A Very Merry Christmas - Merry Monday #62

 

 This is my card for Merry Monday #62 sketch challenge.  Check out the challenge by clicking here.   I love playing in the challenge each week as I am getting a lot of my Christmas cards done early. 

For my card I used a cute reindeer stamp by Recollections from Michael's dollar bin.  This is the first time I have inked him up.  I stamped him on X-Press It Blending Card and colored him with Copics, then cut him out with MFT Circle Stax and used SU Early Espresso for the mat.  All mats are Early Espresso.  The card base is Canvas Corp Heavy Cardstock.  The DSP is from Echo Park Very Merry Christmas 6x6 pad.  The sentiment is from SU More Merry Messages, and is cut with MFT Fishtail Flags Stax.  The brads are from JoAnn's.

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Happy Stamping,
JoAnn

Sweet and Sassy - MFT Scrap Sketch #7

This is my layout for My Favorite Things Scrap Sketch 7. You can read all about it here in their SCS Forum.

 



These are photos of my "Sweet and Sassy" great-granddaughter.  Lately she has been a real poser for the camera.  I wanted to take her picture because she was dressed so cute and she immediately posed so I got some cute photos and had to scrap them.  I got this cute PI Feeling Sassy because it reminds me of her.  I stamped the image with Mememto Tuxedo Black and colored her with Copics.  I had some Zebra print DSP, copied it and reduced it way down to have it small enough to stamp her top on and cut it out.  Her hair bow is also paper-pieced.  The pink check & pink dotted papers are some older Making Memories paper from my stash.  I used SU Basic Black for my layout base and mats. I sewed around the edges of the pink paper in a zig-zag stitch, but it doesn't show up in the photo.
The panel for the cute PI image is cut with a die from MFT Blueprints 1 Dies  and I inked around the edges with SU Bashful Blue ink while it was still in the die.  I added the grass following Inge's tutorial here.   I added the Old Olive Leaf-Filled Flourish becasue of the green bush in the photos.  The sentiments are from 3 different MFT stamps sets:  PI-Feeling Sassy, LLD-Document It -Right This Way and  Captured Memories and are mounted with foam tape.  The buttons are from my stash and tied with some crochet thread.

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Happy Staming and Scrapping,
JoAnn

A CHEERFUL HEART

I am combining two challenges for my card,  The Paper Players #145 and MFTWSC124.

 

My card base and the MFT Heart Doily are SU Raspberry Ripple.  The DSP is Gumball Green and Midnight Muse.  The white panels are Canvas Corp Heavy Cardstock and the large panel is embossed with SU Fancy Fan EF.  I love this sentiment from the new MFT Cheerful Blessings set and stamped it in Midnight Muse.  I also added a little flourish from SU Simple Friendship (retired) stamped in Midnight Muse and added some of the hearts cut from the Heart Doily.  I was going to add a flower for the little circle element, but thought the hearts went better with the sentiment.  I also added some Baker's Twine around the sentiment panel.

 

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Happy Stamping,

JoAnn

Congrats Grad

The Dynamic Duos Challenge blog is celebrating their one year anniversary.  To participate you can make a card with any of their previous color combos.  I chose DD#49, Basic Gray & Basic Black to make this graduation card.  The image is by Stampabilities and I colored the tassel with marker.  The chevron paper is My Mind's Eye and of course I used SU Basic Gray and Basic Black CS.  I embossed the Basic Gray panel with  Quikutz Polka Dots EF.  I added some Basic Black grossgrain ribbon across the seam of the two papers.  The sentiment is done on my computer and cut out with MFT Fishtail Flags Stax Die-namics and Layers. The card base and banners are Canvas Corp Heavy Weight CS.

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Seize The Birthday #16

Here is my card for this week's Seize The Birthday #16 challenge.

The card base is SU Pink Pirouette CS.  The white panel is Canvas Corp Heay Weight CS and is embossed with SU Lacey Brocade EF.  I used the debossed side.  The MFT Upsy Daisy is cut from SU Pink Pirouette CS, the center is Soft Suede and the leaves are Certainly Celery.  The ribbon is some retired Soft Suede dotted ribbon.  The sentiments is from SU Itty Bitty Banners stamped in Soft Suede ink and matted on Soft Suede CS.  I cut both out by hand. 

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Thinking of You Makes Me Happy

This is my card for this week's MFTWSC#123.
The sentiment is from MFT You Make My Day.  For such a sweet sentiment I wanted to add some cheerful papers so I chose all the DSP from Simple Stories Summer 6x6 pad.  The card base is SU Crumb Cake CS and all the mats and sentiment panel are MFT Whip Cream CS.  The flowers are made from the smaller flower in MFT Blueprints 3 Die-namics.  I cut between each petal and shaped them with my fingers.  I also sponged SU So Saffron ink around the edge of each petal. The center of the flowers are also cut with the Blueprints 3 Dies from some cork looking paper from the same pad.  The banner is cut with MFT Fishtail Flag Stax.  I added the faux stitching around the sentiment panel with my Zig pen and a ruler.

I have started making cards for Operation Write Home and this card will be going in that box.  They make cards to send to our military men and women overseas so they will have cards to send home to their loved ones.  You can check it out here.

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Graduation cards

 

Here are two graduation cards I made last week.  I used these two sweet digital images from Bugaboo Stamps and use blue and white which are our school colors.  Both images are printed on X-Press It Blending Card and colored with Copics. Card bases are Canvas Corp Heavy Cardstock from Hobby Lobby.

 

Boy Grad:  After coloring the image, I cut him out and mounted him with foam dimensionals on a Spellbinder's Classic Oval die cut from MME DSP.  The light blue DSP is some older paper I have.  The blue mats are SU Brilliant Blue CS.  The sentiment on both cards is from SU Itty Bitty Banners stamped in Brilliant Blue ink and cut out by hand.  I added a Metallic Dots from JoAnn's to each corner of the BB CS strip.  I stamped each number individually in the "2013" with MFT LLD-Journal It Calendar Basics.

 

Girl Grad:  After coloring the image with Copics, I cut her out with Spellbinder's Classic Ovals and matted her on SB Scalloped Oval.  All blue mats are some older DSP from my stash, the other side is a print.  The large white panel is stamped in Basic Gray ink with SU En Francis background stamp.  The decorative strip is made with SU Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch.  I added 4 rhinestones colored with a Copic in the 4 corners.  Again, the 2013" is stamped with MFT LLD-Journal It Calendar Basics in Mememto Tuxedo Black ink.

 

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