9/30/17 MFT Blueprints Challenge: Mix-it Up Supplies: MFT Witch Way is the Candy, Blueprints #7/28, Distress Oxide (picked raspberry, faded jeans, black soot), Distress Ink (dusty concord, squeezed lemonade), Copic Sketch, Copic Opaque White, Fiskars border punch (grass), Wink of Stella (clear). Getting use out of my MFT Witch Way is the Candy stamp set...just love all the critters!
9/30/17 Supplies: MFT Magical Day, Magical Unicorns, Watercolor Wash PP, 4mm sparkling clear sequins, Copic Sketch, Kuretake Starry Colors, Kuretake Pearl Colors, clear cardstock/vellum. This was definitely one of those cards that was a stumper for me! I colored my bear over 3 times; colored the back- ground over 3 times. I wanted the castle to appear as just a hint in the background, thus the vellum image. The stitched rectangle needed to be larger but I did not have one in between. I matted it on clear cardstock to make the rectangle larger. After everything I did, this card is mediocre at best and I am embarrassed to put it into the in-linkz for the WSC. BTW, I turned the sketch upside down.
9/26/17 I created this Halloween card just for fun without a challenge! Yay! I wanted to play with MFT's new Pop-Up Alphabet dies and try out Jane Allen's wonderful technique of no-line coloring/adding character to her stamped images with Copic markers. I must admit there is a bit of a learning curve to mastering Jane's method of Copic coloring, but her's come out so irresistible! I'm going to keep practicing (tho' not bad for my first attempt). ;) Supplies: MFT Witch Way is the Candy, Pop-Up Alphabet, MFT Black & White Basics PP/ Watercolor Wash PP, PTI Scene It: Hallows Eve Die, Distress Oxide (faded jeans, black soot, fossilized amber), Distress Ink (chipped sapphire), Copic Sketch, Copic Opaque White.
9/25/17 Nichole has selected a wonderful Fall/Winter themed inspiration piece for us for the September Blog Hop! I love the "Christmas" colors in the floral sprig that the little bird is carrying while the birdie himself has more fall colors. And the piece just "pops" against the black background. The floral sprig from this inspiration photo called me to use my Stitched Folk Art Flower dies to create a similar feel. It was a challenge for me to incorporate a stitch die into a card. I made the felt flower into a removable ornament and placed it on the inside of my card. Then I created a window on the front and embellished it with a cute little birdie from the Winter Woods set (the only one I have that has birds in it). I selected an Aqua Mist background for the card front since there is one sprig this color in the photo. Thank you for visiting my blogspot and enjoy the rest of the Blog Hop today! Supplies: PTI Winter Woods, Cover Up: Quatrefoil, Stitched Folk Art Flower, Tinsel & Tags Scallop die, PTI Dye Ink (Stormy Sea, Honey Nut, Terracotta Tile, Summer Sunrise), PTI cardstock (Aqua Mist), PTI Coaster, MFT Lots of Hugs (sentiment).
9/22/17 Supplies: MFT Happy Hedgehogs, Circle Spinner Channels, Cloud stencil, PTI Garden Party, Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders, Distress Ink (peeled paint, shabby shutters), Distress Oxide (broken china), Faber Castell watercolor pencils, Zig Clean Color. I love to create cards that make me smile...and this is one of them. :)
920/17 Dawn creates a beautiful holiday floral card by combining a few of her floral stamp sets. This process requires a keen eye to know what looks good together (and takes practice, at least for me). I made a sympathy card using Dawn's technique since I unfortunately have the need for one. Color was achieved by stamping dye inked images on top of die-cuts colored with watercolor pencils.
9/19/17 * Peek-a-Boo Elements I had too much fun coloring up the adorable Birdie Brown Witch and had to put her into a special card. So I decided to go again with Blueprints 28 (I only own 2 Blueprint sets) and try my hand again at Stephanie Klauck's idea of making a slider card with this die. The first time I made Stephanie'scard, I did not put a track into the card and the pull tab goes wonky when you pull it up. I am happy to say that placing a chipboard track under the frame keeps that pull tab in line! And of course, I had to add that quirky frog and a pumpkin under the tab. You cannot get dimensional at all with the image under the tab as this would interfere with the opening/closure mechanism of the tab. So I inlaid the two images and that solves the problem. "Practice Makes Perfect!" :) Supplies: MFT Blueprints 7/28, Witch Way is the Candy, Interactive Labels, Copic Sketch, Distress Oxide (faded jeans), Distress Ink (dusty concord), Copic Opaque White.
9/15/17 Supplies: MFT Bitty Bears, Welcome Baby, Framework Background, Wonky Stitch Circle STAX, Blueprints 28, Distress Ink (spun sugar, tumbled glass, chipped sapphire), Derwent Watercolor pencils. I made this card for our daughter #2 who is expecting her first in December (a girl)! This will be our 5th grandchild and our 4th granddaughter. :) The color combo called to me to make a baby card. What better MFT set to create the card than with those cute Bitty Bears?!!
9/14/17 I have selected one of Nicole's gorgeous Christmas cards in which to CAS! I love her colors she used with the aqua/pink and gold embellishments. Of course, I don't have PTI's newest ornament set...yet. I put together a similar look with what I have in my stash. Supplies: PTI Holiday Greens, Beautiful Berries Autumn, Tinsel & Tags Sprigs, Christmas Critters Sentiments, Spellbinders 2011 Heirloom Ornaments, Lawn Fawn Mini Wreath, Stampin' Up Basic Pearl, 4mm sparkling clear sequins, PTI Dye Ink (New Leaf, Pinefeather, Pure Poppy, Scarlet Jewel, Cocoa Bean, Pale Peony, Sweet Blush, Berry Sorbet), Stampendous silver embossing powder, Wink of Stella (Clear).
9/12/17 2017 Card Design Superstar: Clean & Simple Genius Supplies: MFT Modern Trees, Bitty Bears (sentiment), Stitched Collage Frame, MFT Dye Ink (Daffodil), PTI Dye Ink (New Leaf, Poppy Red), MFT Black & White Basics PP. My interpretation of this category is a design that is "graphically" clean and simple which lead me to create the card I did. I used the new MFT Modern Trees set and followed the seasons leading to winter. The trees are framed by cutting apart the Stitched Collage Frame and layering each one 3 times for some dimension. I placed a gold sequin star atop the winter tree portraying a Christmas tree. I wanted to place one tiny red ornament on the tree, but did not have one by MFT. As the saying goes for this category..."less is more." Actually, the "Blessed" card was my first try at this category. I used the Fab Foliage dies on some Watercolor Wash PP...lined the leaves up in a circle and placed Pointsettias from Cozy Mittens around the wreath. The "Blessed" word was die-cut 3 times and layered; then dusted with some Perfect Pearls (Pearl). I added a few red sequins for some berries. The wreath is framed with the largest of the Stitched Rectangle Scallop Edge Frame dies. I am happy with the end result of this card but it did not seem to fit the criteria for the category as well.
Supplies: MFT Up in the Air, Interactive Labels, Blueprints #7/28, Stitched Basic Edges, Mini Cloud Edges stencil, Watercolor Wash PP, PTI Dye Ink (Spring Rain, Green Parakeet, New Leaf), Zig Clean Color, Copic Sketch, Staz-On (Jet Black), clear cardstock. My card is made from a fun technique I learned from Lizzie Jones at Papertrey Ink. It is a form of slider card. The usual rectangle die I use to cut the interactive part of this card is not by MFT. The entire piece was cut by hand. I also learned that layering does not work well for creating a flawless card using this technique. Despite the glitches I ran into...I managed to pull off the card. It is a fun one to play with after the labor of creation and reminds me of stained glass.
9/8/17 Color Virtuoso In my card, I used ink blending (background sky) and water colors (both Zig Clean Color and Kuretake Pearl Colors) for the color criteria of this category. I love the effect of "Northern Lights" that I can achieve thru ink blending. Stars were added with small splatters of Copic Opaque White along with some water spritzing. The Beach Scene Builder works great for creating snow scenes (besides beach scenes); thus the ice and snowbank that grounds my polar bear on ice skates. This card was a joy to make combining many techniques that I've learned from MFT. Thank you MFT!! Supplies: MFT Polar Bear Pals, Beach Scene Builder, Bear Big Adventure dies, Cozy Mittens (sentiment), Black & White Basics PP, Sparkling Clear sequins, Zig Clean Color, Kuretake Pear Colors, Distress Ink (chipped sapphire, dusty concord, picked raspberry, squeezed lemonade), Distress Oxide (faded jeans), Copic Opaque White, DecoColor Opaque Paint Marker (Liquid Silver).
9/7/17 Supplies: MFT Happy Hedgehogs, Slanted Sentiment Strips, Vertical 2-window Stitched Frame die, Zig Clean Color, Versamark, PTI autumn scarecrow (sentiment). What better way to welcome Fall than with MFT's Happy Hedgehogs (one of my favorite sets)! My background is blended watercolors from the Zig markers (as well as the coloring of my hedgehog/log). I also made my own patterned paper thru stamping 5 of the smaller images from the set with VersaMark onto Kraft cardstock. Yes, I am waiting for Fall...and hopefully, cooler weather!??
9/5/17 Lexi presents us with a useful challenge for this week's MIM. She uses the smaller images in stamp sets as the main focus of a card. This way, we all gain additional usage from our stamp sets! While I did not focus on one image for my card, I did group the small images together to pull off another Halloween themed card (still need to make more of these). Been BOO'D is an old Halloween set that was one of my firsts with PTI. I was quite happy to dust it off and put it to use again (works great with Lexi's technique). Supplies: PTI Been BOO'D, Noted: Scalloped A2 Vertical Die, Orange Zest PP.
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