My versions of MFT dies

My Favorite Things came out with

some new dies recently and

I thought they were pretty cool

So I went into Design Space (the new version)

and created my knock-offs.

I'm please with the way they came out.

A couple of different options

I love watercolor, but I not

good at it.  I am too OCD to

lose control of the paint....well, it's true.

But what I have found is

something pretty awesome.

Art Impressions has a 

series of stamps that

help, A LOT.

I've ordered several sets

and purchased additional

markers to give me a 

better finish.

But the above card was done with 

the Zig Clear Colors that I had. I

made it for a friend who had surgery

on her knee and she also has

several cats.

I was pleased with the results.

Now these two were done for 

our granddaughters that have

birthdays coming up.  My

husband asked me to 

make some this year instead

of him buying some.

I used some purchased graphics along with

some Cricut images. Used print

and cut on the Explore and

I think they came out rather cute.

Graphically speaking

I think I may have mentioned it before,

but I love graphics.

I purchased some the other day

and came up with this card.

I love the flowers and the colors.

And I love the fact that I can print these

out on my Cricut Explore and 

cut the with my ScanNCut.

You may wonder why I don't do that

with the Explore....well

the SNC allows me to 

all that 1/4 margin around

the items which

I love.

Simple card, cool clean spring colors.

Using Distress Oxide Inks

The big thing lately has been

the new Distress Oxide inks 

from Tim Holtz.

They have been so popular

that it was impossible to 

get them since everyone

seemed to be out of stock.

So I waited......

When I was finally able to find some,

I ordered only 4 colors to start with.

Give it a try and see if I wanted to use

these.  I do....

At some point I will probably

order some more colors, but

I'm happy with these right now.

Not only is the background done with them,

but I used them to stamp the butterfly

as well.

Something old and something new

I pulled out some paper that I've had

for a couple of years and not used plus

a few accessories. 

I found inspiration (as always)

on Pinterest and put this one

together.  I thought it 

came out cute....and maybe

more of a masculine card.

I ordered some stamps that I found on Scrapbook.com

by Art Impressions.  I watched several

YouTube videos using these and I 

couldn't wait to give it a try.

Stamped with watercolor pens and

use a damp (not wet) blush to

pull out the color and move it around.

I got to say, I am IN LOVE with this process.

So much so, that I had to order new

more stamps this morning.

This is about the 'only' way I will ever be 

able to watercolor!

Inspiration from others.

We always find inspiration from others, here are just

a few cards done recently where others inspired me.

I saw a video (forgotten her name) where

someone had this butterfly stamp.  I thought

it was so cute, I just had to order it.  It came

with the die cut as well. I used the Circle Scribble Flowers

from MFT for the flowers.  I popped the

wings up on the butterfly and added a 

few accents just for fun.

I've seen cards  everywhere with this style.

I ordered some inks at the end of last week

and they finally arrived.  I decided to give

this a try.  I have only a few stamps that

are styled this way, where you stamp on

top of each other in different layers of

colors to come up with the image.

After stamping the images I ran them through

my Brothers ScanNCut to cut around them. Some

glued down and some popped up with a twine bow 

and a few pearls to finish it off.

I found inspiration for this card from

a post on a Facebook page by

Birgit Edblom.  I loved her layout

but wanted to tweak it a little

to fit my own style.

I love it and think it came out

quite cute.

I like the way all of them came out.

Trying different things

We all get in a rut from time to 

time and I decided to do some different

things.  I hadn't used

my Faber Castell pencils in a while

so I pulled those out to 

do this card. Plus

I used a sentiment from

a stamp set that I had

not used in a good while.

This one, I found inspiration

from Pinterest and used my Cricut Explore

to cut out the birds, limb and circle.  The sweet

is a die set that I triple cut to give some depth.

With Wink of Stella and sequins I added 

a little pop.

I had used this flower die on a 

card once before but I wanted to

do something a little different.

I used just the outside of the

die and didn't mess with

the inner pieces like before.

Added it to a tag and with a little

ink on the edges.  Put some backing

paper and added it to the card.

Very simple but cute.