Stamps, Paper, and Ink

Cooler with You for the MFT Challenge

 I had a busy day but my new MFT card kit arrived in the mail and I couldn't resist a few minutes to play with the darling stamps and dies. I never seem to be able to resist a few more snowmen! These are so cute and I love the sentiments that go along with the images. 

After stamping the images and coloring with Copics they were cut with the matching dies. I kept my card simple, adding snowflakes with embossing paste. 

I'll keep this post short so that I can enter this in the MFT Card Sketch Challenge before it closes. I took a very literal approach to the sketch. 

It will be quite a while until I can think of snow, except for the paper-crafted kind. The weather here has been gorgeous! 

Thank you so much for spending some time to visit me. You definitely make life more fun for this blogger!

 Be yourself.

     Find delight in your craft.

          Make something beautiful!

 

Stamps: MFT - Cooler with You and matching Die-namics

Paper: from the MFT card kit; Blue Breeze, Sour Apple

 

Accessories: MFT stencil - Snowfall, WOS pen, sequins

 

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  I'm happy it's Friday and it's been such a busy one! The painters are here for their second day, and at the moment we're having the new refrigerator delivered and placed in the kitchen. 

We went out for breakfast and I went out for some shopping and lunch - not a bad trade off. 

I've also been experimenting up in the craft room with a new lighting setup. 

Here's a card I made a while back just because I wanted to do some coloring. 

I stamped the beautiful floral images from the Golden Garden set from Altenew and embossed them in gold. 

I really was just playing around with this card. I found that what took me the longest was deciding how to arrange the images on the watercolor paper. The colors were added with Zig Clean Color markers. They're not usually my first choice, but someone in blogland must have inspired me to pull them out that day and I'm glad that I did. I really like the variations in color that I was able to achieve. I got a little carried away with adding ink splatters - again. 

This message is fitting for you, my readers. Hope you have a wonderful weekend! Sending hugs~

Be yourself.

     Find delight in your craft.

          Make something beautiful!

 

Stamps: Atenew - Golden Garden, PTI - Scripted

Paper: SU - Strawberry Slush, Very Vanilla, Ranger - watercolor

Ink: SSS - Intense Black, 

Accessories: Versamark, Gold EP, gold sequins, Zig Clean Color Markers

 

Autumn Blessings

Hello! How has the week gone by so quickly? Hope it's been a good one for you!

As you read this I'm hoping I'll have painters here at our house. Before we moved in  (the BIG move was last April) they painted the walls in a rush the day before the move. Now we are getting the trim painted too. After we got the house prepped for them this afternoon I had some happy time in the craft room.

I had some color play fun for the challenge at PTI Make It Monday. Melissa Phillips gave a fabulous tutorial showing how to use die cut shapes as stencils to create beautiful backgrounds.

I die cut the cluster of leaves from the Stylized Autumn set using white card stock. My base is watercolor paper. Laying the die cut over that I sponged around it with Distress Inks. I added some stamped leaves, a light spritzing with water and a few ink spatters. 

I embossed the sentiment in white and sponged the white card stock with ink to match.

After all that sponging, my die cut was no longer white and I decided to add it just as is to  the focal point. I like the variation in colors as it was heavily sponged!

I love bright colors for fall, don't you? 

Although I've used this technique before, I really enjoyed trying it again. At first I didn't want to cover the whole panel but I found this die looked much better on a large surface. I also experimented with colors and opted for the soft effect of the green. I've always learned so much  from participating in challenges. Sometimes it's really good to try things again with a different twist or new supplies. I always learn something in the process. 

Hope you've enjoyed your visit today! 

Be yourself.

     Find delight in your craft.

          Make something beautiful!

 

Stamps: PTI - Stylized Autumn

Paper: Neenah 80, Watercolor paper

Ink:  Ranger Distress Inks - Twisted Citron, Spiced Marmalade; SU - Cajun Craze, Versamark

Accessories: White embossing powder, Stylized Autumn Dies - PTI, Clear Droplets - PPP

 

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Hello everyone! Are you glad it's Friday?

I sure am, we've had a crazy week. I especially happy that it's a Fab Friday and we have a fun challenge for you!

Our color challenge brings to mind spooky Halloween images for me. I am one of those who don't really celebrate the holiday, so I came up with a different idea.  I had the notion for the layout and using images from the PTI Twig Wreath set, then I went looking for a sentiment. I decided to go with these wonderful words of encouragement from Scripture for a fall themed card. 

 I enjoyed stamping the images around the sentiment in the colors suggested by the challenge. 

Can you believe we're on Challenge #98?  I sure hope you'll join us and make a card to share in our gallery. You'll find the Fab Friday Challenge HERE.   

I know you'll love checking out the blogs of our fabulous design team as well. 

Mindy Backes
Heather Heroldt
Amy Koenders
Brian King
Justin Krieger
Amanda Mertz
Brenda Myers
Janine Tinklenberg
Wendy Weixler

Thanks so much for visiting, have a great weekend! 

Be yourself.

     Find delight in your craft.

          Make something beautiful!

 

Stamps: Verve - Scripture Medley 2

Ink: SU - Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Perfect Plum, SSS - Intense Black

Accessories: SU - plum button and Linen thread, Die is from Darice.

 

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Bountiful Birthday

Hi there!

It's Tuesday and we are starting to feel a bit more back to normal here in NC after the flooding that has been plaguing this area. Another bright and sunny day with no signs of rain is a blessing. Many of our friends in Fayetteville are still without power, and schools continue to be closed today.

I arranged our mums and pumpkins on the front porch this morning. How about you? Involved in fall decorating at your house?

I'm loving the  Colorpop: Autumn kit from PTI. The stencils are fun to use for a different way of applying colors and inks to a card front. 

 The specialty paper included with the kit is a textured brown color with white space for the images. Each image was colored by ink blending and then stamped to add details. After completing the panel, I didn't want to cover it up, so I added a vellum tag with the die cut greeting in gold foil. 

Wrapped it up with ribbon, and I rounded one corner. 

That's it for me today. I'm so glad you have come by to visit my little corner of the world. Many thanks!

 Be yourself.

     Find delight in your craft.

          Make something beautiful!

 

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Hi there! How was your weekend? 

In my last post I wrote about being ready for fall. I was. Being ready for hurricanes? Not so much. I live in NC and fortunately we had very little damage from the storm - just a day without power. Some of my family and friends in Fayetteville are still having serious flooding problems from the storm. Please keep them in your prayers, OK? 

While it was pouring outside I got going with this beautiful bouquet from the Papertrey Ink Don't Forget to Write Kit.

I'm adding this to the challenge at CAS(E) This Sketch.

I loved the sketch by Leigh Penner and I'm glad this card is flat for mailing. But there wasn't anything simple about it, lol! Some days are like that. The masking and layered stamping are really pretty IRL. 

Sending you hugs to let you know how much your stopping by means to me. Hope you'll be back again!

Be yourself.

     Find delight in your craft.

          Make something beautiful!

 

Stamps: PTI - Don't Forget to Write, SSS - Diagonal Stripes

Ink: SU - Crisp Cantalope, SSS - Spring Rain, Hollyhock, Intense Black

 

 

 

Harvest Blessings

Hello! How's everything your way? 

It's actually cool enough for me to wear a sweatshirt over my tee this morning. I love fall and I'm finally ready to say goodbye to summer. Having a sunny day with a crisp breeze sure makes that easy. Expecting more rain and repercussions from the hurricane are on the horizon though in the next couple of days. We did have our electrical damage from the last storm/lightening repaired today. That is great progress! 

I'm happy to participate with the Make It Monday Challenge to use frames to create a background.

I used the Embroidered Frames Hexs Die from PTI to create the background. The leaves began as white card stock which I sponged with distress inks, then die cut and layered for the focal point. Lastly, I stamped details. The dies, detail stamps and sentiment are all from the PTI ColorPop Autumn Kit. I've loved using this collection. I heat embossed the sentiment in white, then sponged the white card stock with more Distress Ink to cover it. 

That's it from me for today. Thank you so much for stopping by! 

 Be yourself.

     Find delight in your craft.

          Make something beautiful!

 

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I'm writing this in the early morning and I'm ready for my morning brew - tea! The blacker the better for waking me up! There were so many perky cards featuring coffee on the web last week, that I just had to add a card featuring my fave. 

 I had fun assembling layered dies for the focal point and using Copics to color. The whimsical One Cup stamp set from Verve has the cutest sentiments and matching dies. I added a bit of a watermark distressing to my sentiment panel. Reminding me of a teabag I stapled a bit of twine at the top. 

That's it for me today! We've been busy replacing the items damaged from our recent lightening strike and today looks like a good one to settle in and do some catch up. Thanks so much for coming by. 

Be yourself.

     Find delight in your craft.

          Make something beautiful!

 

Stamps: Verve - One Cup

Paper: DSP is from MFT

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Accessories: Verve - One Cup dies; PTI - square dies from the Don't Forget to Write Kit

 

 

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Yaay! It's not Friday, it's Sunday and I am so HAPPY to have internet again. You may have heard about the heavy rains and thunderstorms we had in NC last week. They were NOT exaggerating about them in the news. We were without power for a few hours on Tuesday night. Then we had  a  4 hour violent storm during the wee hours of Wed morning with lightening sounding all around us, popping one right after another. And yes, we had a strike a few yards away from our house. 

We realized that one of our tall pines (there are 50 of these in our back yard!) was hit when daylight came. Our cable connection, our router, and garage door opener were fried as well as a couple outlets and our large flat screen TV.  I can easily endure being without TV, but being without the internet for 5 days has driven me crazy! Just inconvenient and not important in the scheme of things - but it is nice to have it back! 

I had some time to stamp, and made a cheery card with the Fresh Fruit stamps and DSP from Stampin' Up! 

I'm sure by now you've checked out the sketch and great designs at the Fab Friday Challenge Blog. I had fun with this one. After making the card it really started getting me having the main panel off center. So I fiddled. I moved the flowers around. I played with the bow placement. Finally I added the one black dot stamped up near the ribbon. Completing a triangle of black dots in the focal point helped pull my design balance together enough. Done! 

I hope you have had a wonderful weekend where you are, friends. I am ready to enjoy a new month and a new week! 

Hugs to you! 

 Be yourself.

     Find delight in your craft.

          Make something beautiful!

 

Harvest Mouse

Hi friends! Have you been having a good week?  We've just had a huge thunderstorm here, it lasted for over an hour and we were without power. I usually love T-storms, but the lightning was really hitting close. And we have about 50 tall pine tress around our house. 

All is quiet now. I'm glad to have a project to post!

I had some time in the craft room tonight and couldn't wait to get out these cute mice and ink them up.  

 I had fun moving things around in the frame to get the best composition. I masked and stamped the pumpkins directly onto the chevron DSP, and then cut and popped up the middle pumpkin. Coloring was done with Copics. 

Thanks so much for coming to visit today! 

 Be yourself.

     Find delight in your craft.

          Make something beautiful!

 

Stamps: MFT - BB Harvest Mouse and dies

Accessories: MFT Blueprints Dies 27