Throwing my Hat in

This is my second post for today please scroll down for my Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge Card 102

I was looking at the MFT guest designer challenge for February and didn't think I was going to play along - then I remembered I had received as a birthday present MFT's  Clearly Sentimental stamps About Love so I thought I might make a card.

Yes this is so not a card!  I remembered I had some frames so I decided to alter one of them.  The contest requires a Valentines theme (love sentiment); 2 card stocks not including the base; I have groovy guava, riding hood red, and sage shadow (a colour I never use!!); 1 design paper - I used  2 from My Minds Eye be loved from last year.  The final requirement was 3 embellishments.  I did a pool with some friends on whether sewing was an embellishment; some said yes some no so I have the flowers made with MFT's rolled flower die-namic; a ghost heart, ghost leaves, and on the sentiment (cut with die-namics framed greetings die) I have two tiny heart rhinestones.

When I finished the project I added one of my favourite pictures of my parents (this is suppose to be a gift for them HOWEVER it looks fabulous on a table in my stamp room!!)  The picture was taken when they were dating over 53 years ago!!  This picture of them makes me smile; how lucky am I that they are still together; they are quite the example to us kids!!

Thanks for stopping by - have a fantastic day!!

Dana

Coffee? Tea?

I do like both but I must say I am partial to my java!! I was able to play along with MFTSC100 this week over on SCS - wow 100!

For my card I used MFT's Who's that Girl Coffee? Tea? set. The image is stamped with mementos ink and coloured with copics (well her skin is!) The dress is paper pieced with ds paper from cosmo crickets early bird 6x6 paper. The coffee cup is coloured with smooch as is the top of the table. I added some stickles to the steam coming from the cup.

The cb is white layered with navy and baja breeze cs, the red ds paper is also from cosmo cricket and it is layered on navy. I added some navy ribbon and in the corner I used red adornments.

Thanks for stopping by -

Dana

supplies: MFT Who's that Girl Coffee? Tea?; mementos ink; white cs, navy cs, baja breeze cs, real red cs, cosmo cricket ds paper early bird 6x6; navy ribbon, adornments, black glaze pen, silver stickles, red smooch, midnight smooch, paper piercer

Back in Time

When I was in Franklin at Karen's I spent some time with Joanne B (isn't she just the sweetest?!) she gave me a bit of a hard time about neglecting my MFT stamps so I promised to try and play along with the challenges on SCS & yeah me I did this week!

This weeks challenge (MFTMFC17)

was to rewind in time & ink up one of your first MFT stamps. I remember loving the Who's that Girl cake stamp so I know You take the Cake was one of the first ones I bought! I used SC246 and coloured the image with copics. The CB is white, layered with rose red, and the ds paper is from WeR memory White Out line; this is layered on chocolate chip. The chocolate chip cs is embossed with cuttlebugs spots and dots.

On the cake I used 2 colours of smooch for the candles; pumpkin and snickerdoodle. On the cake's icing I added some star dust stickles

You have until Wednesday 10:00 am (I think eastern?!) to upload your card to SCS to have a chance to win 10.00 at the MFT store

Thanks for stopping by - have a great day & I'll see you tomorrow (maybe I have one or 2 new stamping bella stamps in my house...)

Dana

supplies: Neenah paper, whisper white cs, chocolate chip cs, rose red cs, ds paper WeR memeories White Out, mementos ink, copics, stickles, smooch, spots & dots embossing folder (cuttlebug)

TOTE-ALLY....

Fantastic challenge on the SCS MFT forum - MFTWTG23!! I hadn't inked up this stamp yet & when I found the challenge I was really excited; an excuse to ink it up and use my scraps! The challenge is to use only scrap paper for the card; and I can honestly say that's all I did - the only time I opened a container was for my Bella bon- bons YEAH ME!!!

WTG Tote-ally Fantastic is stamped on Gina K's Pure luxury cs and I paper pieced her skirt & top, used copics to colour the purses, wall and sidewalk then I used lyra pencils and mineral spirits for the stand that the purses sit on and the lines on the wall and sidewalk. I did realize it has been awhile since I was back east; I had to really think about how the brick looks which is funny because our house in Toronto, that we lived in for over 5 years was brick - how quickly we forget!!!

The card base is SU's Rose red layered with Baja Breeze and the DS paper from WeR memory makers - I love the bright colours in this line called Whiteout. I decided to sew the ds onto the baja with orange (close to pumpkin) thread - I am still getting used to the new machine but I must admit I am having fun sewing again (on paper not my hubbys pants that are still waiting to be hemmed!) The image is layered on Baja Breeze and Pumpkin pie. I added some Bella orange bon bons but didn't want to put too much on the card front because I love the paper showing through.

I decorated the inside of the card just layered some Gina K pure luxury cs on Baja Breeze then added 2 strips of the ds paper.

I picked this paper partly because I wanted bright coloured purses; of the 4 I have 3 of the colours - I currently don't own the green coloured purse but I never say never!!


Thanks for stopping by & have a great day I think I will be shovelling again...


Dana

Call Me...

Don't you just love that Blondie song (ohh Dating myself!!) I decided to make a project for MFT Guest Designer; and I dug into my cupboards to find something to work with & I found this little address Rolodex YEAH it sang to me for MFT's CALL ME - which is very popular because it appears to be sold out; I hunted the site and couldn't find a link for you!

For this project I stamped the image on Gina K's 120lb pure luxury paper. I then stamped the image again on the same paper so I could colour and piece "who's that girl" onto the chair. She is coloured with copics and I added a little glitter on her shirt; I tried to free hand 1/2 a heart - or it's just a wobbly circle!!! For the hot pink phone I used an atyou spica gel pen then on the rotary dial (remember those too?!) I added some crystal effects.

For the chair I coloured it with lyra pencils and mineral spirits so it would stay soft; and look a little worn. Don't you LOVE how the chair doesn't move when she sits on it - I like to image my chairs don't either!!

The wall is coloured with SU's pretty in Pink chalk very lightly daubed on then I erased it a little so it wasn't too bright. The floor is also SU's chalk; chocolate chip and black mixed together then I washed over the floor with Pearlescent watercolour in brown to try and give it the effect of hardwood flooring.

The image is mounted on SU's basic black then mounted on chatterbox black polka dot paper. This is mounted on SU's Pink Pirouette paper which I mounted on 2 coasters for stability on the roladex. On the back page I embossed Sizzix "friend" sponged the piece with Pink Pirouette ink. To finish off the image I added some Prima's with Stamping Bella Pearls.

For the front and back of the Rolodex I embossed Pink Pirouette cs with swiss dots, and then added the word with Basic Grey sticker letters in black.

This was a fun project to do; a departure from cards - Thanks for the great challenge Kim, I loved using only Brown, Pink, Black, Grey & White.

Thanks for stopping by,

Dana