Muse - Itsy bitsy SPIDER

Hi Everyone!

Time to play at Muse Challenge #238. Kim, this week's designer, provided a fun Halloween card filled with corn candy for our inspirations. My card features colors, Halloween theme, orange matting, black and white harlequin pattern strip at bottom of panel. The stripes were created using a couple of stamps in different widths and randomly stamping using thee colors (two oranges and one yellow) of dye ink. (I got this background idea from Shari Carroll on the Simon Says blog on October 20, 2017.) The spider that was part of the cobweb is small and seemed lost with the stripes, so I attached a sparkly spider embellishment from my stash. One web didn't seem like enough so a couple more were lightly stamped. 

Hope everyone is having a pleasant fall day. Thank you for visiting and commenting ... always appreciate your feedback.

Card Stock - Recollections; MFT
DP - from stash
Dies - MFT
Stamps - MFT
Inks - MFT - Dye and Hybrid
Other - spider embellishment

Muse - CASology - Celebrate

Greetings!

Time to play in a couple of challenges:

Muse Challenge #237 where Tracey provided one of her CAS beauties for our inspiration.

CASology 270 - Cue Word is 'Odd' - Three flowers are colored on my card.

Inspirations from Tracey's card include similar layout (although opposite of Tracey's), color hues, floral, black sentiment.

I stamped and masked flowers and leaves.  Three flowers were colored with light toned yellows and bright pink Copic markers. In keeping with the Muse card, one of the flowers and a few leaves were left uncolored. For some shimmer clear WOS was applied to the colored flowers.

Hope you're having a wonderful day!  Thank you for
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Card Stock - Recollections
Die - MFT
Stamps - Hampton Arts
Ink - MFT - Hybrid
Markers - Copics
Other - WOS

CAS Watercolour - Hello There

Greetings!

CAS Watercolour October Challenge is celebrating their First Birthday ... a big congratulations. In celebration our card is to include watercolor and leaves. 

For my card the watercolor panel was created using a combination of Distress Dye (Candied Apple and Carved Pumpkin) and Distress Oxide (Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade, Worn Lipstick) Inks. The process was smooshing, water spraying, air drying and repeating these steps until I liked the result. A stitched die-cut frame was added for dimension and interest. The leaf was die-cut from cork. The sentiment matches the cork color and was achieved by using Versamark and Distress Vintage Photo inks and heat embossing with clear EP.

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Card Stock - Recollections
Dies - MFT
Stamp  - MFT
Inks - Ranger - Distress Dyes and Oxides; Versamark
Other - Cork

CAS Mixup - Warm Wishes

Hello Everyone,

A fun time is currently happening at CAS Mixup October Challenge to use Stamping, Layer Stenciling plus choice.

For my card I did the following and incorporated Stamping, Layer Stenciling, Dry and Heat Embossing, Masking, Die-cutting
-- used negative of butterfly die-cut for stencil
-- the overlay stencil was created by using 3 cuts of a Snowdrifts Coverup Die and randomly arranging 
-- used Distress Inks (Picked Raspberry and Abandoned Coral) to dab/blend through the overlay stencil until the desired color was achieved
-- the overlay stencil was removed and the butterfly was ink blended using Spiced Marmalade (Distress Ink)
-- a bubble stencil was aligned over the spine of the butterfly and Peacock Feathers Distress Ink was blended down the spine of the butterfly
-- the butterfly was masked and a few more Peacock Feather colored bubbles were added
-- the detailed butterfly die cut was used to emboss the butterfly
-- the sentiment was stamped in black and heat embossed with clear EP
-- for a little sparkle a few of the bubbles were lightly painted with clear WOS

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Card Stock - Recollections
Dies - MFT
Stamp - MFT
Stencils - created two of my own using MFT dies; Tim Holtz - Bubbles
Inks - Ranger - Distress; MFT - Hybrid
Other - WOS

Muse - Boo!

Greetings!

At the Muse Challenge #235 Eliz designed a very fun Halloween card with layers and goodies for our inspirations. Like Eliz's card my rendition includes lots of goodies ... DP; ribbon; spider embellishment; die-cut ghost, moon and city scape; googly eyes on the ghost, etc. Although I think this card is busy; if I was a child, I would love to receive ... lots to see and touch.


Hope your day is pleasant.

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Card Stock - Recollections; MFT
DP - MME; stash
Dies - MFT
Stamps - MFT; Craftsmart
Embellishments - from stash

MCV - Peace on Earth

Greetings!

Time to play at Muse: ChristmasVisions (MCV83) where Stephanie, this week's designer, provided a gorgeous, stunning card for our inspirations. Not only did her card inspire in a number of ways (general theme, colors, continents, ocean, stars, red sentiment); also, a NBUS (and retired die) was used. The ocean was ink blended using two colors of Distress inks. The continents were die-cut from a light green foil DP. A stitched circle frames earth. The sentiment was stamped/heat embossed in red ink/clear embossing powder. The white panels were adhered to a red card stock base.

Wish everyone a wonderful day.  Thank you for visiting and commenting ... always appreciate your feedback.

Card Stock - MFT; Recollections
DP - DCWV
Dies - MFT
Stamp - MFT
Ink - MFT - Dye, Versamark; Ranger - Distress

MFT - Clean and Simple - Awesome ...

Hi Everyone!

A fun challenge at MFT - the 2017 Superstar Card Contest.  My card is for the Clean and Simple Genius Category. 

On white card stock I used various stamps from MFT - Abstract Art and Distressed Patterns to create the distressed/grunge/abstract design. The various Dye Inks used were MFT - Grape Jelly, Periwinkle, Pure Plum, Orange Zest, Lemon Drop. I like how the inks layered and retained their true color even on the grape and periwinkle colors. This panel was die cut using the stitched die panel from MFT - Blueprints 20. The diagonal striped strip was created using MFT - Bold Diagonal Stripes Background Stamp and MFT - Black Licorice Hybrid Ink. A very thin strip of black card stock was adhered just above the striped strip. The sentiments (from MFT - Simply Fabulous Sayings and Essential Sentiments) were stamped using MFT - Black Licorice Hybrid Ink.

Even with all the colors, I think my grandsons (teen and young adult) will like this creation. 

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Card Stock - Recollections
Die - MFT - Blueprints 20 (Stitched Panel Die)
Stamps - MFT - Abstract Art; Distressed Patterns; Simply Fabulous Sayings; Essential Sentiments; Bold Diagonal Stripes Background
Inks - MFT - Hybrid - Black Licorice; Dye - Grape Jelly, Periwinkle, Pure Plum, Orange Zest, Lemon Drop

Muse - thanks ...

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Today, I'm playing cards for the Muse Challenge #232 where Anita provided a gorgeous clean card for our inspirations. My rendition is an almost CASE. I focused on the colors and blending, white pattern in the color band, black die-cut sentiment and white embossed on black sentiment. The colors used are Wilted Violet, Faded Jeans, Evergreen Bough. The pattern was created by randomly stamping a flower in Versamark then white heat embossing. The thanks was diecut three times and layered. A few paintings of clear WOS add shimmer. The remainder of the sentiment was stamped in white and white heat embossed on black. A few clear sequins complete the card.

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Card Stock - Recollections
Dies - MFT
Stamps - MFT; Hampton Arts
Ink - Ranger - Distress; MFT - Pigment; Versamark
EP - Stampendous
Other - WOS; sequins

MCV - Season's Greetings

Greetings!

Just having fun playing cards with Muse: ChristmasVisions 83. Actually, this is the second card I made (but didn't post before today) ... it's an extra for fun. My inspiration came from the small houses on one of Cornelia's cards.  I thought of them as gingerbread houses. I stamped the houses and sentiment in brown ink. To give the gingerbread look I used a white Gelly Roll pen to add frosting/icing to the roof lines. Strips in red and green foil DP were adhered below the houses.

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Card Stock - Recollections
DP - DCWV
Die - MFT
Stamps - Hero Arts; MFT
Ink - MFT
Marker - Gelly Roll

MFT - You are Awesome

Greetings!

Another fun day at MFT - Camp Create  This episode is Awesome Ombre. I created a free-form ombre look using MFT Distress Patterns and Abstract Art Stamps and Ranger Distressed Inks (Mermaid Lagoon, Salty Ocean, Peacock Feathers, Mowed Lawn, Cracked Pistaccio). The sentiments are from the MFT Simply Fabulous Sayings stamp set. To finish a few stars from the MFT Hand Lettered Holiday stamps set were randomly stamped.

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Card Stock - Recollections
Dies - MFT
Stamps - MFT
Inks - MFT - Hybrid - Black; Ranger - Distress

MFT - birthday ...

Hi Everyone,

Another fun acitivity at MFT - Camp Create ... Delightful Die-cutting.

My card is very CAS. The die-cut was created from an ink blended panel. It was layered with three cuts of black card stock for dimension and interest. For shimmer a few coats of clear WOS were applied. Clear sequins add sparkle.

Card Stock - Recollections
Dies - MFT
Stamp - Stampendous
Inks - MFT - Hybrid - Black; Ranger - Distress
Other - WOS; sequins

MFT - thinking of you

Hi Everyone!

Another fun activity at MFT - Camp Create - Monochromatic Magic. I chose to use Kraft, light browns and cream colors. The floral image and butterfly were stamped on DP. A light coating of clear WOS was applied to the flowers and butterfly. The sentiment was stamped using a Chocolate colored pigment ink and heat embossed with clear EP. For interest score lines were made between the image and sentiment.

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Card Stock - MFT; Recollections
DP - MME
Dies - MFT
Stamps - Inkadinkadoo; unknown
Ink - Hampton Arts - pigment
EP - Hampton Arts - clear

MFT - Magnificent Masking

Hi Everyone,

Another session at MFT Camp Create - Magnificent Masking. 

I chose to use the Doodle Blooms stamp set to stamp, mask, stamp, etc. various blooms. The large ones were chosen to color in shades of red with Copic markers. Clear WOS and gold sequins add shimmer and sparkle. To separate the flower panel from the sentiment panel strips of foil paper in gold and red were adhered. The sentiment was stamped/heat embossed in white on the black panel.

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Card Stock - Recollections
DP - DCWV; Recollections
Die - MFT
Stamps - MFT; unknown from stash
Ink - MFT - Pigment
EP - Stampendous

MCV - Wishing you ...

Hi Everyone!


This has been a fun time at Muse: ChristmasVisions 83 to create four cards from Cornelia's impressive array of inspirational cards. The wreath was created by very lightly drawing a couple of circles then filling in the space with red and green snowflakes, yellow stars and a few green sprigs. A bow in a light green shade painted with a coat of clear WOS and small clear gems add interest to the wreath. The sentiment is stamped in a darker shade of green.


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Card Stock - Recollections; MFT
DP - from stash
Dies - MFT; Penny Black
Stamps - MFT; Hero Arts
Ink - MFT - Dye
Other - WOS; gemstones

MFT - hello ...

Hi All!

Another fun day at MFT Camp Create - Background Bonanza.

The background was created by using three cuts from MFT - Sno-Drifts Coverup and staggering them to create a 'stencil'. The Distress Ink colors used ... Crab Apple, Spiced Marmalade, Abandoned Coral. The 'hello' sentiment was die-cut from black card stock and attached to a thin black strip with the remainder of the sentiment stamped/heat embossed in white. The 'hello' was painted with a few coats of clear WOS for shimmer. A few clear sequins add sparkle.

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Card Stock - Recollections
Dies - MFT
Stamp - MFT
Inks - MFT - Pigment; Ranger - Distress
EP - Stampendous
Other - WOS; sequins

MCV - MFT - 'Tis the Season

Greetings!

A couple of fun challenges ...

Muse: ChristmasVisions (MCV) 83 and MFT - Camp Create - Inlaid Made Easy

For MCV 83 Cornelia provided four cards for our inspirations.  Her card with the penguins inspired my rendition that is suited for the southwest Arizona, USA, environment.  (For those unfamiliar with Yuma, Arizona, it is a winter destination for visitors from the cold climates and very hot in the summer.) Part of the design includes inlaid circle and date palm tree that is our assignment for MFT Day 1 Camp Create.

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Card Stock - MFT; Recollections
DP - Martha Stewart
Dies - MFT
Stamps - MFT
Ink - MFT - Pigment
EP - Stampendous
Markers - Copics
Other - WOS; gold-colored gems

MCV - Celebrate the Season

Greetings!

Today, I'm presenting my second card for the current Muse: ChristmasVisions 83 challenge. Cornelia provided four cards for our inspirations ... come play ... there are prizes!!

My card is mostly black and white themed with hints of colors on the ornaments, a colored gemstone on the nose of the reindeer and a thin red strip abutting the striped panel strip. Clear WOS painted on the ornaments adds shimmer.

Hope you're having a wonderful day.
Thank you for visiting and commenting ... always appreciate your feedback.

Card Stock - Recollections
Dies - MFT
Stamps - MFT; Hero Arts
Ink - MFT
Markers - Prismacolor Pencils
Other - WOS; gemstone

Merry Everything - MCV

Hi All!

A fun challenge at Muse: ChristmasVisions 83 where Cornelia provided four cards for our inspirations ... and, there are prizes!!

My first card's design is similar to the layout of the cookies on the cookie sheet ... I used small Christmas images, colored in festive holiday colors with Prismacolor pencils, and added a couple paintings of clear WOS on each image.

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Card Stock - Recollections
Dies - MFT
Stamps - MFT; Unknown
Ink - MFT
Markers - Prismacolor Pencils
Other - WOS

Muse - Happy Birthday

Hi All!

Time to play cards:

Muse Challenge #228 - Anita provided an ink blended floral beauty for our inspiration. For my card I chose blended Distress Inks (Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Candied Apple, Picked Raspberry, Seedless Preserves, Salty Ocean, Evergreen Bough), flower, script sentiment, black background. A few clear sequins add sparkle.


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Card Stock - Recollections
Die - MFT
Stamp - Stampendous
Stencil - ArtC
Ink - Ranger - Distress; MFT - Hybrid
Other - clear sequins

Hello - MFT - Colors and Blueprints

Greetings!

Today, a card for two challenges:

MFT - Color Challenge 74

MFT - Creative Construction with Blueprints 

For the color challenge I used Distress Inks - Seedless Preserves, Weathered Wood, Old Paper and Evergreen Bough - to align with the challenge colors of Grout Grey, Factory Green, Green-Eyed Monster, Purple Rain. The inks were smooshed for a water-color effect.  Also, card stock in Factory Green, Grout Grey, Egg Plant was used.

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Card Stock - MFT - Factory Green, Grout Grey, Egg Plant
Dies - MFT - Blueprints 1 (3 of the dies were used); Happy Hello; Stitched Rectangle STAX
Ink - Ranger Distress (Seedless Preserves, Weathered Wood, Old Paper, Evergreen Bough)
Other - clear WOS; clear sequins

MFT - WSC - Make a Wish or Two

Greetings!

Hope you're having a pleasant day.

The MFT - Wednesday Sketch Challenge 344 was inspiration to play cards. I stamped, die cut and Copic colored Doodle Blooms and mounted them on the Pretty Pocket die cut (retired). The sentiment was stamped following the curve of stamped dashed lines. For shimmer the flowers were painted with a couple coats of clear WOS. Sparkle was added with clear sequins. For interest a couple of small flowers peak from the top of the pocket. All stamps, dies and ink are MFT.

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Card Stock - Recollections
Dies - MFT - Blueprints 20; Doodle Blooms; Pretty Pocket (retired)
Stamps - MFT - Doodle Blooms; More Essential Sentiments; Pretty Pocket (retired)
Ink - MFT - Hybrid - Black
Markers - Copics
Other - clear WOS; clear sequins

LIM - Happy Birthday

Hello Everyone,

A fun challenge at Less is More #339 - Pierce Your Project ... so I'm playing cards.  My creation includes two piercings:

-- stitched rectangle panel
--staple that attaches the striped tab

The flower was colored using Copic markers, shimmered with clear WOS and die cut.

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Card Stock - Recollections
Dies - MFT
Stamps - MFT
Ink - MFT - Hybrid; Pigment
EP - Stampendous
Other - clear WOS; staple

CTS - Hey You ...

Hi there!

Hope you're having a pleasant day.  

The sketch at Case This Sketch #232 was inspiration to play cards.  My rendition is a literal translation of the sketch.  The pattern was created using MFT yellow, green and orange dye inks and stamps (Distressed Patterns and Abstract Art).  A few 'splats' in black were added with one of the stamps from Distressed Patterns.  The sentiment was stamped slightly overlapping the pattern.

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Card Stock - Recollections
Die - MFT
Stamps - MFT
Inks - MFT - Dye; Hybrid

Muse - hey!

Hi Everyone!

A fun and bold abstract card by guest designer, Marci, is presented for our inspirations at Muse Challenge #226.  My rendition includes abstract panel, a few splatters (in black) and bold, colored sentiment. Stamps were a great asset to help me achieve the abstract background (I originally omitted this.) A couple paintings of clear WOS add the perfect shimmer to 'hey!. 

Hope you're having a super day.  Thank you for visiting and commenting ... always appreciate your feedback.


Card Stock - Recollections
Dies - MFT
Stamps - MFT
Ink - Ranger - Distress; MFT - Hybrid
Other - WOS

Casology . LIM - celebrate

Hello Everyone!

Hope everyone is having a great day.

A couple of fun challenges enticed me to play along ...

CASology - 5 year Anniversary - BALLOON blog hop

Less is More #338 - No Stamps

For my card, I chose light blue cardstock, a die-cut big white cloud, a die-cut 'mylar' (metallic DP) balloon with a number '5' embossed onto it and a die-cut sentiment for the balloon string.

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Card Stock - MFT; Recollections
DP - DCWV
Dies - MFT; Penny Black

MCV - Happy Holidays

Greetings!

Playing cards at Muse: ChristmasVisions 82 where Jessica provided a gorgeous inspiration. My rendition includes colors, flower, leaves, gold embellishments. The die-cut flower was created from a panel using tissue paper (repurposed from MFT packaging), distress inks, stamped/heat embossed with Versamark/clear EP. The foliage was created with distress inks and stamped/heat embossed with Versamark/clear EP.

Hope you're ahead on your holiday card making. Thank you for visiting and commenting ... always appreciate your feedback.

Marilyn

Card Stock - Recollections

Dies - MFT

Stamps - MFT

Ink - MFT; Ranger - Distress

Gold Sequins; tissue paper

Muse - Shine Bright

Hello Everyone!

Today, I have a card for the Muse Challenge #225 where Kim Heggins is the designer this week. Kim provided a fun card with butterflies for our inspiration. My rendition includes butterflies, colors (mostly), twine, arch shape, sequins. A few clear sequins add sparkle. The butterflies were painted with clear WOS for shimmer.

Hope you're having an enjoyable day.  Thank you for visiting and commenting ... always appreciate your feedback.

Marilyn

Card Stock - Recollections
DP - MME
Dies - MFT; ARTc
Stamps - MFT; ARTc; unknown from stash
Ink - MFT - Hybrid; Dye
Hemp Cord - MFT
Other - sequins and WOS

CAS Mixup - Tic-Tac-Toe - CAS Watercolour - One in a Million

Hello All!

 

Hope everyone is having a pleasant day.

 

Today, I have a card for a couple of challenges:

 

CAS Mixup Card Challenge - use tissue paper, stamping and choice (dry and heat embossing, die-cut, water-color smooshing)

 

Tic Tac Toe - TTTC005 - my card includes pearls, die-cut, butterfly (middle across)

 

The butterfly was created by wrinkling a piece of pink tissue paper (repurposed from MFT packing) then gluing to a piece of cardstock. (I glue the tissue paper to the card stock first, because I was concerned that I would tear it when it was wet). When the glue was dry, the tissue paper panel was smooshed into Distress Inks sprayed with water. When dry, the smooshed panel was stamped with Versamark Ink/heat embossed with clear EP ... this process helped show the 'wrinkles' in the tissue paper. (Actually, this was a practice piece after watching Loll's video ... I liked the outcome so used it.) Then, the panel was die-cut with a butterfly die. A pierced square panel was used to stamp the sentiment to follow the curve of one of the butterfly wings. For additional interest, the pierced panel and butterfly were offset, three pink pearls were added to the butterfly, and three embossed score lines were added to the bottom of the card stock.

 

CAS Watercolour Challenge - Butterfly - also submitting to this challenge ... thank you, Bonnie. 

 

Enjoyed the tissue paper process ... easy and straightforward ... will use it again.

 

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Team Pick at Tic Tac Toe

 

Card Stock - Recollections

Dies - MFT

Stamp - MFT

Inks - Ranger - Distress; MFT - Hybrid; Versamark

EP - Hampton Arts

Other - pearls