Coloured Stencils a la Jennifer McGuire

I have been looking for an idea to make some thank you cards for my Floridian friends, every time I visit they go out of their way to include me and take me to the most fab places.

I watched a video from Jennifer McGuire and thought I have everything to make that so I sat and had a go, i had to sharpen my pencils multiple times but I really like the effect. Next time I might use my crayolas and see what difference these make.

Ingredients
Image: "moroccan mosca" stencil from MFT
Sentiment: "written in watercolour" from MFT
Card: "natural" from MFT
Dies: A2 stitched rectangle stax from MFT

Fabulous Pink Shoes

The final instalment of the shoe cards, although I might have made more by now as they were so enjoyable.

Not much else to say except I am happy to have made them and hope they were well received.

Ingredients
Image and sentiment: Creative Stamping issue 53
Dies: "mod stitched rectangle stax" from MFT
Paper: "charcoal" from michaels
Stamp: "diagonal stripes" MFT

Fabulous Red Shoes

This is the second of the shoe cards, this magazine was a joy and they keep getting better and better, by now there have been a few more and I hope they were even better than this one lol.

I am so glad I brought my Prisma pencils home with me, they are a lovely medium and I am shocked that I reached for them rather than my copics but pleased I did.

Ingredients
Image and sentiment: Creative Stamping issue 53
Dies: "mod stitched rectangle stax" from MFT
Paper: "charcoal" from michaels
Stamp: "diagonal stripes" MFT

Fabulous Blue Shoes

So this card is the first of three that I made with the February/March issue of Creative Stamping, I am not showing all three yet though as a few of the recipients might follow my blog, I will however post those after their birthdays.

This magazine was an absolute joy to work with and I made ten cards in the space of a few days all using the images. I will be showing those other cards soon too.

All the cards used background stamps, versa fine ink and prismacolour pencils plus the MOD stitched rectangle from MFT.

Ingredients
Image and sentiment: Creative Stamping issue 53
Dies: "mod stitched rectangle stax" from MFT
Paper: "charcoal" from michaels
Stamp: "diagonal stripes" MFT

Creative Stamping Issue 53

The fist design using this magazine, which I have to say is amazing, I went with a very similar looks for all the subsequent variations as if it ain't broke don't fix it lol.

I did use the Concord and 9th plaid background on this version, this set is amazing. You get a large check and then two thin lines. I cut a piece of cranberry card stock from michaels into four pieces and then stamped all the background with versa fine onyx black, having a misty certainly helped in this process. Once they were dry, which took a while I covered all the pieces with my anti static bag and then stamped the two lines in between the check and embossed with stampendous gold embossing powder. In real life this is so stylish, it was such a shame to cover almost all of it but I can see this being a design for my christmas cards.

I will apologise in advance for my overuse of the MOD stitched rectangles, I have coveted them for a while and normally that means I never use them but in this instance the opposite has happened and I can't put them down.

Ingredients
Image and Sentiment: "creative stamping issue 53"
Dies: MOD stitched rectangle from MFT
Background: "plaid" from Concord and 9th
Card: "cranberry" from Michaels

Huh?

I coloured a few of these images when I was last in Florida, I discovered colouring on kraft card and there was no stopping me. I showed this particular image to a lady at play day and she said I want it for my birthday card so here she is all made up for her, I hope she liked it. 

I don't have any full sheets of this paper pad left, it has been my most used ever I think and I keep finding ways of using the last little scraps, I can't imagine what it will be like to not even have little pieces left, I can't believe Im feeling sentimental about a paper pad lol. Anyway as this is made of snippets Im entering the challenge at the Snippet Playground.

Ingredients
Image: "huh" Robertos Amigas at CC Designs
Paper: "blush" MME
Dies: Blueprints 21 and 2 from MFT
Sentiment: "wet paint" stamps and dies Papertrey ink
Card: "autumn rose" and "smoky shadow" both Papertrey ink

Challenges - Snippet Playground

Panda Girl

February and March used to be quite Birthday months but not anymore lol, I seem to be making more and more cards than ever lately. So this card is for the lovely lady who introduced me to card making and to whom I owe a huge thanks.

I didn't bring my prisma pencils back with me from Florida but I so wanted to colour with them again so my very good friend Jane brought them to play day for me, I had a blast colouring this on kraft again I think it might be my new obsession lol.

Ingredients
Image: "wild child" The Greeting Farm
Card: "kraft" Joann and "sour apple" MFT
Background stamp: "damask" stamped with "sour apple" dye ink from MFT
Dies: "horizontal stripes", Blueprints 21 and 13.
Sentiment: "happy everything" clearly besotted

Limited Crafting Supplies

Normally when I make a card I'm surrounded by all my stuff and I can use a bit of this and a bit of that but in Florida I have only my prismas and anything I buy whilst I'm there.

I have made some really good friends during my trips and I discovered one of them was celebrating a birthday on the day I got home so I wanted to make her a card, problem is how do I do that when I don't have all my stuff. When I put this perplexing question to my hubbie he just looked at me and said you've got loads of stuff to choose from how can you possibly not have enough here to make a card, I was a bit shocked to be honest and then I looked again and thought ok prove him wrong, prove that you need the all the stuff, well I didn't succeed in that lol. What I did succeed in was enjoying creating in a way I hadn't done in years. When I first started crafting I would see a card I liked and wanted to recreate and I would look through the stuff I already had and recreate something similar with my own personal spin. Nowadays I see a card and I buy everything to make that card, I still put my own personal spin but I still have to have everything to make it. But not anymore, I so enjoyed making this card I'm going to do this more.

I decided to try colouring on Kraft card with my prismas, I must say I really enjoyed this technique, I didn't bother blending with mineral spirits instead I let the pencils do the work. I enjoyed it so much I wanted to bring my pencils home with me lol.

Ingredients
Image: "coffee sue" robertos amigas from CC Designs
Card: "natural", "grapesicle", "grape jelly" all MFT, "Kraft" from Joann
Ink: "grapesicle" from MFT
Dies: blueprints 21 from MFT
Background stamp: "damask" MFT

Happy Everything Again

This stamp set is so fantastic to colour in every medium I have used so far, I've tried copics, stamping up markers, watercolour and now prismas. I took some of these stamped images with me on a recent trip and spent many a happy hour colouring them with my prismas, only problem was trying to match them to card or papers once I got home, next time I think I will take some papers to match with me.

I was inspired by several cards made with this set my Stephanie's fab design team, I combined a few of the elements and hopefully I have done the image justice.

Ingredients
Image and sentiment: "happy everything" Clearly Besotted
Card: white is Michaels 110lb, purple is Core'dinations
Die: "notebook" edge from mft
Ink: "lilac posies" memento and "black liquorice" hybrid ink from mft

Another Prisma pencil one

I coloured another image with my prisma pencils and had to make a few adjustments, I coloured the green dress blue but it was a bit too much blue so I paper pieced a new one and think it makes such a difference. I also drew the bricks in the wall as they stopped abruptly and it looked odd when I cut it out so I drew a few in, hopefully it isn't too noticeable which ones.

Ingredients
Image:  Best Friends" LOTV - lily of the valley
Papers: "Petal Fresh" Nit Wit
Cardstock: "Bashful Blue" Stampin up (retired - will miss this colour once I have used it all)
Dies: blueprints 3 MFT stamps

Prismacolor pencils

I have had my prisma pencils longer than my copics but they hardly ever got used so I took them to Florida last year and left them there. I thought not having any copics would mean they got used and boy they did this time for sure, so much that if I had any room in my case they would be in my craftroom now.

I forgot to take any papers with me and prefer to match my papers and colouring so I had to improvise and just use colours I liked and hope I had papers when I got home.

This is such an intricate image but once you start colouring it was a joy and made me wonder why I haven't used it more.

Ingredients
Image: "chocolate factory" LOTV
Papers: "fairytale dreams" Nit Wit
Card: Unknown but probably Papermill
Sentiment: "chocolate sentiments" MFT stamps

Home to Nest

I love this range from paper mania, the colours are muted and soft and the stamps are dinky but beautifully designed and they stamp perfectly.

I stamped this and took it all the way to Florida as I wanted to colour with my prisma pencils and I wish I had taken some of the paper but the colours seem to match ok irl.

I tried some of the brighter papers but found these muted almost sepia ones worked best. I have lost my mojo since my return, lots of new goodies always results in too many ideas and no cards so I used an old sketch saturday sketch and it seemed to help.

I used the early expresso that has been sitting on my desk for a while now and all the little bits are getting used slowly but it helps having easy access to them, couldn't do this with all my cardstock though as I would lose my desk lol.

Ingredients

Image: "Home to Nest" Paper mania

Papers: "Home to Nest" Paper mania

Cardstock: 'Early Expresso" Stampin Up

Ink: "Gathered Twigs" Distress Ink

Dies: "Blueprints 3" and "Flagstack" MFT Stamps

Challenges: Snippet Playground

A Candy Cane Christmas

I stamped and coloured both of these images whilst in Florida, they were coloured with my prisma pencils and I really enjoyed spending a bit of time colouring them. I forget the other colouring stuff I have and just reach for my copics but as I didn't have them with me there was no other choice.

Last week Jessica Sprague had the Santa Sleigh full collection for a $1 so I had to get it and both of these papers are from that collection, it is so versatile and I can see me using lots of it.

I made the same card but with different colours for two of my friends, one loves pink and anything girly and the other is more traditional so their cards and colours reflected this.

Ingredients

Image: "Candy Cane A la Mode" Mft Stamps

Paper: "Santa Sleigh" Carina Gardiner at Jessica Sprague

Cardstock: "real red" Stampin up

Brad: Studio G

Sentiment: " Big Christmas Wishes" Amy R 

Ingredients

Image: "Candy Cane A la Mode" Mft Stamps
Paper: "Santa Sleigh" Carina Gardiner at Jessica Sprague
Cardstock: "pool party" Stampin up
Brad: Stash
Sentiment: " Big Christmas Wishes" Amy R