Friday, 25 August 2017

MFT CC LLama Love

For the two cards below, I started with a single panel of Neenah desert storm cardstock and distress oxide inks (antique linen, fossilized amber, spiced marmelade), for a masculine look. The cards are not what I set out to do. I changed my mind several times along the way, but I love how they turned out in the end.


For my first card, I combined the following MFT Camp Create challenges:
Bonus day - Awesome ombre

I'm also linking up my card at:
Penny Black and More - All creatures great and small
Stamping Sensations - Anything goes (with stamping)
Creative with Stamps - #17 Boys to men
Seize the Birthday - Anything Birthday goes


  

 

For my second card, I turnded the second half of my inked panel upside down compared to my first card, for a different look, and die cut the MFT hello word die 3 times. Instead of piecing the inner parts of the 'e' and 'o' back, I decided to stamp a few of the lama heads behind the apertures of the 'o'. So fun!


This card fits into the following MFT Camp Create challenges:
Bonus day - Awesome ombre

I'm also linking up my card at:
Creative with Stamps - #17 Boys to men





 


MFT CC Day2 - Sunflower

Today I have pulled out all the stops to create a few cards for the current Camp Create event over at the MFT blog. Last year, I won a huge gift certificate that I spent on some fun stamps and dies (and put in some extra money to order even more goodies while I was at it...).
My first card is for Day 2 - Magnificent masking.



I used liquid masking fluid to mask off my stamped image so that I could blend my distress inks for the background. I used a post-it to mask off the grass & sky.
 

I'm also linking up my card at:
Stamping Sensations - Anything goes
TTTC012 - I went with the bottom row:  die cut, sentiment, floral
Aud Sentiments - #187 Thinking of you or Sympathy
Uniko - #42 Flowers
AAA Cards - #97 Masking

 



Friday, 18 August 2017

One-layer Christmas

Hello and welcome! Today, I'm popping in with a one-layer Christmas card for a couple of fun challenges.


After stamping the car from Tis the Season (Essentials by Ellen), I masked the stamped image using a Molotow masking liquid pen. When this was dry, I blended some inks through another mask that I had created using the smaller of the Window Frame dies (Pretty Pink Posh), that I bought using a gift PPP certificate that I had won. I thought it would be fun to mimic a snow globe to add some interest to my one-layer card. To blend the ground, I simply flipped my mask. After removing the masking on my image, I did some quick and simple colouring using Copics and then used a white Sharpie to add the snow. 

While I was making my preparations, I decided I might just as well create 2 cards instead of 1, so that's 2 more cards added to my Christmas card pile.

Tip: because I used 120 pound cardstock by Simon Says Stamp, I did not have any Copics bleeding to the back of my front panel, just perfect for a one-layer card.

Challenges:

LIM - #341 OLC Vehicles


SSS Wednesday - Add a sentiment


ATCAS - #117 One layer


Stamping Sensations - August Anything goes

CCC - #19 Anything Christmas goes 
(optional photo inspiraton)