MFT Card Design Superstar: Clean & Simple

I managed to squeeze in some crafty time and made a card for the annual MFT Card Design Superstar Contest. As it happens I just received the new MFT Holly Jolly Cardinals dies and wanted to use them for my card. Love these cutie birds.

I paper pieced my bird and decided I didn't want it to be a holiday bird so instead of using the fuzzy trim for the hat I used some small dies in the set and made them into little flowers and used them for the trim on the hat.

I used the MFT Rainbow Whimsy die with gold and silver sparkle paper and stamped the sentiment from the older MFT set Peaceful Wildflowers. I also did a bit of inking behind the bird with Distress Ink.

This was such a fun card to make and can't wait to send it to a crafty friend!

Have a great day!

My Favorite Things Card Design Superstar

I made a card for MFT 2019 Card Design Superstar Challenge in the Clean and Simple Category.

I started by embossing the MFT Marble Background with Wow Clear Matt Dull Embossing Powder on Silver Matt Mirror Board. The marble design looks like it's etched into the mirror board.  Very elegant in person. I cut various strips of the embossed panel and adhered them at an angle onto Neenah Linen card stock.

The celebrate die cut (from MFT Celebratory Greetings) was inked to fade out from dark to light blue and is stacked 4 layers high. The leaf from the MFT Stitched Blooms set was inked in pink and I added one gem.

Thanks for visiting with me today!

India Ink Background

I was playing around with my Dr. Ph. Martin's Bombay India Inks (more info on them here and here) and came up with a background with waves and squiggles of colour which reminded me a little of marbling. I decided to black emboss My Favorite Things Roses All Over Background on top and see what happened. I liked the look and made it into a card.

I die cut a circle from the embossed panel using MFT Circle Stax and heat embossed a sentiment from MFT Birthday Greetings. The card feels "artsy" to me so using MFT Snow Drifts Die I cut a curvy strip of yellow card stock and added on the front.

I'm entering this card for My Favorite Things You Could Be A Card Design Superstar.

Also for Simon Says Stamps Die Crazy Challenge here and Simon Says Stamp Love This Technique Challenge here.

Wishing you an inky day!

Birthday Roses

I'm back with another card for My Favorite Things Card Design Superstar. All the details can be found here.

When I first saw MFT Roses All Over Background I instantly put it at the top of my wish list. This is such a pretty stamp that works with lots of techniques, including one of my faves, watercolours.

I used watercolours in blues and pinks and white heat embossed the roses. The Snow Drifts Die came in handy to add a curvy cut and the sentiment from MFT Birthday Greetings was embossed with Silver Sparkle Embossing Powder. I also flicked on some white paint and added a few sequins.

I'm entering this in Simon Says Stamp Die Crazy Challenge here and the Simon Says Stamp Love This Technique Challenge here.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Color Bursts

I've been playing around with Ken Oliver's Color Bursts and boy are they addictive. I think I could spend all day colouring paper!

I took one of my watercoloured masterpieces (tee hee) and die cut it three times with My Favorite Things Double Dot Border Die. I wanted to have the dot strips raised up from the background but without foam dots so I die cut the dots from white card stock so that I had 3 white die cuts to layer behind each watercoloured piece.

The dots were adhered to glitter card stock and I created a black frame from two MFT Rectangle Stax Dies. The sentiment is from MFT Say Hello Transformables Die. It was die cut from silver and black card stock and I just snipped the word from the frame. I adhered them together slightly off set. Love how this card turned out!

I'm entering this card for My Favorite Things You Could Be A Card Design Superstar Challenge here and for Simon Says Stamp Die Crazy Challenge here.

Thanks for visiting and I appreciate all the comments you leave me!

Vellum Shaker

I have a shaker card for you today for My Favorite Things You Could Be A Card Design Superstar Challenge here!

I coloured white vellum with alcohol inks in blue and purple and applied the inks in a circular swirl pattern. I love using alcohol inks, you never know exactly how each piece will turn out! I die cut My Favorite Things Triangle Screen from the vellum, adhered it to acetate and added back some of the triangles and left the centre portion empty for the shaker window.

The background for the shaker is also vellum coloured in paler hues of blue and purple.

I finished off with a sentiment from My Favorite Things Peaceful Wildflowers stamp set and a couple of thin black strips of card stock.

I'm also entering this card for Simon Says Stamps Die Crazy Challenge here and Simon Says Stamp Love This Technique Challenge here.

Thanks for dropping by!

Simon Says

Hi everyone!  I'm back with my first project since I had my carpal tunnel surgery.  The surgery went well and I'm still recuperating and have limited use of my hand.  I'm getting my stitches out on Thursday, looking forward to that!  Thank you everyone for your well wishes regarding my surgery, I really appreciated hearing from you!

I'm sharing a tag today that I made for the Simon Says Stamp & Show Challenge here with the theme being Read All About It and also for the Simon Says Stamp Challenge here and the theme is Anything Goes. There's going to be lots of fun events going on for Stamptember at Simon Says, don't forget to join in the fun!

I got fairly inky with my tag, did minimal carefree stamping with my left hand and I didn't have to use any scissors (hurts too much to cut with them).  And I have to add that I love having the Vagabond to make life easier with the die cutting.

I'm also entering this tag over at Vicki's blog Clips-n-Cuts where she's having a fun giveaway to promote her fantastic InLinkz Manager.

Thanks everyone for stopping by!

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