pt;\"><a style=\"color: #f8bc54;\" href=\"http:\/\/pauline-littlemrsp.blogspot.fr\/search\/label\/Serendipity%20Stamps\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Pauline Pollington<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff; font-size: 14pt;\"><a style=\"color: #f8bc54;\" href=\"http:\/\/vickiezimmer.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Serendipity%20stamps\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Vickie Zimmer<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff; font-size: 14pt;\"><a style=\"color: #f8bc54;\" href=\"http:\/\/aschoss.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Serendipity%20Stamps\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Anya Schrier<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff; font-size: 14pt;\"><a style=\"color: #f8bc54;\" href=\"http:\/\/akeptlife.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Serendipity%20Stamps\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Jeanne Jachna<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff; font-size: 14pt;\"><a style=\"color: #f8bc54;\" href=\"http:\/\/onekraftykat.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Serendipity%20Stamps\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Jenny Gropp<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a style=\"color: #f8bc54;\" href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?cat=514\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Julie Warner<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>(you are here!)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"color: #fdeed3;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff; font-size: 14pt;\"><a style=\"color: #f8bc54;\" href=\"http:\/\/paperliliesandink.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Serendipity%20Stamps\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Karen Amidon<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Supplies:<\/p>\n<table style=\"color: #fdeed3;\" border=\"0\" width=\"90%\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"6\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody id=\"collapseobj_photoinfo\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><b>Stamps:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><a style=\"color: #f8bc54;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.serendipitystamps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">Serendipity Stamps<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.serendipitystamps.com\/product\/518E.html\" target=\"_blank\">Floral Alphabet S 518E<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.serendipitystamps.com\/product\/550L.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wild Lg Sunflower 550L<\/a><\/b><a style=\"color: #f8bc54;\" href=\"http:\/\/drsdesigns.com\/backgrounds\/1186-splatter-background.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><b>Paper:\u00a0<\/b>X-Press It white, designer paper (handwriting text &amp; solid black = Paper Studio) (black\/cream dot = SEI Moonrise)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><b>Ink:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Memento tuxedo black<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><b>Accessories:<\/b><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Copic markers, Spellbinders Adorning squares, squares, matting basics A &amp; B dies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the May\u00a0Challenge for\u00a0Serendipity Stamps! This month the challenge is Flowers&#8230;stamped, die cut, designer paper, dried&#8230;whatever you have. \u00a0 The sale at Serendipity Stamps this week\u00a0is 20% off the alphabets category. \u00a0Good through 5\/14. \u00a0And as always, we have a\u00a0\u00a0have a gift certificate up for grabs to a random player. For\u00a0the design team, we have the added challenge of using\u00a0one of beautiful Floral Alphabet stamps. I chose to use the Floral Alphabet S and Lg Wild\u00a0Sunflower images for my card. I first stamped the Lg Sunflower onto a handwritten text designer paper and the Floral S onto white. I colored both with Copics, then die cut them both. I used my out of the box technique for the Sunflower, used a craft knife to cut &amp; &#8220;lift&#8221; the lower petals &amp; leaf of the sunflower, then attached it to several more die cut layers. The Floral S was attached off center to a die cut black piece then inserted under the &#8220;lifted&#8221; petals &amp; leaf.\u00a0 The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50 and these are the Copics I used. Thanks so much for stopping by!\u00a0 Please be sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,327,514,34,14,446],"tags":[468,112,517,114,115,448,358],"class_list":["post-16337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthday","category-girlyfemininemothers-day","category-serendipity-stamps","category-nestabilities","category-scs-challenges","category-scs-weekly-favorite","tag-copic","tag-flowers","tag-serendipity-stamps","tag-spellbinders","tag-scs","tag-splitcoast-weekly-favorite","tag-sunflowers"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16337","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=16337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}