Sparkle/Shine

Simon’s Monday Challenge has me pulling out all my shiny things.  I added some Heidi Swapp Color Shine drops , in Citron, to give a little sparkle to my underwater scene.  This was so fun to do.  Swipe some gesso onto cardstock, let dry and then use distress crayons to blend the colors.  I stamped over it with Altenew inks but I would suggest StazOn.   I used Glaze over the scene and i hope my color shine will dry on top of that.  I love the added sparkle.

The stamp set is from Hero Arts and the die cut sentiments are from MFT.

loving on die cuts

Using Dies or punches is the  kick off point for Simons Wednesday challenge. I used Viva’s InkaGold paste in Rose Quartz on my background.  I just used my finger and rubbed it all over.  Next step: A striped Ranger Stencil place over the top and a slightly damp baby wipe (squeeze it out well) was rubbed over the top, lifting the color from the open spaces.  I cut my hearts with Spellbinders dies.  I used just a light spritz of Dylusions spray color in BubbleGum to give some interest to the embossed heart and tie it to the background.   I used a piece of acrylic that I embossed with MFT border dies to put a cross stitch border on the acrylic panel.  Stamped with Versa Mark and attached with small touches of adhesive right along the very edge of the acrylic.  Thanks for stopping by.

Fun in the Sun

Simon’s Wednesday Challenge is fun in the sun.  i have typed this and now I am going to create a card.  Let’s see how that goes.  My only idea right now is to use the Sunshine die I bought quite a while back. Tha’ts more like it.  One hour from thought to finish.   Using a brand new stamp that’s been sitting on my desk.  He’s so cute.

Sparkly Giraffe-What’s Up

Playing along with Simon’s Monday Challenge to add a little sparkle.  I cut my giraffe out of yellow glitter paper.  These die cuts are from MFT’s Jungle Friends.  it looks so simple but me and lots of parts and pieces just don’t do very well together.  A three hour production, REALLY!!!???

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Some Summer Fun

Simon’s Monday Challenge for summer fun.  Is there anything better than listening to all those sweet summer birds chirping away in the early mornings and evenings?  I love to sit out on the deck in the evenings and just hear their various songs.  These images are from Gina K Hearts and Flowers kit.  I used a die to emboss the rectangle and then masked off the area to do a bit of sponging with oxide inks.  Hand drawn music notes.  Thanks for dropping by.  You’re tweet!

llama goodness

This creation is for MFT’s sketch challenge. Usually when playing with a certain company’s challenge I like to use their stamps.  This llama set was given to me by a friend and I’ve been wanting to use it and also a technique that uses the MISTI to line things up without moving your stamp.  It went really well with the little blanket.  I did use MFT dies and also the striped background stamp that i only partially inked.  The DP is also from MFT’s pack called Fun & Frolic.   Thanks MFT for letting us use other company’s stamps.  Here’s a picture of how the MISTI stamping went.  The added corner piece really made this easy to line up. I just kept moving it over by two squares and it worked perfectly.

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MFT color challenge 96

As long as I was in MFT mode I decided to hop on over to their color challenge which intrigued me and I didn’t really think I could pull that color combo off.  I thought about it a couple of days and what do you know, the perfect solution came to me. 

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Day 5 MFT 2018

The last day of summer school with MFT.  It’s been great fun and I’ve learned a lot.  I guess this was my most difficult challenge.  My personality is messy, spontaneous and on the fly.  It was a really challenge to lay everything out so neat and tidy but i do love the end result.  Thanks MFT for another great learning opportunity.  It was lots of fun.

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Day 4 MFT summer school 2018

Complementary colors, those that sit across from each other on the color wheel. This is the MFT school lesson for Day 4.  I have an old colorwheel that i bought from SU many many moons ago.  I still pull it out for reference more than I would have guessed.  All Items except Nuvo drops are MFT.  Using MFT Morroccon Tiles plastic stencil run through my Big Shot gave some dimension to the first layer.
I used elements from Blueprints 6 and one of the layouts for a kick off point.  The  MFT Fancy Flowers stamps and dies are some of my favorites.  I used my free Happy Birthday die from MFT in a horizonal way and used the little triangles form the letter A cast offs to give a finishing touch to the sentiment.

Repeat after me

MFT Summer School Day 3  is all about repetition.  To me, the easiest way to get a repeat pattern is to use a stencil.  All supplies except nuvo drops are MFT.  I have long loved my sequins die for making clear sequins out of packaging material.  It’s been a useful item many many times for just the right touch.

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squeek

Squeeking out a quick card.  This week is FULL with company from Alabama and then not feeling well for two days.  This is for MFT Summer School day two.  Primary Colors.  This Bold Background stamp from MFT worke great for this.

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White Space 2

This was actually my first attempt at a white space card.  It went together so quickly I decided I would try it again on that first one I posted.  I need to restock my Birthday Stash and I think this technique is going to come into play.  Enterting into MFT Summer School

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White Space

MFT is having summer school.  I love following along and I always learn something.  This was a class I didn’t know i was waiting for.  How to use White Space.  Laurie is the teacher for this class and she teaches in an easy to understand format with some nice examples. 

I think the reason I have such a difficult time with this technique is because I am such a messy stamper.  It seems I so often get smudge marks, ink marks, bent edges or what have you, somewhere on my project and then i need to cover it up with ribbons, sentiments or whatever.  It happened here too.  The grass is colore in because I somehow had a green smudge on the left corner.  Otherwise my intention was to leave it white.  Up above the sentiment, I used a white gel pen and lightly dotted over some crazy light blue line that appeared.  I didn’t even use blue!!!!  Any way, I love my sweet littl PI girl holding her harvest in her paper pieced dress.

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