First Anniversary

Yikes, it's been a long time since I've posted a card.  I've been stamping, but usually had to keep the card secret because I didn't want the recipient to see it before they got it!  I have quite a few cards that I can now post...hooray!!  

I made this card to send to my son and daughter-in-law for their first anniversary!  It's hard to believe that a year has already passed.  We are so proud of them both and all they've accomplished in just one year!! 

On this card I used the adorable Magical Dragons stamp set from My Favorite Things.  The little prince and princess make the perfect couple!  The colorful backdrop was made with dye inks and Clarity stencil brushes.  Oh my goodness, I love these brushes!!  They give better blends than anything I've ever used in all my years of stamping!  The "congratulations" was made using a Papertrey Ink stamp and die set called Swooshes.  It was a little tricky to position the stamped word onto the die cut word, but using the Misti it wasn't bad at all. Here is a picture of the front of the card...

I used black Staz-On ink to stamp the sword and crown onto mirror card stock and cut and pasted them on to add a little shine.  The crown needed a jewel, too!  The tiny hearts floating above the prince and princess were made with MFT Blueprints Tag Builder 5.  I also added some sequins here and there.  

Inside the card, I used my computer for the sentiment. The castle is from a retired Stampin' Up set called Dreams and Dragons.  I checked and the set or the castle as a single item are available on ebay in case you need it! I colored the castle with Copics and added glitter to make it magical!

Here is a close-up of the castle.  

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope my card makes you want to get your stamps out and create!

Janet

MFT Camp Create - Glitzy Glitter

I had some time to play along with MFT Camp Create today.  It's a summer camp for stampers and has 5 days of challenges!  It started on Monday so I am late, but it looked like so much fun that I'm going to try to complete the challenges before the deadline on June 23rd.

The first challenge is Glitzy Glitter.  I just got the Beautiful Girl stamp set from MFT and thought that would be a great image to add glitter to, so I used the sweet little girl to make some cards.  Here is the first card, I used an Action Wobble so she really dances...so cute!  

The scalloped circle behind her is Stitched Mini-Scallop Circle STAX from MFT.  I wanted a green edge so I die cut one in purple and one in green and then trimmed along the stitch line of the green one and glued it on!  I really like how this looks!  I also tried some really simple no-line coloring on this card.  I used it to make the flowery background.  It looks like patterned paper, doesn't it? The last layer was stamped with Versamark and the Simply Circles background stamp.  Here's a close-up...

Glitter is so difficult to photograph, but I got lucky with this shot.  Ohhh, ahhh...look at that glitz!!

I always color two of an image when I'm making a card.  That way, if I mess up on the first one, I can correct my mistakes on the second one and still end up with something that I can use.  This time I was lucky and they both were usable!  SO...here is the 2nd card.  I used MFT's new Blueprints 29 for this one...love it...a lot!  

I used a piece of MFT's Sweet Sunshine 6x6 Paper Pack as a background.  It coordinated perfectly with my color scheme!  I wasn't sure about the curly-cues on the top of her head.  On the first card I colored them like flower vines but on this one, I colored them like curls of her hair...I like them both!  Here's the close-up view...

While trying to come up with a way to show how sparkly the glitter looks, I took this photo.  It didn't really catch the glitter like I wanted it to, but I liked it so much that I needed to include it.  

I know time is short, but I hope my cards made you think about going to MFT's summer camp!  They've come up with some fun ideas...and the videos are great!  Thanks for stopping by.  Have a good weekend :)

Janet
Products Used:
Stamps:  MFT Beautiful Girl, Simply Circles Background, Grid Background
Dies: Beautiful Girl, Blueprints, 20 & 29, Stitched Mini-Scallop Circle STAX and Oval STAX 2 
Cardstock: MFT Sweet Sunshine 6x6 Paper Pack
Copics: YR61 & 65, V01 &12, G21
Miscellaneous: Pretty Pink Posh 4 mm clear sequins 



  

Build-able Bouquet

I finally had some time to play with my new MFT Build-able Bouquet stamp set.  I just love how whimsical they are.  They are beautiful flowers but don't look like any real flower so you can color them any way you want!  I did have one bit of trouble when I went to cut the flowers out with the dies.  When I tried to line up the flowers with stems inside the dies, they didn't line up and didn't cut right.  If I lined up the flowers, the stems weren't right and if I lined up the stems the flowers didn't line up right.  I'll have to give some thought to this the next time so it will work.  I stamped 2 of each stamp in the set and then colored them all in coordinating colors and cut them out.  I used most of the flowers and leaves on my first card.  It was fun arranging them and rearranging them until I got a flowery corner that I liked!  

For my second card, I used the left over flowers and my Blueprints 13 dies.  I used Peerless Watercolors to make both backgrounds.  I got some good news about Peerless Watercolors today.  I've had mine for a long time and I am just about out of my favorite colors.  I contacted the company and found out that they will be selling individual dry sheets of color very soon!!!  I was thrilled!

Thanks for looking and for visiting!

Janet

Supplies Used:

Stamps: MFT Buildable Blooms

Dies: MFT Build-able Bouquet, MFT Blueprints 13, Lawn Fawn Hugs, Impression Obsession 

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Cardstock: Black Linen, SU Garden Green, Canson Aquarelle Watercolor paper, White  

                 Cougar Opaque

Miscellaneous:  Peerless Watercolors

  

Mama Elephant Birthday

Mama Elephant's set called In My Heart is adorable!  The little children are so expressive, you can almost hear them talking when you look at them!!  I decided that they would be perfect to make some birthday cards.  I wanted to make the same card 5 times using different decorative papers and card stock.  You should have seen my table when I was matching papers and trying to find 5 combinations that I liked!!  Once I figured that out, I cleaned up the paper mess and I got to work.  I decided to paper piece the little girl's dress so she would match the rest of the card so I stamped and cut the dresses out first.  Next, I cut the tag out of watercolor paper using MFT's Tag Builder Blueprints 3 and watercolored the grass and sky using mini Distress Ink pads.  I flicked some water droplets over them to add some texture.  While those were drying, I stamped and colored the little girl (ME), the palm trees (MFT) and the tiny turtles (ME).  I'm sorry that I didn't take photos of all five of the cards, they were so different.  Here are two of them...

The solid color loopy border at the bottom of the cards was cut using a border die from My Favorite Things.  I just checked and it has been discontinued :(  I colored the palm trees using Inktense Pencils and the little girls with Copics.  I used a Sakura white Souffle pen for the collar and buttons on the dresses. 

Thanks for visiting.  I hope you come back again soon, I've done another lesson in the Watercolor for Card Makers - Intermediate Techniques class and I will be posting some of the cards I made from that!

Supplies Used:
Card Stock:  Assorted designer paper and card stock
Stamps:  Mama Elephant: In My Heart and MFT: Penguins in Paradise
Dies: MFT: Tag Builder Blueprints 3 & Penguin in Paradise Dies, Mama Elephant: In My Heart Dies
Miscellaneous: Distress Ink pads, Inktense Pencils, Copics