{"id":20959,"date":"2015-11-05T07:58:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T11:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=20959"},"modified":"2026-07-03T11:38:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:38:32","slug":"north-coast-creations-november-release-blog-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=20959","title":{"rendered":"North Coast Creations November Release Blog Hop!"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"Weekly-Favorite\"<\/a>
\n<\/a>Welcome to the\u00a0North Coast Creations<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0November Release! And wow, do we have some fabulously\u00a0cute images for your Christmas card making this year! You’re going to LOVE\u00a0these!
\nHow can you not love a Christmas Cactus all decked out w\/ shiny lights? It just screams Southwest! As a native Texan, I adore SW themed images and this one is right up my alley.<\/span> <\/span>
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\n<\/a>\"\"<\/a>After I stamped, colored, over stamped & fussy cut the Cactus\u00a0Lights<\/strong><\/span> image, I kept picturing a little window scene so that’s what I tried to recreate. ODBD has several window dies, but I just felt like it needed to be round on top & not too big. (Please note: the ODBD site is having technical difficulties so the pictures & links may not be working for a day or two). I used a resizing<\/a><\/span> trick I came up with a long time ago, but instead of making it bigger, I made the window<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0smaller by cutting just the top part down to the middle of the first set of square panes, turning the die around & moving the bottom up. Then I cut the bottom part only & there you go..a window that is shorter by one set of square panes. I added 4 die cut shutters (for blinds) from the Welcoming Window<\/strong><\/span> die & a piece of dp behind it that is Christmasy but still has a SW look to it. On the white layer, I stamped the greeting at the bottom & used a SW border folder to emboss just under the dp. I used the O from the Joy<\/strong> <\/a><\/span>image as a wreath for the window.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s a look at the inside & below it are the Copics I used.
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\n<\/a>\"NCC
\n<\/a>Supplies:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Stamps:<\/b>\u00a0North Coast Creations<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013Cactus Lights, Joy<\/strong><\/span>
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Paper:<\/b>\u00a0 X-Press It white, Neenah white, kraft, dp\u00a0(DCWV -The Christmas matstack)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ink:<\/b>\u00a0Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx\u00a0(to overstamp after coloring), (Distress ink twisted citron on inside)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Accessories:<\/b>\u00a0 ODBD\u00a0Flourished Star Pattern,\u00a0Welcoming Window, Window dies<\/span>,\u00a0<\/strong>Copic markers, Misti, Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A & B dies, Cuttlebug embossing folder (Southwest borders set)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


\n<\/a>\"\"<\/a>On my second card, I used the super cute Santa Buford<\/strong><\/span>. After stamping w\/ Memento, I colored him using a combination of Copics & Prismacolor pencils. His jacket & bag are mostly pencils & Buford is mostly Copics w\/ a white pencil highlight. I just love the way Prismacolors look when used on this lt kraft c\/s. And since he was still in my Misti, I stamped over him w\/ Versafine after I was finished coloring. This really brings back the lines you tend to lose when using Prismacolor pencils. He was die cut w\/ a Circle Ornament<\/strong><\/span> & I did my out of the box <\/a><\/span>tech to keep from cutting off his tail.<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/a>\"\"<\/a>I\u00a0put together the 3 pieces of dp to get my background then added the die cut\u00a0Merry<\/a><\/strong><\/span> w\/ a few stockings fussy cut from the dp. The Medium Bow<\/a><\/strong><\/span> was die cut from red & I used a small letter J punch to make the candy canes on the bow. The cut glass button was clear & I used a red copic to color it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s a look at the inside & below it are the Copics I used.<\/span>
\n<\/a>\"NCC
\n<\/a>\"NCC<\/a>
\n<\/a>Supplies:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Stamps:<\/b>\u00a0North Coast Creations<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013Santa Buford (Holly Jolly Christmas <\/strong><\/span>-inside greeting)
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Paper:<\/b>\u00a0lt kraft, red, white, dp (Pebbles – Welcome Christmas)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ink:<\/b>\u00a0Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx (to overstamp after coloring)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Accessories:<\/b>\u00a0 ODBD Flourished Star Pattern,\u00a0Circle Ornaments,\u00a0Matting Circles,\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Medium Bow, Merry Christmas\u00a0dies<\/span>,\u00a0<\/strong>Copic markers, Misti, Prismacolor pencils, glass gem, small letter J punch (used for candy canes on bow)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Thanks so much for stopping by!<\/span>
\n\"Julie2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the\u00a0North Coast Creations\u00a0November Release! And wow, do we have some fabulously\u00a0cute images for your Christmas card making this year! You’re going to LOVE\u00a0these! How can you not love a Christmas Cactus all decked out w\/ shiny lights? It just screams Southwest! As a native Texan, I adore SW themed images and this one is right up my alley. After I stamped, colored, over stamped & fussy cut the Cactus\u00a0Lights image, I kept picturing a little window scene so that’s what I tried to recreate. ODBD has several window dies, but I just felt like it needed to be round on top & not too big. (Please note: the ODBD site is having technical difficulties so the pictures & links may not be working for a day or two). I used a resizing trick I came up with a long time ago, but instead of making it bigger, I made the window\u00a0smaller by cutting just the top part down to the middle of the first set of square panes, turning the die around & moving the bottom up. Then I cut the bottom part only & there you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[353,35,261,470,28,55,34,14,446],"tags":[300,136,468,603,561,623,180,573,182,582,115,448],"class_list":["post-20959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animalspets","category-christmasholiday","category-dd-odbd","category-north-coast-creations","category-prismacolor-pencils","category-southwest","category-nestabilities","category-scs-challenges","category-scs-weekly-favorite","tag-animals","tag-christmas","tag-copic","tag-dd-odbd","tag-misti","tag-north-coast-creations","tag-out-of-the-box","tag-prismacolor-pencils","tag-resizing","tag-southwest","tag-scs","tag-splitcoast-weekly-favorite"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20959","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=20959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44019,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20959\/revisions\/44019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}