Welcome! I needed a quick birthday card earlier this week and grabbed my MFT Stamps Painted Flowers stamp set to make a bright birthday bouquet.
A little bit of layered stamping paired with coordinating dies made the birthday bouquet pretty quick and easy! Thanks for stopping by today,
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Welcome! It's time for the January My Favorite Things Stamps Release Replay, and I have a Brushstroke Blooms card to share today. I hadn't had a chance to play with this one during release week, and you know how much I love flower sets!
I kept it simple--pink and peach tones with soft greenery, and two colors for inking my sentiment stamp to give it some pizazz. Have you gotten some new My Favorite Things Stamps this month? If so, you'll want to see what the team has come up with since the January release.
Thanks for visiting, and be sure to visit the MFT Stamps blog for complete list of the participants in the January Release Replay!
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Welcome! It's that time--January My Favorite Things Stamps Release time, that is! I saved my Monster Sized card for tonight because I loved making this one and liked how it turned out too. I could see this set making really cute Valentines cards, even if your little kids colored them. I wanted to use red/pink/orange hues on this little guys.
Shown above are the Copic markers that I used. (I know that this format is different from what I usually use for Copic Color Maps, but I needed to show which monster had which colors, and two of them were red families.)
Seriously, who could NOT have fun coloring these little monsters?
All of the new January 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!
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Release Day for My Favorite Things Stamps is almost here! Tuesday evening at 9pm Eastern time, all of the January products will be available. I chose the Stitched Heart Peek-a-Boo Window Die-namics to feature tonight because I wanted to make a shaker card as an encouragement card for a friend.
Stamps sets that I used were Deepest Sympathy and Painted Flowers--both from previous releases.
In addition to the products that I've shared here, there are several fabulous new products being showcased today; I hope you get a chance to visit the MFT Stamps Blog for a complete list of designers playing along with today's new products AND to enter for prizes! Remember that while all MFT products that I used are linked below, the NEW product links won't be live until Release time--that's Tuesday, January 9, at 9pm Eastern time. All other links should work now. Thank you for stopping by today,
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Welcome to Day 2 of the My Favorite Things Stamps January Release Countdown! At 9pm Eastern time on Tuesday, January 9, the January release will be live and all of the new products shown in the past few days will be available. I chose to use the new Marble Background and Valentine Wishes Stamps. The background stamp made getting a marbleized look virtually mess-free! For inks, I used some Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks including Spiced Marmalade, Worn Lipstick, and Picked Raspberry. (This was my first stamp impression. I sprayed the stamp with water and got a second much looser background from the same inking.)
In addition to the ones that I've shared here, there are several fabulous new products being showcased today; I hope you get a chance to visit the MFT Stamps Blog for a complete list of designers playing along with today's new products AND to enter for prizes! Remember that while all MFT products that I used are linked below, the NEW product links (marked with an asterisk) won't be live until Release time--that's late tomorrow night (Tuesday, November 7) at 9pm Eastern time. All other links should work now. Thank you for stopping by today,
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Welcome to Day 3 of the My Favorite Things Stamps January Release Countdown! I chose to use the Pure Innocence Blowing Kisses stamp set since I like coloring sweet little girls. :-)
Shown above are the Copic Sketch markers that I used to color the Blowing Kisses image. I airbrushed the background lightly with Copic G02 and W3 Sketch markers. The W3 was used to ground her, and the the G02 to to provide some pale contrasting color with the Reds and Red-Violets in her dress.
I used two different colors from the Bundles of Blossoms Brights paper pad on my card, and I shaded the edges of the paper-pieced skirt with warm grays to give it a rounded shape.
In addition to the ones that I've shared here, there are several fabulous new products being showcased today; I hope you get a chance to visit the MFT Stamps Blog for a complete list of designers playing along with today's new products AND to enter for prizes! Remember that while all MFT products that I used are linked below, the NEW product links won't be live until Release time--that's late Tuesday evening (January 9) at 9pm Eastern time. All other links should work now. Thank you for stopping by today,
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Welcome to day four of the My Favorite Things Stamps January Release Countdown! I chose the Viking stamp set to work with today because I think he's awesome! (And I have a friend for whom I need to color one in purple and gold one of these days too--yes, for a Vikings fan!)
Shown above are the Copic Sketch markers that I used to color the Viking image. I airbrushed a simple background using the Mini Cloud Edges Stencil and my Copic markers and airbrush system. For the water and beach, I used just a post it note--easy!
Seriously, how cool is he? Unghhh, UNGHHH!
While I have linked all products that I used below, the links to the NEW product links will not be live links until release night, 9pm Eastern Time, Tuesday, January 9. All of the other links should work now. Be sure to check the MFT Stamps blog for more January Release inspiration AND for a chance to win some great prizes! Thank you for visiting,
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Welcome! Yes, more late Christmas cards. . . but most of these I can pass out after church , so I'm still good there, right? :-} When I realized I needed a few more, I wanted to use a different sentiment. I was also in a pink mood. No surprise there. . .
I lettered this verse using my Apple Pencil on my iPad Pro (Procreate app) when I was practicing one evening, so all I had to do was to change the color, save it as a jpg file, and print it out. I placed six of them in a Word document so that I could print out two pages and have enough. I am giving that document to you, if you'd like it--it's attached here: Download For Unto You is Born_Deb Olson. (I left off the "Merry Christmas from the Olson family part.) Fine print: This is for your personal use, not for sale. Enjoy! I should also tell you that I used digital paper that I purchased HERE, Carina Gardner's La Petite Paperie Marguerite. I printed them at 8" square since that was as large as my inkjet would print, then got two cards out of each 8" x 8" piece, saving the scraps for contrasting patterns.
I probably won't be posting in the next few days. But that's okay--you probably won't be looking at blog posts anyway. ;-) The Merriest of Christmases to you and your loved ones!
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Welcome! I'm popping in for one quick post. I have to admit that I've made fewer cards this year than I have made in YEARS. It's been a crazy Fall and early Winter, and my crafting mojo has been hiding somewhere. (If you see it, send it home, okay?) But the flip side of that missing crafting mojo is that my floors are clean. Really clean. ;-)
Since I had mailed only ONE card prior to today, I knew that I had to get at least a handful made. I also knew that I didn't have time to color any detailed images. (My apologies go out to my Copics.) So I simply reduced and printed out some of the lettering projects that I have done in the last few weeks as I practiced lettering in preparation for my last official Copic Lettering class in Phoenix in January. Some were in eggplant tones, some in blues, some in teals, and most in red. And I pulled out the patterned paper ghosts of Christmas past--mostly because I was too Scrooge-y to buy new paper this year when I still had five-year old paper in my closet. . . (Seriously, it's almost time for some new paper.) I got probably 20 cards made. That's not many, but it's 20 more than I would have had! I still have a few to send out tomorrow, and a few to hand out at church on Sunday. Late? Yes. But remember, my floors are clean. . . ;-}
I hope that YOU have been much more motivated than I have. Merry Christmas!
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Welcome! It's time for the December My Favorite Things Stamps Release Replay, and I have another Meant to Bee card to share today.
Here's the inside of my card. After I die-cut the dome window for the front of my card, I didn't want to waste it; so it became the focal starting point for the inside.
For the outside, I airbrushed the white background with a couple of Copic markers (BG02 and YG13) after I lightly marked in pencil the area that I need to be sure was covered. I had also stamped the beehive a pale gray ink for placement purposes so that I'd know how and where it would work in my window.
The rest of the images were all stamped in black ink and colored with Copics (listed below in the supply list), then attached with foam tape. I coated the bees' wings with fine glitter and added a sprinkling of clear sparkling sequins to accessorize my card front.
Thanks for visiting, and be sure to visit the MFT Stamps blog for complete list of the participants in the December Release Replay!
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Welcome! It's that time--December My Favorite Things Stamps Release time, that is! I saved a simple Christmas card to share today. When I saw the Our Town Die-namics, I knew that I wanted to create a snow scene on a clear winter night.
My challenge was to take a straight line of houses and figure out how to curve them to the snowy hill. I started by die-cutting my snowy hills and the row of house--Our Town Die-namics.
Next I tried clipping the curve like you would when you are sewing a sleeve into a garment, but that left some of the houses overlapping one another in the curves. So I simply cut them apart and glued them onto the back of the hill individually, leaving appropriate space between each house.
With the town hugging the hill, I still needed a pretty sky. Copic airbrush, anyone? (Actually, you could probably do something very similar with Distress Inks if you are good at blending/applying those.) I used the Copic Sketch markers shown above starting at the bottom with the lightest marker and working my way up toward the darkest marker. (I kept the colors lighter near the horizon since lights from the earth would probably make the lower sky look lighter.)
It still needed something, and my old standby the tiny bow didn't work out for me. Eureka! I had STAR sequins--and that was just what it needed--a star, with a tiny rhinestone in the middle!
All of the new December 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!
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Release Day for My Favorite Things Stamps is almost here! Tuesday evening at 9pm Eastern time, all of the December products will be available. Today I have a sweet floral card to share using the new More Rustic Wildflowers stamp set.
I die-cut my front panel, then lightly airbrushed it with a Copic Y32, leaving the Stitched Scallop Basic Edges 2 Die-namic in place to mask the edge of the scallop from the ink.
Next I stamped, die-cut, and arranged my flowers. After using foam tape to attach them to the airbrushed base, I added Nuvo Jewel Drops and sequins to accessorize my card. The gray dotted base panel is from Gray and White Basics Paper Pack.
In addition to the products that I've shared here, there are several fabulous new products being showcased today; I hope you get a chance to visit the MFT Stamps Blog for a complete list of designers playing along with today's new products AND to enter for prizes! Remember that while all MFT products that I used are linked below, the NEW product links won't be live until Release time--that's Tuesday, December 5, at 9pm Eastern time. All other links should work now. Thank you for stopping by today,
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