Color Combo and MFT Sketch Challenges

Happy Tuesday!!
Hope your week has gotten off to a great start!

My card is for today's SCS Color Combination Challenge~ Rich Island Breeze with a dessert option of dry embossing.Mary is our hostess today and I love this color combination. I am sure the gallery is going to be so pretty!
I wanted to use some more of the techniques I learned in the Inspiration Showcase class with Jennifer McGuire. The background panel is dry embossed and then the raised edges are lightly sanded. Swiped an ink pad across it so the raised edges pick up the color, then sponged the color in between the raised edges. Love the effect! The card layout is this weeks MFT Wed Sketch.

Stamps: MFT Homespun Birdhouse, Hero Arts Lotus Background

Paper: Rich Razzleberry, White, Rich Razzleberry Lemonade DP

Ink: Broken China DI (Island Indigo match), Rich Razzleberry, Baja Breeze

Accessories: MFT Homespun Birdhouse Die-namics, Nestabilities Labels One, Swiss Dot EF, Textile Texture EF, Pearl, Sponge Dauber

Enjoy!

October Blast From The Past Blog Hop

Happy Wednesday! Are you ready for hopping!
The theme for this month's Taylored Expressions hop is Trick or Sweet. I chose Trick with a little bit of Sweet, hehe....
 The stamp set is Punchy Potions. I just love this set. So many possibilities for Halloween fun! Last year I made Candy Potion bottles and sent them to my daughter. This year I had some fun with "Witches Hats"!

Here is my card. I used Sankari's sketch. The papers are all from The Recollections Midnight Magic Paper Pack. The side panels are the MS spider web border punch. The image is colored with Copics. I brought out the gold Smooch and sprayed away!

Now for the "Witches Hats"...
I found a couple of tutorials for the big hat and just knew I wanted to give it a try. You can find the tutorials here and here. I used various papers from my stash and the Punchy Potions spider to match my card. The flower is made with the Dahlia Spellbinders and felt.The bat is black foam cut with a Sizzix die and rhinestone eyes added. This one is sprayed with Smooch too. Hard to see in the picture. I really had fun making this!

The last of my "Witch Hats" are my "sweet" part of this post. I saw these cookies quite some time ago and posted them to my crafty food board on Pinterest. I cannot believe the number of people that repinned them! I hope everyone is making them for Halloween as they are super easy!! Fudge Stripe cookes (Keebler), Orange cookie icing (found in the baking section) and Hershey Kisses. Yum!!

I hope you have enjoyed your visit here today and there is a lot more wonderful creations to see.

Fight LIke A Girl!

Hello Everyone! Happy Tuesday!
My card today is for a couple of challenges. I have been trying to keep up with the weekly sketch challenges on the MFT blog that come out on Wednesdays. Here it is Tuesday and I am just getting my card uploaded!

Splitcoaststampers is partnering with the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center for the second annual month long card drive to benefit those affected by breast cancer.

From the Splitcoast website...
"Whether your stamps cling to acrylic, wood, or to your hard drive, they hold the power to convey hope and lift the spirits of anyone who sees what you create with them. That is the inspiration for our “Hope You Can Cling To” stamping campaign for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
We are kicking this campaign off on World Card Making Day - a day of celebration of the power of a handmade card. We encourage papercrafters across the globe to put their talents to work creating beautiful handmade cards to send to patients and their families at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, and, in the process,turn our gallery pink!

My Mom is a breast cancer survivor as well as several of my friends. I am participating in as many of the challenges as I can and the cards I make will be donated to MD Anderson. I hope you will come join us in this endeavor!
Here is my Fight Like A Girl Card!

Stamps: MFT ALM Fight Like A Girl

Paper: White, My Minds Eye Tickled Pink

Ink: Memento Black Tuxedo

Accessories: MFt Die-Namics Mini Pennant, Ribbon, SU Modern Label Punch, Pearls, Copics BG10, BG13, E000, E00, E11, RV10, RV11, RV13, Y21, Y26, C00

Enjoy!
 

Happy Haunting

Happy Tuesday!

Did you have a nice weekend? Maybe a three day weekend? Not me! Our company only does six holidays, so yesterday I was working! I did have a good weekend though. Bill and I bowled in the Annual Pensacola Seniors Tournament. It was fun and I bowled well. Should find out the results in the next week or so!

My card is for today's SCS Color Combo Challenge~ Tempting Elegant Pie with a dessert option to make a Halloween card. Julia is our hostess this week and she kind of threw a wrench in my thought processes with the Turquoise! Lol! That's what challenges are for, right?! 

I decided to do clean and simple and stamped the cat from the Flourishes Halloween set in the three ink colors. Only on Halloween will you see purple, orange and turquoise cats! I really should go back and put some lime green stickles on their eyes, don't you think? 

Stamps: Flourishes Witching You a Happy Halloween

Paper: White

Ink: Elegant Eggplant, Pumpkin Pie, Tempting Turquoise

Accessories: Twine, Button

Enjoy!

Kissed Autumn Blessings

Good Wednesday Morning! Hope your week is going great!
My card is for this week's  SCS Color Combination Challenge~ More Soft Tango. Joanne chose a beautiful combo of fall colors! 

I recently took the Inspiration Showcase class with Jennifer McGuire. It was two weeks chocked full of stamping goodness! I learned some new things and was reminded of some techniques I had learned a long time ago but had forgotten. For my card today, I used the Kissed Resist technique. I love how the Tangerine Tango ink turned out. 

Want to know how to do this technique? It is really easy!!
Ink up your background stamp with Versamark Ink. Ink up the script stamp and kiss the background stamp. (I used the Reflections stamp, that has a reverse image so when you  do the kissing, the script doesn't come out backwards).  Stamp onto glossy card stock. I heat set the image with my embossing gun.  Now take an ink pad and swipe across the card stock and wipe/buff with a cloth. That is it!

Stamps: Hero Arts Large Lotus Background, Tim Holtz Reflections, GinK Fanciful Fall

Paper: Bazzill French Vanilla, More Mustard, Soft Suede

Ink: Tangerine Tango, Vintage Photo DI, Versamark, Soft Suede

Accessories: PTI Felt, MFT Rolled Rose Die-Namic, Spellbinder Rectangles

Other Challenges Entered:
Shopping Our Stash #20- Thanksgiving or Thank You
Papertake Weekly- Anything Goes (can add punched item)
Make My Monday- Fall and use Resist Technique

Enjoy!

Family Is A Gift....

Happy Tuesday! Thought I would mix things up a little today and post my card for this weeks MFT Sketch Challenge #39. I will have my SCS Color Combo card for you tomorrow.

I don't do "sentiment only" cards very often but this one was a lot of fun to make. The phrases in this set are super and the word family comes in a couple of different fonts, so you can switch them out.

Stamps: MFT Clearly Sentimental About Family

Paper: Bazzill French Vanilla, MME A Beautiful Life

Ink: More Mustard, Perfect Plum, Certainly Celery

Accessories: Spellbinders Labels 4, MFT Die-namics Rolled Flower, MS Border Punch, Pearls, Sponge Dauber

Enjoy!