MFT Guest Designer Challenge Entry

 Okay here is the photo of the whole set ... getting a good photo was a challenge in itself!! :) The challenge from one of my most fav companies MFT was to make a "perfect package" (you can read all about on the MFT blog - come and play too)- I have a niece who is soon having a baby, so this is to treat her and remind her she has to take care of herself too!! A bag to put bath goodies in, a bookmark to remind her to take time to relax and read and of course a card that may hold another treat for her... The frame is to hold a photo of baby and go in his room :)

 ..here is the bookmark

...the frame

 .... a close up of the fun stamp on the gift bag.. see the bubbles??

And of course the card. The paper is from DCWV "All About Boys' stack - just what I needed!!
I used all the following MFT stamps: PI - Lather Rinse repeat, Bedtime Story and Spa Day, WTG Girls Rule and My How You've Grown, Clearly Sentimental About Babies and First Class Friend. (and you can find them all at the most awesome online store - just click on the words in blue and go right there)  :)
The MFT die-namics that I used were: Open Scallop Doily, Simple Scallop medium, Scallop Ribbon, Catch a Wave, Fancy Flourish, File Tab, Ticket Tab, Tag You're It, First Class Friend and Prima Dona Petals. And yes click on those blue words and go find the slickest die-namics there are - they cut beautifully and there are always new ones coming out......   :)

If you have not looked at their blog - hop on over there to the MFT blog as the design team over there always inspires me and challenges me .... and I have met some of them and they are the greatest ladies!!! And they just happen to be showing the "teasers" for what is coming out on October 4th!

...okay I am tired now and going to bed as I am off to a photography class tomorrow all day :)

MFT Wednesday Stamp Club - Sketch 39

 A closer look for you :)

I had fun with this - had a great sketch to work with, fab stamps from a few different MFT sets and love those MFT die-namics and then there was the beautiful paper from Authentique "Uncommon" line add some fun inks and embossing powder and you get FUN!!
Here are the details I cut the frame for the front sentiment with the MFT First Class Friend die and then embossed it with the wood grain folder and sanded it after that (I used Tim Holtz co-ordination paper). For the sentiment I first stamped the script from the MFT First Class friend stamp set with Pumice stone distress ink, then stamped the Happy Birthday from the MFT More Essentail sentiment set with black Versafine and embossed it with clear embossing powder, next I stamped the rose from the Inspired by Flowers 2 set from MFT with Worn Lipstick distress ink and also embossed that with clear embossing powder. I then added a couple more stamps from the First Class Friend set for some interest. The flourish is a MFT die called "fancy flourish" (love this die!). I used the MFT rolled rose and made the flower from felt - finally got one of these done right :) I also used the MFT Simply scallop medium for the border that has the pretty pearls from Michael's Recollection line on it. The lacy ribbon was picked up somewhere....????
On the inside of the card I used a sentiment from the MFT Inspired by Flowers first set and then stamped the rose again to tie it together. I used the leafy flourish from MFT on the inside of the card.
Hope you enjoy as I had fun making it :)

It Takes Two - All That Scraps Wednesday Eye Candy

Good Wednesday to all of you!!! It was a challenge to me to find two characters that I wanted to put together on a card for "It Takes Two" ... but was happy with these two and I was inspired to make this by my 19 year old son and a very good female friend of his :)!!
The girl is Sugarplums Springtime Emma and the boy is also from C.C.Designs but I could not track down his official stamp name ... sorry. The paper is new Cosmo Cricket called Clementine - very fun paper pad!!
I used the "flat bottom clouds' die from MFT and the flourishes were cut with an old EK Success punch that i had around. Had fun coloring them up with copic markers and paper pieced their shirts :)
Hope you enjoy!!

Okay one more for MFT Stamp Club Sketch #38

Okay I needed a baby card so I thought ..."why not use the same sketch and make another card??"Made good sense to me so one more with the sketch turned sideways and the embellishment moved to the another corner...  The card making is an awesome distraction right now - very glad to have this craft to play with!! 
Here is what I used for this one:
stamps: MFT A la mode Bundle of Baby and Clearly Sentimental about babies
inks: Copic and SEI chalk ink
MFT die-namics:  Simple scallop large, polka dot greeting frame, First place award ribbon, flower trio, Tag You're it and upsey daisy leaves
paper: MME Vanity Fair

MFT Wednesday Stamp Club Challenge #38

Good morning to you all or whatever part of the day it is for you - hope it is good!! I had fun making this little card for someone in my family for Thanksgivng ....coming up soon for us Canadians :) I love this little MFT Pure Innocence girl with her big pumpkin!! I colored her up with copics and paper pieced her little dress with paper from We R Memory Keepers, Autumn Splendor line. I used the MFT die Layered Labels for the sentiment and another MFT die, Solid bracket border just behind the brown cardstock strip under the sentiment. The leaves were cut with an older Cuttlebu leave die that I am so glad that I kept around - the leaves were fun to make, after cutting them I ran them through my wood grain embossing folder and then inked them up with distress inks to give them the good fall colors!! (I like the way they turned out...) A peek at the inside too :)

Some Eye Candy for All That Scraps

Hello bloggers!! This week at All That Scraps we just want to give you some fun eye candy ideas - the theme was to use a banner of some kind on your card, so I decided to use the "First Place ribbon" die from MFT to create a banner for my sentiment to go onto. This cute adorable little boy is C.C. Designs Swiss Pixie Sunflower Hansel and you can find him at the online store for All That Scraps - I think he is so cute!!! I paper pieced his shirt and hat with paper from Bo Bunny from their Forever Fall Collection - very pretty paper and I love the colors they used for this set!! The sentiment is from an older Hero Arts set that I had. I used my spellbinders for the shapes behind him and ran the turquoise through my cuttlebug to emboss it and then went over it with distress inks.  The leaves were cut with some cuttlebug dies that I have had for awhile and then emobssed to give some texture. And yes of course my copics came out to color this little guy!! Hope you enjoy the card - gave you a peek at the inside too!!

Wednesday Stamp Club Sketch 37

Well this card was fun or a few reasons ...one for one of my fav challenges the MFT Wednesday Stamp club sketch and I am taking the great on line class called Inspirtation Showcase by Jennifer McGuire that I signed up for and I got to use a few of the techniques from day 1 on this card!! For the bodice form at front of card I used the "traditional resist technique" and I used Versamark ink and Tim Holtz distress ink (Aged Mahoganny), the stamp and the die for the sewing form are from MFT "Sew Nifty" set. Then for the two little measuring tapes I used the "quick ink colouring tehcnique" - for this I stamped with black Versafine ink and then emobossed with clear embossing powder and then used distess inks to color them.  For the tan piece behind the sewing bodice I used the "trapped embossed resist technique" - in this method I stamped with Versamark and embossed with clear embossing powder and then added the distess ink over top and the embossed image resists the ink!! WOW - relearning things I knew and learning some new ideas too!! Fun and a good personal challenge to do it and try to figure out how I can make what I am learning apply to a card right away - trying to make good use of my time!!! Love this paper line from My Minds Eye called Lost and Found - Blush!!! Thought it was perfect for this card!! I also used a few other die-namics from MFT, file tab, scalloped ribbon and fancy flourish. Hope you enjoy!!! If you ever get a chance on line to take a course from Jennifer McGuire - do it!!! (this course is now going so watch for a new one sometime!!)