MFT Magical Dragons/Baby Boy

Hello there!

Welcome back to my blog! Today's card has been inspired by three different challenges, all linked below:

MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge #380
Color Throwdown #488
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Add Some Texture

First, I will show you my card and then I will share the inspiration images for the first two challenges!

So here is my card:

Here is the color scheme for this week's Color Throwdown challenge and also the sketch for the MFT challenge:

I used the Magical Dragons stamp set from MFT and coloured the images using my Copic markers. I cut out the images leaving a small white border around the edges. I then die cut the largest of the Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangles and blended some Twisted Citron Distress Ink from the centre outwards, adding some Mowed Lawn Distress Ink from the centre too, just not as far out. I then spritzed the panel with my Tim Holtz Distress Sprayer and dabbed off the excess with a clean paper towel. Once dry, I ran the piece through my Big Shot with the Darice Layered Hearts embossing folder. I then added the panel to a side folding A2 card blank.

I die cut a circle from some white cardstock and blended some Fossilized Amber Distress Ink from the centre outwards. I added the circle to the card with foam pads. I stamped the sentiment, which is from the Lawn Fawn Little Bundle stamp set, onto a strip of white cardstock that I had die cut with a Lawn Fawn Everyday Sentiment Banner die. I adhered it so that the left edge was underneath the circle. I added the dragons to the circle with foam pads. I die cut the smallest of the Lawn Fawn Stitched Heart dies from some white cardstock and coloured it with the same blue Copics I used for the images. I adhered the heart to the card with foam tape.

To finish the card I added some sequins from Lucy's cards.

I found this one really challenging. Think it was the sketch that got me, but I think it turned out okay in the end! I really like this colour scheme and it is perfect for a new baby boy card like this one.

Thanks for stopping by!

Crafty hugs,

Altenew Bamboo Rose with pencils

Happy Saturday!

I have been having a really crafty day today! Done some pencil colouring this morning, which I have not done in ages! I enjoyed it so much! It took a bit of time, as I was colouring the whole background, but I think the finished project made it worthwhile. I love the look of pencil colouring and I am definitely going to be getting them out more often!

I started by die-cutting the largest of the Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangles from some Neenah Desert Storm cardstock, then using my MISTI I stamped the roses from the Altenew Bamboo Rose set all over the background. I needed to double stamped some of them to get the crisp outline and that is the beauty of a stamping tool! I stamped an extra one of the largest rose onto a small piece of Desert Storm.

I then coloured the roses using my Spectrum Noir pencils, using three shades of pink for the flowers and three shades of green for the leaves. I also used a bit of black on the darkest parts of the leaves as well.

I die cut the Lawn Fawn Scripty Thanks from some black glitter cardstock and die cut two more from some plain black cardstock. I layered them on top of each other with some glue placing the glitter one on the top.

I adhered the sentiment to the vellum with some Ranger Multi Medium Matte. Once dry I then added some of the Multi Medium Matte onto the back of the sentiment sparingly then wrapped the vellum strip around the front panel securing it with the glue. I then cut out the spare rose and leaves and added them to the other end of the vellum with some foam pads.

I added the panel to the front of an A2 top folding card base, then added some black Nuvo Drops to finish, leaving them to dry.

I love the effect of the pencils on Desert Storm cardstock, hope you like it too!

Crafty Hugs,

CAS(E) This Sketch #266

Hi guys!

Welcome back to my blog!! Great to have you here!! Today's card has been made for the CAS(E) this Sketch challenge #266 and this is the sketch we are following:

And this is my interpretation:

I used the For The Love Of Stamps Cocktail Party stamp set from Hunkydory, along with my trusty Large Stitched Rectangles from Lawn Fawn, the Sugar Chic 12 x 12 paper pad by Heidi Swapp and some sequins from Lucy's Cards.

Such a simple layout but I love how it turned out. The sequins are almost bubbles coming out of the cocktail glasses!

I used my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers on Hunkydory Ink Me! cardstock for the images along with a waterbrush, and I stamped them with VersaFine Onyx Black ink.

I just love this fun sentiment - just suits this card perfectly!

Until next time..

Crafty Hugs!

My Favorite Things - WSC 379

Hello and welcome to my blog!

The inspiration for today's post is the current Wednesday Sketch Challenge over on the My Favorite Things Challenge Blog! This is the sketch I have followed for this card:

When I was trying to decide what to do for this challenge, I had quite a specific idea of what I wanted to create and it turned out pretty much how I planned for once! And here is my finished card:

I started of by die-cutting two of the largest dies from the Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangles die set from some Hunkydory Ink Me! cardstock. With the first one, I stamped the stars from the MFT Stars Above stamp set onto the top section with VersaMark, sprinkled over some white embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool. I then inked over that portion of the cardstock with some Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink, spritzed it with water and dabbed off the excess with a paper towel.

The second rectangle was cut slightly above the centre with a Lawn Fawn Puffy Cloud Borders die at a slight diagonal to replicate the sketch. I then used the MFT Mini Cloud Edges stencil and some Tumbled Glass Distress Ink to create clouds on that piece. 

I then stamped the large Stars sentiment from the MFT Written In The Stars stamp set with VersaMark ink onto the cloud panel and heat set it with some Wow! St.Tropez Sands embossing powder. I also covered a piece of cardstock in VersaMark and covered it with the same powder and heat set, then die cut the stars from the MFT Shining Stars die set to go around the large word. 

I stamped the smaller sentiment from the MFT Written In The Stars stamp set in VersaFine Onyx Black ink onto some white cardstock and cut into a banner shape, adding it to the card front with some foam tape.

For the inside I stamped another sentiment from the Written In The Stars stamp set with VersaFine Onyx Black and stamped two of the stars from the Stars Above stamp set in Memento London Fog ink.

Thank you for stopping by and hope you will pop by again soon!

Crafty Hugs,

Color Throwdown 487

Hi guys!

So today I have made a card specifically for the Color Throwdown challenge! It pushes you a bit more creatively I think when you are given a colour scheme to follow as normally I just do whatever! And more often than not the colour schemes are not what you would normally pick .. so I have decided that this is going to be my weekly challenge going forward!

This is the colour scheme for this challenge:

And this is the card I have created:

I have to say when I started off I was like 'What am I going to do?' but then I started to remember things I had in my stash like the perfect paper pad, the mint cardstock etc. And I was so thrilled at the end when I remembered I had mint sequins! Seriously it is quite sad how happy I was!

So I started off by cutting the paper from the Dear Lizzy Fine and Dandy paper pad from American Crafts with the largest of the Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangles dies and then I cut the next size down from the mint cardstock from my stash and some Ink Me! cardstock.

I then blended some Festive Berries, Worn Lipstick and Spun Sugar Distress Inks into the centre of the piece in an outward circular effect before spritzing with water and removing the excess with a paper towel.

I added the pattered paper background to the front of a top folding A2 size card base and adhered the mint rectangle at an angle. I then added the inked rectangle at the opposite angle with some foam tape.

I stamped the pig from the MFT Hog Heaven stamp set in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured him with my Copic markers before cutting him out with some scissors, leaving a white edge. I also added some highlights with a white gel pen. I die cut the Scripty Hugs from Lawn Fawn from some Ink Me and coloured it using the same three Copics I used to colour the heart to create an ombre effect. I then covered the sentiment with VersaMark ink and poured over some UTEE from Wow! and heat set with a heat gun. I repeated for a second layer to make it super glossy.

I adhered the pig behind the 'hugs' die cut and chopped off the bottom of the image so that it looks like he is peering out from behind the letters. I then added the whole thing to the card front with some glue. I stamped the sentiment, also from the MFT Hog Heaven set and added the sequins from Lucy's Cards to finish.

Thanks for stopping by!

Crafty hugs,

Home Sweet Home

Hello!

Today I have another cute new home card to share with you using the Lawn Fawn Happy Village stamp set and coordinating dies. I used it alongside the Scripty Congrats die and my much loved Large Stitched Rectangles.

I started off by cutting the largest of the Large Stitched Rectangles from some Hunkydory Ink Me! cardstock. This is my favourite cardstock to use with Distress Inks, especially when I am spritzing water on them! I then blended some Mowed Lawn Distress Ink into the centre of the piece, following with some Twisted Citron Distress Ink around the edges of that. I then spritzed the inked area and removed the excess with a clean paper towel to achieve the faux bleached effect. I then attached this piece to the front of an A2 top folding card blank with some double sided tape.

I stamped my images in Memento Tuxedo Black ink, coloured them with Copics and die cut the images with the coordinating dies.

I die cut the Scripty Congrats from some more Ink Me! cardstock and coloured the word with three pink Copic markers, creating an ombre effect. For the rest of the sentiment, I stamped it in VersaMark onto some black cardstock and heat embossed with some white embossing powder.

Once I had glued everything to the background, I stamped the little birds with some VersaFine Onyx Black ink.

For the inside I stamped the sentiment with the VersaFine and repeated the houses along the bottom with some Memento London Fog ink.

I absolutely love this stamp set, I just wish I knew lots of people moving house! Hehe

Thanks for stopping by!

Congrats On Your New Home

Hi guys!

This card I have to share with you today is using this new Happy Village stamp set and coordinating dies. I adore this stamp set and as soon as I saw the samples that had been made by the DT with it I was sold. The other Lawn Fawn products used were Large Stitched Rectangles dies and Everyday Sentiment Banner dies. I am a bit obsessed with the stitched rectangles to be honest, I use them on everything at the moment!!

I get all my Lawn Fawn products from Seven Hill Crafts website, they are brilliant! They sell lots of US brands that are not easy to source over this side of the pond and their customer service and delivery time is great!

Along with these, the images were stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured with Copic markers. The paper is from the Dear Lizzy Fine and Dandy 6x6 paper pad from American Crafts. I also used the Mini Cloud stencil from MFT with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink for the sky, and the WPlus9 Landscape Borders die with Mowed Lawn Distress Ink for the grass.

I think this card will be going to my brother-in-law who has just bought his first house! 

Hope you have enjoyed your Easter break!

Until next time...

Your Kindness Touched My Heart

Hello!

Happy Easter weekend everyone! Hope you are having some good time to chill out, craft and recharge your batteries!

The card I am sharing today is a combination of MFT and Altenew stamp sets and I had no idea where I was going with this one. I had decided I wanted to use the Bamboo Roses set from Altenew so I started by stamping those out..

I stamped the roses in MFT Black Liquorice Hybrid ink using my MISTI so I could get a perfect impression. I ended up stamping three times to get solid outlines, as I was working on textured watercolour cardstock. I coloured the roses using my Distress Markers and a waterbrush and cut around the edges of the images with some scissors, leaving a small white outline around each one. I then added some white dot accents to the roses and leaves with a white gel pen.

I created the background on some smooth white cardstock, which I spritzed with some water and added some Worn Lipstick, Festive Berries and Aged Mahogany Distress Inks with a waterbrush to create a watercolour background. I dried it off with a heat tool once I was happy with the effect and die cut a piece from it using the largest from the Large Stitched Rectangle dies by Lawn Fawn.

I treated the background piece with an anti-static tool and stamped the kindness sentiment from the MFT Kind Words stamp set in VersaMark, once again using my MISTI. I poured over some Hero Arts gold embossing powder and heat set with a heat gun. I then stamped the other parts of the sentiment using Onyx Black Versafine ink.

I added the background piece to the front of an A2 top folding card blank with some tape and added the roses, the first layer with glue and the second with foam tape to add some dimension.

I then decided that I wanted to add something else to the background, so I used my Tim Holtz Bubbles stencil and inked through it in the spaces on the background panel with some Worn Lipstick Distress Ink. I then added some sequins to finish.

And for the inside...

I stamped another sentiment from the MFT Kind Words stamp set and a couple of the roses from the Altenew Bamboo Roses set in some London Fog Memento Ink.

I hope you like it and that you will pop by again soon!

Crafty Hugs,

You Are Amazing!

This is the first post on my new blog and I am very excited to get back into blogging again! My crafting style has changed entirely since I used to blog a couple of years back so I thought it appropriate to start a new blog ..

I enjoyed making this first card I am sharing so much! I have recently been using my alcohol inks again since their reappearance on the craft scene, inspired mainly by Jennifer McGuire! I watched a video where she made some amazing backgrounds so I thought I would crack them open again! I did struggle with them the first time round as I didn't really know what to do with them. Just needed a bit of guidance I guess!

The alcohol ink background was created on Ranger Yupo paper, using several different shades of green and turquoise Ranger Alcohol Inks plus a gold mixative and some blending solution. I cut the circle from the piece and immediately I thought it looked like an arty globe, and I was so inspired to make this card design.

I also used the Lawn Fawn Puffy Cloud Borders and Large Stitched Rectangle dies, along with the Memory Box Puffy Clouds dies.

The background paper is from a DoCrafts Little Meow paper pack that I had in my stash and was perfect for this design. The sunburst paper design was cut with the largest stitched rectangle die, which is A2 size, the same size as my card base.

The large Amazing word die is from Avery Elle, along with the coordinating stamp set. The sentiment was die cut from some gold glitter cardstock and I layered on top of two others cut from white cardstock to add dimension.

The sentiment on the inside is from the Altenew To The Moon stamp set, and goes perfectly with this card!

I was so pleased with the results and that alcohol ink globe couldn't have turned out better!

Thank you for stopping by and hope you will visit again soon!

Happy crafting!