Polka Dot Bikini

Today’s card is for the Friday Mashup challenge to do a card with a summer theme or do a card with polka dots or mash it up and do a summer card with polka dots.

When I thought about the polka dots the first stamp I thought of was a Rubbernecker stamp Ethel in Bikini. She is wearing a polka dot bikini, and bikini’s are summertime to me.

Ethel was stamped on glossy paper with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, then colored with a Alcohol Ink Fillable Pen, filled with Blending Solution and various Alcohol Inks, then cut out.

The Sun is from an old retired SU set called Sensational Scenery, stamped with Mustard Seed Distress Ink and also cut out.

The next layer was white cut with a Nestie Label Four die, I ran a blue Gelly Roll Stardust Pen around the inside of the die before removing, Stippled Tumbled Glass in the center, then added some sand at the bottom.

The next layer is the same blue as the base card, cut out with a Nestie Label Eight die, and a white gel pen run around the inside of the die before removing.

I chose a yellow ribbon with white polka dots, ran it across the same blue as the base card, and punched the top and bottom with a MS punch around the page border punch called Cherish. Stamped the sentiment from a MFT set called Twisted Sentiments with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. This is layered of a piece of white using the same border punch on top and bottom. Then I added two flip flop brads.

The next layer is blue with white polka dots from a DCWV stack that I have lost the cover for. I punched the corners with the MS punch around the page corner punch (Cherish). Layered onto white using the same corner punch, then layered onto the base card.

It has been a while since I have been able to play with my toys. This is my busy time, being outside cutting grass & weed eating. Since my Mother bought the house across the road in stamping land, we have two houses here to take care of, and three in non-stamping land (my Mothers, Mother-In-Law’s and mine), plus a garden. I also cut grass & weed eat at the farm that we hunt.

It’s a good thing I like cutting grass, I’m beginning to hate weed eating though. I spent five hours weed eating the other day, I had an hour for lunch, and didn’t get it finished, but let me tell you, I was about finished. I don’t think I could have pulled the cord to start the weed eater to many more times.

I was here in stamping land last week, but didn’t have time to do any stamping. My DH decided he wanted me to put a flowerbed in out back, so we hauled in two ton of topsoil. We can only carry one ton on our trailer at a time. By the time I shoveled it off of our trailer onto my cart, then shoveled it off again, I’m sure it turned into four ton. All two ton wasn’t put in the flowerbed, I spread some around in different places in the yard. The soil in the yard has been pretty sad since building the house, we still don’t have grass in some places, but it’s getting better. I also bought a bunch of flowers and planted them along with some we dug up in non-stamping land. Then I had him get me two scoops of mulch and I spread it. I ran out of mulch, money and time to get it finished.

This trip we brought down probably a ton of old sheep and steer manure, which I spread around yesterday. It looked like it was going to be a piece of cake to spread it, it was so old it mostly looked like dirt, but then it rained on it the night we got here, and made it a little difficult to shovel, but that is done. So finally I’m getting to play today.

Thanks for stopping by, I really enjoy getting comments.

Happy Stamping!
judy

Owl Season

I hope you are enjoying your Memorial Day.

This is another card I slapped together before leaving for non-stamping land. Sadly for me it is the last card I have to show until I can return to my stamps.

The image was a pre-stamped  and colored piece I had done for another card and wound up not using. The image is from a MFT set called Owls of the Season by Stephanie Fizer. The owls, and limb stamped with Onyx Black Versafine, the leaves stamped with Peeled Paint Distress Ink. The owls were colored with Prismacolored pencils. The image was then cut out with a Nestie circle die, and before the die was removed sponged with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. The next layer of yellow was cut with a Nestie scalloped circle die, each scallop pierced.

The sentiment is from a CDS set called Thoughtful Notes, stamped with Onyx Black Versafine on a piece of yellow cut with a Quick Kutz Label die.

The background is using pieces of scrap paper, something I saw on a video by Gina K at Stamp TV.  I cut my scrap pieces to size, layered onto a piece of yellow cut to size. Cross-stitched between the two alternating dp papers, and a zig-zag stitch around the edge, all of it done by hand. I have given up on my sewing machine, it would have taken me two to three times longer to sew on this card using it. The base card is a light turquoise blue.

Thanks for stopping by, and I love getting comments.

Happy Stamping!
judy

Girls Just Wanna Have Funds

This  card is for challenge #7 at The Friday Mashup. The challenge is to: create a project with a feminine theme, or create a card using ribbon or pearls…..or mash it up and create a feminine project with ribbon & pearls.

As you can see, I chose all of the above. Since I am a tomboy, pink is my least favorite color, and also the color I associate with feminine stuff, like shopping, so my first choice of stamps for this project was the MFT set Tot-ally Fantastic. The sentiment is from the same set, and while I was making this card earlier today the Cyndi Lauper song “Girls just wanna have fun” popped into my head, and has stayed there all day. I think this also had to do with me picking the true (bright) colors (pun intended). I will admit I was a Cyndi Lauper fan, am I showing my age? I’d be willing to bet I’m not the only one making cards that was a Lauper fan.

The base card is a hot pink, the next layer is black, just cut to size. For the next layer  the Faux Mother of Pearl Technique was done. I used a piece of saran wrap dipped into Lumiere’ and dabbed onto a piece of photo paper. After the Lumiere’ dried Spun Sugar Distress Ink was sponged over the whole piece. Then it was cut to size to layer over the black.

The same hot pink and black was cut to size to layer the main image. The pink was placed on the Faux Mother of Pearl, then a piece of hot pink ribbon by Darice was run across it and wrapped around to the back of the black layer. Next the black layer and the image piece was placed atop the ribbon. I placed a hot pink pearl from Queen & Co. on top of the ribbon on each side of the image.

The image was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. I used my Scor-buddy to make store front bricks and to etch the sidewalk, then colored with Prismacolored pencils and Goo Gone. Who’s That Girl is wearing a designer dress by judy’s cards. I wanted to paper piece the dress, but was too lazy to look for some dp to use, so I made my own, using a SU black marker, and just colored the dress to stamp off on another piece of white, then grabbed my old SU set called Itty Bitty Backgrounds and inked up one of the stamps with the Memento Tuxedo Black, then cut it out to give her a new designer dress. The belt and dog were colored with a black SU marker. For the shoes, bracelet, and parts of the other purses a black glaze pen was used. Her purse was colored with a white glaze pen, and the pink purse was a pink glaze pen. The purse on the bottom shelf was created the same as the dress. After putting the card all together, I used Crystal Lacquer for the store window, which just about screwed the whole card up, as the Crystal Lacquer started to smear the dried black Glaze pen. I was able to salvage, it and luckily before I got to the pink purse.

The sentiment was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black on a strip of pink, then the ends were snipped by placing them through the bottom of a SU word window punch. I just used a strip of black cut to size for the layer behind, and added two small pink pearls (Crystal Stickers) to each end.

How true is that sentiment? It is oh so very true. If that were me in the picture, and I had funds, I’d definitely be passing that store window, in hopes the next one would be a stamping supply store. Oh, who am I fooling, I wouldn’t be wearing that dress either, it would be jeans & a t-shirt, and I ‘m, pretty sure I wouldn’t have a dog that could be caught in a mousetrap either.

Thanks for stopping by, and your comments make my day.

Happy Stamping!
judy

The Graduate Going Places

Today’s card is another entry for challenge #94 at HM&F, and I can also enter it for challenge #6 at Use It Tuesday.

When I checked out my House Mouse stamps for something I could use for this challenge, I ran across The Graduate stamp. I know the mouse isn’t moving in any way, shape or form, but to get somewhere today you must be well educated!! So I am taking that road (pun intended) for this card, I think that most graduates dream is to make something out of themselves, and an education is getting them there.

The Graduate was stamped with onyx black Versafine on white cardstock, colored with Prismacolored pencils & Goo Gone. I used a black glaze pen and a white gel pen for the eyes. For the tassel I used a Krylon 18 kt. gold leafing pen. Cut and embossed with a Nesties oval die, and before the die was removed stormy sky & peeled paint Distress Ink was sponged around the image, leaving the outer ring white.

I combined a couple of techniques for the building portion. I saw a video on the Ranger website about the alcohol ink fillable pen. I had thought about getting some of these before, but didn’t want to buy one for each color alcohol ink I have, and after seeing this video, I just had to have one.  I used two palettes and put a couple drops of different colored ink in each well, to have an assortment to start out with, and let it dry. (I need more palettes to have all the colors I have handy.) I also read somewhere else, that you can use plain old alcohol the higher the percentage the better. So I filled my pen with Isopropyl Alcohol 91%. You have to use glossy paper, plain old cardstock does not work, I have not tried it on watercolor paper yet. I stamped the building image from the MFT set Going Places with Versamark and embossed with detail black ep. I tried stamping with some jet black Archival ink, that didn’t work, I didn’t bother with the onyx black Versafine, because that never wants to dry on glossy paper for me, I don’t like SU black because it looks purple instead of black, the only one that I had but didn’t try was jet black Stazon. Each building was colored with a different color alcohol ink.

The next technique I gave a try is the distressed glue technique from Beate John’s blog. When I watched this video, I thought it would be interesting to try it for clouds. I think with a little practice, it will be perfect. I used Aleene’s Quick Dry Tacky Glue, and dabbed the spots, then sort of smeared it a little with my finger, after it dried I sponged stormy sky Distress Ink over it, then wiped with a paper towel spritzed with a little water. The background paper is from a DCWV The Tradewinds matstack, sponged with vintage photo Distress Ink, layered onto white with the edges sponged with the vintage photo, and the base card is maroon. The sentiment is from the same MFT set, stamped on white with onyx black Versafine, and cut to fit the label frame. Two silver brads hold the label frame in place.

For the Use It Tuesday challenge, the MFT building stamp had never seen ink, and I had never used the label frames before, the dp is from a brand new stack, and I used two new (to me) techiniques.

Thanks for looking and I love reading your comments.

Fancy Funds

I had some House Mouse stamps laid out already, so I decided to do yet another card for the House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge #92.

This started out as, what I thought would be a really cute card…………but, now that it is finished, I think it should have been a bigger card, I tried to cram to much into a small card.
I chose the House Mouse Happy Hopper stamp Fancy Pants, stamped on white card stock with jet black Stazon, then colored with Prismacolored pencils & goo gone. I used a black glaze pen with a dot from a white gel pen for the eye, and the pearls are colored with a white gel pen, then a clear glitter pen. The lipstick was added with a SU marker. When I was trying to figure out how I wanted to cut the image out, a circle came to mind, then I thought of a circle medallion that I hadn’t used after making. Since the circle medallion was pink, I chose some dp that I have used before from my scrap pile, both of which were bought as single sheets. So I have the pink circle medallion, layered onto the image, which was layered onto a pink & green paisley dp, that was layered onto white, then layered onto the pink & green argyle dp, also layered onto white, with a lt. pink card base. I paired this Happy Hopper with another MFT set called Tote-ally Fantastic, for the sentiment and purses. The sentiment “Girls Just Wanna Have Funds, and the purses were stamped on white with onyx black Versafine. The purses were then colored with Prismacolored Pencils & Goo Gone, and cut out. For the sentiment, I cut a piece of white cardstock to the width of a SU word window punch, stamped the sentiment, then placed each end up through the bottom of the punch and clipped off the ends. I placed a white mini brad with each purse to make them look like they are hanging (I hope).

To see how I made the circle medallion please see this post Flopsey Be Mine.

Thanks for looking, and I love hearing your comments.

Bubbly Time

Today’s card is for sketch challenge #SK040211 at the Paper Craft Planet Blog.

I just couldn’t seem to get a good picture of it, I took like twenty pictures, moving around the room for better lighting. The bubbles are really sparkly in real life. I used another House Mouse stamp, this time a Happy Hoppers called Relaxing Bubbles. It was stamped on white cardstock with jet black Stazon, then colored with Prismacolored pencils & goo gone. The blue outline is a blue chalk from a Pebbles Pearlescent Chalks – Shimmers collection. The image and turquoise layer was then cut and embossed with Nesties Labels One and sponged around the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. The dp is from a DCWV The Spring Matstack, layered on brown. The corners of the dp was punched with a ticket corner punch, and the corners on the brown with a corner rounder punch. The base card is the same turquoise as the other pieces. The sentiment is from a MFT set Time For the Bubbly, stamped on turquoise with Vintage Photo Distress Ink, the cut and embossed with a Spellbinder Fancy Label die. After the card was all together, I added three different Stickles to the bubbles (frosted lace, crystal & stardust), and the bling on the corners.

Thanks for looking, and I’d love to hear your comments.

Seashore Shaker

Since we had snow yesterday, I decided to make a warm card. The idea started forming in my head to make a shaker card with sand, for this week’s MFT sketch challenge.

Using the same technique you would use if you are making a glass ornament, so I tried it, and this is what I came up with.

Starting out, I stamped the image from the MFT set By the Seashore on a transparency film for plain copiers, I found that onyx black versafine does not work for this, I even tried heat setting it. So I used jet black stazon instead. I turned the transparency over colored with bic markers, flipped it back to the side I stamped on, dabbed white craft ink over the colored image, then embossed with detail white ep. Next I cut it and a white piece for the background with circle nesties. From there I chose my sizzix circle scallop frame and cut three pieces of cardboard from a cereal box, glued the three pieces of outside ring together, making sure all the scallops lined up. I guess you are wondering why? It's my way of making room for the shaker material to have space to move. While waiting for them to dry, I tried stippling for the first time. The background was stippled with tumbled glass, faded jeans, pumice stone and antique linen distress inks. I’ll be doing more of this, too bad it’s hidden behind the frame, it turned out looking good. My cardboard layers were dry enough to add the transparency too, so I attached it, and then had to wait for that to dry. Now I need dp, I chose a piece from the DCWV Café Mediterranean, and cut it to size. Then I chose my layer color, a light brown. The base card is a lt. blue with a (depending on the lighting) a real light green tint to it. Ok, it’s beginning to shape up, but rather blah looking. The colors look great together, but it needed something else, so I grabbed a MS corner punch (I don’t remember the name), since this particular punch has two little holes, I popped gold mini brads into those holes. Now it’s really shaping up. I chose a ribbon to match the blue color, tied a triple bow with the bow easy. The name may be a bow easy, but sometimes it’s a bow not-so-easy. I must be doing something wrong, I get it all done, take it off, and it pulls apart, when trying to fancy it up. My answer….put a brad through it, and the cardstock and it stays there. By this time, because I’m too impatient, I am fiddling with the transparency/cardboard rings again. I took a piece of the brown layer color ran it through the cuttlebug with the sizzix die and realized there was enough room to stamp the seashell images from the stamp set, they are stamped with antique linen and pumice stone distress ink. The antique linen just barely shows. Time to glue the brown stamped ring to the transparency/cardboard ring, making sure to line up everything,  and when that dried, attached the background. I left an open space at the top, before completely sealing it, and dropped a small scoop of sand (What’s a beach without sand?), stamped four more seashells in pumice stone on the brown paper, cut out and dropped them in with the sand. Perhaps I shouldn’t have put so many seashells in with the sand, or wiped the embossing buddy over them, a dryer sheet, something to take the static out, they seem to stay together instead of separating. There you have my version of a shaker card. It’s finished, time for pictures, while editing the pictures, I realized I hadn’t put a sentiment on it, so I take it back to my room, decide to use “life is a beach” from one of the MFT twisted sets. First I embossed it on transparency with antique linen distress ep for the bottom right corner, decided it looked good, why not emboss it on the dp itself. I am my own worst critic.  I should have left it with no sentiment!!! I stamped it with versamark, embossed with antique linen distress ep, it was way too light, you couldn’t tell what it said,so..... I tried distressing the distress powder with pumice stone distress ink, using my finger. The only thing distressed is me, the ink didn’t attach to the ep, but did get on the dp. Now my beautiful card (I thought so) isn’t so beautiful anymore. I won’t bother to show what it looks like now. They say “you learn something new every day”. I could have done without today’s lesson. Thanks for looking and any comments.

Flopsey Be Mine

Another card as I promised for the MFT challenge this week, here is the sketch we have to work with.

This card was made with the MFT set Valentine Flopsey. The card base is cream colored, the next layer a dark blue. The dp is from My Mind’s Eye Home Photo mat pack. The corners were punched with a ticket punch and silver brads placed at each corner. Next would be the ribbon, a dark blue with silver trim, the bow made with a bow easy. After removing it from the bow easy, I pierced it with a big needle and stuck the brad through it and the cardstock to hold it in place. The next layer would be the white circle the image is stamped on. Flopsey was stamped with onyx black versafine ink and colored with prismacolored pencils on a circle cut out with my nesties. For his eyes a black glaze pen was used.

 Now for the nitty gritty.  I saw this somewhere on the web, not sure where right now, so I will just jot down what I remember on how to do it. First you need a circle cut out of scrap paper, I used my nesties to cut my circle, the one I used on this card is from the standard circle large set, the next to the biggest one in that set. Once you have the circle cut out, place it on a flat surface and fold in half, then score it, open it back up and turn it ¼ turn and fold it in half again, score it, repeat this until you have eight pieces of pie. This is my template, I know the biggest two circles in this nestie set works.

Once you have your template, cut out the paper you want to use. Place the template directly over the cardstock, make sure it covers completely, do not let it move, fold the template in half, mark the edge with a pencil, (this is where the pencil marks on my template came from) repeat until you have your eight pieces of pie on the cardstock you want to work with. You will need a corner punch with the guard removed, I used an ek success punch. As far as I know it has to be one with a V-guard, not one with an L-guard, I have both types, but to look at the ones with a L-guard they don’t look like they would work. I guess I really should try sometime. Pick up the cardstock you marked with a pencil, with the pencil lines so you can see them, place the punch upside down, so you can see where you are punching. Punch between the lines. When you are done, if you are lucky the center will fall out, if not, just take a pair of scissors and snip the connecting parts, and there you have your frame.

I'm not even sure what this technique is called, but when I did this card for a challenge at Stamp TV it was called a heart medallion in the comments.

Thanks for stopping by and any comments.

Owls

This is the new sketch at MFT for this week.

For today’s card I used a set I have had for a while that has never seen ink. I had in mind something I wanted to do, started out with this set, changed sets, then back to this set again. The first time around my image wound up being too big for the bow, we are supposed to add, oh well :(, I changed to a Flopsey image, had the card all together, was about to photograph it, when this new idea popped into my head. It could have waited, but I had picked this dp out in particular for my first thought, and I can add my other image to something else. So here is my card using MFT sets Owls of the Season and the sentiment is from MFT Twisted Two.

First I cut a piece of white card stock with the scalloped circle nestie, it was not embossed as the sentiment needed the space, then the light green layer was cut with a circle nestie. The sentiment was stamped in onyx black versafine, then spun sugar distress ink was lightly sponged all over the white (which isn’t showing up in the picture). The tree branch from this set wouldn’t work, so I used my Quickkutz branches die for the limb. The two owls were stamped on a scrap piece of white, colored with prismacolored pencils & goo gone, then cut out. The owls were then stamped on the scalloped circle so they would have legs, glued the branch and owls in place, and added googly eyes to both owls. Sometimes the black dots are stuck in place and don’t move like they should, these were like that, so I placed them to look like they were looking at each other. The dp is from a DCWV Nana’s Nursery stack, it was chosen for the rabbits in the background. The dp is layered on a light green, the same as the green circle and the base card is pink. The green ribbon was tied into a bow using the bow easy. Stay tuned for another card since I have it partially done already, using the Flopsey I took off of this one. Thanks for stopping by and leaving any messages.

Prince Charming

Here is another card for the MFT sketch challenge this week. I chose the MFT set Prince Charming, stamped the dragon, flames, and knight on white paper. Then I tried something new, water coloring with gel pens. I love it!! It is very time consuming, cause you can only work a small area at a time. You have to use a base ink that will not run with water. I used onyx black versafine and had no problems. You can use watercolor paper, but I didn’t on this card, I used some scrap paper, it’s not photo paper, but has a kind of slick finish, and it’s not thick paper. I don’t know if all gel pens work, but all the ones I picked up out of my pen holder did. I have lots of different brand cheap gel pens, the metallic ones really add shimmer.  I started with the dragon, and when I was finished, I was so pleased with it, I thought it was the best water coloring I had ever done. It really shimmered great!! When I was cutting it out, it seemed like I had more of the shimmer on my hand than was left on the dragon. So when I finished coloring the flames, the knight, and the extra shield, before I cut them out, I sprayed hairspray on them, it worked like a charm. All the dp’s are from DCWV, the stripes and dark flowers are from the Café Mediterranean matstack, and the white flowers are from the Citrus matstack. I used a dark green card base layered with cream. The big circle was stamped with a Clear Dollar Stamp from the set Designer Label Celebrations, in onyx black versafine, water colored with gel pens, then cut with a nestie circle die. The small circle was stamped with part of a stamp (You’re Hot) from the Prince Charming set, in barn door distress ink, also sponged around the edges, the rest was sponged with wild honey distress ink, then attached with a red brad. Prince charming was stamped with versamark, and embossed with faded jeans distress ep. The ribbon is run through holes punched with a MS border punch. The extra shield was added with a foam dot to pop it, a corner rounder punch was used on some of the corner, and I added a googly eye to the dragon.

This card was very hard to take a photo of, I must have taken 20 pictures before I found one that suited me, they kept coming out too dark, the colors were all way off, etc. At first I had it where I usually take them, that was too dark, then I put it beside a window, so outside light would come in on it, that was too dark, I wound up taking it outside, placing it on the picnic table with direct sunlight showing on it, before it came out looking anything like it does in real life. The close-up was taken indoors, see the difference in the colors? The shimmer shows up though, click on it for a larger view.

To water color with gel pens, you will need to have the caps off your gel pens, and a waterbrush or brush with water. Stamp your image, remember to use ink that won't interact with water. I don't know if all gel pens work, mine did, I just marked a little color, then brushed with the waterbrush, and repeated. I tested my pen on scrap paper first. I think the ink dries too fast to color a big area. Thanks for stopping by and any comments that you leave.

Get Snow

This card is for the MFT sketch challenge this week. I started working on it yesterday evening,  and chose the MFT stamp set Rain or Shine because it seemed fitting, it was supposed to snow here last night.  The main image was stamped twice with onyx black versafine, once on white paper, the second on bright yellow with white polka dots. The yellow polka dot image was cut apart for the raincoat and boots. Since the boots had polka dots stamped on top of the polka dot dp, I colored those black with a SU marker, then stamped the umbrella on bright yellow with onyx black versafine, so the yellow would show through in the polka dots of the umbrella. I must be on a polka dot kick for this card. The skin on the white part was colored with prismacolored pencils and goo gone, then the rain coat and boot were attached. I left the dog off, so the image would take up less space. The dark blue layer was punched with a MS snowflake border punch, two dies from the spellbinders create a flake one set was used for the larger snowflakes. Also for the larger snowflakes, I used a white gel pen on the larger of the two, and sponged stormy sky distress ink, then used a clear glitter pen on the smaller one, put together with a silver mini brad. The light blue behind the image was run through the cuttlebug with a spellbinders snowflake impressabilities , then sponged with stormy sky distress ink. The small white snowflakes were punched with the same MS border punch used on the blue layer. For the sentiment, I stamped versamark on a transparency film, embossed with detail black and cut out with one of the spellbinders ribbon tags trio dies, then ran the yellow polka dot ribbon through the loops and attached with white mini brads. Thanks for stopping by.





Hearts Galore

It snowed here last night, so my DH decided not to head up the road today (Yeah!!!) I had the whole day to play, but didn’t get much accomplished. First I had to decide what to do, then I decided on this. I just used this dp on another card recently, so I chose the MFT set Hearts Galore for my main image and sentiment. I switched up things today, I broke out my watercolor paper and pencils, that hasn’t been used in a very long time, kind of wished I had picked a bigger image. Stamped the image with onyx black versafine, and watercolored, then I stamped the balloons again to pop, watercolored, also added a layer of glossy accents on them, cut out the images and attached some black string. Since I needed to add ribbon for this challenge, I checked, and the image fit perfectly on a spellbinder ribbon tag die. The card started out being “BN” (before nesties), I used a circle and scalloped circle punch for the half circles, punched the corners of the base layer with a heart photo corner punch. I did have a different dp for the top half circle and the top heart, but changed up, when it seemed like the base layer of dp was getting covered up too much, and you couldn’t tell what it was, finally wound up using just one dp. I broke down and used my nestie hearts, as you can see. I’ve had this card put together and torn apart so many times today, thank goodness, I wasn’t using my ATG tape. The scalloped heart was green for a while, then changed to red, I had a different background for the ribbon tag image. No wonder it took all day. For the sentiment, I stamped in onyx black versafine on vellum, and used a heart punch, then attached to the top nestie heart. Then almost forgot to add my three heart brads. Turns out I was too late for the challenge, guess it took me too long :)

Seashore Miss

I don’t have much time left to play, I think we are going back to our other house tomorrow, they are calling for freezing rain, so maybe we won’t have to go. I made another MFT challenge card, since I was on a roll. This card is using the MFT By the Seashore set. I stamped the main image on white, with onyx black versafine, stamped the pants on bright yellow w/white polka dot paper, the shirt on yellow and white checked paper, and the hat was stamped on just plain bright yellow paper. The white background main image was colored with prismacolored pencils and goo gone. The sand and sky ws sponged with distress inks, old paper, antique linen, tumbled glass & broken china, then the gulls were stamped. The image was then cut out with nesties labels eleven, the dark blue layer was cut with a nesties labels four. The yellow pants, shirt and hat was cut out and attached to the main image, I used a flower brad on the hat. The background dp is some of my single sheet stash I picked up at either Joanne’s or Michaels, on sale. The circle of yellow and white checked (matches the shirt) and the scalloped dark blue circle was cut with circle nesties. I used a corner rounder punch on the dark blue base layer, and a ticket corner punch on the dp layer. The yellow ribbon is some self-adhesive ribbon I picked up on the clearance rack at Joanne’s. I don’t remember where I picked up the seashells, probably a clearance rack too. The sentiment is from the same set cut out with a cuttlebug tiny tag die, and attached with twine.

PunnyFarm

When you are having fun, why stop? I was flipping through some dp, and picked up a DCWV Nanna’s Nursery stack, and that was it, I created another card for the MFT challenge using the girl and chickens from the MFT set Punny Farm, and three pieces of dp from that stack. I figured the birds on the dp would pass for peeps, also thought of my MS border punch with peeps. The girl image was stamped on white, the pants and buckets were colored with prisamcolored pencils & goo gone. The image was stamped again on another dp for the hat & shirt, then cut out. The boots were stamped again on white, then stamped with a SU set Wonderful Weaves in certainly celery. When she was dressed, I stamped the green polka dot dp with the image again, so the buckets would have handles, and the hat would have a flower, that I stuck a brad in place for. I decided to use a corner punch at the top and the base teal layer, I had already punched the bottom of the striped dp with the MS peep border punch. I used a corner rounder punch on the green polka dot dp. The ribbon was the problem, I knew I had some yellow & white checked, like her shirt, and figured it would be perfect, but it was too narrow, and didn’t show up, so I just happened to have a piece of lavender lace, that was in a box of stuff I purchased recently, I really should make bigger cards, for all this decorating, The half circle dp looked bare, with just the brads, so I stamped some extra chickens and glued them on. The sentiment is from the same set, just trimmed up a piece of paper with a corner rounder, and punched some more peeps in a yellow that matches the stripes on the dp, with the MS punch.

Truffles

This is my first ever challenge card for MFT!!! This was rough, I think it took me hours to complete, of course cooking supper slowed it up. I chose the MFT truffle flopsey stamp set, stamped the bunny twice on white card stock with onyx black versafine, colored with prisma-colored pencils and goo gone, then cut out the bunny and the box of candy. The box of candy also was outlined with a SU marker, and the candy has crystal lacquer on each piece. I already had my dp ready to go, the time consuming part was figuring what size and how and if, all of it would fit on the card. To be honest, I chose this flopsey set first, then switched to another MFT set, decided it wouldn’t all fit using the paper I wanted to use, so I switched back to the flopsey. If I would make my mind up and stick to it, things would go a lot smoother, but toooo many ideas are flying around inside my little pea brain, and I just keep switching around. My brads are crooked, don’t know what happened there, I used the SU mat pack, and punched the holes with the thingy lined up, but they are sure enough crooked. I’m pretty sure I have everything that was needed for the challenge.