MFT Sketch 425 & Color 111 Challenges - Hey, You!

Today I have a card for both the  MFT Stamps Sketch 425 and Color 111 Challenges.

When I saw the list of colors for the color challenge, the MFT Good Fortune and Chinese Take Out sets immediately came to mind, and the latest sketch challenge was a good layout for the card I had envisioned.

The challenge colors are Sweet Tooth, Gravel Gray, Red Hot and Electric Red.  I used MFT Cherry Crisp for the Electric Red, and Memento Lady Bug ink for the slightly lighter Red Hot.

Thin strips of foam tape were used around the outer edges of the underside of the red piece of card stock.  Doing this  makes it much easier to slide the fortunes in and out of the cookies.  I wish I had made the red piece of card stock a bit larger, but overall I'm happy with the way the card turned out.

I wanted to make an encouragement or thinking of you type of card for Christina Hor's Cards for Little Hearts, so I selected the fortunes and sentiment with that in mind.  You can read about Christina's card drive here.

Thanks very much for stopping by.  As always, your comments are appreciated!

 

 

MFT Supplies:
Good Fortune stamps
Chinese Take Out dies
Wild Greenery die
More Essential Sentiments stamp
Cherry Crisp and Gravel Gray card stock
Heavyweight Translucent Vellum
Black & White Stripes 6x6 paper pack

Other:
Memento Gray Flannel and Lady Bug ink
Paper Source Pure White card stock and Red envelope

IG Crafty Crew February Hard Challenge - Wiper Card

Hello, and thanks for stopping by.

I hadn't participated in an IG Crafty Crew challenge for several months, but when I saw the February Hard Challege - Make a Wiper Card, I decided to jump in. 

The MFT Birdbath dies and my brand new Picket Fences ink blending brushes were used for the first time.   I've always struggled with ink blending, but those brushes do make it much easier.  There are lots of wiper card tutorials and videos online, and I found the instructions easy to follow as I set out to make my first wiper card.  I made my card on a 4.25" x 8.5" base scored at 1.5" and 3".

The birdbath was die cut using MFT Cement Gray card stock three times and stacked for a bit of dimension.  I used Copic marker C5 to add some shading.  I trimmed the bottom of the picket fence to make it shorter so that the entire pedestal wouldn't be covered.

I'll donate this card to Christina Hor's Cards for Little Hearts card drive.  You can read about her great program here.

All of the supplies are listed below, most are MFT Stamps.  Have a tweet day!

MFT Supplies:

A Tweet Hello stamps and dies

Sweet Sloths cloud dies

Birdbath die

Picket Fence die

Slanted Sentiment die

Clouds stencil

Drifts and Hills stencil

Gravel Gray and Sno Cone card stock

Extreme Black hybrid ink pad

Other Supplies:

Lawn Fawn Grassy Boarder die

Distress Oxide Inks:  Tumbled Glass, Twisted Citron and Cracked Pistachio

Copic markers:  G43, B0000, B00, BG000, R01, R11, R20, C1, C3, C5 and YR68

Neenah Solar White card stock

MFT Sketch 424 - Have a Hoot of a Day

Today I have another MFT Sketch challenge card using the MFT I'm Owl Yours set.  Instead of circles I used triangles, but other than that I followed the sketch as given.

The owl was colored with Copic markers, and I added a few MFT Wild Greenery die cuts.

Thanks for stopping by, and have a hoot of a day!

 

MFT Supplies:

I'm Owl Yours stamps and die

Wild Greenery dies

Triangle STAX dies

Card stock:  Sno Cone, Grout Gray & Cool as a Cucumber

Black & White Stripes 6x6 Paper Pack

The Flower Challenge #29 "Use Your Latest Stamps or DIes" - Happy Birthday

Hello.  I'm back today with a card for the current Flower Challenge.  This time we are asked to use our latest stamps or dies.  

Looking back at my online orders, I found that the Essentials by Ellen Mondo Sakura was my last floral stamp or die purchase and that was in May 2018.  I love all of Julie Ebersole's mondo floral designs.  They are big and bold with endless layout orientation and design options.

I have a few friends and relatives with springtime birthdays, so I decided to get a jump on those cards and color soft pink and yellow Sakuras with Zig markers.

First a 5-inch square of mixed media paper was die cut.   The image was then stamped with Versamark ink and heat embossed with Ranger Liquid Platinum embossing powder.  I used four Zig markers and a water brush to color the flowers.  Once I decided which orientation I wanted the image to be, I stamped and heat embossed the sentiments.  The large center flower was highlighted by die cutting a 3-inch square of it and popping it up with foam tape.  A square of blue vellum provides a soft frame, and a few Rock Candy Confetti embellishments by Trinity Stamps finished my card.

Thanks so much for stopping by to take a closer look at my card.  Have a great day!

Supplies:

The Ton Double Stitched Squares dies - large

Strathmore Mixed Media Vellum Surface paper, 184 lb

Versamark ink

Ranger Liquid Platinum embossing powder

Essentials by Ellen Mondo Sakura stamp

Essentials by Ellen Lovely sentiment stamps

Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers:  045, 055, 200 & 303

Recollections Vellum paper

Trinity Stamps Rock Candy Confetti 

Paper Source Pure White card stock

MFT Sketch 423 & Color Challenge 110 - Congratulations You Two

It's time for another MFT Sketch Challenge.  I like these challenges as a way to add to my stash, make cards to donate, and stretch my card making creativity too.  My plan was to make a new baby girl card with the Color Challenge prompts, but when I saw the new sketch I decided to combine the two.

I used the Bundle of Baby Clothes set to die cut the sweet clothes out of Smooth White, the challenge colors of Tickled Pink and Wild Wisteria and the coordinating Itsy Bitsy Polka Dots patterned papers as well.  Gray Grout was used for the base, and for the Steel Gray I used gray ink for the sentiment.  The cute little hangers were die cut out of silver card stock from my stash.  The sentiment stamp is from the MFT Splendid Swans set.  All of the MFT supplies are listed below.

Thanks for stopping by to take a look at my card, and have a great day!

 

 

MFT Supplies: 

Bundle of Baby Clothes dies

Splendid Swans sentiment stamp

Blueprints 27 frame and sentiment strip

Gray Grout, Tickled Pink, Wild Wisteria and Smooth White card stock
Itsy Bitsy Polka Dots Pastels 6x6 Paper Pack

AAA Cards - CAS Game #133 - One Layer with Optional Twist: Love

It's time for another AAA Cards CAS game, and this time it's one layer cards with an optional 'love' theme.

I rarely make one layer cards, or masculine cards, so I decided to combine those two elements to challenge myself even further.

Although it looks like a very simple card, for me it wasn't easy.  But after a few attempts I came up with a layout that I liked.  In order leave it alone and resist adding more to it, I shifted my attention and made a matching liner for the envelope.  Once I had the envelope done, I was satisfied with the end result.

All of the supplies are listed below.  Thanks very much for stopping by to take a closer look at my card.

Supplies:

MFT Stamps Grout Gray card stock

Papertrey Ink Feather Finery stamps

Essentials by Ellen Many Thanks stamp (heart)

Memento ink:  London Fog, Gray Flannel & Lady Bug

Paper Source A2 envelope & liner template

gray liner paper from my stash

MFT Sketch 422 & Birthday Project - Happy Birthday

Today I have a birthday card for the current MFT Sketch challenge.  It will also be entered in the current MFT Birthday Project challenge which is about gifts.

My MFT Birthday Bears stamp and die set gets a lot of use for birthday cards.  The images are cute and simple to color.

For the upper and lower stripes on the sketch, I used the MFT Free with $60 HAPPY BIRTHDAY die to inset a rainbow of letters.  Three images, including a gift for the Birthday Project challenge, were colored with Copic markers and popped up with foam tape on a wide strip of MFT patterned paper. Some embellishing accents on the three images that are hard to photograph but add a nice finishing touch, and my card is done.

Thanks for stopping by, and have a great day.

 

MFT Supplies:

Birthday Bear stamps and dies

Rectangle A2 STAX die

Happy Birthday die

Party Patterns 6x6 paper pack

Card Stock:  Poppy, Daffodil, Sour Apple, Lush Lagoon & Boysenberry

Embellishments:

Clear Wink of Stella (ribbon on gift & hat)

Glossy Accents (icing on cake & bear's nose)

Gelly Roll clear glitter pen (flames on candles)