Razzle Dazzle Sketch

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Here's the latest splitcoaststampers sketch. It came out on Wednesday and I'm being very slow about getting it done! This cards has been at different points of development on my desk for a couple of days!

It's been a busy week. I'm starting a school at my home for grades 6-12 this fall and I've been busy trying to get everything in order. Wednesday night I had an information meeting for parents at my house and Thursday I spent the day in training. Busy, busy, busy.

I've been homeschooling my kids for 14 years. My two oldest daughters are in college, but I still have my sons, ages 14 and 17 at home. We're inviting 4-6 more kids to come do school with us using the New American School curriculum. It's a achievement-oriented program that I've been using with my boys for the past year. And I love it!

So here is my rendition of this weeks sketch! Hope you like it.
Because I made this card is numerous short stamping sessions, it is a interesting design mix from SU! Razzle Dazzle set. I started with the center piece in which I stamped the background block on Whisper White cs with second generation Crushed Curry. HINT: 2nd generation means that I inked the stamp and stamped it once on scrap paper before stamping on my project.This is sometimes referred to as stamping off.

The flower was then stamped over the Crushed Curry in Melon Mambo. I added glitter to the Melon flowers using 2-way glue and dazzling diamonds glitter.

The base of the card is white layered with black. The black looked plain so I stamped the small flower with white craft ink. On top of the black I layered pieces from the Razzleberry Lemonade. Then I added Crushed Curry cs on black cs and wrapped the polka dot Melon Mambo ribbon around the front of the card. HINT: I used the crop-a-dile to punch a hole off the left side of the card to thread the ribbon through.

The main piece was then added to the front with dimensionals. I stamped the sentiment on Crushed Curry with black stazon and punched it out with the word window punch. I punched the Melon dp with the large oval punch and punched the black cs with the designer label punch. These were layered with the stylized silver hodgepodge label plate. The large silver brads in the top left corner are from the same hodgepodge set.

I hope you like it!

Enjoy!

Julie
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Butterfly Dream

A color challenge: Tempting Apricot Cocoa Breezes (Tempting Turquoise, Apricot Appeal, Close t Cocoa and Baja Breeze). I have not used Apricot Appeal in ages even though it used to be a favorite. I pulled all the stamp pads out to work on this challenge in the morning and before you know it I was on a roll and couldn't stop. Then once I finished it, I had to get it posted before I went to bed. LOL

I used a retired SU set, Happiness Always, that I never got to play with much when it was current, so I decided to pull it out and see what I could do. I stamped the butterflies in Apricot Appeal and then Close to Cocoa with the detail stamp. The flowers are Baja Breeze overstamped with Tempting turquiose with an Apricot Appeal center.

The butterflies were cut out, glittered and then adhered with glue dots in the center so their wings are free to fly....The Baja Breeze layer was embossed with polka dots with the Big Shot from Stampin' Up!

Enjoy!

Julie

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Birthday Circles

I'm so excited! Lauraos mentioned my card as a favorite at the Splitcoaststampers CAS (Clean and Simple) favorites forum. Isn't that nice? And I didn't even know that forum existed.

Here's my CAS entry for this week. The challenge was birthday cards. I used the new Circle Circus set and stamped with the new IN colors: Melon Mambo and Soft Suede. Pretty clean and simple!

I added Dazzling Diamonds glitter to the flowers on the Melon Mambo circles and tied some polka dot Melon Mambo ribbon around the Melon paper strip that goes across the middle of the card. I snipped the ribbon a little differently than I usually do for added interest. Hope you like it!

I can tell this is going to be a "go-to" set because of the versatility. You stamp in pastels you have a baby card, stamp in red & green - Christmas, orange & black - Halloween...you get the idea.

Enjoy!

Julie

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Other Tidbits - Sea World in June

Before Kristin returned to college a couple of weeks ago, Ron and I took a weekend trip to San Antonio to visit Sea World with Kristin (20) and James (14). Unfortunately, Dallin (17) had to work so he wasn't able to make the trip with us...and, sadly, as it turned out, they changed his schedule, and he probably could have gone with us anyway!

Here's a few pictures of our day. We spent the first part of the day at the waterpark (which explains the messy-hair/no-makeup look), and we spent the second half of the day watching the shows and riding the rides. We've learned from experience that the water park is packed in the hot afternoons. Of course, it's hot all the time so there is no bad time for water!!

Ready for the Sea Lion and Walrus show!

Waiting for Shamu!

Enjoy!

Julie

Happy July 4th!!!

Happy Independence Day! Here's my contribution to your 4th of July celebration.

I woke up this morning with this card in my head. The Asian Artistry 'grasses' were stamped in black craft ink and embossed with clear ep. Then I used Ruby Red and Not Quite Navy markers to color this flag from Star-Spangled Banner (retired SU) and stamped it on the whisper white card stock above the grasses.

I used a black pen to underline the red stripes on the flag and added a little white highlights with my white gel pen to add depth. I then colored the whole image with a VersaMarker and embossed with clear ep. I used a black pen and ruler to add the flag poll.

I brayered starting from the top of the card with Baja Breeze down 3/4 of the card. Then I used Not Quite Navy to brayer the top. From the bottom I brayered Creamy Carmel. The edges were sponged with black stazon. It was then layered on white, Ruby Red and Not Quite Navy cardstock.

A brad was added to the top of the flag pole. The tag label was made with the tag corner punch with brads added to each end and then the label was attached with dimensionals.

Enjoy!

Julie
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Bold and Bright Flamingos with NO Flamingos...

I saw the Bold and Bright challenge on Splitcoaststampers.com "Ways to Use It" forum several days ago and I pulled out the Pink Flamingo Designer Series Paper from Stampin' Up! This pack of paper has sat on my desk just waiting for me to figure out how I wanted to use it. Well I saw the sketch challenge yesterday (picture at the top of the page), and I decided this was my chance to do both! So here it is.

So I punched out all these little circles from the designer paper, but the flamingos on the paper were too big for these 1" circles; thus, we have Pink Flamingo with NO flamingo.

The only thing stamped on this 5" square card is the little greeting at the bottom right from the new SU set Teeny Tiny Wishes stamped in Close to Cocoa. The circles are 1" punched from the Pink Flamingo paper. I then added LOTS of glitter and a glitter brad to the center flower. (My 20 yo daughter would be proud. She loves glitter.) HINT: To make a glitter brad, roll the head of your brad on a glue dot and then dip it in Dazzling Diamonds glitter. Easy, easy with fun results.

Each circle was attached to a Chocolate Chip cs scallop circle (Martha Stewart 1" scallop punch) and then adhered to the card with dimensionals. The Summer Sun pattern paper is also from Pink Flamingo. That was attached to a square of Chocolate Chip cs and then attached to the Whisper White cs base.

Here's a close up at a different angle.

Enjoy!

Julie
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"Happy Birthday, Human"

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Don't you love that - "Happy Birthday, Human." I can think of some computer gurus that would get a kick out of this card and image. Or maybe Trekkies or Star Wars junkies. I don't know, but I think it is so cute.


These images are from the brand new Stampin' Up! set Lots of Bots. The robot is stamped in black stazon and colored with the fabulous SU markers. Now I have no idea why it photographed this way, but in real life the blue on this robot is much darker and matches better. I colored the robot with Ballet Blue marker, Summer Sun, Real Red, Only Orange and Bashful Blue. I added some glitter to him and he is so cute in his glitter, but I know you can barely see it. Look closely in this detail shot.



The colors came from the splitcoaststampers.com color challenge: Kraft, So Saffron and Night of Navy. Again the blue is very bright in the picture, not the color it is on the card itself. Anyway, I punched him out with a 2 1/2 " punch and layered on a scallop circle of So Saffron pattern paper and Night of Navy circle. I punched the So Saffron and the Night of Navy with a 3" circle punch, then took the guard off my corner rounder and scalloped the edges of the So Saffron piece. It makes a perfect layer. The scallops didn't meet up exactly right so I positioned it under the "Happy Birthday, Human" tag.


I stamped the computer coding text in Night of Navy on Kraft paper, punched the corners with the tag punch, layered it on Night of Navy cs and added colorful brads. The Night of Navy card base was layered with Whisper White and So Saffron pattern paper and the colored brads were added to the top right hand corner.


I started making this card and realized that the Mojo Monday sketch this week was perfect for this card so I used their sketch and modified it slightly.

Enjoy!

Julie
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Mojo Monday with Sneak Peek

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This card was inspired by the sketch challenge at Mojo Monday. It's so fun to start with great inspiration like this sketch. I used every stamp in the new level 2 hostess set, Asian Artistry, except the dragonfly. This images are so lovely and so fun to work with.

(All supplies from Stampin' Up!) I started with whisper white cs, stamped the grassy image in creamy carmel, then inked the bird on the branch in Old Olive, Ruby Red and Close to Carmel markers and stamped over the previous image. I used the aqua painter to pull the color from the outline of the bird to color it in a little. I punched a 1" hole out of a scrap piece of paper and sponged the sun in the upper left corner with summer sun. I used the spritzer tool to spritz the image with chocolate chip, then sponged the edges first with Ruby Red, then Chocolate Chip.

This was layered on Chocolate Chip cs with the bottom edge scallop punched. The Ruby Red layer was stamped with the floral image in Ruby Red and Chocolate Chip. The base of the card is Chocolate Chip with a layer of So Saffron pattern paper. The ribbon is from Ribbon Originals Dress Up. The brads were layered on 1/4" Ruby Red circles.

I selected a phrase from the sentiment that comes with this set and inked it with Chocolate Chip. The background was stamped with Ruby Red, 3rd generation. Hint: 3rd generation means that I inked the stamp and stamped it twice on scrap paper before stamping on my project. Then it was sponged with Chocolate Chip.

The edges of the Designer Label in Ruby Red cs and the Wide Oval in Chocolate Chip cs were sponged with Chocolate Chip. Finally vintage brads were added to the top and bottom of the layered tag and the tag was attached to the card with dimensionals. Here is a close up of the tag.

Hope you like it.

Enjoy!

Julie
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Pocket Thanks

This is my second sample for the clean and simple "Make It Sparkle" challenge over at splitcoaststampers.com. I notice that a lot of stampers add lots of embellishments, colors and layers to their clean and simple cards, but I really like to keep them truly clean and simple. I used the same colors as the last one, a similar but smaller image and changed up the layout.

The image is from Pocket Silhouettes. I inked up the silhouette with versamark and then Melon Mambo. I then embossed with iridescent ice ep. I stamped the image three times in a bouquet. HINT: Emboss after each stamp of the image. Clean the stamp, ink, stamp the image and emboss again. If you wait to emboss after you have stamped the whole picture your ink may not be wet enough to hold the ep for good coverage.

The center circle is punched with a 2 1/2" punch and the card dimensions are 4" x 4 1/2". Very clean, very simple!!!

Enjoy,

Julie Cluff

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Clean and Simple 21!

Here's a sneak peek at a new hostess set, Kind & Caring Thoughts, with a new in-color Melon Mambo. The Clean and Simple challenge was to use sparkle, so I inked up with versamark and Melon Mambo and embossed with iridescent ice ep. Then I stamped the sentiment, tied the knot and attached it to a 3" x 6" card. That's it - clean and simple.

The new catalog starts this Wednesday! Of course, that means if there is something you want from this past year's catalog, you better act quick!

Enjoy!

Julie
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