We Don’t Know How Strong We Are!

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 7th February.

Today the Design Team are featuring the three sets that will be released, these are “Vertical Greetings Die-namic & Stamp set”; “Ring Me Die-namic & Stamp set” and “Finishing Flourishes Stamp set”.

For my first card today I used the Vertical Greetings Die-namic & Stamp set, I love being able to use sentiments that go in the opposite direction to normal! If you are wondering how I layered the black panel behind the greeting, it is so simple. Just die cut another vertical greeting from black card and then cut this in half, this is then adhered at the back on the top and bottom of the main panel so you have a little showing. Then just cut a rectangle from black card to fit the centre portion.

I decided to create another Double Dutch Fold card if you haven’t made one of these before you can find a tutorial in the resources section of Splitcoast Stampers. I also added some Charcoal Twine to the top portion of my card.

Here you can see the inside of my card with the top portion of the front of my card lifted up.

And here you can see my card fully open. I have used another stamp from the Vertical Greetings Die-namics and Stamp set.

After I had finished my first card you saw at the top of my post, the sketch for a recent Clean and Simple sketch challenge (FTL174) came up on my Google Reader. I thought it was the perfect sketch for the Vertical Greetings Die-namics and Stamp set so I had to make another card . This time round I added a flourish from the Finishing Flourishes stamp set also being released on Tuesday.

Here is the inside of my card. The sentiment and flourish used on the inside are also from the Finishing Flourishes stamp set. I also added a border along the designer paper which was cut using the Die-namics Monarch Border also being released on Tuesday 7th February.

Here are the details about the upcoming release on February 7th at 10 PM EST:

• You can attend the New Release Party on February 7th from 8-10 PM EST HERE in the MFT forum, where you can enjoy fun, games, and PRIZES!
• The MFT release, including all new stamp sets and Die-namics, is on February 7th at 10 PM EST.  You'll find all the newest products HERE at release time.
• The guest designer contest is ON!  Check out the forum</ a> for details on how YOU can win $200 in stamp sets and Die-namics, and play along with the MFT Design Team for a month.
• 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 February 7th just before the release party, on the MFT blog.

Stamps: Vertical Greetings; Finishing Flourishes – MFT Stamps

Paper: Kraft; Kraft Funday DP – My Mind’s Eye

Die-namics: Vertical Greetings; Monarch Border – MFT Stamps

Other: Black Ink; Tea Dye Distress Ink; Charcoal Twine; Button; Foam Tape

Another St Patrick’s Day Card!

Hi everyone and happy St Patrick’s Day to You!

It is challenge time over on the Alota Rubber Stamps blog. This week it is my turn to host the challenge. As it is St Patrick’s Day I decided to challenge everyone to include green on their card project.

It’s also time for another challenge with my friends CCEE Stampers challenge blog. This week our hostess Joanne Grzelak, challenge us to a St Patrick’s Day themed challenge too. We had to use a cutie patootie (critter or person) wearing something green. Green didn’t have to be the main color, but as you can see I decided to go green!

I used this cute Irish Bug from Alota Rubber stamps for my card. What could be better for St Patrick’s Day then an Irish stamp right!

I used a recent CAS sketch for the layout of my card FTL129.

Don’t forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

• Tosh
• Charlene
• Cindy
• Joanne
• Shirley

Stamps: Irish Bug – Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Green; Garden Variety DP – Cosmo Cricket

Other: Black Ink; Oval Nestabilities; Green Ribbon; Green Button; EK Success Fancy Flight Border Punch; Green Twine; Foam Tape; Copics

A Prettie Peek #4

Hi everyone,

It’s day 4 of the Paper Pretties sneak peeks in readiness for the release of the new Paper Pretties stamps which are to be released this coming Wednesday 9th March.

Today the Paper Pretties Design Team are featuring the Sympathy stamp set. This set comprises of 5 sentiments that are sympathy related and 2 butterflies.

My card uses this week’s Fall To Layout Sketch #130.

Here is the inside of my card, using another of the sentiments from the set and also the two butterflies.

• Join us for our release Blog Hop this Wednesday 12 AM EST 9th March, starting on the Paper Pretties Blog.
• New Release Stamps available in the Paper Pretties Boutique from Wednesday 12 AM EST 9th March.
• Don’t forget to check out the Paper Pretties Blog to see who else is previewing the new stamps today.

Stamps: Sympathy – Paper Pretties

Paper: White; Bubblegum Hill DP – Kaisercraft

Other: Black Ink; Pink Ink; Pink Twine; MFT Die-namics Framed Greeting Die; Pearls

Bubbles Bubbles Everywhere!

Hi everyone!
It is time for another Pretties Wednesday Challenge & Blog Hop. If you didn't hop onto my blog via Christi Thorsen's blog then you might want to hop back over to the very start of the blog hop which is at Christie Ortman's blog.

This week our challenge was issued by Julie Masse. Her challenge was to create a card using a clean and simple layout.  Our challenge to you is to chose any one of the layouts the Prettie Girls are showing off and make a card with it.

Yike everyone is making me do clean and simple this month … it is a conspiracy I tell ya hehe. Anyway I hope this passes for clean and simple, I found this layout from Clean & Simple Stamping here.

I used Bubble Time Sophia which will be the Paper Pretties SOTM for December …. isn’t she just too much fun!!!!! Along the right edge of my image, I used  Martha Stewarts Scallop Edge Border Punch. I thought the EK Success Swiss Cheese border punch looked a little bit like bubbles too so I added that to the pink panel on the right of my image.

I kept the inside of my card very simple too!

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Want to play along with us
How to Enter: make a card using fun foam and any Paper Pretties stamp set(s) you have. Upload the card to the Paper Pretties gallery. Please include it in the Weekly Challenges category and use keyword PWC75.
Deadline: 6pm EST Tuesday, November 3rd.
Prize: $15.00 coupon to the Paper Pretties Boutique.

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Don’t forget to check out the rest of the Paper Pretties Design team to see what they came up with for this challenge.

Christie Ortman
Julie Masse
Danielle Lounds
Charmaine Ikach
Jana Weaver>
Jackie Rakoski
Christi Thorsen
Frances Byrne (you are here!!)
Heather Lee-Reppen

Now to finish off the hop you need to head on over to Heather Lee-Reppen’s blog to see what she has created.

Recipe:
Stamps: Bubble Time Sophia – Paper Pretties
Paper: White; Light Pink; Pink
Other: Black Ink; Pink Ribbon; EK Success Swiss Cheese Border Punch; MS Embossed Scallop Border Punch; Foam Tape; Copics

Sparklegirl!

Happy Monday everyone!

It is that time of the month again (no not that one!) when the CCEE girls pick someone on SCS who has a catchy user name. We then all make a card around that persons name and feature her on our CCEE Stampers blog. We call it our Catchy Name Featured Stamper Challenge (CNFS).

Tosh our challenge hostess for October selected the name “Sparklegirl” for us to feature. Sparklegirl aka Silke Ledlow work is amazing, I have been an admirer of her creations for a very long time.

Tosh instructed the CCEE Stampers to us to make a Square card (remember this month we are shaping up!), and include a girl, some sparkle, and true to Silke’s style, a lot of white space. There’s a twist too. Since her name has the word Silk in it, you must use the Faux Silk technique found on Splitcoast.

I used The Greeting Farm’s 80’s Anya to create my card. As you can see I used minimal layers just like Silke does … wow was that hard for me to do LOL. I have also noticed that Silke uses a lot of scoring and piercing on her cards so I decided to also add some scored lines down the right side of my card. And I used a white base just like Silke does.

• Square Card – yes
• Girl – yes
• Sparkle – yes, I added sparkle to the bow using a copic spica pen. I also added 3 Swarovski Crystals to my card.
• White Space – yes
• Faux Silke Technique – oops I missed that one but 4 out of 5 isn’t bad right. I suspect I shall get buzzed hehe!

Oh and we just found out that it is Silke's birthday on Tuesday so .........

Happy Birthday Silke!

Recipe:

Stamps: 80’s Anya & Sentiment – The Greeting Farm

Paper: White; Designer Paper

Other: Black Ink; Pink Swarovski Crystals; Grosgrain Ribbon; Foam Tape; Copics

Today is also Cindy Motherway’s Birthday so the CCEE Stampers decided to do something special for her too. Our instructions were to create a card with a teapot on it (Cindy collects teapots), if we didn’t have teapots then we could just use polka dots on our card (Cindy is mad about polka dots) …. I decided to go with both!

Happy Birthday Cindy!!!!!!!

I used the teapot & flower from MFT Stamps new “In the Background” set. The sentiment is from the “Tea For Two” stamp set. I kept my card clean & simple just like Silke’s. I recently discovered a great source of CAS sketches over on the Clean & Simple Stamping Blog. I used their FTL47 layout for my card. The teapot is paper pierced using the reverse of the polka dot design paper, I stamped the flower and added that to the teapot and finished it off with a brown Swarovski Crystal from the Chocolate Kiss collection.

Recipe:

Stamps: In the Background & Tea For Two – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Blue; Designer Paper

Other: Black Ink; Brown Swarovski Crystals; Circle Nestabilities; MS Curved Scallop Border Punch; MS Heart Scallop Border Punch; Foam Tape; Copics