{"id":16377,"date":"2014-05-08T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=16377"},"modified":"2014-05-12T11:34:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T15:34:07","slug":"june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=16377","title":{"rendered":"June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/June-cu-03609.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16379\" title=\"June cu 03609\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/June-cu-03609.jpg\" alt=\"Julie Warner \u2013 https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\" width=\"498\" height=\"376\" \/><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><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Today&#8217;s Ways to Use It Challenge (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.splitcoaststampers.com\/forums\/ways-use-f46\/wt478-may-8-2014-a-t587414.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>WT478<\/strong><\/a>)<\/span>,<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> is all about birthdays. We are to make a card representing our birth month, the flower, the gem&#8230;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">well, hmmmm. The flower for June is a rose. I&#8217;m not really a rose person so I don&#8217;t have many rose images. I know I have 3 (4 if you count the one I couldn&#8217;t find), but the prettiest one is so small I nearly went blind trying to color it. On to plan B. I remembered I had a set of the month names so I dug it out, stamped it &amp; colored it. I thought it needed something, so I masked it &amp; added the umbrella with a top one cut out &amp; elevated. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/June-03604.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16380 \" title=\"June 03604\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/June-03604.jpg\" alt=\"Julie Warner \u2013 https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\" width=\"523\" height=\"440\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I had to die cut it using my <span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=782\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\">out of the box <\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>technique so I wouldn&#8217;t cut off the base umbrella.\u00a0 I added a few more die cut layers &amp; also cut the card using the largest labels 28 die (I had to place the folded card w\/ the fold just below the top cutting edge of the die). Since the other birthstone for June (besides the pearl) is the Alexandrite, I added some AB crystals which are pretty close, since they also change colors from pink to purple to green.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The finished card is just under 5.50 x 4.25 so it fits in an A2 envelope. These are the Copics I used.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/June-Copics-03602.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16378 \" title=\"June Copics 03602\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/June-Copics-03602.jpg\" alt=\"Julie Warner \u2013 https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\" width=\"501\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Thanks so much for stopping by!<\/span><br \/>\n<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><a style=\"color: #f8bc54;\" href=\"http:\/\/drsdesigns.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">DRS Designs<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u00a0<\/span>\u2013<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drsdesigns.com\/umbrella\/\" target=\"_blank\">Umbrella<\/a>, The Stamping Ground &#8211; June<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><b>Ink:<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Memento tuxedo black<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><b>Paper:<\/b>\u00a0X-Press It white, pink, grass green<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><b>Accessories:<\/b>\u00a0 Copic markers, Spellbinders labels 28 &amp; Decorative labels 28 dies, AB crystals<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Ways to Use It Challenge (WT478), is all about birthdays. We are to make a card representing our birth month, the flower, the gem&#8230;well, hmmmm. The flower for June is a rose. I&#8217;m not really a rose person so I don&#8217;t have many rose images. I know I have 3 (4 if you count the one I couldn&#8217;t find), but the prettiest one is so small I nearly went blind trying to color it. On to plan B. I remembered I had a set of the month names so I dug it out, stamped it &amp; colored it. I thought it needed something, so I masked it &amp; added the umbrella with a top one cut out &amp; elevated. I had to die cut it using my out of the box technique so I wouldn&#8217;t cut off the base umbrella.\u00a0 I added a few more die cut layers &amp; also cut the card using the largest labels 28 die (I had to place the folded card w\/ the fold just below the top cutting edge of the die). Since the other birthstone for June (besides the pearl) is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,337,82,327,43,34,14,446,104],"tags":[583,468,594,114,115,448,599],"class_list":["post-16377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthday","category-cas","category-drs","category-girlyfemininemothers-day","category-masking-reverse-masking","category-nestabilities","category-scs-challenges","category-scs-weekly-favorite","category-the-stamping-ground","tag-birthday","tag-copic","tag-drs","tag-spellbinders","tag-scs","tag-splitcoast-weekly-favorite","tag-the-stamping-ground"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16377","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=16377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}