Happy Party Animals

My Favorite Things Sketch Challenge
Wednesday #444
For my card today I the MFT Party Animals Stamp and Die set. I also the the cloud background cover up die. My center strip is part of the Stitched Strip Horizontal Cover Up plates. The die sentiment pieces are also MFT. I colored the animals with copic and added some Starform dots.
Happy Crafting
Barbara

Joyful Jar Flowers

Ink to Paper
Laurie Fabulous Favorites
Using Up Scraps
Using  the die set Joyful Jars was perfect for scraps. It is a die cutting set of small flowers, leaves, labels and of course the jar. Today I choose the flowers and leaves plus bouquet label base. I used many different colors of  Ink to Paper card stock and die cut away! Inked the base with Amethyst Allure. the next layer was die cut with the Scallop Stacker's Small Frame: the inside one only. The sentiment is the thanks from the PTI big series.
The Joyful Jars set though at first was a challenge to figure out. What helped  was down loading  the PDF on the blog the cross organizing my dies to match. For further storage I placed each flower set in a small plastic bag labeled for each flower by number. I cut up the PDF sheet for the flowers and placed on some card stock so I could see them for reference.I was surprised to learn there is 6 different flowers! I placed leafs on separate piece of magnetic sheet in small pouch. the larger pieces went in the regular Avery Elle bag.
Happy Crafting
Barbara

Round Star

Simon Says Stamp
Wednesday Challenge Blog 
Stars an/or Stripes
I went CAS this Forth of July ! I mean June just flew by...For my card I layered card stock out, the red and the blue on a piece of lightweight white then die cut the circle. Then die cut out the star both using Spellbinder basic shape dies. After a bit of trial and error the diagonal pitch seemed the best look. The circle is popped up with foam tape then added to the card. I added the sentiment from Waltzingmouse Stamp Stamp set. Then added punched out stars from Pixie Dust Glitter Card stock.
Happy 4th July!
Happy Crafting
Barbara

Mixed Summer Flowers

Ink to Paper
Laurie's Fabulous Favorites
Favorite Summer Flowers
Well it is all about the flowers ! I really love them all! So I picked some that I play with all the time.. the Forget Me Nots, Beautiful Brushstrokes and the Bigger Blooms. My leafs are from Bigger Blooms, Beautiful Brushstrokes, and Botanical Bounty. I also used the Loosely Woven set  fitted inside the Medium Scalloped Stacker's. My sentiment is from the Penned Elegance set.
Happy Crafting
Barbara

Happy 4th of July Star

My Favorite Things
Wednesday Sketch Challenge
Wishing everyone a Happy Fourth of July! So I saw the star and thought holiday card time. Believe it or not with all the MFT I  have I could not find a Happy Fourth of July Stamp...so like how did I miss that!? So I dug in my MFT dies and used a script "happy", Months of the Year set; Magical Memories; Pierced Star Stax set; tiny letters from the circle sentiments Birthday. The "of" is from a a Lawn Fawn set.
Have a Great Holiday!
Happy Crafting
Barbara

Thanks a Melon

My Favorite Things
Sketch  441
My take on this sketch challenge. I used the Sweet Summertime stamp and die set. My patterned paper is from Pebbles a cute watermelon pattern.She is is colored in Copics, This is such fun and cute little girl image all ready for summer!
Happy Crafting
Barbara

Pen and Ink Hello

Ink to Paper

Laurie's Fabulous Favorites

Wednesday Challenge : Framed Sentiments

For my card there is lots of inking going on. The pens are inked up in the PTI inks: Lilac Grace, Hawaiian Shores, Limeade Ice and Aqua Mist. The dye set itself did the patterning. In order to do this I made pen templates for each part in two different Misti's so I could mix and match up colors and patterns. After the set up it was easier to make several different pens.

the background was inked with Limeade Ice, Hawaiian Shores, and Aqua Mist. Then the sentiment was die cut out twice as well as the oval frame in Limeade Ice and Hawaiian Shores.

The envelope is from Parcel and Post cut from some Hawaiian Shores pattern paper.

Happy Crafting

Barbara