My Favorite Things – Unbelievable Day Scene Card

Welcome everyone and happy Friday! I’m so extra excited to be almost done with the week because camping is right around the corner! Time to unplug, relax and unwind! It’s going to be great. But I wanted to pop in before all of that and share a new card I created with the My Favorite Things Fiery Friends stamp set. It took ages to get to me because of slow shipping, delayed products, all the things, which made it all the sweeter when my package finally arrived.

I had absolutely no card design in mind when I stamped my images. I just wanted some coloring therapy. Uncommon for me but not impossible. So I took my time over a couple of days to color all of these images and then used the coordinating dies to cut them all out. At that point I played around with mini scenes to see if I needed anything additional to make it feel complete.

Ultimately I thought everything balanced out pretty well so I started on my background panel. Given the moon and clouds, I went with a night time feel. I inked blended distress oxide ink on a 3.75 x 5 inch piece of white cardstock and splattered it with water. After blotting it dry I went in with white paint splatter too.

I chose a piece of patterned paper from the Colorful Canvas paper pad, trimming it to 5.5×3.5 inches and gluing it to a white card base. Then I added my images to the scene panel and stamped my sentiment on the bottom. That panel is popped up on the card base with foam tape.

For finishing touches today, I just added glossy accents to the dragon horns and moon. There is a lot going on so I didn’t feel the need to add much but you know I like shiny things!

Products used:
Fiery Friends stamps and dies
Colorful Canvas paper pad
Distress Oxide Ink – chipped sapphire, faded jeans, black soot
Liquid glue
Foam tape and squares
Glossy accents

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MFT Stamps – You’re Dino-mite

Happy weekend everyone! I’m heading to the Stamp and Scrapbook Expo in Puyallup, WA right now and I’m very excited about it! If you’re there, message me so I can find you and say hello.

Today though, I have been chomping at the bit to get this sweet dinosaur card on my blog and share with you all. It features the My Favorite Things Fierce Friends set. I love all things dinosaurs and had to order these the moment the release was live. Unfortunately it takes eons for my packages to get from south Florida all the way to Oregon so I always have to wait. #firstworldproblems

Here’s a peek at my adorable card. I chose to stamp my images with brown copic-friendly ink and keep the colors softer. Lately, this style has been very relaxing and fun. I’m using copic colors I never reach for and love the look I’m getting too.

After coloring, I used the coordinating dies to cut everything out and played around with placement, landing on a landscape card instead of portrait and I bold background too. The patterned paper came from the MFT Stamps Colorful Canvas paper pad. Then I framed my background panel with a kraft to break things up.

I ink blended distress oxide inks lightly on the background panel, starting with scattered straw and then spraying the panel with a distress sprayer. I blotted that dry and splattered the panel with fossilized amber and white paint for texture.

Using my images as a guide, I stamped my sentiment and then started assembling all of the layers. The ink blended panel is glued to the kraft one with liquid glue, then popped up on the patterned paper with foam tape. Then the volcano image is glued to the inked panel with liquid glue and the dinosaurs are all added with foam squares.

I seem to shy away from shiny and sparkly when I used the brown and gray copic-friendly inks so there are no finishing touches on this card. It’s all done and I REALLY love it!

Products used:
MFT Stamps Fierce Friends stamps and dies
MFT Stamps Colorful Canvas paper pad
Distress oxide ink – scattered straw and fossilized amber
Foam tape and squares
Liquid glue

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Twiddler’s Nook Spooktacular – Happy Haunting Shaker Card

Hey friends! It’s that time again…the 31st of the month equals the Twiddler’s Nook Spooktacular Instagram Hop! Today I’m sharing a fun shaker card mixing some of our embellishments together for a custom shaker look.

For my card today, I stamped some images from the fun Lawn Fawn Booyah stamp set and colored them with copic markers. After cutting them out with the coordinating dies, I used liquid glue to assemble my dressed up ghosts. Then I went digging in my stash for a fun die set to create a shaker window frame with. I landed on the Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Torn Rectangle dies. I used the two largest to cut a frame from kraft cardstock. I kept the inside to use as my background as well.

I was thinking spellbook when I pulled the MFT Stamps typewriter background stamp out to stamp on the kraft panels. After stamping, I used gathered twigs distress oxide ink to ink the edges of the frame and center of the panel.

For an added little bit of spooky, I cut the Lawn Fawn Cute Cobweb from white cardstock and colored the spider. Then I used liquid glue to adhere it to the under side of the shaker frame. After that I added acetate to the frame and foam tape in preparation for the shaker bits.

I inked up a piece of dotted purple cardstock with wilted violet and then black soot so it was dark but not totally black. I glued that to a card base, then added the center kraft piece to that. I sprinkled all the shaker bits in the center and sealed it up with the frame.

Finally, I popped the images up with foam squares, along with a heat embossed sentiment that came from the Booyah stamp set. I added a little glossy accents to the witch’s hat and vampire’s treat bag for finishing touches.

Products used:
Twiddler’s Nook Pressure Pal
Twiddler’s Nook Pixie Dust micro beads embellishments
Twiddler’s Nook Glow in the Dark Stars and Moons embellishments
Twiddler’s Nook Happy Jacks embellishments
Lawn Fawn Booyah stamps and dies
Lawn Fawn Extra Sentiment Strips dies
Lawn Fawn Cute Cobweb dies
Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Torn Rectangles dies
MFT Stamps Typewriter background stamp
Distress Oxide Ink – gathered twigs, black soot, wilted violet
Foam tape and squares
Touch of gloss

Remember to head to Instagram and hop along for a chance to win $20 to the Twiddler’s Nook shop!

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MFT Stamps – Tweet Friends

Hi there! Today I’m sharing a card featuring my favorite jenoblade line of images from MFT Stamps. This set is called Tweet Friends. The images are super cute and the sentiments are a great variety of occasions. Although, I’m sure you’ll notice that I didn’t use one on the front of my card. It’s always nice to have a few cards on hand that can be versatile to any need in the moment. Scene cards like this are perfect to leave blank until you’re ready to use them.

To create my card, I stamped images from Tweet Friends and colored them with my copic markers. Using the coordinating dies, I cut them all out and set them aside to work on a background panel.

I ink blended sky and ground with distress oxide inks on a piece of white cardstock and splattered it with water. Once that was dry I came in with white paint splatter too. After the paint dried, I cut the panel to 3.75×5 inches and lined the back with foam tape.

Then I cut down a piece of patterned paper from one of my many MFT paper pads and glued it to a card base. After popping the inked panel up on the foam tape, I did the same with the images.

For finishing touches, I added stardust Stickles to the large flower centers and white gel pen highlights to all of the images. I also added black glaze pen to the bird’s eyes and glossy accents to the water in the bird bath and bird beaks.

Products used:
Tweet Friends stamps and dies
Colorful Canvas paper pad
Distress Oxide Ink – salvaged patina, twisted citron and mowed lawn
Stickles – stardust
Liquid glue
Touch of gloss
Foam tape and squares

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MFT Stamps – Hoppy Birthday

Hello everyone! I’m so excited that my most recent MFT Stamps order came late last week and I was able to play with these adorable frogs straight away! I went with the brown copic-friendly ink again because I just love the soft lines with these colors.

I started by choosing a few of the frogs in the set to stamp and color. Then I used the coordinating dies and cut them out. I had these squares from die cutting a grid backdrop earlier and I just couldn’t part with them because I knew they would make a cool background later on. Which I was right about!

I took a light yellow ink pad direct-to-paper before popping up each grid square with foam. Then I glued that panel to a white one, and finally a teal one. I used foam squares to add each of my frogs, double-stacked if they overhung a gab between the squares so everything laid flat.

Keeping with the softer feel, I stamped my sentiment in the same brown ink on kraft cardstock and cut it out with a banner die. Then I trimmed the left side flat and adhered it to the top row of squares with a foam strip.

For finishing touches I added a scattering of glitter enamel dots across the whole design.

I had so much fun pulling this together and working outside of the box of my normal feeling designs.

Products used:
MFT Hoppin’ Good Time stamps and dies
Mama Elephant Grid Cover die
Lawn Fawn Extra Sentiment Strip dies
Foam squares and strips
Lawn Fawn sunflower ink
Pink & Main enamel glitter dots
Liquid glue

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Twiddler’s Nook Spooktacular IG Hop

Happy 31st of the month everyone! We’re over on Instagram having another Spooktacular Hop to celebrate our love for all things spooky! I have been dying to share my card today. I had SO MUCH FUN creating it and couldn’t love the outcome more.

I’ll give you the deets on my card here but remember to comment on the IG hop for your chance to win!

I started by stamping and coloring the super cute critters and clouds from MFT Stamps Delightful Halloween. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and set them aside while I got super inky!

Next I grabbed distress oxide inks and inked up the front of my card base. I chose ripe persimmon, carved pumpkin and wild honey for an ombre up the panel. Then I spritzed the panel with water and blotted it dry, followed by black paint splatter for good measure.

Then I cut the MFT Stamps Trick or Treat sentiment out of a piece of light gray cardstock and glued it to my card base. I popped up my images with foam squares around the sentiment and finished things off with clay stars from the Twiddler’s Nook Sailor Moon embellishment mix.

Last, I tied twine around the top of the card and finished the images off with bits of glossy accents on the critter noses and pumpkin faces.

Products used:
Twiddler’s Nook Pressure Pal
Twiddler’s Nook Blending Brushes
Twiddler’s Nook Sailor Moon embellishment mix
Twiddler’s Nook Cloud Embellishment Tray
MFT Stamps Delightful Halloween stamps and dies
MFT Stamps Trick or Treat die
Liquid glue
Glossy accents
Foam squares
Distress Oxide Ink – ripe persimmon, carved pumpkin, wild honey

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MFT Stamps – Smile, You’re the Zest Shaker Card

Happy Thursday friends! I recently picked up the MFT Stamps Squeeze the Day stamp and die set. I’ve been eyeing it for a while and decided to treat myself for the heck of it. I also recently picked up a brown ink pad for copic coloring and was very excited to test it out. So these two things together equaled a fabulous mini crafting session.

I randomly chose a few of the Squeeze the Day images to stamp with the new brown ink, then colored them with copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut everything out and then I had some playing/deciding to do for an actual card design.

After rooting around in my MFT Stamps bin, I found the Big Smile die and thought it would be fun to create a shaker with my critters sitting on top. So I went to work. I die cut smile from a white panel measuring 4×5.25 inches and used it as a guide where to ink blend the yellow inks on my card front. I stamped my sentiment below the die cut window, then turned the panel into a shaker.

For that you add acetate to the back of the letter windows and foam tape around the whole panel. Sprinkle your shaker bits in the center of the area, remove the release paper from the foam and adhere it all together.

I mini splattered some brown ink across the card front before popping up all my images with foam squares. OMG! Isn’t this the cutest?!? I’m very attached. It might have to live in the craft room.

Products used:
MFT Stamps Squeeze the Day stamps and dies
MFT Stamps Big Smile die (retired, sorry)
Twiddler’s Nook crimped sequins
Foam tape and squares
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn ink – sunflower and butter, crunchy leaf (copic friendly)

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My Favorite Things – Sending Paper Hugs

Oh my word! I absolutely fell in love with these sweet pups from MFT Stamps the moment I saw them! It’s not often that I jump on the moment a release is live and snag something for fear of not getting it. These were one of those things. I love them so much!

So this weekend I carved out a little time to ink them up and play just a little bit. Isn’t he so serene just floating through the air!?! Adorable!

So, I stamped and colored everything with copic markers, then used coordinating dies to cut them out. I think technically my pup is flying the opposite way he should for the heart clouds but I still like it.

I cut a piece of 3.75×5 inch cardstock and stamped it with a retired MFT Stamps background stamp using a light teal ink. I also stamped my sentiment in the center bottom of the panel and then added my images with foam squares.

I took my Distress Oxide Lost Shadow ink pad direct to paper to create a gray card front before popping my decorated panel up with foam tape. Then I finished things off with glossy accents on the puppy’s nose and stardust Stickles on all the clouds.

I can’t wait to color all of the images in this set! I think they should be attached to paperclips to use at my desk. Don’t you? How happy would that be?!

Products used:
MFT Stamps Paper Planes stamps and dies
MFT Stamps All Lined Up Diagonally background stamp (retired)
Distress Oxide Ink – lost shadow
Lawn Fawn Ink – mermaid
Stickles – stardust
Glossy accents
Foam tape and squares

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The Sassy Club – Groovy Friends Box Card

Hi there! I have recently discovered a fun brand of stamps called The Sassy Club. She does a bunch of different fandom type sets plus some of her own and I just adore her artwork. I picked up a few sets that stood out to me and immediately ordered a second time once I played with the first order. Today I have a box card to share using a couple of sets I snagged.

I chose a combo of images from Groovy Friends and Groovy Van for my mini slimline box card. I colored everything with copic markers and used my scan-n-cut to cut them all out. I cut the parts of my box card from orange and green cardstocks and used distress oxide inks to give some shading.

I used liquid glue to assemble my box card and then also used it to add the images with some reverse tweezers to hold things in place for a minute or two.

I felt like things were sparse with just the images so I followed the groovy feel and glued some clay flowers to the hills with the characters to fill things in. I think it’s really fun and adds lots of interest to a pretty simple card.

Even with the little bit of embellishment bulk, the card folds flat and since I plan to hand deliver this card it won’t have to brave the USPS sorting machine so everything should work out just fine.

Products used:
Groovy Friends stamps
Groovy Van stamps
MFT Stamps Mini Slimline Outside the Box Card dies
Trinity Stamps Clay Flowers – Springtime Sugar Posies are closest to my old set
Distress Oxide Ink – mowed lawn and carved pumpkin
Bearly Art liquid glue
Scrappy Tape 1/4″

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Ellen Hutson – Sweet Spring Set of 4

Welcome everyone! I’m so glad you’re here! Today I’m playing with goodies from Ellen Hutson and a couple of MFT Stamps background stamps. I was inspired by Therese Calvird from the Ellen Hutson design team. Click HERE to see the card she shared that got my wheels turning.

Now, I don’t have the new skinny stripes background stamp from Ellen Hutson, or the background die but her background and use of that sweet bunny had me thinking. I do have a diagonal skinny stripe background from MFT Stamps and was able to stamp, rotate and stamp again to create my orange and green backgrounds. While I was digging for that stamp I found the sweet plaid background that I bought last year and love so much, so I couldn’t resist inking it up a couple of time too.

Then I proceeded to stamp a ton of images from Sweet Spring and color everything with my copic markers. I started with the bunny and a bundle of carrots like Therese’s card. Who could resist!?!

The second element I loved about her card was the speech bubble sentiment. It’s playful and lends itself to being more versatile outside of the Easter holiday. So I pulled out a couple of Ellen Hutson products to make my own.

The sentiments come from Small Sayings stamps, and the speech bubbles are from Heart Eyes stamps and dies which released in January.

Keeping with the sweet spring feel but not necessarily Easter, I put that cute fox in a flower pot surrounded by flower filled pots as well. Can’t you just see him popping up out of nowhere saying hello? I just love it!

All of the images have similar finishing touches with white gel pen accents, black glaze pen to open eyes and little bits of glossy accents on parts of the images like these flower centers.

This card is definitely more of an Easter feel but it’s so sweet that I just couldn’t resist. I love the bunny ears to dress up the critters and having him pop out of the egg was too cute!

I chose another generic sentiment for the front but will probably stamp something from the fun Ears to You stamp set on the inside before I mail it out.

Last but not least, these sweet chicks! They’re so fun walking in a line with the babies not following directions. The speech bubble and hearts both came from Heart Eyes. I seriously love this one!

I forgot to mention also, I trimmed the stamped backgrounds down to 4×5.25 inches and popped them up with foam tape for added dimension. If you’ve followed me for even just a minute, you know I love dimension on everything!