MFT Kindness stamp set and dies

Andrea here!

I finally got my craft room clean enough for me to make a card.

I did enlist hubby's help- it was that messy

Ooops

I broke open my new stamp set from MFT- Kindness with complimenting dies.

It is important to note that the dies do not cut out the words from the stamp set

Instead they are complimenting dies to the stamps

On my card I used a die and a stamp from the set

Holy cow does this stamp set have a lot of stamps to choose from

Check it out!

First I stamped a MFT background stamp in Whimsical Woodgrain

stamped on a kraft background in brown ink

Then I die cut the kindness die in black cardstock

and one of the sentiments embossed in white on black card stock

Glossy accents on my die cut to make it pop….

That's it!

And I love it. 

I hope you like my clean and simple card too!

Happy Saturday, 

Andrea

Beautiful Girl stamps and dies by MFT

I took a break from my Christmas card making and dug out my dusty copics to colour up this sweet girl! This is a stamp called 'Beautiful Girl' by My Favorite Things (MFT). I paper pieced her dress using a 6x6 paper pack from Doodlebug called Petite Prints. Matched perfectly with my Doodlebug card base using a 12x12 page cut to 4 ¼ by 5 ½. I finished it up with some enamel dots but I have to say I made the pink enamel dots with one of my fave products right now- Nuvo Crystal drops Glitter Sherbert Shimmer. I love making my own enamel dots in any size!

What's on your craft table right now? I highly recommend once in awhile taking a break from all the red and green a lot of us are working with and break out a non holiday card! Keeps the mojo fresh. 

Cheers, Andrea

Time to start posting again with Lawn Fawn's Winter Unicorn!

I crafted again!

I've been on a break for awhile

I'm sure it happens to most of us from time to time

But I am making this card at SGD this coming Tuesday and wanted to share here too!

I used Lawn Fawn's Winter Unicorn stamp and die

And this great paper from Doodlebug!

Oh and the wonky stitched ovals from MFT!

Coloured up with copics of course.

Aaaahhhhhh

Feels so good to post again

See you again soon!

Andrea

Crazy 4 Challenges is getting Negative!

Yep it's true. C4C is VERY negative this week. Frances our hostess with the mostess has challenged us to use the negative space left over from punches or die cuts. How fun is that!!!

I kinda cheated and used a MFT die that cuts out the four circles above and leaves a negative space for you. So no I didn't get out the ruler and use my punches and creative this perfectly lined up piece. Thank you MFT for saving my sanity ;)

I also used this cute stamp set by Hero Arts that also uses the 'negative' space to show the design. How smart am I!! Frances should be proud! hee hee! I then filled in the remaining circles with items from my stash and added a ribbon. I am thinking it is almost impossible for me to NOT add ribbon to a card. Hope no one challenges me to do that for awhile. 

To see how the rest of the Crazies got negative for Frances hop on over to the Crazy for Challenges blog and join us!

Cheers, Andrea

Crazy 4 Challenges is Waving Hello!

The Crazies over at the C4C have a cheery challenge for you this week!

Joanne is our hostess this month and as Feb 7th is 'Wave all your fingers at your Neighbours Day' her challenge today is for you to make cards that will bring smiles an happiness. 

I used some fun, bright and cheery paper from one of my fave companies American Crafts to make my happy card. I kept it simple by also using a matching sticker from the line. My banner is made by using amazing banner dies from MFT- love them! I added a sentiment from Paper Smooches and it was done! I'm all set to do some finger wagging at my neighbours hee hee!

Pop on over to the Crazy 4 Challenges blog to see more 'neighbourly' inspiration!

Crazy 4 Challenges- Anything BUT a card

Happy Saturday!!

Today our new hostess for the month Joycelyn has asked us to make anything BUT a card. I have been hoarding sharing this tag on my blog waiting for a challenge such as this. 

I used a shipping tag and covered it with a dark chocolate cardstock and rounded the top corners. I then 'tapped' white spritzer from October Afternoon to get my white dotted background. Using some of my fave MFT dies I cut the bracket piece and the rolled flowers out of Studio Calico paper. Added some leaves from the Martha Stewart punch Anja said I had to have (and she was right hee hee) and thought I was done. Then I realized with horror that I hadn't added any glitter yet! The shock...the shame!!! Hee hee. Using a Viva Decor pen I added pearl centres to my flowers then added a chunky glass glitter to my flowers and leaves. Now it was done ;)

To play along with our fun challenge today head on over to the C4C blog and see the awesome crafty goodness the other crazies have made!

Cheers, Andrea

SGD Therapy Thurs make-N-Take

**Please scroll down for my Crazy 4 Challenges post**

I found this cute card that we made a couple Thursdays ago at Scrappingreatdeals product talk- aka Therapy Thursday. I added a few extra pieces of bling to it once I brought it home. I can never resist making things sparkle just that little bit more ;). 

We played with My Favorite Things (MFT) 'Inspired by Butterflies' stamp set and the matching dies. I have a hard time resisting anything butterfly related and this one is so versatile I felt totally justified buying both lol!

The gorgeous paper on this card is from one of my new obsessions- London Market by Pink Paislee. I have seriously bought the paper in 12x12 and 3 packages of the 6x6 papers. And all the embellies in duplicate. I think this one wins for fave of the year! Sooo Yummy!

Yep- more addictions for me...not really a big surprise there hee hee!

Cheers...Andrea

Crazy 4 Challenges says Tag you are IT!

I forgot how fun it is to make tags! I usually make a tag on a card but as I was organizing my craft room I came across a huge amount of shipping tags just begging to be played with! Then I check what our C4C challenge is for this week and it was make a tag...clearly fate was stepping in!

I picture me using this tag on a birthday gift or even a wedding present. I mean how amazing would your prezzie look on the gift table with a fantabulous tag hanging off of it! In fact...I wouldn't be surprised if you suddenly found your social calendar filling quickly as others want you to come to their soiree and bring them a tagalicious gift. I mean..I would invite me to get one of these hee hee!!

I have actually been working on this tag all week. Pretty funny considering how clean and simple it is. Trust me- this is the end result after embellishment after embellishment ended up in the reject pile. I couldn't stand to cover up my cloud shapes that my embossing folder made! Some fun cloud and heart washi tape gave the extra colour I was looking for. I also cracked open a MFT stamp and Die set I hadn't used yet as well as the MFT loopy bloom die. I am in love with the flower that loopy die makes! I already made more in different colours just for fun!

So pop on over to the C4C challenge blog to read the full deets on this week's inspiration plus see some amazing mojo inspiring creations from the rest of the Crazies!

Cheers! Andrea

Crazy 4 Challenges gets sketchy!

It is my second week on the Crazy 4 Challenges team and it is a sketch. Love sketches- they just take the stress right out of my body. Especially simple sketches like the one our fabulous hostess Lynda has provided us. To add a twist to the sketch she is asking that you make a card for someone you love...and actually send it to them. GASP! That is something that I plan to do...but rarely happens. This time it is going to happen though cause I am sending it to my hubby and I am actually going to mail it to our house hee hee! He rarely gets mail so I know he will get a kick out of it. 

I am using a stamp set from MFT that I fell in love with the moment I saw it and obsessed over it till I owned it. Then I promptly stored it and forgot about it. When I saw this amazing paper 'Yours Truly' by Echo Park and it reminded me of my beloved stamp set and die and I dug it out for this challenge. Luckily it wasn't packed yet as we are moving next week and most of my stuff is packed. Speaking of moving and living in a house filled with boxes I did manage to convince hubby that if all my crafting items were packed I could have a serious meltdown if I didn't have at least some of my 'happy room' available to me. Lovely guy that he is he totally understood. He has his video games for his stress relief and relaxation so he 'gets it'. 

In fact that is why I chose this sentiment to go with my card- it actually comes with the set too. We both have our favourite ways to pass time and we have even found a way to do it together at the new house. Currently I have a small craft room and I leave him in the livingroom when I am crafting. He hates that because he always likes to be close to each other even if we are doing our own things. It used to drive me crazy but now I find it cute. In our new house my craftroom is going to be in our HUGE office where I get 90% of the space for my craft studio and he is taking 10% to set up an armchair and his video games so that we can hang out together while we each do our favourite things. How cute is that! I have to admit I agreed to this on the condition that he invest in some of those wireless headphones so that I don't have to hear his games. Honestly- hearing the same words repeated over and over again in his war game sets my teeth on edge so this gives us the best of both worlds. I am sure some of you know exactly what I am talking about!

So here's to you hubby- you are just my type. Love you.

Cheers, Andrea

 

**Don't forget to day is our Garage Sale at SGD! Come and find amazing deals on craft items. Saturday and Sunday only!**

I have to admit I feel so happy each and every time I look at this card. I am not sure what I love more about it..the look and colours or how darn fast it was made lol!

I showed how to make this card at one of our Therapy Thursday sessions. If you haven't been to one yet come and join us at our next one! They are each Thursday at 1pm and we either show you how to use a product we carry or sometimes we just make fun crafts. The ladies that join us are a hoot!!

Okay back to this happy card. I used one of the MFT stamp and die sets called 'You Move Me'. I have to admit when I just looked at it I was completely underwhelmed. Sheila wanted me to try it out on a Thursday as they were new to our store and Sarah was going crazy over them. So of course I had to try it. Cut out my shape..stamped my sentiment in the fun font using black Versafine and voila! Head over heels in love! We actually sold out of them after using them with the ladies on a Thursday but luckily now have more in stock. 

My card base is Patina Bazzill and Sunbeam Bazzill for my yellow layer. I used both sides of the 'Home Tweet Home' paper from My Little Shoe Box. I think I am going to have to grab some more to hoard in my stash lol! The moon and clouds were cut out of white Bazzill using the dies included in the stamp set then stickled. I stamped some stars from the set using Versafine again and added some twine to finish it up. 

At how often this card makes me happy- I think I have to keep it in my craftroom all to myself hee hee!

Off to the Garage Sale I go! Andi  

Day 2 of KKS sneaky peeks...bring your eye patch and parrots!

We are sharing sneak peeks from this Sunday's release again today and we are featuring some exciting new characters from Steven Leary! These kids are sooo cute and really remind me of Fisher Price characters for some reason. My card has Becky Broadsword searching bravely for treasure- the treasure being the lucky recipient of this card of course hee hee. I coloured Becky with my copics and cut her out so I could pop her up on my card design. She was super fast to colour for my card - as a lazy crafter you gotta love that! The other thing I really like about these new characters is that they are super easy to pair together to make a scene in a card. I may even try it myself! I found this October Afternoon paper with the campground map on it and knew it would be perfect for Miss Becky. I used my cloud dies from MFT (love!) to help embellish my card. I also used a sentiment from KKS's Pirate sentiment set. If you already own the sentiments just think how perfect these little people will be in your collection!

To see the rest of the gang click here to go to the challenge blog and see what DT members and guests have for you today! Thar she blows!