{"id":5927,"date":"2023-10-10T13:34:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T19:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stampalosopher.com\/?p=5927"},"modified":"2023-11-21T13:35:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T20:35:12","slug":"colorful-colorado-birthday-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stampalosopher.com\/?p=5927","title":{"rendered":"Colorful Colorado Birthday Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We were at Steamboat Lake for a week and watched as the colors were changing!\u00a0 It was glorious!\u00a0 The first picture is Pearl lake, another beautiful lake north of Steamboat Springs. The picture captured the various colors and the reflection in the lake.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> You must have had your daughter’s fancy camera!<\/p>\n

No, Sal, just an iphone on a beautiful day!<\/p>\n

Right before we left for camping I purchased a Colorado Stamp and die set ‘Colorful Colorado’ made by Memory Box and another Colorado stamp set, ‘Greetings from Colorado’ at Simple Pleasures in Colorado Springs. It is a design by Ann Corbiere-Scott. The store is a stamp and scrapbook store with an entire section of the store dedicated to products for each state.\u00a0 They market many of the major stamp and die companies’ products\u00a0 and have an amazing stock of scrapbook and card making paper.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> ooohhhh, time for a field trip.\u00a0 Let’s see the card you made with what you bought!<\/p>\n

Give yourself lots of time when you go to this store!<\/p>\n

For the card, I had fun doing sunsets using sponging in different colors.\u00a0 Paul liked this sunset best which used Orchid Oasis for the blue.<\/p>\n

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My favorite was this sunset with the darker Pacific Point ink for the blue.\u00a0 I tried Marina Mist for ink sponging as well but it wasn’t much different than Pacific Point.\u00a0 Let’s take a vote…… which do you like best?<\/p>\n

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This is a picture of a Colorado sunset taken at Ridgway State Park in June.\u00a0 I talked Paul into taking us out on the boat to sit in the middle of the lake and watch the sunset.<\/p>\n

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The following picture is of columbines at Yankee Boy Basin outside of Ouray, Colorado.<\/p>\n

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\"\" I think you got the color of the columbine perfect.\u00a0 What did you use?<\/a><\/p>\n

I used Copic marker BV00 which is close to Orchid Oasis.<\/p>\n

Can you see the Kissing Camels (Garden of the Gods) in this stamp collage of Colorado?<\/p>\n

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The stamp set came with the die to cut out the the aspen frame, the mountain and the pinecones.\u00a0 The columbine was in the other set and was fussy cut.\u00a0 The pine bough came from the Poinsetta Petals Stampin’ Up! set with Poinsettia dies.<\/p>\n

The hug greeting is the Limited Edition Stampin’ Up! stamp set and the Designer Series Paper (DSP) is birch paper from years ago in Stampin’ Up!<\/p>\n

The die does not need to be cut apart.\u00a0<\/strong> If the die is left intact, all the leaf and pinecone shapes will be cut out when you die cut the frame but you can easily stamp them afterwards.\u00a0 I stamped the leaves in Memento Black and the pinecones in Chocolate Chip.<\/p>\n

One pointer<\/strong> for anyone who has this set – the set is photopolymer and the large aspen frame can stretch and not be perfect for the die which cuts it out.<\/p>\n

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True, Sal, and to remedy this situation I used my Stamparatus and mounted the aspen stamp on the plate and then placed the die on the stamp to check that nothing was stretched out of the shape of the die,<\/strong> adjusting the stamp where necessary.\u00a0 This could work with any dies you have that have thin images to cut that might not stamp correctly if the stamp is stretched.<\/p>\n

The other cool thing I found with the aspen frame is by stamping the frame on the piece of basic white that I was going to sponge and then popping up the die cut frame on top of the stamped image with white foam adhesive strips (don’t use dimensionals), I achieved a 3D effect for the tree.<\/p>\n

\"\"I can see that in the right side on the first picture.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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