Hello Fall card

Todays card is a fun technique using the Simon Says Stamp October card kit and stamps from Unity Stamp Co.

I used the alcohol ink in the kit and the lift ink stamp pad to create the background and the my zig markers on this sweet fall image from Unity Stamps to create a fast watercolored image to go with my background. The hello die is a Lawn Fawn and I cut it a few times from black card stock to make it stand out more on the card.

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Frightfully Sweet Halloween

Its almost October!!

Today Im using up the last of my Frightfully Sweet stamps from MFT 

that I had colored and die cut a couple of weeks ago. I love these little guys but its time to move on to some new fun Halloween goodies coming in the mail soon!

Shaker cards are so fun

The door opens to reveal the full bunny handing out candy

I couldn't resist a treat box

Below is the video link showing the process and the material used to create these fun projects.

New Lawn Fawn yay!

I love this stamp set.. you can mix and match soooo many stamp sets to create some adorable scenes.

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So Many Snowmen

A little head start on winter. I have been waiting to play with this stamp and today was the perfect day for a cup of warm coffee, lots of snowmen and my Prismacolor pencils.

For the background I used my Distress Oxide inks in Faded Jeans, Stormy Sky and Black soot. Spritz it with a bit of water and then added a ton of snow using a white gel pen. I wanted them to be peeking in through a window as if to say "come out and play" 

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Pop it up Challenge

Here is my entry to the Simon Says Stamp Pop it up Challenge. For this card I used my reverse layering technique (Video is in editing right now) to create this cute card featuring MFTstamps puddle jumper stamp.

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Reverse Layering

Today's card is also for the MFTstamps Superstar challenge. This is my clean and simple entry.

I tried to angle my camera so its easy to see the layers so hopefully you can make them out. I stamped and colored my images then using the coordinating dies I cut a second panel around the stamped images and popped it up for a reverse layer effect. I will do a video showing how to do this because I don't feel the pictures show how beautiful these cards turn out.

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Two Way Slider Card

I created this two way slider card for the Innovation Master Challenge over on the MFTstamps blog.

I wanted my slider to pull my Frightfully Sweet critters up the hills to trick or treat at houses on the top of each hill....BIG ideas...tiny little space. so instead they are heading for the candy buckets instead. Maybe houses next time on a much larger card base.

I want to thank MFT for inspiring me to create every month with awesome challenges that make me think outside of the box and sometimes outside of my creative comfort zone. This was a blast to make and I hope it inspires others to take it to the next level.

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Here is a link to the video. I pull the tab in the beginning of the video so you dont have to wait till the end :)

Thinking of You

I think we should all have a little stash of these types of cards on hand for just in case occasions so here are a few I made using the flower stamps in this months Hedgehog hollow card kit.

I stamped my images with a Nuvo clear mark embossing pad then used Nuvo copper blush embossing powder on watercolor paper so I could color my flowers with Zig markers. The Be strong sentiment came from Unity Stamps and the blue embossed paper was from Tonic studios and came in last months Simon Says Stamp kit. Hope you have a wonderful week and Thanks you so much for stopping by!

Beautiful Mermaids!

Simon Says Stamp Sept 2018 Card kit Beautiful Mermaids.

The Papers I used for my cards and color inspiration is an older paper pack from Graphic 45 called Le Cirque

The Copic colors I used for all three images I matched using my Hex chart by Sandy Allnock and the papers from G45. I can tell you that this chart is my life saver when I need to match colors I have with paper packs when creating my cards. I highly recommend it if your a Copic marker user like me.

Flesh- E00, 21, 95, R20

Light Blues- B06, 14, 24

Dark Blues- B97, 99

Light Yellow- Y06, 08

Dark Yellow- Y26, YR24

Greys- N2, 4, 6

Green- G24, YG 25, YG67

Light Red- R24, 27

Dark Red- E07, 08, 09

Orange- YR07, 18, 68

Brown- E25, 27, 29

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