Hi, everyone! This week's Featured Stamper is Amy Marshall aka Kalla Walla.....congrats, Amy! I am a huge fan of Amy's work and have featured her several times in the past few years for ODBD Customer Card of the Day. I am super excited that she was chosen for this honor! After cruising every page of her gallery, I chose this fun card to case today. I loved the tropical theme, twine, and the message written in the sand, so I incorporated those elements in this retirement card for my Step-Dad who will be retiring this month after being at the same job for 47 years! The image and sentiment are from the 'Happy Retirement' set and the background panel was stamped with the 'Rope Background'. The scene was colored with sponges/ink and markers. The following ODBD Custom Dies were used: Pierced Squares (resized), Pierced Rectangles, and Circles Dies (reverse mask for sponging the sun). Metal brads and linen thread were added as finishing touches. I will also be submitting this to the Fan Club Central Theme since I used a die technique (there is no tutorial on SCS yet, but I used the die-resizing technique to separate the sentiment from the image panel using the same square die.)
Here is a matching gift card holder I made with the following ODBD Custom Dies: Gift Card Holder, A Gift For You, Sparkling Stars, and on the inside: Pierced Rectangles Dies and a sentiment from 'Today and Everyday'.
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Blessings,
Hi, everyone! This week's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to find inspiration from the Jennifer McGuire Ink Blog....wow, what an awesome new discovery...no shortage of inspiration there! I love all of her ink blending techniques and was drawn to this gorgeous card since it reminded me of a sunset. My mom is retiring and I thought that a sunset paradise would be just right. We have worked together for 26-1/2 years and I will sure will miss seeing her every day! (Pass the tissues!) For her card, I stamped the silhouette and sentiment from the 'Bon Voyage' set with Stazon Jet Black; the sun was sponged using a cut-out from a circle die, then the sun was masked before sponging the background. Since Mom loves Hawaii, I added a tropical flower cut with the ODBD Custom Frangipani Dies set. The frames were cut with the ODBD Custom Pierced Rectangles Dies. I will also be squeezing this in at the last minute to the Sunrise/Sunset Fan Club challenge.
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Blessings,
Hi there! Today I would like to share a "soothing" card which I made for my wonderful mother-in-law, who just retired. I am so happy for her....she has been waiting for a long time and now the day has come! I knew I wanted to use the "Happy Retirement" set from Our Daily Bread designs and used one of my fave color combos.....aqua and corals! Today's Free For All Challenge at Splitcoast is to use your favorite colors, so here they are!
This was a quick and easy scene.....stamped the beach scene, added the sentiment in the sand, colored the sky and sand with sponge daubers and ink pads, colored the rest with markers, added paper piercing around the edges, and for a finishing touch I went with May Arts twine and a seashell charm. Since the twine was pretty thick, I added two layers of foam tape to the back of the panel to pop it up.
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