My Favourite Things - Toasty Greetings

Hello!

I hope you are having a wonderful Sunday, I'm a little sad because I will be going back to work tomorrow and on top of that I'm not feeling very well today, with a horrible cough and swollen glands. Hopefully I will feel better by tomorrow as I have a presentation to give!

Anyhoooo.....I'm here with......drum roll......my first Christmas card made this year!

Yup that's right, I've caved. Although I have shared at least one Christmas card on my blog, early in the year, they were actually made in 2016, so this is officially my first.

I'm blaming Lorraine as she keeps showing so many Christmas cards on her blog that it made me think it was probably time to get my finger out and crack on with them.

I mean even Faye has made a Christmas card or two and she's Christmas phobic this early in the year lol!

So for my card I used the MFT Stamps Toast Greetings stamp set, LOVE this one, it has 2 different snowmen and some penguins too, as well as some smaller elements and some fun greetings.

I used a recent card sketch from the MFT challenge blog for this, I was too late to make a card for the challenge, but I liked the sketch so much I thought I would save it to use it later......or sooner in this case.

I cut out my snowman and fire with the matching die-namics (I normally stamp them colour, then cut, but this is an older set that had the solid dies) and coloured then up with my Zig Markers 

 to match the papers. These are from the MFT Plaid Patterns paper pad.  I cut a piece of this paper large enough to completely cover the front of my card base and glued it in place.

I cut a piece of smooth white cardstock with one of the Basic Scallop Edges dies and then cut a window in the centre of it with my MFT Square Peek-a-Boo Window Die-namics, I did play with the idea of making this a shaker card for a bit, but decided just to go with a window.

I adhered my white panel to the base of my card with a double layer of foam tape and popped the little fire inside the corner, popping it up with on layer of foam tape.

I stamped my greeting on the bottom of my card with Versafine Onyx Black ink and then positioned my snowman, sticking him in place with some more foam tape.

To finish I added a few enamel dots.

All my supplies today came from Dies to Die for

That's all from me for now, enjoy the rest of your Sunday!

Happy Bird-day

Hello!

I made this card months ago now, but didn't share it because it was when I first started colouring with my Zig Markers and I honestly wasn't very happy with the colouring, on that first attempt although I really  liked the card design. So this week when I had some time I re-stamped and coloured the image on paper more suited to these markers (I really like Strathmore Bristol Smooth the best for this), and glued the new image over the old and re-photographed etc.

I'm really happy with the end result and so I'm sharing with you here today.

The stamp is by Paper Smooches from a set called Birthday Buddies and it has a few different critters all with punny sentiments that make him indoors cringe lol.

I made a cloud background wiht my distress ink and blending tool, this was before I bought the MFT Cloud Stencil, so I just made my own stencil with some acetate and a border die.

I placed this behind some smooth white cardstock with a circle aperture cut ot and raised that with some foam tape.

I cut a couple of banners from some patterned paper and stamped a sentiment from the set on one with Versamark ink, heat embossing with white embossing powder, before adding them to my card. My little bird is also popped up on some foam tape and I finished the card with some yellow sequins.

I hope you enjoy my simple card, to think I would have run away screaming from all that white space a year ago lol.

Thanks for visiting!

My Favorite Things - Make a Wish

Hello!

I'm dropping by today with another make using the Giraffing me Crazy stamp set from MFT Stamps.

I do really LOVE this stamp set and more recently I decided to purchase the MFT Giraffe Stencil as well.

I have to admit to having a bit of a stencil craze at the mo, they are very versatile (I've even done some embossing with them recently), you can get lots of different effects with them and they are soooooo much cheaper than background stamps, plus of course they are easier to store. Of course I will still play with background stamps as well, as I love the emboss resist effects etc. but I will definitely be building my stencil collection.

Anyhooooooo.....on with the card.

To start I took some kraft card to make US A2 size card base, vertical top folding. I took another piece of kraft card and used my Giraffe stencil along with some Vintage Photo distress ink to stencil my design. I used one of my Clarity Stencil Brushes for this, but you could also use a blending tool.

Then I used my new Blueprints 31 set to cut out the stenciled card and also some patterned paper. I cut out more kraft card with another die from the set and used a circle die to cut out my aperture in the stenciled card for my shaker window and stamped the Hey You sentiment on my patterned paper where it would show through the shaker window.

I used some Champagne Shaker Mix from Lucy's Cards, to fill a shaker pouch and adhered everything to my card base, then I stamped out my giraffes from the Giraffing me Crazy stamp set with some Versafine Ink on some Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper.

I coloured up the giraffes with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and then cut them out with the matching Die-namics.

I took a scrap of yellow cardstock and stamped the Make a Wish or Two sentiment on it before cutting it out with a banner die from the same Blueprints set and adhering it to my shaker window. Both sentiments come from the MFT More Essential Sentiments stamp set.

Finally I used varying layers of foam tape to add my giraffes.

That's all for today I haven't made a list as I was in a rush, but I think I have mentioned everything I used in the post. If I missed anything and you want to know what I used, please leave a comment below.

I'll be back later with another card to share, thanks so much for dropping by!