Fun with MFT...

Hello!  Hope your week is going well!  The other night I sat down and did some watercoloring with several different MFT stamp sets and today I'm sharing two cards that I made using those efforts.  First up is a card for this week's Paper Players challenge which is a lovely sketch.  I used smooth Bristol cardstock and Ranger distress markers to color up the sweet little girl with her umbrella from the MFT/Birdie Brown stamp set called Rain or Shine.  I was thinking of my little niece Kaia and her bright pink Ugg boots as I colored up this sweet little girl!  May just have to send this card to Kaia!  Once I was done I die cut her with the matching die.  Then I found patterned papers that would work with the colors I used for my little girl.  After cutting the rectangles and laying them out on my card base I decided to do a little stenciling with the MFT Mini Raindrop stencil using MFT Blue Breeze ink.  The sentiment was stamped on a strip of white cardstock that I die cut with an A Jillian Vance Design sentiment strip die and then I got to layering up all my elements.  To finish things off I added a little sun peeking out from behind the clouds.  I will also add this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes.

The second card features a little boy and his umbrella from the MFT/Birdie Brown set called Puddle Jumper.  This card was inspired by my little nephew Max.  He isn't old enough to actually jump in puddles, but I still couldn't help but think of him as I colored this little guy!  I used distress markers to color him, as well.  When he was finished I die cut him with his matching die.  The layout comes from the MFT sketch challenge.  I used the Mini Raindrops stencil on this card, as well.  But this time I used Ranger Texture Paste transparent gloss.  I love the fun shiny raindrops!  I die cut some green polka dot paper (from MFT) with an AJVD slippery slope die and adhered it to my card base.  The sentiment was stamped on another piece of MFT patterned paper and die cut with an MFT fishtail flag stax die.   I colored up a little puddle for my little boy to jump over and then adhered all the pieces to the card base.   May have to send this card off to him, too!

Hope you have a wonderful day!  Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:  Card #1:  Cardstock:  SU! blue, PTI  white, Smooth Bristol; Patterned paper:  MFT; Stamps:  MFT; Dies:  MFT, AJVD; Ink:  VersaFine, MFT; Watercolor medium:  Ranger distress markers; Stencil:  MFT

Card #2  Cardstock:  PTI white, Smooth Bristol; Patterned paper:  MFT; Stamps:  MFT; Dies:  MFT, AJVD; Watercolor Medium:  Ranger distress markers; Ink:  VersaFine, VersaFine CLAIR; Ranger texture paste

a card and two tags...

Hello!!  As my blog title says I have a card and two tags to share today.  First up is the card for the current MFT sketch challenge.  Making tags has been taking up all my time lately so I really wanted to get a card or two in this weekend.  When I saw the new MFT sketch an idea was hatched to use the snowflake stamps and dies from the MFT Snowflake Splendor kit.  I used the largest die in the set that is intended to die cut a stamped snowflake and created a window with it in a panel of white cardstock I die cut with an AJVD backdrop rectangle die.  I then adhered the panel to a white cardstock base with removal adhesive and stamped the snowflake using my mini MISTI to get good alignment.  I then die cut all the pieces for a matching snowflake using cardstock in a colors similar to the ink colors.  All the pieces were adhered together and then attached to the panel above the stamped snowflake.  The sentiment from Snow Globe Sentiments was stamped on vellum, heat embossed in white, trimmed down and adhered with rolled up glue dots.  As I was adhering the sentiment strip I did think that I could have turned the window into a shaker element.   Oh well... maybe next time.   I will also add this to the current SIP challenge of let it snow.

The tags are for Ellen Hutson's 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist.  First up is a tag for day 4... watercoloring.  I used the beautiful Simon Says Stamp Stained Glass Greetings.  I die cut the tag from watercolor paper and then stamped the Love sentiment in watermark ink and embossed it in white.  I used Daniel Smith watercolors from the Shari Carroll and Debby Hughes (one color from each) palettes to color the letters and around the letters for a really soft look.  The other sentiments were stamped in black on white cardstock and trimmed out.  I loved the way Sandy added vellum to her project, but knew because my coloring was so soft adding an overlay like Sandy did would completely obscure everything.  So I brought in some vellum by die cutting little snowflakes from vellum and silver cardstock and adding them to the tag.  Each snowflake had a little silver PPP sequin added to the center as well.  Since I used some Simon Says Stamp products I will be adding this tag to the current SSS flickr challenge of anything goes.

The second tag is for day 6 to use purple, green and gray.  I was totally inspired by Kittie's gorgeous tag and tried my hand at making some little purple poinsettias.  I have some older Spellbinders poinsettia dies that I knew would work well for making my tiny poinsettias.  I pulled them out and die cut them from the purple cardstock and then tried to shape them as best I could.  The leaves were die cut using a slightly larger poinsettia die from the set.  I adhered them together and then added some Nuvo Jewel Drops in Lemoncello to the centers and let everything dry.  The tag is from Reverse Confetti, as is the gray piece layered on top to look like lattice.  The sentiment is from the Essentials by Ellen Merry & Bright stamp set and was stamped in gray ink.  I adhered the flowers and then added the purple ribbon tied with white and gray baker's twine.   My poinsettia's aren't as well done as Kittie's, but I think they turned out rather nice! This one will be going into the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of gift it.

Six tags down... six to go!!  Have a wonderful day!!

Supplies:  Card:  Cardstock:  MFT white, SU! aqua, turquoise, MFT light blue, PTI vellum; Stamps:  MFT; Dies:  MFT, ODBD and AJVD

Tag 1:  Cardstock:  Ranger watercolor, PTI white; Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp; Dies:  ODBD (tag), Stampin Up!; Watercolors:  Daniel Smith; Embossing powder:  Hero Arts; Ink:  VersaMark and VersaFine

Tag 2:  Cardstock:  PTI white, dark green, SU! purple and gray; Stamps:  Essentials by Ellen; Dies:  Spellbinders and Reverse Confetti; Ribbon:  PTI; Baker's Twine:  The Twinery; Nuvo Jewel Drops; Ink:  VersaFine