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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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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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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Hello there! It’s time for #tagtimesaturday and today we’re keeping it super simple and adorably punny! You know I love critters and puns; my daughter is no different. So today I’m using the fun MFT Stamps Best Friend Faces dies with their Trendy Tag and Best Friends Furever sentiment stamps.

Our cats are far from this color but I just had to make a fun orange kitty tag today, partially because my daughter’s school colors are orange and black. I cut two tags – orange and white. On the orange one, I die cut the kitty face and then glued the tags together. This made it simple to inlay the little face details after cutting them from black and pink cardstock. There is a die in the Best Friend Faces set for cheeks and I made sure to add those too.

Once the face was all put together and had an afterthought to ink blend a little depth on the edges. So I carefully added darker orange blending around the sides before popping my sentiment up with foam strips. Then I cut some twine and threaded it through the loop.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to the eyes and nose, and stardust Stickles to the cheeks for some sparkle. It’s very simple but so cute and sure to make her smile!

Products used today:
MFT Stamps Best Friend Faces dies
MFT Stamps Best Friends Furever stamps
MFT Stamps Trendy Tag dies
Bearly Art liquid glue
Glossy accents
Stickles – stardust
Foam strips
Blending brush

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Welcome everyone! Today I have a really simple and fun shaker card to share with you using MFT Stamps products. Then at the end I have a bonus card to share using leftover die cuts I had from the first card. They’re both so much fun and so festive!

I knew I wanted to make a shaker card with the Be Merry dies so I chose my cardstock, die cut a smaller rectangle and then cut the Be Merry from that. Be sure to se those letters aside, especially the little center pieces too! We’ll need it all in the end.

Line the back of your rectangle with tear tape and adhere acetate over the letter openings. Then add foam strips to create a well for your shaker bits. Sprinkle whatever you like – my daughter chose Snowy Day from my shop and blue sequins from our stash – then seal it up with white cardstock that’s about a half inch larger than the panel.

Stamp some adorable penguins from Polar Opposites (this set is retired but use whatever cute critters you have) and color them with copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and popped them up over the words with foam squares. I used liquid glue to adhere the inside bits to my letters and then added the shaker mechanism to a white card base.

For finishing touches I added a bit of star dust Stickles to penguin’s hat and shirt, black glaze pen to their eyes and glossy accents to their beaks and feet.

Now, remember those letters we kept from the very beginning die cutting? Let’s not let those go to waste either!

I started by cutting the letters from white cardstock using some scraps 3 more times and glued them together for height and stability. Then I chose an ombre of green to white cardstock from my stash and cut 1/4 inch strips of each one. I adhered them all to a piece of copy paper and trimmed it down to fit on my card base.

Next, I did a little ink blending on my die cut letters to give them some shading at the bottom and mirrored the effect on an A2 piece of the same color cardstock that will go on my card front. I adhered the letters with liquid glue and added foam tape to the strips to pop it up on the red cardstock.

Then I glued the whole panel to a white card base and came in with my Wink of Stella glitter brush pen on the top layer of my letters. This subtle shimmer is super pretty but doesn’t detract from the fun design with all those holiday stripes!

I hope you enjoyed this cards today and find some holiday inspiration!

Products used:
MFT Stamps Polar Opposites stamps and dies
MFT Stamps Be Merry dies
Pink & Main Layered Rectangles dies
Twiddler’s Nook Snowy Day embellishments
Foam strips and squares
Liquid glue
Wink of Stella glitter brush pen
Stickles – star dust
Glossy accents

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Hello everyone. Thanks for stopping in today. I recently made a few purchases from MFT Stamps and have been playing with a set here and there when I have a moment. Today I have a card featuring one of those stamp sets and the mini slimline outside the box level up dies that I also snagged finally!

For some reason I really fell in love with these sweet critters from the Outdoor Adventures stamp set. I stamped the images, plus lots of extra grass patches, and colored everything with my copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and set them aside to work on my box card pieces.

I cut the main pieces from a yellow dot texture cardstock in my stash and the stitched panels from green. Then I cut a snow drift insert to act as my water and a grassy hill insert for my ground. The back panel is cut from the same blue as the water but I inked the edges with different colors to offset them a bit.

I stamped the sentiment from the You Make My Days Sunshiny stamp set on the stitched panel and then started assembling everything. I used scrappy tape for all of the box pieces and liquid glue to add the images to the inserts.

Once everything was together, the sky looked really sparse so I went digging and found the sunshine and clouds in the same set as the sentiment so I stamped, colored and cut them out too. I think that really finishes off this fun scene, don’t you?

Products used today:
Mini Slimline Outside the Box Level Up dies
Mini Slimline Outside the Box Snow Drifts dies
Mini Slimline Outside the Box Grassy Hills dies
You Make My Days Sunshiny stamps
Outdoor Adventures stamps and dies
Scrappy tape – 1/4 inch
Bearly Art liquid glue

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