MFT Summer School

I've got two new cards for the MFT Summer School to share with you.

The first is for the Day 4 Class - Ombre

The 2nd is for the Day 5 Class - White Space

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It's Time to Celebrate

It's day 3 of the MFT Summer School. Today's lesson is about symmetry, which refers to positioning your elements mirrored across an imaginary line that divides your project into even segments. 

Here's my example

I started with a piece of white cardstock and blended several different colors of Distress Oxide Ink across it and then spritzed it lightly with some shimmer mist. Once it was dry I die cut the mandela using the MFT Captivating Mandela and placed it on a black piece of cardstock. The sentiment is from the MFT Bitty Birthday Wishes collection and stamped on an MFT banner die cut. I also added some glitter Nuvo Drops to the Mandela just for some sparkle.

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Just For You

It's the second day of MFT Summer School and today's lesson was about Rainbows or more specifically using the ROYGBIV arrangement. Basically you can't go wrong with that color arrangement. 

I started with a piece of white cardstock and stamped and heat embossed the sentiment in the center. I then stamped the butterflies all around the sentiment. I colored them in with watercolor pencils and then applied water with a water brush to bring out the colors. I decided to use a black card base to really make all the colors pop.

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Happy Birthday

I decided to play along with the MFT Time to Hit the Books Summer School. I've played along the last couple of years and really enjoyed it. There's always something new to learn. Today's lesson is about creating a visual triangle on your card. I thought I'd give it a try and I really like how it came out.

I started by brushing on some Distress Oxides and blending them together. I used Spiced Marmalade, Squeezed Lemon and Twisted Citron. I die cut the flowers in a teal cardstock and then stamped them with a french script stamp and arranged them in a visual triangle. The Happy Birthday was die cut 3 times and glued together in a darker teal cardstock. I then added some black nailheads to the flower centers and some dark teal colored gems to create 2 more areas of a visual triangle.

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Sweet Birthday Wishes

We've got a new card sketch up at Atlantic Hearts Sketches today. We have a new one every Monday and then on Wednesday we show all the DT members examples along with the winners from the week before. I hope you'll stop by and play along with us.

My take on this weeks sketch

Here's the sketch

For the floral part of my card I used some MFT flower silhouette stamps and stamped them with Versamark ink and heat embossed them. I then took several different colors of Distress Oxides and sponged them over the embossed flowers. Then I wiped the flowers off with a paper towel. The polka dots behind the images were done with a stencil and Distress Oxide. The birthday sentiment is also from MFT.

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Oh Happy Day! MFT Superstar Card Design Challenge

I've created another card for the My Favorite Things SuperStar 2019 Card Design Challenge. 

This card is for the Innovation Master category. I haven't made a shaker card in a while so I thought why not give it a try. I started with some Neenah Solar White cardstock and sponged in the clouds using a couple different colors of ink and also sponged in the grass. I stamped and die cut the cute little piggy from the MFT So Much Cuteness set and colored him in using some Spectrum Noir pens. The balloon was cut using the MFT Mini Balloon Shaker Window die so of course I used the matching MFT shaker pouch. I added some seed beads and star sequins to the balloon and used some black floss for the balloon string. The sentiment is from the same stamp set and stamped on the MFT Essential Fishtail Sentiment Strips dies. I popped up the little piggy and sentiment and then used some more Neenah Solar White cardstock for the card base.

This card brings a big smile to my face and I hope the recipient finds it as cute as I do!

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Snowflake Mandala - MFT Superstar Card Design Challenge

I created this card for the My Favorite Things SuperStar 2019 Card Design Challenge. 

I was just at the My Favorite Things store with my husband (aka my enabler) and he pointed out this mandala die and called it a snowflake. So of course I had to have it! I cut it out using Neenah Solar White cardstock and then sponged several different shades of blue ink on it. To add some sparkle to it I used my clear Wink of Stella pen all over it. The base of the card is also Neenah Solar White cardstock and I used some craft foam to pop the top panel up to give the card some depth. I stamped and embossed the sentiment and then layered it on a blue fishtail strip.

I created this card using the My Favorite Things Captivating Mandala Die, Essential Fishtail Sentiment Strips Dies and the Snow Globe Sentiments Stamps. I just love how this clean

 and simple card turned out.    

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Birthday Wishes Card

We've got a DT sketch reveal challenge going on today over at Creative Inspiration. I chose to do the card sketch.

And here's the sketch

I had to turn the sketch to fit the balloons with their tails. I die cut the balloons using some MFT dies and colored them in with Spectrum Noir markers. I thought the birthday candle paper was perfect with the balloons and just added the embossed sentiment. 

I hope you'll stop by Creative Inspiration and play along with us. We also have a layout sketch reveal going on today.  Hope to see you there!

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Dies R Us Design Team

I am so excited to be trying out for the Dies R Us Design Team! I love working with dies and they have a huge amount of dies, from many different companies, on their website. You should check it out and see for yourself!

Here are my 3 cards I submitted for consideration. 

 My first one is a clean and simple card. I started by inking up a piece of cardstock with 3 different colors of Distress Oxides and then sprinkled some water on it to get a mottled effect. I then cut the leaves out of a white piece of cardstock using an MFT die and I also used a stitched die from Gina Marie for the edges. I then backed that with the inked piece and popped it up on a white card. I stamped and embossed the sentiment and then added a few flower sequins.

For the second card I got a little messy.  I again inked up a piece of cardstock with some Distress Oxide inks and then die cut the heart using the Sizzix Sizzlets Scribbles and Splat die. The sentiment was also cut from a set of dies. I used some watercolor paint on the background and then flicked some Tattered Angels and Dylusions mists around. Then I glued everything down using the Best Glue Ever from ScraPerfect and added some shiny sequins to give it a little sparkle. 

For my last card I decided to go masculine.  I started with a muted blue and green piece I found in my scraps and then stamped and die cut the motorcycle and flames using a Sizzix stamp and die set. The sentiment banner was cut using the Lawn Fawn Bannertastic stamp and die set.

So please keep you fingers crossed for me! I really hope I make this team. It'll give me a good excuse to buy more dies cause you can never have too many, as far as I'm concerned. lol

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Happy Birthday

We are celebrating our birthday over at Creative Inspiration this week with a Birthday Bash Mini-Crop. We have all sorts of birthday related challenges along with some fun games and of course some prizes.  My challenge is to make a birthday card. You can never have enough birthday cards on hand!

I just love this stamp and die set from My Favorite Things. All the candles were done with a die and the sentiment is the matching stamp set. I backed all the candles with scraps and the flames were backed with shiny gold paper. I stamped the sentiment and then embossed it with clear embossing powder to make it stand out.

I hope you'll join us at Creative Inspiration!

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Summer School - Repetition

Here's my last card for the My Favorite Things Summer School session 1. This lesson was in repetition which I don't usually do so it took me a while to come up with this design.

I stamped the flowers using the MFT Circle Scribble Flowers and then used the MFT Scribbles    Die-namics. The sentiment is from Brutus Monroe which I stamped in black ink and embossed with clear embossing powder.

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Summer School - Complementary Colors

Here's another card for the My Favorite Things Summer School. This lesson was about using complementary colors. I chose to use orange and blue.

This was a quick and easy card once I decided on the colors. I used all MFT stamps and just stamped away. 

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Summer School - White Space

This My Favorite Things Summer School class was about white space. Now I love white space projects but very rarely make a card with white space.

I just love this little guy and that sentiment goes perfectly with him. Both stamps are from My Favorite Things.

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Summer School - Primary Colors

Here's another card I've made for the My Favorite Things summer school. This lesson was about using only the primary colors of red, blue and yellow. This one really took some thinking....not as easy as it sounds!

All the stamps I used on this card were from the Scrapping For Less June card kit. This was such a fun kit with all the beach related items!

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Summer School - Symmetry

I've been playing along with My Favorite Things summer school this week and have made 3 cards so far. It's  been a lot of fun and I've learned some things also. The 1st card I made was for their symmetry class. I'd never really thought about symmetry on a card before but I like how it came out.

 

I've got several more cards to make for this session of Summer School before it ends on Thursday. 

Hope  I graduate!!

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