Get Sketchy with MFT #203

Hey there!  I saw this sketch over at My Favorite Things and I really liked it.  I don't remember the last time I played in their challenges (if ever!).

 

I did flip the sketch so my Santa and deer fit better in the design.  I started by using a diagonal stencil and texture paste for the background.  Then I stamped, colored, and die cut the Santa and the deer.  The banner was stamped with a stamp set I just found when I was organizing my stamps.  It fit perfectly on the banner stamping it three times.  I mounted that on red cardstock and then cut the snowflakes from red and white cardstock.  These were layered together.  I added star dust stickles to the white snowflake and also on the Santa and a bit on the deer.   I really like this set...so cute!

 

I'm also entering this into the Less is More challenge.  They want to see Santa, reindeer, or anything Christmassy!  I guess this qualifies!

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Jingle All the Way and Sentimental Christmas (MFT)

Paper:  Recollections white, riding hood red

Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, riding hood red, copic markers

Accessories:  Jingle All the Way dies (MFT), Let It Snowflakes (MFT), diagonal stripe stencil (SSS), texture paste, star dust stickles, dimensionals

 





Just Us Girls #146 - Color Challenge

Hi everyone!  Are you in the mood for a great color challenge from Just Us Girls?  Andrea chose a fabulous one for us.  These are some of my very favorite colors!  I wear them a lot and love to craft with them too!

I found these colors in the My Mind's Eye Hattie Papers pack.  I paired  it with this little cutie Pure Innocence girl called Make Mine a Double.  I paper pieced her dress and colored the rest of her with copics.  I added some Star Dust Stickles to the hearts and ice cream.  I love what some crafters have been doing with their embellishments, and I copied one I saw on Amy Sheffer's card.  I love the way it turned out.  I also pulled out my Pixie Singer craft sewing machine and did some stitching on my card.  I haven't used it in a while because the thread was always coming out of the needle while I was sewing and it was very frustrating!  But it didn't do it this time.  I think the problem was that I had taped the edges of the paper and the needle was getting stuck.  This time, I just ran some tape in the middle of the papers to keep them from moving around.  That seemed to work!  I need some practice, though.  I'm not a very straight and neat seamstress!

I also followed this week's MFT sketch.  I've been loving using them!  I'm also entering this into Crazy 4 Challenges.  Their challenge this week is to add stictching to your card.

You can see more inspiration on these blogs.

JUGs blog

Andrea Matthews

Elise Durenberger

Lynn Mangan

Maria Levine

Marisa Ritzen

Vicki Dutcher

Esther Peck, July Guest Designer

Thanks for stopping by!  Enjoy your weekend!

Just Us Girls #140 - Technique Challenge

Hi friends!  This is technique week here at Just Us Girls, and our fabby Maria chose this great technique called Acrylic Distress.  She found the tutorial here on SCS.

 I used the technique on the circle in the middle of the card.  I used soft suede for the card stock and the acrylic paint I used (the only one I had!) is Pearl.  I thought I had many bottle of the Ranger paint dabbers, but apparently they are all distress inks!  So Pearl it was.  It looks like tin to me on this paper.  I first ran the circle through the embossing folder, then painted on the Pearl paint and dried it with a heat gun.  I sanded it with a Tim Holtz sander.  I didn't have to do the next step in the tutorial, which was to apply a distress ink over the sanded parts to make it look more distressed because my paper color did that for me.  Then I just put the card together.  The paper is SU's Everyday Enchantment, the dies are Simply Jane and Beautiful Blooms from PTI, the brad is SU too, and the cardstock is soft suede and poppy parade.  The sentiment was created using a Spellbinder's die and the sentiment is from PTI's Blooming Button Bits.

This is the sketch I used.  I generally don't care for middle panels turned on an angle, but I saw some cards made with this sketch and I kind of liked it!

 The JUGs design team has some great inspiration for you.  Please stop by these blogs to see for yourself!

JUGs blog
Andrea Matthews
Elise Durenberger
Lynn Mangan
Maria Levine
Vicki Dutcher
Hannelie Bester, June Featured Designer

Thanks for stopping in today!  Have a great weekend!

Paper Makeup Stamps - November Review

Hello friends!  Today the Paper Makeup Stamps design team is reviewing the new release for November.  If you haven't seen the release, you can see it in the PMS store here. 

I'm using a new winter fairy called Hayden.  She is so pretty!

The paper I used is Jovial from Basic Grey, and I took the colors from it to color the image. The image was cut out and placed on a small tag that was altered with some distress inks.  The sentiment, which comes with the stamp, was stamped with Memento Tuxedo ink.  The sketch is from My Favorite Things.

Stop by the PMS blog to see more of the new release by the PMS design team.  Thanks for stopping in today!

Just Us Girls Color Challenge #67

Happy long weekend everyone! I just love them! Today the Just Us Girls team has a fab color challenge for you. We did something different this week and had our Guest Designer, Carla Suto, choose the colors! And I love the colors she picked! She based her colors on the Graphic 45 collection Once Upon a Springtime. I love Graphic 45 papers and while I didn't have this collection, I did have the Le Romantique collection (which I received in a gift exchange from Bonnie Sharp) that had the same colors. So here's what I did.

I chose a sketch from My Favorite Things Wednesday Stamp Club and a stamp set I've had for a while and haven't used from Verve called Blue Skies. I distressed the piece of Aqua Mist with tea dye distress ink to tone it down a bit. The beautiful butterfly is a Spellbinder die that I cut with Vintage Cream cardstock, then sponged with Cameo Coral and Cool Caribbean inks. Then I distressed it a bit more with the tea dye ink and added star dust stickles for that sparkle I love! The half circle was cut with a Coluzzle. Remember that thing? My nesties were too small so I had to pull that out. Fun little tool!

Stop by the JUGs blog to see the beautiful creations form the team and our Guest Designer, Carla Suto! Make sure to leave them some love!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great long weekend too! :-)

Recipe

Stamps: Blue Skies (Verve)

Paper: Vintage cream and aqua mist (PTI), Le Romantique (Graphic 45)

Ink: Chocolate chip, cameo coral, cool caribbean, tea dye distress ink

Accessories: Nesties, butterfly die, coluzzle, star dust stickles, pearls, dimensionals