Baked with Love

Hello again!  I'm in a good card roll today.  I loved how this turned out.  I'm working on my ink blending.  The idea for this card actually came abouts when I was at work when I was eating some baked goods.   I love food, and food stamps!  I was thinking about the baked with love stamp set by lawn dawn and wanted to use them. I thought it would work so well with my MFT recipe for happiness chef Francois.  I thought about doing a story board with him but the images are quite bit (maybe in the future when I get smaller images).  I was able to do a two scene card.  Here it is...

You're my Hero

Hello!  I thought I would get a bit of a head start for a Father's Day, since I did my Mother's Day card a bit last minute.  This card is a bit simple,  I wasn't sure what I wanted to do and struggled a bit (the main reason why this card is simple. My markerpop haul finally came in!  Wee... I wanted to use my MFT boarder dies so I did this card in double stitch on the horizontal portions of the cardstock.  Any who is is my card...

Mom

Hello everyone!  I know my blog updates have been lacking; I've been waiting for my haul from markerpop to come in, but there are a few MFT products that have been back ordered and until those items come in my order won't ship.  :( hopefully I'll get that soon.  I really want to make a clearly besotted purchase because this months release is way tooooo cute!  I will probably do that in the next week :D.  Anywho, since I'm waiting for more stamps and dies to come in, I used my cricut to make my Mother's Day card.  I actually ordered some floral stamps hoping they would get in before Mother's Day so I could make some cards but oh well.  I used some Miss Kate Cutyable files and since I don't have very many shades of card stock I inked some with distress inks to darken them up.  This was a simple card but the flowers have many layers.  Here it is... 

Happily ever after...

Hello!  Been a bit since I shared a card.  I have a bit busy since preping and getting back from Coachella!  It was such an awesome experience and can't wait to do it again.  Anywho, I was really exhausted coming back and getting back to work.  It has been CRAZY at work, but I made some time to make this card for one of my co-workers whom got married last Friday.  It was such a beautiful wedding; the bride sang to her groom walking down the isle.  It was sooo fairytale, Disney style.  Loved it!  I recently made some purchases for MFT stitched rectangles, Clearly Bessoted stamps and sequins; I thought I'd use them for their wedding card.  This picture does not do those sequins justice.  They were sooo shimmery!   Anywho, here is my simple shaker card.  :D I used a hot tool to bind the plastic sheets together to make the shaker portion.  

Sorry to hear you're hurting...

Hello!  I've had these images colored since I first got my Copic markers but never really did anything with them.  They were my introduction to using the copics to create shadows.  I guess you can say they were my testers.  I ended up loveing how they turned out but I had no idea what to do with them so they sat in my work pencil box for a couple of weeks.  At first I thought they were a bit scary looking because the nature of their background but I grew to love them.  I finally had an A-Ha moment yesterday on how to use them.  I kept it fairly simple with pattern paper and the image. I used MFT sketch for last week as inspiration for the layout.  Here it is...

Chirpy-Chirp-Chirp

Herrooooo! I'm super excited mainly because I'm finally on Spring Break!  Woo hoo!  I love my job as an educator but boy does it get hard.  Today I woke up wanting to make a card.  My sister asked me to make some baby shower cards, so I thought I would get that going.  The inspiration for this card came from the Lawn Fawn chirpy chirp chirp stamp set.  I love how that set could be used for many occasions other than Easter; it is very versatile. I have not purchased the stamp set yet, but will hopefully soon.   Majority of the SVG images came from Miss Kate Cuttables. I blended some inks to make a nice sky color and used a font called oldskool script.  :) hope you like it.

You're Flippin' Awesome!

I'm I've been eyeing this MFT stamp set since it came out in February but delayed buying it because I really didn't have many coloring mediums until recently.  I wanted this card to be colorful and bright; also I wanted to play with my watercolors :).  I purchased the kuretake tambi 3 weeks ago but hadn't had a chance to use it till now.  I was super excited not only to get the stamp set but use my watercolors.  I wanted to use the emboss resist technique.  However, I was struggling a bit with it.  The images where a bit too far apart which made it look too scattered :(.  I was about to trash my attempted but decided to save it while I thought about what could save it.  Took me a couple of days but I thought maybe if I put some Copic colored images on top of some of the emboss images it would bring the background back to life And it did!  I was super happy.  I also added some embossed hearts to fill in the empty space.  I'm not sure how they all ended up upside down.  Anywho, here is my card.

Guess who....

I made this card a couple of weeks ago but forgot to post a about it.  Treasure Box had an awesome freebie that I wanted to use (love their cuts). When this was posted I had to make a card from it. I thought it was an interesting image in that it's an owl coming out of its shell with bunny ears, seems a bit confusing at first but it was super cute.  I got the idea of it being in a basket like an Easter basket on a farm (I think when I saw the egg I was thinking farm).  So the setting is nice sunny farm day.  I thought the sentiment "guess who..." Would be appropriate because it's an owl hatching into a bunny so you're not expecting that, so guess who it is  Lol... I don't know,my thought process on this card was all over but love it!  I did some ink blending with Simon Says Stamp inks and well as distress inks.  I used stamps of life grass stamp to create more texture for the grass.  I uses an Miss Kate Cuttables for the barn.  Of course Lil owl bunny is from Tresure Box.   Anywho here is the card I made for easter.

Think Happy Be Happy...

Hello! I started this card a week ago when I was experimenting with my copics.  Ahh!  I'm still juiced about my Copics still.  I was telling my boyfriend how it was a meant to be situation.  I've been wanting copics for some time now and had an opportunity to purchase some on eBay at a decent price but that slipped by.  Then this past weekend I saw on a Facebook post that the artist supply store was having a sale! I jumped at the chance and boy was it a sale.  Anywho, I wanted to test my copics out and the only stamp image I have right now is Freckles by MFT stamps.  I wanted to practice coloring skins and ended up paper piecing half of the project.  Can't get away from that paper piecing. :D I left her on my table the whole week because I had other projects to work on and I honestly wasn't sure what to do with her.  I've been doing mainly scenes with my paper piecing so I didn't know if I wanted to create a scene with her.  Today I woke up, saw her on the table and decided I needed to do something with her.  Took some time to put it together but I like how it came out, especially how the colors worked out.  I made some last minute changes at the end because it look so one dimensional.  I took it apart and did some inking on it so the cardstock would pop a bit more and put it back together.  Well... Here it is.  :)

Home Sweet Home

My co-worker asked if I could make a card for her for a housewarming she has in a couple of weeks.  I was happy to create a card.  I asked her a couple questions before I got the idea in my head.  She told me her friend was younger and it was his first house, so quickly the idea of a bachelors pad and bbqing in the yard came to mind.  I think it came out well.  I've been toying with inks and paper piecing and combining them.  I saw on Amy R's YouTube how she inked cloud shapes onto white card stock to make her background.  I thought that would be a great idea for the background of my card.  I don't have a die cutting machine or dies so I improvised by creating my own cloud stencil with my cricut.  I welded overlapping circles to create a big cloud. I used the same technique as Amy R.  with my stencil.  I think it came out nice.  Here is my card :)