Mod and Merry!

Happy Sunday to you all!

Spent sometime in the craft room this afternoon and it felt good to just sit and create, to which I don't get a lot of time of especially at this time of the year running my business..

I had received some goodies from MFT Stamps and was excited to pull out my box and play around with one of the latest sets called Mod and Merry..

Such a fun set and so versatile to create so many cards with..

I had a surf around on Pinterest to get the creative juices flowing and found a card with a tree that looked like it had small images to create the image of a tree, so that was my inspiration to this card..

I took a blank piece of white card stock and placing some masking tape to create an outline of a tree, I then took stamps from the Mod and Merry stamp set and stamped in colours of Red Hot, Ripe Raspberry, Sno Cone, Cement Gray, Wild Cherry, Tropical Teal, Summer Splash, Cornflower and Blue Yonder..

I then trimmed out the stamped piece and added to a white card base..

Moving onto a sentiment that I took from the Sweetest Holiday Wishes, stamping onto some Black Licorice card stock that I then embossed with Gold Embossing Powder..Adding this to the base of the card with a strip of Red Hot card stock..

Completing the card by adding this to a Cement Gray card base and some clear and gold sequins..

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Joy x

Magnolia!

Hello!

Hope you all having a great Easter...it has turned to cooler weather here today and some more needed rain yesterday, which has been lovely..

It was lovely sitting in the craft room yesterday and watching the storms roll in..hope your all having a crafty day today..

So I pulled out an older MFT stamps set called Magnolia Blossoms, I think this is now a retired set but I still find that colouring flower images and keeping it very simple on the card can make for some really pretty cards, for this one I decided to create a sympathy card...as we all know these are the types of cards that are really hard to create and yet hard to find some inspiration for too, so hopefully this card creation gives you some inspiration to pull out your flower stamps and create something similar..

I stamped the image out onto white card stock, coloured in with Copics and Polychromo Pencils, cut around the image using the Brother Scan n Cut..

I then took a panel of white card stock, added some blending with Doe ink from Pinkfresh Studio, added some Cement Gray card stock strips to the base of the panel, added my image along with a stamped and embossed sentiment from Taylored Expressions, Simple Strips Background and completed the card by adding some pearls..

Enjoy the rest of your day and I look forward to being back here again soon with another project!

Joy x

Best Adventure!

Hello there!

Happy Friday to you all! 

It seems to have been quite a long week here, so I am pleased it is about to head into the weekend, looking forward to some downtime in the craft room this weekend too..

Still tweaking this little blog and also trying to get clearer photos, this one is a bit better but still not where I want them to be, so please bare with me as I re learn all my skills again.. thank you to everyone on Instagram that has tried to help also..anyone have any good tips that they want to share in regards to gaining clearer photos here on blogger, I am all ears!

Earlier on in the week, I had some play time with an older set from MFTstamps called Best Adventure Bear, this was such a sweet set when it was first released and I still love it, so did a very simple layout..

Colouring the image in with Copics and die cutting, then inking up a background panel using Pinkfresh Studio inks, die cutting the Stitched Triple Peek-a-boo die out of white card stock, stamping a sentiment from the Birthday Buds set and adding it to the inked background, then finished off by adding my image and some sparkling sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.. 

I hope you all have a great start to your weekend and I look forward to be back here again with another creation..

I have links below on all the products used in this card, so be sure to check them out too..

Hugs

Joy x