Butterfly Thank You Card

 Good afternoon, everyone! It is finally raining here in Texas! YAY! It has been so dry this summer, not mentioning how hot it has been. I am just so grateful; it has finally decided to rain for a change. Unfortunately, that does not mean cooler temperatures. It is still going to be in the 100's for the next few days. It is September, the temperature is supposed to be going down. UGH! How about everyone else? Has it been extremely hot where you guys live?

Anyway, I created this card using a few different alcohol inks and some butterfly dies from MFT. Unfortunately, this die is no longer available, but I did link a similar die set below. Using Yupo paper, I created an alcohol ink background using a few different pink alcohol inks and a silver mixative. Then I created some sparkle paper using a silver sparkle spray and white cardstock. I cut the butterflies out of the alcohol background and some Simon Says Stamp silver glitter paper. Using the Lawn Fawn Scripty Thanks die set, I cut out the sentiment, Thanks. 

Click here to view my process video. 

Thanks everyone! I hope you guys have a great day!

Supplies:

Simon Say Stamp Silver Glitter Cardstock.

Tsukineko Silver Shimmer Spray

White Yupo Paper

Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink Colors in Pink to Red

Tim Holtz Silver Mixative

Alcohol Blending Solution

Tim Holtz Ink Air Blower

Lawn Fawn Scripty Thanks Lawn Cuts

Spellbinders Butterfly Dies - not the dies I used but a good substitute.

Using up my scraps from the Doodlebug Design's paper pad the Great Outdoors.

 Hello everyone, today I am trying to use up those scraps from my previous doodlebug great outdoors cards. I measured out each piece of paper to determine the size then went in search of matching sketches. I found three sketches that worked for my purposes and here are those cards.

Please watch video below or on YouTube here.

Card #1 using card sketch from Mojo Monday Mojo#498.

Second card using sketch 300 from sweet sunday.

Final sketch is from MFT and is my favorite for using up those small scraps. Sketch MFTWSC472.

Thanks everyone. I hope you all have an awesome day! Supply list below.

DD Great Outdoors 
6x6 Paper Pad

DD Great Outdoors
Stamp Set

Trinity Stamps 
Hello Dies

SS Tiny Words
Stamp Set

Playing with Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Pencils

 Hello everyone. I have finally edited and uploaded my second card video. Woohoo! This video editing stuff is more of a learning curve than I thought. Hopefully over the next few weeks, I will get better at it. 

View on youtube 

Anyway, today I created two cards using the new Tim Holtz distress watercolor pencils. So far, I really enjoy playing with them. It is kind of like having 2 color mediums in one. This background scene was created using the pencils. I was able to draw in the design then paint in the color. 

I created 2 backgrounds this way then converted them into cards. For the first card, I used the following sketch.

Doodlebug design's seaside summer paper pad was used for the patterned paper. Also, Pink and Main glossy dots in rainbow were used for embellishments. 

On the second card, I used the following sketch from Sweet Sunday.

Using the same paper pad and embellishments, this is my second card. 

Supply List:

Doodlebug design seaside summer 6x6 paper pad

Lawn fawn Smooth Sailing stamp set

Tim Holtz distress watercolor pencils

Trinity stamps hello dies

Cards using Doodlebug Design's Great Outdoors

Today I thought I would play around with some of my supplies and create 3 different cards. On these cards, I tried to make backgrounds using different methods. For my first card, I created a mountain scene backgrounds using the Winter Wonderland stencil set from Honeybee Stamps. The seconds card's background was created using dies from Lawn Fawn. The last card's scene was created using stamps from the doodlebug great outdoors stamp set. 

The video above can also be watched here.

Created this background using the Honeybee stamps Winter Wonderland stencil set. I did apply tumbled glass distress oxide ink to back of circle. Then using mermaid lagoon distress oxide ink for the mountain range. Lastly, I used mowed lawn distress oxide ink for the greener at the bottom. 

For this background, I used Lawn Fawn's mountain die and grass die to create the die cuts.

On my third background, I used images from the great outdoor stamp set. I stamped and colored 2 mountains and 2 trees. I then fussy cut both out with a small white border. I did use another Lawn Fawn die cut to create the grass on the bottom.

I then took these three scenes and made them into cards using the Doodlebug Design Great Outdoor 6 x 6 paper pad.

Supply List:

• Doodlebug Design Great Outdoors Stamp Set,
• Doodlebug Design Great Outdoors 6x6 Paper Pad
• Lawn Fawn Mountain Die Set
• Lawn Fawn Grass Die
• Honey Bee Winter Wonderland Scene Builder set

Easter Cards Four and Five

Yay! I managed to get the 5 Easter Cards done that I needed for my friends. I actually did these this weekend but was unable to put them up until now.

I used more of the Lawn Fawn perfectly plaid paper pad. The die is one of the picture book dies from Simon Says Stamp. I really enjoyed playing with playbook die. This is the first time I have used them.

I created this card using the same supplies as before except using the MFT collage cover up die.

2018 Easter Cards Two and Three

How is everyone doing? I got an extra 2 days off this week and thoroughly enjoyed it. I managed some hiking with my dog and was able to create 2 Easter cards instead of one. This week I again used this weeks MFT sketch challenge, Sketch 376.

I started off by stamping the Pure Innocence Spring Friends and coloring it in with my copic markers. Then I cut the image out with the Cross-Stitch Circle Stax Die-namics from MFT. (They no longer carry this on their website but do have a set of Stitched Circle Stax Die-namics). Using MFT's Die-namics A2 Stitched STAX set 1 and 2, cut out the papers and created the background. 

Finally, I stamped a sentiment and butterfly on the inside of the card. Coloring the butterfly carefully with my pink copic makers.

The second card was created basically the same just using the Pure Innocence Somebunny Sweet stamp set from MFT.  Using the MFT cloud and hills stencils, I created the small back ground and cut everything out again using the Stitched A2 Stax Die-namics from MFT.

Stitched the sentiment on the inside and colored in some more Easter eggs on the inside of the card.

That was it. I hope everyone is having a lovely weekend and a wonderfully amazing day.

2018 Easter Card One

Does anyone else have trouble with motivation? I certainly do. Recently, I was looking around my craft room and discovered that I had multiple stamp sets and supplies that have never been used. I absolutely love buying new supplies and stamps, but seem to lack the motivation to use them all. Well today that is going to change. I am going to start making myself blog each week to hold myself accountable for creating new cards/crafts using all my supplies.

Starting this week, I am going to create Easter cards for my friends and family. This week I played along with MFT's sketch challenge sketch 375.

I started by using Stamping Bella's Uptown Girl Bunny has a Daffodil coloring her in with my copic markers. Then using MFT's A2 stitched rectangle stax both 1 and 2, I created my background.

I glued everything together and popped up the image with foam tape.Then stamped the sentiment on a circle punch and placed it in the bottom right hand corner to somewhat go along with the sketch. Finished the card off by stamping the image again on the inside using Angel Pink ink.

That completed the card. Hopefully, I will stay motivated and finish all my Easter cards this year. I hope all of you have a wonderfully amazing day!