MFT Wednesday Stamp Club and an Extra!

As you may know, I am in looooooove with My Favorite Things. I hardly do a project where I do not use their products in one form or another. In today’s card, I think may be one of my most favorite cards I have made in a while!

For this card I used My Favorite Things Which Way Is The Candy stamps, circle STAX die cut and Dimensional Banners. The circle is ‘the moon’ and it is colored using Distress inks in Squeezed Lemonade and Spiced Marmalade. I used Copics to color the little witch and bat. The thin frame die cut is from Simon Says Stamp and the Ribbon is from Really Reasonable Ribbon. The ribbon color did not show up too well in the photo. It has a slight shine to it. IRL it is about the same as the green Copic coloring on the witch’s shirt and leggings. The small clouds are cut from vellum. I hid the adhesive under the bat and the witch.

 

I am linking this to the MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge site!

MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge Blog

 

I also had some time to finish another card today….

I wanted to do something different for my daughter’s Christmas card so I went with green, even to I always seem to gravitate to red.

The stamp is from an Etsy Store and is colored with Copics. The ribbon is from Really Reasonable ribbon and the sequence is doodlebug filled with Liquid Pearls. For the background I smeared on Pumice Stone Distress Ink and brushed on wet Perfect Pearls. Its really hard to tell from the picture but it is a beautiful shine. I mounted it on gray Bazzil cardstock. I also added Martha Stewart glitter to her belt and polka dots with my Signo gel pen.

 

Thanks for looking!

Back to School!! My Favorite Things!!

                                                                         
Up until about 3 weeks ago I was loving summer! Kids were getting along, having fun, enjoying the weather. Then, at what seemed like the flip of a switch, kids started fighting, weather went down hill and fun was not being had by anyone…especially me! Playing referee for five kids is not an easy job and I am over it! School starts Monday and its not a day too soon. I love my babies but this momma is ready for some peace!

I have been making them all back to school cards. You can check out a few others I have done so far HERE. Three down two to go!

                                       

This one is for my oldest daughter. She is looking forward to getting out of her cutoffs and into her new pretty school clothes so I thought this stamp by My Favorite Things was perfect for her. Colored with Copics. I also used the Pierced Rectangle and Office Supplies Die-Namics by My Favorite Things. The small hearts are from My Favorite Things Blue Prints 11. Pattern paper is By Glitz Designs. I used Smooches Pearls on each heart.

I am linking this to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog!
                                                            

Color Challenge–Aqua, Lime and White

Found a very cool blog for color challenges - The Card Concept! I stumbled upon them after commenting on a few cards in different galleries I check out regularly. I LOVE the combo for this week…and the inspiration photo! Beautiful! Perhaps my favorite color combos ever. It also helped me get over the rainbow groove I have been in lately!

                                     

Beautiful, huh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After reading more of the blog and checking out their amazing team, I figured out my style over-all is ‘Clean and Layered’. At times I add a few more embellies…

2. Clean and Layered


Definition:

• clean lines
• lots of layers
• designer papers/embossing
• embellishments/accents
• clean and fresh looking
• some coloured images at times
• white space

Here is what I came up with for the challenge …

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
The pattern papers are from Basic Grey and Echo Park and the die cut wave, border and balloons are by My Favorite Things. The bow die is from Memory Box. I am not sure who makes the bakers twine but the sweet little hearts are from Chickaniddy Crafts. The small dots have been in my stash forever and are actually pearls which I colored with my G99 Copic Marker. LOVE that tat can be done! It has saved me a ton of $$$ just having to buy gems/pearls in clear or white.
I could not find the right shade of green for the background paper, so I made it myself by inking white cardstock with Crushed Olive and Mowed Lawn Distress Inks.

Now off to check out the other entries in the challenge!!!

My Favorite NEW things…

                

I have a new love. Don’t worry, Hubby, you are still my one and only. But I do have a few new crafty favorite things…My Favorite Things stamps and dies. I am still relatively new to dies. I have been trying for a loooong time to avoid them as I knew I would have a new addiction. But I caved to the temptation a few months ago and have been slowly adding to my collection. I LOVE the MFT Blueprint dies as you get a lot of dies in one pack, they all coordinate and they are awesome!

I also recently found the MFT blog and their challenges and with a chance to win $15/$20 to spend on there site, I had to give it a shot. I don’t yet have the fishtail banners but I do have Blueprints 1 and 11 so I figured I could make something work.

 

Here is this the sketch:

                              

And here is my version :

 

                                    

 

I used the small tag from the Blueprints 11 to create the bottom edge of the image…which is a MFT stamp colored with copics. The pattern paper is Hopscotch from Fancy Pants and the ‘hey’ die is from Paper Smooches. I also used the MFT rectangle dies for the image and the mat around it. This cute little girly reminds me of my daughter…HAD to have it!

 

Be sure to check out there products. You will NOT be disappointed…not one bit!