Thankful Leaves!

Hi everyone,

It’s day 4 of the MFTeasers, in preparation of the release of the new stamp sets which are all due to be released by MFT Stamps this coming Tuesday 16th October.

Today the Design Team are featuring the Thankful Leaves Stamp Set.

I used the Thankful Leaves stamp set for my card today  which uses the modern grid technique.  The leaves and the veins of the leaves are two separate stamps which allows you to use a darker color ink for the veins after you have stamped the leaves. I stamped the leaves using various inkpads randomly onto Sweet Tooth cardstock and then used a thin black marker to draw lines across the card stopping at each leaf. I also die cut a couple of leaves using the new Die-namics Fall Leaves die and attached them over the leaves on the left side of my card. I added a sentiment also included in the stamp set and the Die-namics Accent It Flags and Tags die. The base of the card uses Orange Fizz cardstock.

 

For the inside of my card I stamped a couple of the leaves again at the top of the card and then used the Die-namics High Rise Alphabet Uppercase to create the word THANKS along the bottom of the card.






Here are the details about the upcoming release:

• You can attend the New Release Party on October 16 from 8-10 PM EST HERE in the MFT forum, where you can WIN PRIZES!
• The MFT release, including all new stamp sets and Die-namics, is on October 16 at 10 PM EST.  You'll find all the newest products HERE at release time.
• The guest designer contest is going on now!  Check out the forum for details on how YOU can win over $200 in stamp sets and Die-namics.
• If you'd like to see all the teasers for today, please click on over to the MFT Blog NOW.  Be sure to leave comments as you go for the chance to win one of 2, $10 gift certificates given away daily.  The winners will be posted on October 16 just before the release party, on the MFT blog.

Stamps: Thankful Leaves – MFT Stamps

Paper: Sweet Tooth; Orange Fizz and Green

Die-namics: Fall Leaves; Accent It Flags & Tags; High Rise Alphabet Uppercase – MFT Stamps

Other: Black Ink; Bisque; Amber Clay; Olive Pastel; Dark Moss; Tangerine & Burnt Sienna Fluid Chalk; Foam Tape

Floral Modern Grid

Hi all,

I created the front panel for this card sometime last year and it has been sitting in a container on my desk all that time waiting for me to turn it into a card. Well I finally found some time to layer it up and do just that.

This technique is called the Modern Grid Technique, and is easy to do … stamp your images all over your card first … solid or outline images both work. and then once you have all your images on your panel you then rule lines in both directions stopping when you come to an image. You can also add dots/dashes or other decorations in some of the panels and if you want to color some of the panels.

Stamps:

Paper: White; Pink; Green; DP

Other: Pink Ink; Green Ink; Foam Tape

Lazy Days Of Summer!

Hi Everyone,

It is release day over on Elzybells Art Stamps, so I have one more sneak peek to share with you today.

This time round I am using a set called Life’s A Beach. This set is a mixture of solid and outline images of the same shape, various types of shells, jelly fish etc, sentiments and a few other smaller images. You can use either just the solid image or the outline image or as I did on my card today you can use the two together.  Basically it is 2 step stamping.

First up I stamped all my solid shells over my white card using baja breeze ink and then I went back over the solid image with it’s outline counterpart using blue bayou.

Once I had stamped all my images I ruled my lines to create the Modern Grid Technique …. I seem to be using this particular technique a fair bit of late.

Don’t forget that the rest of the Elzybells design team will also have some sneak peeks to share with you today so check them out too … you can find the list of names on my side bar.

Recipe:

Stamps: Life’s A Beach – Elzybells Art Stamps

Paper: White; Baja Breeze & Blue Bayou – SU

Other: Black Ink; Baja Breeze & Blue Bayou SU Inks; Foam; Copics

 

Modern Grid!

Hi again everyone!

I am back today with yet another card to share with you. As it is Monday it means that it is challenge time with my CCEE Stamper friends.

Being the beginning of the month it also means that we have a new challenge hostess, this month Dawn Lusk will be issuing the challenges.

This week Dawn issued a technique challenge which is called “Modern Grid” …. I think the other girls will blame me if they don’t like this challenge as apparently it was a card I created last month which gave Dawn this idea … yikes!

I was playing around with this pencil stamp which is from the new “Cyber Hanna” stamp set which will be released later today by Hanna Stamps after the release party over on SCS. Anyway while I was playing with the stamp it came to me that this would work for this challenge … how easy was that hehe.

I first came across this technique in the April 2007 Technique Junkies Newsletter. If you haven’t seen it before it is pretty easy to do.

1. Stamp your image or images randomly over your card
2. Now take a ruler and black marker and draw lines equally spaced vertically and horizontally. Make sure you stop your line when you get to the stamped image and then start again on the other side of the image.
3. Add dots or doodles to some of the squares. You can also color in some squares if you desire. You could also add smaller image stamps that suit the theme or words too. You can see what I mean about other images and words by one I did when I first learnt this technique here.

Don’t forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the CCEE Stampers creations this week. You will also find details on how you can play in this challenge.

Recipe:

Stamps: Cyber Hanna – Hanna Stamps; Sentiment – Hero Arts

Paper: White; Black; Real Red – SU

Other: Black Ink; Buttons; Grosgrain Ribbon; Copics

It’s a Retro Summer!

Hi all

Today I am featuring cards using the retro Hanna set and the retro Riley, these will be re-released by Hanna Stamps after the release party on Monday 1st June.

So what do we mean by retro Hanna & Riley??? During the summer months Hanna Stamps are having a retro summer. Retro summer will consist of Hanna Stamps regular released sets, and bringing back one of the old released sets into the mix. This will give the newer customer's a chance to see the old sets in a new light, and then give the customer's that already bought the sets a new way of using them. There will be a retro Riley and a retro Hanna set each month to go along with the new released ones. Hanna Stamps are going to include the retro sets/stamps in with the BUY IT NOW price bundle....another great way to save on those older stamps/sets. What if you already have those retro stamps and do not want to buy the BUY IT NOW bundle, but still want the special price for the new ones, we are going to have 2 BUY IT NOW bundles. 1. A BUY IT NOW bundle, and 2. A BUY IT NOW RETRO bundle. These BUY IT NOW bundles always saves you 15%.

This month’s retro Hanna set is Route 66, it is fun getting out some of the older stamps to play … Hanna is having lots of fun riding on her red motor bike!

Recipe:

Stamps: Route 66 – Hanna Stamps; Rough Texture Wheel – SU

Paper: White; Black; Real Red – SU; Alphabet Stack DP – DCWV

Other: Black Ink; Silver Brads; Foam Tape; Copics

My second card uses “Swimmer Riley” ….. this is the retro summer Riley stamp which we are featuring during this months release.

I used the Modern Grid technique to create this card. First up I stamped Riley randomly over my white card. I then used a fine black marker and good ruler to create the grid lines and the dots in the grid lines. Once I got this far i decided that riley would look better surrounded by blue then he would look like he was swimming so I masked each of the Riley's and then used my copic airbrush system to apply the blue background.

Don't forget to check out the blogs of the other design team members to see what they have been creating with these new sets ... you will see the links to there blogs on my sidebar.

We also have two guest designers this month, click on the links below to check out there blogs and creations using the new release sets:

Jodi Lee

Cindy Lawrence

Recipe:

Stamps: Swimmer Riley – Hanna Stamps

Paper: White; Black; Orange

Other: Black Ink; Black Fine Point Marker; Ruler; Copic Airbrush System; Copics

Hi Little Ladybug!

This piece is just something I created for a little book club swap I belong to ... the owner of the book requested that we all create something grid related ... as I was the last person to complete a page in the book it took me a little while to think what to do for this one as most of the other grid type techniques had already been done ... I finally decided to go with the modern grid technique!

Recipe:
Stamps: Little Lady - Papertrey Ink
Paper: Red, Blackk & White
Other: Black Ink; Red Ink;

Butterfly Wishes

This weeks technique challenge on SCS was using the faux shaving cream technique. This is a fun technique and one I hadn't done before but kept meaning to., great for those bold stamps we own. I decided to combine this challenge with the color challenge (pretty in pink, bravo burgundy & always artichoke). I also received my Technique Junkies newsletter today from and I liked the modern grid technique featured in the newsletter so I decided to have a go at that while I was at it. As I don't own many SU ink pads as yet I substituted what I did have. I used pink pastel fluid chalk for the solid butterfly and then stamped the small flower from delight in life onto it using warm violet fluid chalk before stamping on the card. I then used warm violet again for the butterfly outline.

Recipe:
Stamps: Butterfly Sketch & Butterfly Shadow - Stamp It (Aust); word - Impression Obsession; Leaves & flower used on butterfly - Stampin' Up
Paper: Pretty in Pink, Bravo Burgundy, Always Artichoke, white
Other: Pink Pastel, Warm Violet, olive pastel & dark mossFluid chalks, Black ink pad, black marker, Cuttlebug slider die, pink ribbon, burgundy brads.