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Owl-ways on My Mind: MFT New Product Launch

Welcome! It's Release Night for My Favorite Things Stamps, and I have a Critter Clan card to share with you. I chose the owl for my focal image because I loved his big, surprised eyes! I created a forest-y looking background with the Distressed Patterns stamp set, combined with some Copic-airbrushed sky. Next I used the Die-namics Birch Trees to add some dimensional trees on top of my stamped background.

Shown above are the Copic markers that I used to color the owl image.

All of the new March products are now available, and the links below should all work. Each of the MFT Design Team members will have projects to share tonight, so please check out the MFT Stamps Blog for many more cool projects and products, as well as a chance to win fabulous prizes. Good luck, and thanks for visiting!

Critter Clan	Die-namics Critter Clan	Distressed Patterns	Die-namics Birch Trees
Die-namics Blueprints 15	Die-namics Stitched Rounded Rectangle Frames	Die-namics Blueprints 31	Blending Card by X-Press It
Gumdrop Green Card Stock	Natural Heavyweight Card Stock	Kraft Collection - Solid Stripes Paper Pack	Hybrid Ink Pad Black Licorice
Hybrid Ink Pad Jellybean Green	Hybrid Ink Pad Kraft	Mini Multi Medium Matte Glue	Foam Mounting Tape 1/2"

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Super-Cute Laundry: MFT Release Day 2

Welcome! It's Day Two of the My Favorite Things Stamps March Release. I was so glad that a baby set came out this month, because I've needed two baby cards! I just adore the Bundle of Baby Clothes Die-namics paired with the Welcome Baby sentiments. I used mostly the Sweet Celebration paper pad to die cut the clothing pieces and airbrushed a coordinating sky for those clothes to dry under. (Yes, I've just ordered my second Sweet Celebration pad--it's been well-loved and used!)

 

I kept the inside simple, using up the rest of the die cuts that didn't fit on my card front.

And that little die cut bow, not to mention clothespins and hanger?? {{{Love them!}}} 

While I linked all MFT products below, the links to the NEW release products will not work until Release Night, Tuesday at 9pm, Eastern, on March 7. (All other links should work now.) Be sure to to visit the MFT Stamps blog to enter for today's prize, and to see a full list of links for the DT members showcasing today's release sets! Thanks for stopping by today,

LLD Welcome, Baby	Die-namics LLD Bundle of Baby Clothes	Die-namics Inside & Out Stitched Rounded Rectangle STAX	Die-namics Blueprints 15
Smooth White Card Stock	Watercolor Wash Paper Pack	Sweet Celebration Paper Pack	Nuvo Glitter Drops - White Blizzard
3 mm Sparkling Clear Sequins	Foam Mounting Tape 1/2"	Hybrid Ink Pad Blu Raspberry	Mini Multi Medium Matte Glue

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Showering You with Love: MFT Release Day 3

Welcome! It's day three of the My Favorite Things Stamps Release Countdown!, and I have card to share using the darling little Showering you with Love stamp set! I decided to do some paper piecing, combined with my Copic markers for this piece.

Shown above are the Copic markers that I used to color the Showering you with Love image. Patterend papers were from the MFT Sweet Celebration paper pack, and I shaded on top of the patterned paper with the colors shown above.

Keep in mind that while I linked all MFT products below, the links to the NEW release products will not work until Release Night, 9pm, EST on Tuesday, March 7. (All other links should work now.) 

I hope you have time to check out the MFT Stamps Blog for a complete list of participants in today's countdown and to enter for prizes there! Thanks for stopping by today,

Pure Innocence Showering You with Love	Die-namics PI Showering You with Love	Die-namics Blueprints 15	Die-namics Inside & Out Stitched Rounded Rectangle STAX	Sweet Celebration Paper Pack
Smooth White Card Stock	Blending Card by X-Press It	Hybrid Ink Pad Black Licorice	Mini Multi Medium Matte Glue	Foam Mounting Tape 1/2"

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Thank You Take Out: MFT Release Day 4

Welcome to Day Four of the My Favorite Things Stamps March Release Countdown! Do you like Chinese food? I love it, and sometimes my teenager humors me and asks to eat at our local Chinese restaurant. When I saw the MFT Good Fortune stamp set, I knew I wanted to make a card reminiscent of Chinese takeout! 

I used the silver foil cardstock for the handle, and white birch adhesive backed sheet for the chopsticks. The fortune cookies are just die cut from Natural cardstock and then sponged with distress ink; one of them is stuffed with a fortune that can be pulled out and pushed back in place. I airbrushed the background lightly with a Copic BG05 marker, and then spritzed a scrap of burlap with Colorless Blender and laid it on the airbrushed area to create texture. Could be a fun set, right? 

 As always during release week, the new items shown will be available on release evening, Tuesday at 9pm, Eastern, on March 7. Links for new supplies at the bottom of the page will work then; all other links should work now. Thank you for stopping by tonight, and I hope you get a chance to visit the MFT Stamps Blog for a complete list of participants in today's release blog hop, as well as for information on how to enter the prize drawing on the MFT Stamps Blog!

Good Fortune	Die-namics Chinese Takeout	Die-namics Blueprints 31	Smooth White Card Stock
Natural Heavyweight Card Stock	Wild Cherry Card Stock	Silver Foil Card Stock	White Birch Wood Adhesive-Backed Sheet
Cherry Crisp Premium Dye Ink Pad	Hybrid Ink Pad Black Licorice	Foam Mounting Tape 1/2"	Quickie Glue Pen
Mini Multi Medium Matte Glue

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Your "Piggest" Fan: MFT Release Countdown Day 5

Welcome! It's Day 5 of the March My Favorite Things Stamps Release Countdown, and I'll have several cards to share over the next few days. Today's uses the Sow Much Cuteness stamps and Die-namics--pretty much self-explanatory there! I love this little guy, who just can't contain himself. In fact, he's jumped up and down so much that his little hooves have plowed up the ground! ;-)

Shown above are the Copic Sketch Markers that I used to color the Sow Much Cuteness image and background. (The background is just sketched in--not part of the stamp set.)

In addition to Sow Much Cuteness, I also used the new Mesh Background stamp. It's a staple, so I'm sure you'll see it here again!

While I linked all MFT products below, the links to the NEW release products will not work until Release Night, Tuesday at 9pm, Eastern, on March 7. (All other links should work now.) Be sure to to visit the MFT Stamps blog to enter for today's prize, and to see a full list of links for the DT members showcasing today's release sets! Thanks for stopping by today,

Sow Much Cuteness	Die-namics Sow Much Cuteness	BG Mesh Background	Die-namics Blueprints 13
Die-namics Blueprints 15	Heavyweight Card Stock Insulation Pink	Bubblegum Card Stock	Natural Heavyweight Card Stock
Hybrid Ink Pad Bubblegum	4mm Clear Droplets	Foam Mounting Tape 1/2"	Mini Multi Medium Matte Glue

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Sketched Blooms Thanks Flap Card

Welcome! I've been working on my MFT March release cards for the last few days, trying to get finished before my Copic teaching trip to Dallas this coming Thursday. Tonight I finally wrapped it up and had a chance to make something that I could share now. Last month I hadn't had a chance to use the MFT Stamps Sketched Blooms 2 stamp set, nor had I ever used the Blueprints Die-namics 28 either. Well, now I've remedied that! ;-)

I knew that I wanted to use patterned paper on my thank you card for a special friend's mother, but I was concerned that using a flapped die might now work well without a more substantial weight of paper for the flap. To alleviate the problem of thinner patterned paper, I used my X-Press It 1/4" High Tack Double Sided Tape to adhere my patterned paper layer to a layer of cardstock before cutting the flapped card front. By using high tack tape rather than glue, I didn't have to worry about getting stickiness all over my die--always a good thing. (And at $3.95 for 55 yards, it's a good deal too!) Patterned paper is the Tranquil Textures paper pack.

My next issue was that I wanted to add dimension to the layer under the flap, so I knew that I needed to use foam tape to lift that flapped layer to make room for the dimensional layers underneath the flap. Here I used the X-Press It 1/2" High Tack Foam Tape.  I go through my share of foam tape. . .

Next I masked an area on my card base that was slightly larger than the window opening of my flap and used my Copic Airbrush System  to create a background on which to stamp flowers. Here I've use BG05 for most of the sky and B63 toward the bottom. (I ended up adding some G43 a little later to the very bottom as well.)

Similarly, I airbrushed the inside left, bottom corner so that I could stamp coordinating flowers inside my card. (I should have masked the top flap where it was scored--you can see where I managed to get some overspray of the BG05 there.  Oops. . .)

Here's what my card looks like when you lift the front flap. (I didn't realize when I picked this stamp set that it doesn't have a coordinating die set: that meant I had to fussy-cut the two stems that I wanted to be raised.)

And here is the inside.

I'll probably play with flap cards again in the future--they're fun, and I'm pretty sure that my friend's mom will like it! Thanks for stopping by today,

Vintage Easter Egg: Power Poppy Instant Garden

Welcome! I'm back today with a new digital release from Power Poppy Stamps, Vintage Easter Egg. I've recently visited Georgia and South Carolina for a several days, and it was certainly Spring-y there! While I was away, quite a bit of our snow melted here at home to;, but never fear, we got more today. :-) It's still okay for me to use Spring colors on this Vintage Easter Egg, right?

In addition to the Vintage Easter Egg image with a sentiment, there is also an image with a blank tag so that you can personalize the egg tag for your favorite little person.

Shown above are the Copic markers that I used to color the Vintage Easter Egg image and background. 

I colored an extra tag and large flower so that I could raise those image parts with foam tape for some added dimension.

If you get a chance, please be sure to visit the following blogs for more Vintage Easter Egg-iness! 

Power Poppy Blog

Barb Walker

Jessie Banks

Nancy Sheads

Thank you for visiting today,

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Supplies Used:

Image: Vintage Easter Egg (Power Poppy Stamps Instant Garden)

Cardstock: X-Press It Blending Card, Smooth White (MFT), Grapesicle (MFT), Cool Cucumber (MFT).

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Copic Markers (all listed in post)

Dies: Blueprints 13, Blueprints 15, Inside and Out Stitched Oval STAX (All MFT Die-namics)

A Beautiful Day: MFT Beautiful Butterflies Kit RELEASE

Welcome! It's release night, and the My Favorite Things Stamps Beautiful Butterflies Kit is now available. My third card is a soft pink and gray concoction: I really wanted to use vellum layers on butterflies for one of my cards, and pale pink and vellum just seemed to be happy together. :-)

I layered two pink inks (Tickled Pink and Cotton Candy) and a pale gray ink (Cement Gray) to stamp the butterflies. Next I layered plain, die-cut vellum butterflies over the top of stamped, die-cut butterflies and then ran a line of glitter glue down the center line of the raised butterflies. Easy -peasy! (But my card does require a larger than normal envelope.)

Be sure to stop by the MFT Stamps Blog for more inspiration using the Beautiful Butterflies kit! Thanks for visiting,

Beautiful Butterflies Card Kit	Premium Dye Ink Pad Cotton Candy	Die-namics Blueprints 25	Tickled Pink Premium Dye Ink Pad
Smooth White Card Stock	Translucent Vellum	Cement Gray Hybrid Ink Pad	Cement Gray Prestige Card Stock
Tickled Pink Prestige Card Stock	Nuvo Glitter Drops - White Blizzard	Foam Mounting Tape 1/2"	Scotch Quick Dry Tacky Glue

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So Special: MFT Beautiful Butterflies Kit Countdown Day 2

Welcome! It's Day 2 of the My Favorite Things Stamps Beautiful Butterflies Kit Countdown. I went a different--and less colorful--direction with today's Beautiful Butterflies card because I needed a card for a more subdued occasion. It's a good thing that butterflies are versatile! ;-)

I paired the butterflies with the new Denim background stamp to give subtle texture to my background, finishing with the sentiment heat embossed on a simple gray banner.

I hope you get a chance to visit the MFT Stamps blog for a complete list of participants in the Beautiful Butterflies Countdown--I know that you'll see some great ideas! Thank you for visiting today,

Beautiful Butterflies Card Kit	Die-namics Blueprints 15	Die-namics Stitched Fishtail Flag STAX	Peach Bellini Prestige Card Stock
Gravel Gray Prestige Card Stock	Steel Grey Card Stock	BG Denim Background	Smooth White Card Stock
In the Buff Premium Dye Ink Pad	Peach Bellini Premium Dye Ink Pad	Coral Crush Premium Dye Ink Pad	Nuvo Glitter Drops - White Blizzard

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Thank You: MFT Beautiful Butterflies Kit Countdown Day 1

Welcome! It's almost February Kit Release time for My Favorite Things Stamps. Are you a butterfly lover? If so, then this month's Beautiful Butterflies kit may be for you!

I've kept this card pretty simple, as long as you have light and dark ink pairs for two-toned stamping. I used an older background stamp set, Distressed Patterns, to pull in more color that coordinated with my butterflies, and used a splash of gray for the cardstock on which I stamped my sentiment.

I hope you get a chance to visit the MFT Stamps blog to see more inspiration with the Beautiful Butterflies Card Kit! Thank you for visiting today,

Beautiful Butterflies Card Kit	Distressed Patterns	Die-namics Blueprints 13	Foam Mounting Tape 1/2"	Smooth White Card Stock
Cement Gray Prestige Card Stock	Gravel Gray Premium Dye Ink Pad	Orange Zest Premium Dye Ink Pad	Hybrid Ink Pad Orange Fizz	Hybrid Ink Pad Lemon Drop
Lemon Chiffon Premium Dye Ink Pad	Ripe Raspberry Premium Dye Ink Pad	Premium Dye Ink Pad Cotton Candy	Sour Apple Premium Dye Ink Pad	Limelight Premium Dye Ink Pad
Periwinkle Premium Dye Ink Pad	Grapesicle Premium Dye Ink Pad

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A Tweet Friendship: MFT Release Replay

Welcome! It's time for the My Favorite Things Stamps February Release Replay, and I have another Purr-Fect Friends card to share.  My last one involved mostly cats, so I thought I would play with the bird images from Purr-Fect Friends on this card. 

Shown above are the Copic markers that I used to color the Purr-Fect Friends images. I put just a bit of airbrushed BG53 on both the cage die-cut and the area behind it, with no masking needed.

I used paper from the Fresh Squeezed Chevron pack for my background, along with a frame cut with the new Single Stitch Line Rounded Rectangle Frames. On the inside, I continued with the rest of the sentiment from the front, "Makes My Heart Sing." 

I hope you get a chance to visit the MFT Stamps blog, where you will find links to all of the other Release Replay posts for February! Thank you for visiting today,

Purr-fect Friends	Die-namics Purr-fect Friends	Die-namics Single Stitch Line Rounded Rectangle Frames	Die-namics Blueprints 27
Die-namics Blueprints 25	Blending Card by X-Press It	Smooth White Card Stock	Black Licorice Prestige Card Stock
Gravel Gray Prestige Card Stock	Hybrid Ink Pad Black Licorice	Versamark Ink Pad	White Detail Embossing Powder
Fresh Squeezed Chevron Paper Pack	3 mm Sparkling Clear Sequins	Foam Mounting Tape 1/2"	Nuvo Glitter Drops - White Blizzard

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Our Friendship: MFT Release Night

Welcome! It's February Reveal Day for My Favorite Things Stamps: all of the new goodies that you've been seeing online for the past few days are now available. I played with the new Purr-Fect Friends set tonight. I loved the contrast between a plainer cat and one that's "da bomb" because, honestly, one out there cat is about all any friendship can take!

Shown above are the Copic markers that I used on the Purr-Fect Friends images.

I used a small strip of patterned paper from the Rainbow Stripes paper pack to give a little pizzazz to the bottom of my card, and I airbrushed a little blue atmosphere and some cool gray shadows on the background as well.

Again, all of the new February products are now available, and the links below should all work. Each of the MFT Design Team will have projects to share tonight, so please check out the MFT Stamps Blog for many more cool projects and products, as well as a chance to win fabulous prizes by commenting on the MFT DT New Product Release posts by the end of the day on Thursday, February 9. Good luck, and thanks for visiting,

 

Purr-fect Friends	Die-namics Purr-fect Friends	Die-namics Blueprints 27	Blending Card by X-Press It	Smooth White Card Stock
Black Licorice Prestige Card Stock	Rainbow Stripes Paper Pack	Hybrid Ink Pad Black Licorice	Versamark Ink Pad	White Detail Embossing Powder
Quickie Glue Pen	Cool Diamond Microfine Glitter	Foam Mounting Tape 1/2"

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