My Role Model with MFT

 

Hello!  Today I’m popping in with our kids’ Father’s Day card for their Dad.  Since he sometimes peeks at my cards, I didn’t want to post it before the day.  Our kids are beyond blessed to have a Dad who is so loving, supportive, wise, sacrifical and hardworking.  100% they know they are loved and he is proud of them.  He is a leader and a servant heart and loves the Lord.  I am so grateful for him, and I know they are too.  

So this superhero themed card and the role model sentiment were perfect for him.  I was using a new set to me from MFT called Super Human and the coordinating dies.  These little guys are so adorable!  I coloured this little guy dropping in to save the world with Copics in my husband’s favourite colour - purple.  It was his HS and College colour and he still gravitates toward it.  

The background city scene uses another MFT set (Birdie Brown - retired now). I embossed the city in silver, and ink blended the sky in purples, adding in sparkle pen for stars.  I’m also playing along with this week’s MFT Sketch Challenge.  

The foiling uses a Spellbinders Foil plate called Hypnotic (seems to be retired), and then added an interior frame with a scalloped rectangle die from MFT.  

The sentiment is embossed for more silver touches, and now it’s adorable and heart-felt!  

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My Role Model with MFT

Spring Hyacinths with Colorado Craft Company

Hi there!  I’m popping in tonight with a pretty pop of SPRING!  We’ve had beautiful weather this week and it makes me think it might stay.  Today I’m using a pretty digital set from Colorado Craft Company called Thank You Hyacinth.  They recently offered it as a freebie, so it was fun to try it out!   Hyacinths have such a deep fragrance and come in so many pretty pops of colour, so it was fun to give them some vibrant violet shades with Copics and coloured pencils.  

I used a few background layers adding texture including embossing the base layer with Spellbinders Flower Frenzy 3D folder , swiping it with white ink, then using Pink Fresh Studios Mini Slimline Essentials Dies for the main layer and the ink blended stencilled layer (MFT Basketweave).  

As a sweet touch I added thin velvet ribbon and enamel dots to keep things simple.  Thanks for joining me today!

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Spring Hyacinths with Colorado Craft Company

Really Rosy with MFT

Hello friends!  I’m popping in today with a pretty floral from My Favorite Things. This week I’m playing along with their Colour Challenge  (of light and medium pink, red and lime green) and Sketch Challenge, with this lovely image called Fresh Cut Flowers, that has since been retired.  It’s got some really nice big petals to get into!  I started with Copics and finished with pencils to give more definition and soften the transitions nicely.  

The sketch called for a centre circle, which I cut out with an MFT Scalloped Edge Circle die.  Peeking through the background on the cardbase is ink blended base with some texture from an embossing plate.  

The pretty sentiment is from MFT’s Everyday Scripted Greetings.  It’s a great scripty handwriting sentiment set.  

Appreciate you dropping by!  

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Really Rosy with MFT

Big Birthday from the Forest Floor and MFT

 

Delighted to bring you a real cutie for today’s card from My Favorite Things!  I’m playing along with their current Sketch Challenge.  And these precious images from Stacey Yacula at the MFT store, using both Tweet Friends and Sunshine Friends (both retired but OH so cute!).  I love the look of the “windows” popping through the sketch, so I went the direction of peeking into the forest floor with this design.  

The images or coloured with Copics and then trimmed out, and I used some MFT dienamics to cut out the windows and paired it with the sweetest old patterned paper from SU! that matched the mushroom theme perfectly.  The rich warm colours are perfect for that earthy feel.  I’ve done som distressing of the paper and a few shite tel pen accents.  

Some wood veneer stars accent this brown bear cutie, and its ready for a Birthday!  

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Big Birthday from the Forest Floor and MFT

Stitching Patterns with MFT

 

Hello!  I’m back with a stitching design in a fun pattern with some great colours.  I think navy, coral and white make a great summer combo (I recently did another design with these colours too).  This design was created with MFT Cross Stitching die (now retired).  It’s great for a full card front design, with any pattern you’d like to make up.  I picked this one from the MFT patterns on their website.  

I added a few accent dies from retired Spellbinders dies, a couple of sequins and a foiled sentiment from Spellbinders called Yana’s Sentiments.  Those touches of sparkle are perfect for the design.  

All those stitches were so relaxing to put together, and fun to see it put together into a card!  Thanks for stopping by!  

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Stitching Patterns with MFT

Teachers Are Amazing

 

Today is the last day of school for kids in our area, I know in the US school goes till the end of May, but int Canada, we most often go until late June.  Our daughter is a teacher, and I know she’s been counting the days as much as the kids have.  This cute set is a retired one from MFT that I had in my Colouring Catch Up basket, so it made for an easy card.  She’s coloured up with Copics, and I added some texture to her jean skirt with Copic Blender solution and a canvas background stamp, as well as hand drawn glasses and polka dots for her top.   

The design has a bit of a mathmatical theme with the background images on the coral layer, and the cute Positively Cut Card Front Die from Concord & 9th.  Easy to use one of the “plusses” for an accent.  

I used that same Canvas background on the sentiment layer and embossed the sentiment in white.  I think any teacher would love to hear words like this!  

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Teachers Are Amazing

Wish Reverse Duo with MFT

 

Hello there!  Today I’ve got two adorable designs that use a reverse technique from each other and loads of colour!  It all started with this cute die from MFT called Wish.  I used the die on two pieces of cardstock, white and textured turquoise and then pulled out the Fundamental Florals Dies, and die cut a bunch of flowers in orange, hot pink and leaves from the Complementary Greenery die.  

I arranged the flowers on the cardstock with some ink blending along the bottom to give it a bit of depth and contrast and then added a few sequins to give it some sparkle.  When its popped up over white cardstock the letters have great dimension and I love the vibrant colours!  

On the white cardstock, I did the same cutting, but instead added the flowers underneath the die cut layer so the flowers are peeking through from the embossed card base.  That crisp white with the flowers looks so great!  

I added a bit of white framing to give that white on white some pop and the sentiment is from MFT’s Everything Wonderful stamp set.  

Here’s the comparison between the cards:

A great reverse colour duo for Birthdays!  

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Wish Reverse Duo with MFT

Serene Stitches with MFT

Last month I was so delighted to win an MFT Sketch Challenge and spent my gift code on the new stitching kit from MFT called Everything Wonderful. This kit has some really great elements, and I also chose to pick up the extras to fill out the kit because it included some fantastic sentiment sets in beautiful script like this one Everything Wonderful.   The kit included 3 skeins of embroidery thread, so I let that pick my palette for the card.  I’m always a fan of soft blue-green.  So I die cut the elments from heavy cardstock, and added some greenery in vellum and cardstock too.  

After stitching, I arranged the flowers on a cardbase that has a frame from MFT’s Stitched Rectangle Scallop Edge, and soft ink blending with Aged Patina Distress Oxide ink.  This is this week’s MFT Sketch Challenge as well.  

It really has a dreamy serene look, and the extra stitching really adds so much texture and softness!  

 

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Serene Stitches with MFT

Pure Poppies Pop!

 

Popping in with Poppies!  These beauties are from My Favorite Stamps called Pure Poppies. The clean lines are so lovely, and fun to colour with my Copic Markers. I trimmed them out carefully with my scissors, and then it was easy to follow along with this week’s MFT Sketch Challenge .  

I ink blended the background layer and then ran it through Concord & 9th's Triangle Background die.  I think that play on squares and triangles in the layout is a good one. I splattered some water on the background to add some interest to that Distress Oxide background.  

Just a touch of enamel dots and the sentiment from MFT called Essential Sentiments.  A great collection of sentiments in one big set!  

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Pure Poppies Pop!

The Horse-i-corn

 

Hello!  I hope you’ve had a significant Easter weekend with people you care about!  We enjoyed some good family and friends time, and beautiful Easter services at our Church.  

Today I’m bringing you a design I created for a sweet 4 year old that we love, using MFT’s Sketch Challenge.  She had a unicorn and rainbows party, so I just had to fit with the theme!  At the time I couldn’t think of a unicorn I had on hand.  But, I pulled out MFT’s The Whole Herd stamp and did a little creative license additions to the horse in the set and made my own unicorn (or horse-i-corn)!  I fluffled up his tail with additional layers using my multi-liner pen, gave him a horn and rainbowed up the mane and tail with the ROYGBV Copic colours for lots of fun.  

I created a background with a cloud stencil and distress oxide inks in rainbow colours, splattering with water to get a bit of a distressed look.  I used MFT’s Stitched Arch dies to create a window, and then added die cut clouds to really accent that sky feeling.  I accented the arch with ROYGBV enamel dots as a cute touch.  What 4 year old doesn’t love a little bling!    

The first words out of her mouth were a delighted squeal about her card having a unicorn on it, so always does my heart good.  I think that is what cardmaking is all about!  

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The Horse-i-corn

Penguin Party with MFT

Hello!  I did some colouring the past week and had some fun with MFT’s Sketch Challenge for this design.  Always good to have more Birthday cards on hand!  This stamp set is called Sending Sweet Celebration Wishes from MFT.  These adorable party animals are illustrated by Stacey Yacula, and I love her sweet style.  

The images are coloured with Copic Markers, and trimmed out fussy cut style.  Paired with some perfect patterned paper and the fun sketch, it came together pretty quick!  

Lots of colourful pennant banners from this set tie in nicely to our cute little penguin, and work well with the diagonal of the sketch.   

Inside the card I added the charming little turtle from the set delivering a cupcake on his shell.  Altogether adorable!  Perfect for the next child’s birthday ahead!  

Thanks for joining me today!   

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Penguin Party with MFT

Mailable Background Series: Coffee Trio

 

Hello!  Today I’m bringing you another group of thank you cards I created to be mailable for colleagues I work with.  Because I knew I’d be adding a gift card in each card, they need to be light and without a lot of embellishment, so I focussed on creating fun backgrounds to give that pop of colour and interest.  Today I have a coffee theme going using  MFT Coffee Break, and MFT’s Small Brick Wall Stencil.  Each card got a different inking pattern with the Brick stencil, and I did add some embossing paste in parts of the stencil for texture.  

I also used MFT’s cute little coffee cup die cuts called Mini Mugs, and treated them with Lindy’s Magical Powders on watercolour paper.  They give great pops of shimmer.  And aren’t those coffee beans from the stamp set awesome?

For this design I also brought in the coffee stain from the set.  

You can really see the shimmery details on this design from the Lindy’s Magical Powders, I embossed the sentiment to give it more glossy texture.  I think they feel really warm, masculine and make a fun trio!  

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Mailable Background Series: Coffee Trio

PaRRty Like a PiRRAte

Time to PARRty!  We celebrated with friends of ours for their little guy turning 1 this week.  And because I was in the mood to colour something fun, I pulled out this cute set from MFT called Party Like a Pirate, it’s retired but ever so cute with its very pirate themed images.  I picked some fun Copic colours and after colouring, I trimmed out the pieces.  

I masked and sponged the background sand, sea and sky with Distress Ink, using an MFT Stencil for the clouds.  And then added in sand details with Copics.  A die cut frame helps anchor the image on the cardstock.    

Love the cute little details like the seagulls and gold coins.  

And here’s the stamped inside as an extra touch.  Kids are always such fun to create for!   

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PaRRty Like a PiRRAte

Inspired Die-Filled Flower Garden

Hello, feeling like a little spring?  Today I’m popping in with a cheerful spray of flowers using several new dies from My Favorite Things.   

First up, to create the background I watercoloured some Daniel Smith Sap Green and Serpentine Green, then created a cut-out with the lovely arch dies called Elegant Stitched Stax Die Namics.  Then using both the Fundamental Florals Die Namics and the Complementary Greenery Die Namics, I cut out lots of different flowers and leaves then sponged them with a number of Distress Oxide and Distress inks in pale shades of cream and peach.    

I spashed some splatters of gold using watered-down Lunar Paste along the edges of the patterned paper and flowers to give it some glitz, and I’ve also embossed the sentiment from Crafty Friends in gold, and accented with a few gold sequins.  

I think it would be a lovely way to encourage someone!  

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Inspired Die-Filled Flower Garden

Happy Camper Mountain Scene

 

Hello and Happy February!  I had such fun creating the scene on my card I’m showing you today!  I picked up this Happy Camper set from My Favorite Things last month because it was on a great sale, I believe because they’re retiring it.  It’s just so cute though!  And perfect for my outdoor loving friends.  I also picked up the Elegant Stitched Stax Dies from MFT and used it upside down to give the look of a “patch” or national park badge so my scene could fit in it.   Look at how cute all the animals are in it!  

I’m a mountain girl at heart and feel so blessed that we have an abundance of mountains in our Province to spend time in, so for this scene, I had to have mountains in it!   I came across one of those ads on Instagram that totally inspired my idea for the scene that I’ll show you below.  Since the stamp set doesn’t have mountains or a lake, I sketched some on XPress It Blending paper and outlined them with a multi-liner pen and coloured the mountains and lake with Copics to add to the picture.  I’m basing my lake after Lake Louise with its crystal turquoise waters, and red canoes you can rent to explore it.  It’s spectacular.  All the pieces are fussy cut out, which took a bit of time, but I finally ordered the dies now, so next time it will go quicker.  

I even added a reflection of the red canoe in the lake!  

These art puzzles were a great inspiration!  I love the 3D effect they have and it was fun to try and mimic that.  

Some of the elements are popped up on foam dots so it really has a 3D feel.  The background sky is sponged with Chipped Sapphire Oxide ink and Black Soot Oxide ink, and then splattered with white acrylic paint for stars.  The green grass is sponged with Cracked Pistachio and Mowed Lawn Disress inks.   

I love the overall depth, dimension and interest I was able to create.  I’d like to cozy up in that hammock right now!  

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Happy Camper Mountain Scene