Paper Cuts

On April 2nd (10:30 p.m. est), My Favorite Things will release two new sets, Can Ya Dig It and Happy Mother’s Day.  Today I have two samples using Happy Mother’s Day.

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This first card follows this week’s MFT sketch challenge (MFTSC24).  If you’d like to play along, you can find the details here.

After stamping the focal image onto white cardstock, I made a mask from a Post It note, then used MFT’s Behind the Scenes to stamp the dotted background.  (There’s a great assortment of backgrounds in that set.)  I stamped the dots on the flowers also.  Perfect match!

Cardstock:  SU Orchid Opulence, Papertrey Ink (white)   Patterned Paper:  Memory Box “Sprout”   Stamps:  My Favorite Things “Happy Mother’s Day” and “Behind the Scenes”   Ink:  Brilliance Graphite Black, Versamagic Dew Drop “Spring Pansy”   Accessories: Copic markers, SU Pretties kit (flowers and brad), corner rounder.  Card size: 4 ¼” x 5 ½.

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Happy Mother’s Day -2

Unfortunately, I could not get all the details on this card to show in the picture.  The pot and flowers are cut out and raised on pop dots, and the flowers and leaves are covered with a clear gel pen so they’re nice and glossy.  When I popped up the flowers, I added a dot of glue to the stem end and held the point down with the tip of my scissors until it dried.  That way only the outer edges of the flowers are raised and they look like they’re connected to the stems.

Cardstock:  SU Rose Red, Almost Amethyst, Papertrey Ink (white)   Patterned Paper:  Me & My Big Ideas   Stamps:  My Favorite Things “Happy Mother’s Day”   Ink:  Brilliance Graphite Black   Accessories: Copic markers, Sakura clear gel pen, ribbon, pop dots.  Card size: 5 ½” x 4 ¼”.

There are two other stamps in this set that I didn’t use on these cards…a little “photo corner” of flowers and the sentiment “Have a wonderful Mother’s Day” which would work well on the outside of the card or as an inside sentiment.

My Favorite Things is having a New Release Cocktail Party on Wednesday, April 2 from 9-11 p.m. est. Lots of fun is planned!  Find out how YOU can be the next MFT Guest Designer. Head over to the MFT forum  at Splitcoast to find out all the details!

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I have to run!  We have an exciting day (not really) of doctor appointments.  I’ll be back soon with a sample or two of MFT’s other new release, Can Ya Dig It.  Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

That’s the sentiment on the inside of the card.  Today is my grandmother’s birthday and this is the card I made for her.  She is very special to me and unfortunately, I don’t get to see her often enough.   She loves hummingbirds, so I thought this image by Inkadinkado would be perfect.  (If you’re really nice to Lindsey, she might get some more in her store. )

A Special Someone

I don’t usually make cards without sentiments, so in a way, this card just looks naked to me.  Well, not “naked” really, but like it’s missing something.  But this image is kind of large and I just wasn’t sure where or how to fit one in.  I thought about making the focal panel larger and including it there, but then not much of the patterned paper would show.  But I think it turned out ok. 

I stamped the image in Jet Black Stazon then watercolored with SU reinkers.  Once the ink was dry, I outlined a bit using gray Copic markers (Nos. 1, 3 and 5).  I don’t know that this is an accurate rendition of coloring for a hummingbird, but that’s what they look like in my head. :) 

I hope my grandmother has a wonderful day…and I hope she realizes my crooked stitching was intentional. 

Have a great weekend!!!  Thanks for stopping by!

m.

I have another sample today using Anna Wight’s Bundle of Joy by Whipper Snapper Designs.  I have so enjoyed this set!  (And now I am totally prepared should I *ever* need a baby card!)

Congratulations

My first intention was to use a red patterned paper here.  It had little dots of light blue, dark blue, green…really cute “little boy” paper.  But I couldn’t get it to work so instead I used the back sides of the two papers, this light blue and green, and I decided to make my own patterns.  The stars and boats were stamped with Celery ink, the white dots and sails colored in with a white gel pen.

The entire focal image is paper-pieced.  I stamped the the image onto the block of white, then onto the blue, green and vanilla (for the faces) paper.

I’m off to get my tea now before my face slams into my keyboard.  I stayed up late to watch the Celebrity Apprentice finale.  I was so disappointed with the outcome.  But what a great show that turned out to be!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a fantastic Friday!

Cardstock:  Papertrey Ink (white)   Patterned Paper:  Deja Views {my precious boy} Light Blue and Dark Green   Stamps:  Whipper Snapper “Bundle of Joy”   Ink:  Brilliance Graphite Black, Stazon Jet Black, Certainly Celery   Accessories:  Copic markers, SU Certainly Celery marker, white gel pen, American Crafts eyelets, Crop-a-dile. Card size 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.

Today’s challenge at Splitcoast is Ways to Spray it On.  And since I like to stamp and muddle the colors with water, that’s just what I decided to do.

Cherish Yesterday

This winter Lizzie Anne Designs had the best bunch of new releases ever.  When I saw these two sets, I knew I had to have them, In the Meadow and Say it in Script.  I love the wildflowers and the loopy font of the script, not to mention that the sentiment set has some very nice phrases!  This one is my favorite.

If you visit here often, you know I love my Ranger Walnut Distress ink.  I thought I’d see what would happen if I used it to stamp my images onto watercolor paper and then spray with water.  Wow, the ink really ran!  So if you spray lightly, you get this great bleed of the ink onto the paper.  Once the water dried a bit, I added some touches of Sage ink.  I used the distress ink to stamp the sentiment as I wanted the same shade of brown.  Once everything was stamped, I realized the image was a bit large.  I wanted some of the patterned paper to show, so I decided to cut around the tops of a couple of the flowers.

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Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a great day!

Cardstock:  SU Chocolate Chip, watercolor paper   Patterned Paper: My Mind’s Eye Magnolia Serene “Our Family” Floral/Aqua   Stamps:  Lizzie Anne Designs “In the Meadow” and “Say it in Script”   Ink:  Ranger Walnut Distress, SU Sage Shadow   Accessories:  Edge distresser, water spritzer, sponge, hemp.  Card size 5 ½” x 4 ¼”.

Ok…I couldn’t stay away from the bright, sparkly paper and cute images for too terribly long.  Plus, I have a really fun new product to tell you about.  

Have you ever heard of Card Scents?  They are so much fun!  The scent comes in a little bottle with a brush (like nail polish).  You just lightly brush the scent along the edges of your card.   I haven’t noticed any staining, and if you send the card in a clear envelope, the scent will last longer.  There are lots of fragrances…you can check them out here from All That Scraps.  This first card smells JUST like bubblegum!  I also bought Cupcake which is *perfect* for birthday cards (and does it ever smell yummy)! 

Forever Friends

Since I’ve used quite a bit of this Imaginisce patterned paper, I now have quite a little pile of scraps.  So I thought I’d put some of them to good use.   I used scraps to paper-piece these little Cutie Patootie bugs’ outfits and head flowers…I was going to say hair flowers, but they’re hairless.   The strips of green and blue paper… scraps.  Since I didn’t have *just* the right shade of pink Dew Drops, I chose the clear ones and colored over them with a Light Prawn Copic. (I love being able to custom-color ribbon, brads, drops, etc. with those markers.)  I added the little white stitch lines with a white gel pen.  I also used a clear Spica glitter pen to outline the bugs and dresses but I couldn’t get the sparkle to show in the photo.

Under the Weather

Umbrelli’s little umbrella is paper-pieced (another scrap) and raised on pop dots.  The boots and the blue strip across the center, also scraps.  After watercoloring with reinkers, I outlined the bug’s body and umbrella with Spica glitter pens but again, it doesn’t show.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a great day! (You **need** the Card Scents!!!)  

Cardstock:  Papertrey Ink (base)   Patterned Paper:  Imaginisce “For Peep’s Sake”   Stamps:  C.C. Designs “Cutie Patootie,” “Umbrelli,” “Rain”; sentiments by A Muse Artstamps   Ink:  Brilliance Graphite Black, Stazon Black, SU Certainly Celery, Bashful Blue   Accessories:  Copic markers, Black SU marker, Spica Glitter Pens, Island Blossoms Dew Drops, Aleene’s Paper Glaze, Stamp-a-ma-jig, white gel pen, white taffeta ribbon, Bubble Gum Card Scents, pop dots, waterbrush.

ETA: When Feedblitz sent the blog update notification to everyone, it deleted my …’s in the post title so it looks like it says “Do I smell a bugor is it bubblegum.” Bwahahahahaa. It’s not a BUGOR I smell! LOL. Oh my gosh. Too funny.

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter!  Spring break is over (for us) and it’s back to our regular schedule…or so I hope.  During the break, we did manage to see Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!  That movie is SO cute!  I really enjoyed it.  My daughter’s favorite part (and one we’ve heard repeated *many* times since in a high-pitched squealy little voice):  “In MY world everyone eats rainbows and poops butterflies!”  (lol…I suppose it could have been a lot worse!)

I’m switching gears today, leaving the spring chickies and bright, sparkly papers behind for a guy card.  You know I love my browns so I enjoyed making this one.

Thinking of You

I like the textured look of this Signature Suite patterned paper so I decided to try stamping directly onto the patterned paper.  I thought it was a bit of a risk since I wanted to color the image with Copic markers.  Sometimes the inks don’t blend so well on certain papers.  But I’m pleased with the result here.  In actuality, there wasn’t really all that much coloring to be done as this Inkadinkado owl image is highly shaded already.  I added some browns, colored in the moon then softened it a bit with the colorless blender pen, added a touch of orange for the beak and green for the eyes.  The white dots of the eyes were added with a white gel pen.

To add that “scratchy” look on the background paper, I lightly stamped Inka’s feather stamp using distress ink (which I also used to sponge the edges).

The little stitches were made using a piercing template, linen thread and a needle.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a great day!

Cardstock:  SU Naturals Ivory (base)   Patterned Paper:  My Mind’s Eye Signature Suite “That Boy” Rugged Stripes/Snake Skin Taupe and Mud   Stamps:  Inkadinkado Owl, Feather and Thinking of You   Ink:  Brilliance Graphite Black, Ranger Walnut Distress   Accessories:  Copic markers, mat pack/needle, linen thread, Paper Studio brads, white gel pen, sponge, pop dots.  Card size 5” x 7”.

I’ve been a little under the weather lately and busy with doctor appointments for my son so I haven’t had much stamping time.  I do have this card that I made a few days ago using Anna Wight’s Bundle of Joy from Whipper Snapper Designs.  (I’m nowhere near tired of this set yet so I hope you aren’t either!)

Welcome Baby

This was a pretty quick design to “throw together.”  I paper-pieced the balloons and scarf (one balloon is raised on a pop dot), colored in the beak and water, then outlined the goose with a light gray Copic.  

Since I don’t have any of those very cool and trendy Nestabilities (YET), I faked it by layering the focal image onto another piece of vanilla cardstock.  

Since I didn’t have any truly “ivory” brads, I just punched two 1/4″ circles from vanilla cardstock and adhered them to a couple of “putty-ish” thumbtack brads.  

There’s very little coloring (which is sometimes nice–quick and easy) and I like the lift of the one balloon and coordination of those balloons and the scarf.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I’m off to find that tissue box!  See you soon!

m.

Cardstock:  SU Very Vanilla   Patterned Paper:  Anna Griffin, Inc.   Stamps:  Whipper Snapper Designs “Bundle of Joy”   Ink:  Brilliance Graphite Black   Accessories:  Copic markers, black SU marker (balloon strings), Karen Foster thumbtack brads, ¼” circle punch, wave blade/Fiskars Rotary Trimmer, pop dots.  Card size 4 ¼” x 4 ¼”.

Happy Hump Day! 

I thought I’d challenge myself to get a few very different looks from In the Treetop by Lizzie Anne Designs.  To help a bit, I used LAD’s Celebrations Sayings instead of the two sentiments in the stamp set.

A Warm Hello

For this first card, I pretty much stuck with the obvious…a nice little tree, the little bird.  If you look closely, you can see a thin red line around the treetop, matching one of the trees on the patterned paper.  To do this, I inked the treetop stamp then lightly dragged the brush end of a Ruby Red marker around the edges.  It worked great!

Cardstock:  SU Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip   Patterned Paper:  Basic Grey Mellow Paper Pad   Stamps:  Lizzie Anne Designs “In the Treetop” and “Celebrations Sayings”   Ink:  SU Chocolate Chip, Always Artichoke   Accessories:  SU Ruby Red marker, American Crafts Chestnut mini-brads, pop dots.  Card size 5 ½” x 4 ¼”.

Celebrate

This one is *really* different (hopefully in a good way).  I used one of the treetops for the balloons.  I stamped onto the back side of the paper, cut out the shape, then carefully traced around the edges with a black marker.  The balloons are adhered to the background using pop dots.

The “package” is from the “Celebration Frames” set (also raised on pop dots) and the paisley background is from “Jolies Fleurs.”

I used a Copic marker to color the white string.

Once everything was assembled, I carried over the lined dots from the background paper, adding dotted borders with a Chocolate marker.

Cardstock:  SU Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla   Patterned Paper:  Doodlebug “Cherry Blossoms,” “Chocolate Paisley,” “Very Cherry Paisley” and “Neopolitan Stripe”   Stamps:  Lizzie Anne Designs “In the Treetop,” “Celebrations Sayings,” “Celebration Frames,” “Jolies Fleurs”   Ink:  SU Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa   Accessories:  Chocolate Chip marker, Lt. Walnut Copic marker, white string, pop dots.  Card size: 3 ¼” x 6 ½”.

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Merry Christmas

And lastly, I made a very simple, little Christmas card.  (Pretty self-explanatory.)

Cardstock:  SU Chocolate Chip, Bordering Blue   Patterned Paper:  Basic Grey Figgy Paper Pad   Stamps:  Lizzie Anne Designs “In the Treetop”    Ink:  SU Chocolate Chip, Bordering Blue   Accessories:  Slit punch, grosgrain.  Card size: 4 ¼” x 4 ¼”.

It’s a fun set with LOTS of possibilities!  

Thanks so much for stopping by!!  Have a great springy day!!

I was going to wait a bit before posting more samples from Anna Wight’s Bundle of Joy (available from Whipper Snapper Designs), but I couldn’t wait to share this one.  I’m really happy with how it turned out.  (Is it ok to say that? )

Welcome Baby

One of my favorite sets of baby girl patterned papers (or just”girl” in general) is the “My Baby Girl” line from Pebbles, Inc.   The blue baby boy patterns are just as cute with similar designs but with stars instead of flowers. 

I didn’t have a solid cardstock that I felt was a good match to these colors, so I decided to just mat the image with another one of the prints.  I kind of like the look!

I colored the images with Copic markers then decided to cut around each of the stars before matting.  And the focal image is raised on dimensionals (because I can’t seem to make a flat card).

Thanks so much for looking!  I have even more samples I’ll post later.  (I *really* like this set!)  Have a great day!

m.

Cardstock:  Papertrey Ink (white base), Bazzill Coconut Smoothies (focal image)   Patterned Paper:  Pebbles, Inc. My Baby Girl Stripe, Flower and Dot   Stamps:  Whipper Snapper Designs “Bundle of Joy”   Ink:  Brilliance Graphite Black   Accessories:  Copic markers, clear blender pen, sewing machine/thread, American Crafts medium white eyelets, Crop-a-dile, pop dots.  Card size 5 ½” x 4 ¼”.

I had a nice little green card set aside to share today and now I can’t find it.  I’ve looked and looked.  My daughter thinks a little leprechaun must have come in the house and snatched it. :)   I hope that isn’t the case and so, instead, I’ll share this birthday card….or “bird”-day card.

I found this cute bird stamp at Addicted to Rubber Stamps (which can be an absolutely deadly place to shop…I popped in there looking for two specific stamps and checked out with six.)

I used Copic markers to color the image.  (It’s one big stamp.)  The paper is by American Crafts.  They have great patterns for generic birthdays!  I used a black marker to draw in a little floor line on the left and right so the birds wouldn’t look like they were just floating in air.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a great day! 

Cardstock:  Papertrey Ink (white)   Patterned Paper:  American Crafts The Goods “Parade” and “Pinwheel”   Stamps:  Denami Design “Happy Bird Day”   Ink:  Brilliance Graphite Black   Accessories:  Copic markers, black SU marker, American Crafts red eyelet, SU red grosgrain.  Card size 5 ½” x 4 ¼”.