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Wishing you Happiness

Copics, JustRite Stampers, Nestabilities 35 Responses »

Jun 302011

I created this card a while ago for a publication. It wasn’t picked, so I get to talk about it here.

The image is from JustRite Stampers retired Quiet Moments stamp set. It was stamped in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink on Neenah Solar White cardstock. It was cut with one of the Square Nestabilities die and the Out of the Box technique and colored with Copic Markers ( Blossoms: R20, R21, R22, R24 Leaves: G21, G24, G28 Branches: E25, E27, E29 Mom’s Hair: E08, E97, E19, E18 Moms’ Dress: B21, B23, B24, Mom’s skin: E00, E01, E11 Girl skin: E000, E01, E02 girl Hair: E97, E99 Girl Dress: Y32, Y35, Y38, E97, YG01, YG03, YG25, YG17 Moon: BV000, BV00, BV01, 1/5th YR31, YR31).

The edges were airbrushed with Copic Marker BV00 before it was layered to a piece of Brown cardstock, cut and embossed with the next size Square Nestabilities dies. Both layers were adhered to a piece of white cardstock, cut and embossed with a Lacy Square Nestabilities die.

A 2 1/4″ x 4 3/4″ piece of Webster’s Pages petite paper was aadhered ot a 4 3/4″ square from the same paper pack. The layers were stitched to a 1/4″ bigger piece of white cardstock.

White Melissa Frances ribbon was adhered above the horizontal layer before everything was adhered to the card base, a 5 1/4″ x 10 1/2″ piece of Brown cardstock, folded in half. The image was adhered on the card front with dimensionals.

A sentiment from the same set was stamped on a piece of white cardstock, cut and embossed with the retired 5 Tag die. The center of the tag was airbrushed with Copic Marker BV00. The tag was tied underneath a ribbon bow and adhered to the left hand side of the image. Lippy Red Kaisercraft Rhinestones finish off the card.

Since the set is retired, I will be giving it away in this blog post. To win the set, just add your url to the Mr. Linky underneath. If you don’t have a blog address, but are a member of Splitcoast, just use your gallery address. This works even if you don’t have anything in your gallery. Your gallery address is (http://splitcoaststampers.com/go/username). I won’t be drawing a winner until we are settled in our new house. That might take until the 10th of July.

Thanks so much for stopping by! We are in the middle of cleaning our house. Friday is inspection and Saturday we drive to Illinois. Have a wonderful day!

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Product Review - Cricut for Beginners DVD

Cricut, Flourishes, LLC, Nestabilities 19 Responses »

Jun 292011

The newest Product Focus on Splitcoaststampers is for the Cricut for Beginners DVDs. I had a Cricut machine sitting in a box for three weeks. After watching a few of the lessons, I couldn’t wait any longer and unpack my machine.

I cut the main image with the Katie’s ABC cartridge out of black cardstock.

A piece of Echo Park Springtime paper was cut with a Petite Oval Nestabilities die and sponged with Shabby Shutter and Tumbled Glass Distress ink. The layer was adhered to white cardstock, cut and embossed with the next size Petite Oval Nestabities dies. A piece of black cardstock was cut and embossed with a Beaded Oval Nestabilities die. The layers were adhered to the black oval and Silver Kaisercraft Rhinestones were adhered to the edge of the beaded oval.

A 2 1/2″ x 3 3/4″ piece of Springtime paper was adhered to a 3 3/4″ x 5″ piece of Playground paper. The layers were adhered to a 3/16″ bigger piece of black cardstock. As you can see, my sewing machine was already packed up. The layers look naked to me without the stitched edges. White Organdy Ribbon was tied around the vertical strip before the layers were adhered to the card base, a 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ piece of yellow cardstock, folded in half.

The sentiment is from Flourishes Life Lines. It was stamped in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink on Neenah Solar White cardstock. The sentiment was cut and embossed with a Circle Nestabilities die. The embossed part was colored with Copic Marker B0000 before the panel was adhered to the lower right of the image panel with dimensionals.

Today the movers are loading our stuff on the truck today and tomorrow. Saturday morning we are driving out of Ohio! So while I have blog posts lined up for you for the next days, I won’t be able to blog hop for a while.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful day.
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Palm tree Wishes

Cricut, Flourishes, LLC 21 Responses »

Jun 282011

Guess what? I have a Cricut! I got myself a regular Cricut, but I like it a lot. Maybe I have to upgrade to a Cricut Expressions soon. This was the first card I have ever created with it. I borrowed a few cartridges from a friend of mine to start out.

This card is super simple. The card base was cut created with the Life is a Beach cartridge. I paper pierced around the window and stamped a sentiment from Flourishes Windows of the World in Jet Black Archival Ink on the lower right.

Black Kaisercraft Rhinestones on the upper left hand side and Stardust Stickles on the leaves finish off the card front. The card base was cut to make a 4″ square card. To make the leaves stand out more, I adhered a 3 3/4″ square of Neenah Solar White to the inside of the card.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great day!
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Tim's Bird

Challenge, Nestabilities, Stampers Anonymous 14 Responses »

Jun 272011

One of the Challenges of the February VSN at Splitcoast was to create a card with Soot Stamping. For my sample I used the gorgeous bird stamp from Tim Holtz Urban Tapestry stamp set.

Before I added the soot to my glossy cardstock, I cut and embossed it first with a Label 13 Nestabilities die. It was adhered to a piece of Classic White cardstock, that was hand cut into a slightly bigger layer. The edges of the soot layer were paper pierced.

A 2″ x 5 1/4″ strip of Echo Park Merry Christmas paper was stitched to a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of the same paper pack. May Arts Crochet Ribbon was tied around the bottom of the horizontal layer before everything was adhered to the card base, a 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Canyon Brown cardstock, folded in half.

The bird layers were adhered to the card base with dimensionals. It was adhered underneath the lace. A Philosophy Tag was attached to the lace with a jump ring. Tim Foilage topped with a Recollection Pearl brad finish off the card.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!
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Mo's sweet Baby Fairy

Challenge, Copics, Mo's Digital Pencil, My Favorite Things, Nestabilities 15 Responses »

Jun 262011

I created this card back in March for a Free For All Challenge on Splitcoast and a challenge on Mo’s Digital Challenge blog. Mo’s challenge was to use a baby image, the Free For All Challenge was to create something St. Patrick inspired (greens, good luck charms).

I printed Baby Fairy Flora out on Neenah Solar White cardstock and cut her out with Classic Circle Nestabilities die. The image was colored with Copic Markers (Bow: R20, R21, R22, Flowers: Y11, Y13, Y15, Leaves: YG01, YG03, YG17, Basket: E30, E31, E33, Background: BG0000, BG000, BG01, Ground: T0, T1, T3). The image was layered on a piece of Black cardstock, cut and embossed with Blossom Nestabilities dies. The edges of the image layer were paper pierced. A piece of white cardstock was cut and embossed with big scalloped circle Nestabilities and airbrushed with Copic Marker YR15.

A 2 1/2″ x 4 1/2″ piece of Springtime Echo Park paper was adhered over a 4 1/2″ square of Little Boy Echo Park paper. A 4 1/2″ wide strip of White cardstock was cut and embossed with the Lattice Borderabilities die and adhered underneath the horizontal strip. The layers were stitched to a 3/16″ bigger piece of black cardstock. May Arts Gingham Ribbon was tied around the horizontal strip and topped with a big Recollection brad.

The layers were adhered to the card base, a 5″ x 10″ piece of Neenah Solar White cardstock folded in half. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things Clearly Sentimental about you. It was stamped in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink on a piece of Solar White cardstock, cut and embossed with Petite Oval Nestabilities dies. The inner part of the oval was colored with Copic Markers BG0000 and BG000. It was adhered to the lower right of the image. Black Kaisercraft Rhinestones finish off the card.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!
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Tutorial on SCS - Loopy Flower

3-D items, Video Tutorial 26 Responses »

Jun 222011

Today’s tutorial on Splitcoaststampers is written by the sweet and talented Tosh Leyendekker. She shows us how to create loopy flowers out of felt strips.

The finished flower is around 3″ big. I cut and embossed leaves out of MFT’s Sour Apple Cardstock with on of Spellbinders new Foliage dies. The leaves were sponged with Shabby Shutter Distress ink before I adhered them under my Loopy Flower. I placed a retired Pink Paislee brad in the center of the flower.

The flower was placed on a pizza box I had sitting on my shelf unfinished. Not sure why I never finished it. The pizza box base is was created out of Kraft cardstock, the patterned paper used is from October Afternoon’s Ducks in a Row line.

Here is a video for the visual learner:

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you have a wonderful week!
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June Whimsy Rubber Release Blog Hop

Copics, Grand Nestabilities, Nestabilities, Whimsy Stamps 85 Responses »

Jun 152011

This month there are 15 fabulous new Whimsy Stamps (3 stamps by Crissy Armstrong, 4 stamps by Meljen’s Designs, 4 stamps by KennyK, 4 new sets by Raindrop Echo Designs) plus 2 new wonderful dies to show to you today! These new goodies are available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favorites.

If you would like to participate in the hop and you didn’t arrive here from Iris Blog ,please CLICK HERE to return to the beginning of the hop at Chris’ blog.

The hop starts today (Wednesday June 15th at noon EST) and ends on Wednesday June 22th at noon EST.

For this hop we have 6 different prize draws! We have not one but TWO grand prize draws, so two lucky hoppers will win a large selection of new release stamps. Grand Prize 1 will be for those who help us advertise the hop, and Grand Prize 2 will be for those who hop along with us. Also, we have 4 mini candy stops throughout the hop where you can enter to win a new release stamp! I’m not going to tell you where they are, so if you haven’t found them you’ll just have go back to the beginning and start hopping!

For my card I started by stamping Meljen’s Garden Fence in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink on Neenah Solar White cardstock. I stamped the fence again on Eclipse Masking Tape, cut the mask and adhered it over the fence on the cardstock. Next I stamped Crissy Armstrong’s Bart’s BBQ in Tuxedo Black over the fence so that he appears behind it.

The image was cut and embossed with a Petite Oval Nestabilities die before it was colored with Copic Markers ( Fence: E31, E33, E35, W3, W5 Bart: B12, B14, B16, B18, YG01, YG03, YG17 Flowers: YG01, YG03, YG17, Y13, Y15, Y17 Grass: YG21, YG25, YG17 Hot Dog: E08, E09 Cup and fork: C0, C1, C3, C5 Ladybug: R27, E09 Sky: B0000, B000).

A 3″ x 4 1/4″ piece of MME Lime Twist Fly A Kite paper strip was adhered to a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of the same paper pack. The layers were stitched to a 3/16″ bigger piece of black cardstock. May Arts Organdy Ribbon was tied around the layers before they were adhered to the card base, a 4 1/2″ x 12″ piece of Core’dination (Whitewash Collection) cardstock folded in half. The bottom of the card base had been cut with one of the Grand Scallop Square Nestabilities dies.

The sentiment is from Ann’s new The Good Life Tickets stamp set. It was stamped in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink on Neenah Solar White cardstock, cut out and colored with the same Copic Markers that had been used on Bart. The ticket was adhered under the bow. Silver Kaisercraft Rhinestones finish off the card.

Now it’s time for you to continue the hop by hopping on over to Lori’s blog. Finally, here is a complete blog hop list in hopping order:

Chris Olson
Deb Routledge
Stephanne Maraver
Deb Mitchell
Crystal Irwin
Simonne Clay
Erin Bailey
Annika Ryan
Crissy Armstrong
Marley van der Heijden
Debbie Eastman
Vicki Parson
Ann Vento
Donna Smith
Elaine Hughes
Minna Paajanen
Patricia Garcia
Iris Wiechman
Lori Pachkowsky
Denise Lynn

Have a wonderful day/week! I have friends over this morning, then it’s back to class prepping for me (= sitting on the living room floor with my Grand Calibur cutting cardstock).

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Fairy Thoughts

Belles 'n Whistles, Copics, Nestabilities, Verve Stamps 34 Responses »

Jun 072011

A little while ago I was lucky enough to win one of the new Fairy Belles ‘n Whistles stamps as blog candy. I was so excited. I love Fairies! A few days ago a friend of mine came over just to color and I finally got my new stamp dirty.

I stamped the image on Solar White cardstock with Tuxedo Black Memento ink. It was cut out with a Circle Nestabilities die and the Out of the Box Technique and colored the image with Copic Markers (Mushroom: E30, E31, E33, E35, E37 Dress: RV000, RV00, RV10 Wings: BG0000, BG10, BG11 Flower: Y13, Y15, Y17, E97, E99, E29 Leaves and grass: YG01, YG03, YG17 Skin: E000, E01).

The fairy was covered with a mask cut out of Eclipse Tape, the Circle die was added again and a few cloud dies cut with the Cloud Die-namics die were added. The sky was airbrushed with Copic Marker B01. The circle was adhered to a piece of Canyon Brown cardstock, cut and embossed with the largest Beaded Circle Nestabilities die.

A 5″ strip of white cardstock was cut and embossed with one of the Parisian Accent dies. The strip was adhered to a 1 3/4″ x 5″ strip of MME Lime Twist Fly A Kite patterned paper. The strips were adhered to a 4 3/4″ x 5″ piece of the same paper pack. White Organdy Ribbon was tied around the vertical strips.

The layers were first adhered to a 3/16″ bigger piece of Canyon Brown cardstock, then to the card base, a 5 1/4″ x 11″ piece of yellow cardstock (SU, new color) folded in half. The image layer was adhered to the card with dimensionals.

Another die from the Parisian Accent pack was used to cut and embossed a small corner embellishment. It was adhered to the top right of the card. The sentiment is from Verve’s Kind Word Stamp set. It was stamped in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink on Solar White cardstock, cut and embossed with one of the Fancy Tag dies and colored with Copic Marker B000o.

The sentiment panel was adhered to the lower right of the image. Silver Kaisercraft Rhinestones were adhered to the Beaded circle, the sentiment panel and the corner decoration.

To add some sparkle to the card, Stardust Stickles was added to the sentiment oval as well as the Fairy Wings. Yellow Stickles was added to the yellow flowers on the dress as well as to the flower the fairy is holding. Silver Kaisercraft Rhinestones finish off the card.

This month Inspiration Emporium Challenge is to use Stickles or Sparkly Fluff on your project. You have until the end of the month to enter the challenge for an opportunity to win a $50 shopping spree at IE.

Have a wonderful day!
Hugs and smiles

P.S.: I am not sure how often I will post this June. The reality of prepping for the move is setting in. I have to prep for my June tutorial, June class, get the house ready for the mover and prep for CHA. It feels a bit overwhelming all over sudden. I wish I had a time machine and could fast forward to when we are settled in Oklahoma already.

The Christmas Candy goes to...

Chitter Chatter 2 Responses »

Jun 072011

Entry 11, which is Sarah. Sarah, please contact me with your mailing address and will get those goodies out to you. Thanks for everyone that entered the drawing and for all the nice comments.

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Bring Back Beautiful - Beauty in the Spotlight

Borderabilities and Pendants, Copics, Flourishes - Bring Back Beautiful Challenge, Flourishes, LLC, Nestabilities 27 Responses »

Jun 062011

Beauty in the Spotlight! If you haven’t tried the Spotlight technique — the goal is to make just part of your image POP! For this fun-filled challenge, let’s use this technique and ‘spotlight’ only a portion of your image with color! Link up your Bringing Back Beautiful Challenge creation HERE to enter. If you upload to SCS, please use the keyword BBB11. You have until June 30th to enter! As we unveil our challenge for next month, we’ll share our True Beauties – those card makers who wowed us with this challenge! Winners will be featured on the Flourishes Blog and will receive a True Beauty blog button to display proudly on their blog!

Sorry my post comes up a bit late…..I totally missed that today is the first Monday of the month. I spend the weekend in the backyard, reading two out of a Trilogy of Fantasy books. Now I am on withdrawal. I have to wait until the last book is written (Wardstone Trilogy, if anyone is interested. If you liked the Sword of Truth and Wheel of Time series, you will like this one!)

For my sample I chose still one of my favorite Flourishes sets, the Gerber Daisies. I stamped the image twice on Neenah Solar White cardstock with Tuxedo Black Memento ink. One image was cut and embossed with the second largest Petite Oval Nestabilities die, the second only partial with a Circle Nestabilities die.

The partial image was colored with Copic Markers (Y13, Y15, Y17, E97, E99, E29, YG01, YG03, YG17). The images were masked, the die put back in place and the outside of the daisies were sponged with Tumbled Glass Distress ink. Both shapes were layered on black cardstock, cut and embossed with the next size oval/circle die.

The circle layers were adhered to the oval ones before all layers were adhered to a White Scallop Oval layer, cut and embossed with the largest of the Petite Scallop Oval Nestabilities dies.

A 4″ wide strip of white cardstock was cut and embossed with one of the Classic Scallop Borderabilities dies and adhered stitched under a 2 1/2″ x 4″ piece of October Afternoon Thrift Shop patterned paper. A 4″ x 5″ piece of Weathervane paper was stitched to a 3/16″ bigger piece of black cardstock. The strip was adhered over these layers and May Arts Gingham Ribbon was tied around it.

The image layers were adhered to the layers with dimensionals. Since an additional layer for a sentiment would make this card look too crowded, I stamped dear friend ,also from the Gerber Daisies set, directly on the lower right hand side of the image oval.

A small border decoration was cut and embossed with one of the new Parisian Accent dies out of black cardstock and adhered to the top right of the card. Snow Kaisercraft Pearls on the accent as well as under the spotlight portion of the image finish of the card front. Everything was adhered to the card base, a 4 1/2″ x 11″ piece of white cardstock folded in half, with dimensionals.

Check out what the rest of the design team has created!
Cindy
Heather
Julie
Kathy
Yvonne
Laura

Thanks so much for stopping by! I apologize for being so late today. With the kids last school day being tomorrow, Orthodontist appointments, house inspection and grocery shopping….I just couldn’t get it done. I can’t believe the packers are coming in three weeks. Or should I say I hope we get packers to come. We still don’t have an official date. Military…sigh!

Have a great evening.
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