Playground Scene

Hi Everyone,

Over Memorial Day weekend I had my grandchildren here. Two of them, boy 5 and girl 3, made these playground scenes from the Lawn Fawn Let's Play stamp set and dies. The boy, you will notice, used mostly the objects that were already colored with patterned paper. His sister, however, liked to color a lot of the objects. You will notice that each of them has a little girl in the tree. I found out that their family went apple picking last fall, and their father was reaching them up into the trees to pick the apples. So that solved that mystery. However, the mystery of why the little girl has a purple face is still unsolved.

This is a really fun set to do with little kids. They can create a playground scene that looks nice and they can get excited about. I cut a piece of aqua cardstock in half so the scene is 4.5" x 11". I had everything cut ahead of time since I didn't think they would have the patience to wait until I cut everything. Besides, that took longer than I thought it would.

Enjoy!

Have a Happy Day

Hi Everyone,

Here are cards in two different color schemes using the Whipper Snapper Design stamp, Wishing you a Lovely Day. This is a fun stamp set to color, since you can use so many different colors. I really like the sentiment for sending to special people for no particular reason. The striped paper is from Lawn Fawn.

Enjoy!

Wedding Card

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Here is a card that I CASED from the MFT site. Everything on this card, sans the ink and rhinestones, is from the MFT site: the stamps, dies, cardstock, sentiments, and background stamp are all from the site. Also, I used the MFT Blueprint dies to cut out the card front, the stitched strips, and the inside layer. All together I counted 11 layers.

If you are planning on joining me on June 6 at Panera, you can scroll down and see other variations of this card using different color combinations.

So here is the card:

Here are a few more cards I made using these ideas while using other color combinations:

Enjoy!

Aqua Happy Birthday

Hi Everyone,

I didn't mean to be so laconic on my OWH Blog Hop post, but every time I started to upload my card, my 20-month old dgd decided to hit the blue button on the computer. After a few tries, I just decided to get the card loaded up and not try to do anything more than that--it could give her more time to find the blue button again.

On to this card. I am really smitten with these Modern Blooms flowers and Die-Namics from MFT Stamps. I figured out how to make sure they are lined up perfectly by using a template in the MISTI. It makes a difference in ensuring that the flowers are in the middle of the die cut and not skewed to one side.

Once again, I can't take credit for this design. I CASed this from Jodi's Web site. You can check out her blog here. I am so impressed with her blog! She has the greatest ideas.

Enjoy!

You Make Every Day Happy

Hi Everyone,

Love the sentiment on this card. I also love the combination of deep reds and purples. As usual, I used the MFT Die-Namics Blueprints and Modern Blooms stamps and dies. The cards I made were inspired by Jodi, who is a designer at MFT Stamps. You can check out her blog here. I am so impressed by her blog!

The sentiment is from Be Blessed stamp set by Verve.

Enjoy!

Just Because

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Here is another card I made. This time I used the 2008 PTI Bitty Boxes paper as the background strips. The rest of the card was done using MFT Blueprints and their Modern Blooms stamps and dies. The Just Because is a PTI sentiment.

Enjoy!

Purple Thank You

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I just recently discovered MFT stamps and their line of Blueprints dies that make creating perfect cards really easy. In these cards I used Blueprints 13 for the stitched background and Blueprints 2 for the stitched strips. The stitched circle is created using the stitched circle dies. The arch is from Blueprints 3. The flowers are from their Modern Blooms stamps and dies. I can't take credit for the designs. I CASED one of their team's cards which you can find on
Jodi's Web site.

Enjoy!

Paper Smooches Flowers

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Here is a card I made using the Paper Smooches floral bouquet. I used the Die-Namics Blueprints to cut out the stitched cardstock, and PTI Sending You die to cut out the arched white cardstock. Colored the flowers with Copic markers. I used the Blueprints to cut out the dotted paper strips behind the panels. The stitched rectangle behind the arch is from PTI Just Smile. This is my first time using the Die-Namics Blueprints. They really make a nice element on the card since they are perfectly straight, and I love the stitching detail.

Enjoy!