Cheers for Beer

Last year when I bought this stamp set I made a few cards, the person I wanted to make one for though had already had their birthday so when their big birthday was looming near I decided to break out the set yet again.

Last year I made the backgrounds using the MFT plaid builder stamp set and I was going to do the same again when I thought I don't use my stencils enough so out they came and I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.

Ingredients
Image: "craft beer" Papertrey ink, stamped in "potters clay" memento ink
Sentiment: "basic numbers" Clearly besotted
Dies: Blueprints 15 from MFT and "simple stitched hillside borders" Lawn fawn
Card: "midnight muse" Stampin up and "grout gray" MFT
Stencil - "stars" heidi swap, with potters clay (memento) and Enchanted evening (pti) inks
Dots - Teresa collins, studio g and Papermania

HB2U Licence Plate

This card was made with offcuts and leftovers and came together rather quickly, I was clearing my desk and decided to use the stuff on it before putting it away, this worked really well and I had loads of ideas of course it didn't help clean the desk lol.

Ingredients
Image: Licence plate stamps and dies from MFT, stamped in "gumdrop green" and "nightshift blue" both MFT
Paper: "cold avocado soup" Jillibean Soup
Card: Cream linen from stash, "nightshift blue" from MFT
Dies: Blueprints 2 and 13
Stamps: "chevron" background from Heidi Swapp

Wishing You Luck

One of my play day friends has just started a new job and I wanted to wish her well. This is my go to image for this occasion and I have used one of her favourite colours too.

I wanted to do a different background than just patterned papers so I cut a mask using crealies circle and inkadinkado masking paper then used the heidi swapp circle stencil to create a pattern, I don't have the matching SU ink but the MFT "tropical teal" is close enough.

Ingredients
Image: "wishing you luck" a la mode by MFT
Sentiment: as above
Dies: Blueprints 20, 21 and 24, circle mask cut with crealies xxl stitched circle
Card: "island indigo" stampin up

Copics
Skin - E000, 00, 11, R20
Hair - E74, 77, 79
Clover - G46, 43, 40
Top and shoes - BG18, 15, 13
Trousers - E70, 71, 74

Shoot for the Stars

I made this card to wish my neighbour good luck at University. I wanted her to know I was thinking of her and that I I know she will do very well and enjoy it immensely.

I was looking for something inspiring and this set was on my desk, ok confession time it had fallen out of the MFT box and I had forgotten to put it back lol, the quote seemed perfect and I thought a galaxy background would work perfectly. The distress inks blend so beautifully on the watercolour card, much better than standard card. I was going to try the water droplet technique but went with the sprays instead, they give the paper a lovely shimmer.

It looks much darker on the screen than it does in real life.

Ingredients
Sentiment: "count the stars" MFT
Embossing powder: Ranger silver fine detail
Stars: "Sketchy stars" Papertrey Ink
Card: Snippet folder and Tim Holtz watercolour
Sequins: "charcoal" and "clear" pretty pink posh
Distress inks: "seedless preserves", "chipped sapphire" and "black soot"
Sprays: "amethyst" and "white" both Heidi Swapp

Mama Elephant Photobomb

My good friend Kay showed me this stamp set and I just had to get it, I couldn't wait and coloured this version straight away. I saw a card on the mama elephant blog and thought mmm shades of grey.

I wanted to create a kind of developing photo bokah background so I cut a panel using blueprints 20 then I inked it with pumice stone and black soot. Once it was dry I cut several circles using mft staxs and used "sweet tooth" pigment ink from mft to sponge through the circles. To finish I added some Heidi swapp White spray, it gives a lovely pearly look in real life.

The panel looked too plain on a white card base so I used mft grout Gray, I then sponged the White ink through a stampin up stencil , once that was dry I moved the stencil down and to the right and sponged with the grout Gray dye ink. This is something I would try again maybe with brighter colours next time.

Ingredients

Images: "photobomb" mama elephant
Inks: "pumice stone" and "black soot" both distress, "sweet tooth" pigment and "grout Gray" dye both MFT
Dies: precious Polaroids, circle stax and blueprints 20 all MFT
Stencil : circle masks stampin up
Card: "grout Gray" mft and "white" recollections 110lb

Look No Colouring

I had the idea for this card in my head for a while, I wanted to try a bit of inking and distressing but now its finished I'm glad I made it, don't worry if you think the image is blurry I inked the stencil with fine linen then moved it slightly and inked with gathered twigs and it causes the background to be hazy, not sure if it works but it is different.

Whilst on a recent Florida visit I noticed that in the slightly local scrapbook store (Violettes) the samples had the main image and a smaller image in the corner, I liked this look so tried to recreate it here. Next time though I think I need a smaller second image.

Ingredients
Image: "inspired by the front porch - Fall" MFT
Paper: "lattice" stencil from Heidi Swapp
Card:"early expresso" Stampin up
Inks: "fine linen" papertrey ink, "gathered twigs" distress ink and "rich cocoa" memento

Stencils who'd have guessed

I have been watching a lot of YouTube videos especially those by Jennifer McGuire and I decided to try one of her techniques. I used my sponge daubers and distress inks again and decided first of all to create a rainbow, I love the rainbow look, although my odd wants to make it like the rhyme lol.
The speech bubble border was cut at a jaunty angle by accident and I kinda liked it so I did it again, sometimes being impatient and not using post it tape to hold a die in place can have unforeseen results.

Ingredients
Stencil: polka dots by Heidi swapp
Inks: festive berries, spiced marmalade, squeezed lemonade, mowed lawn, peacock feathers, salty ocean and dusty concord all distress inks by tim holtz
Dies: blueprints 13 by MFT and speech bubble border by Lawn Fawn
Sentiment: "teacups" by Lucy a Cromwell for Papermania

Ingredients
Stencil: polka fits by Heidi swapp
Inks: mowed lawn, peacock feathers and salty ocean all distress inks by tim holtz
Dies: blueprints 13 by MFT and speech bubble border by Lawn Fawn
Sentiment: "teacups" by Lucy a Cromwell for Papermania