I just love the MFT Warm Hugs & Frosty Kisses stamps and dies, and when I found a sketch challenge from MFT and a color challenge on Color Throwdown, I had my plan. Putting the star together was a challenge. I used my Silhouette to cut the star. I used Chipped Sapphire Distress Oxide to ink the sky, with a few well placed water droplets for stars. Next I used the Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders dies to cut the hills. If I had thought it through, I simply would have used precut stars with the hillside borders, so everything would stack neatly. Instead I just used some scrap cardstock and glued it down, then trimmed the edges to fit the star shape base. That was not easy. I used light blue cardstock sprayed with pearl glimmer mist for the ice. I did precut this in a star shape, so that made fitting the lower half onto the star very easy. The sweet doggy and penguin are colored with alcohol ink markers. The sentiment is printed from my laser printer and backed with a slip of SU's Night of Navy.
Ingredients:
CS: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110lb, Gina K Pure Luxury 110lb, Stampin' Up! Crumb Cake, Night of Navy (under sentiment), Seaside Spray (ice)
Stamps: MFT Warm Hugs & Frosty Kisses
Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, Stampin' Up! Smoky Slate (ice patch)
Dies: MFT Warm Hugs & Frosty Kisses, Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders
Alcohol Ink markers: Copic B41, B45, Dick Blick cool grays
Glimmer effects: Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Pearl, Clear Wink of Stella on trees
Embellishments: Stampin' Up! Elegant Faceted Gems
Challenges: MFT Sketch Challenge 557, Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Kat Scrappiness September Challenge, Clever Dexter Challenge 21, Color Throwdown 658
I just love the MFT Warm Hugs & Frosty Kisses stamps and dies, and when I found a sketch challenge from MFT and a color challenge on Color Throwdown, I had my plan. Putting the star together was a challenge. I used my Silhouette to cut the star. I used Chipped Sapphire Distress Oxide to ink the sky, with a few well placed water droplets for stars. Next I used the Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders dies to cut the hills. If I had thought it through, I simply would have used precut stars with the hillside borders, so everything would stack neatly. Instead I just used some scrap cardstock and glued it down, then trimmed the edges to fit the star shape base. That was not easy. I used light blue cardstock sprayed with pearl glimmer mist for the ice. I did precut this in a star shape, so that made fitting the lower half onto the star very easy. The sweet doggy and penguin are colored with alcohol ink markers. The sentiment is printed from my laser printer and backed with a slip of SU's Night of Navy.
Ingredients:
CS: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110lb, Gina K Pure Luxury 110lb, Stampin' Up! Crumb Cake, Night of Navy (under sentiment), Seaside Spray (ice)
Stamps: MFT Warm Hugs & Frosty Kisses
Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, Stampin' Up! Smoky Slate (ice patch)
Dies: MFT Warm Hugs & Frosty Kisses, Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders
Alcohol Ink markers: Copic B41, B45, Dick Blick cool grays
Glimmer effects: Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Pearl, Clear Wink of Stella on trees
Embellishments: Stampin' Up! Elegant Faceted Gems
Challenges: MFT Sketch Challenge 557, Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Kat Scrappiness September Challenge, Clever Dexter Challenge 21, Color Throwdown 658
CS: Neenah Solar White 110lb, Tim Holtz Idea-ology Kraft-Stock in Cool (dark blue), Bazzill Basics in Raven, Stampin' Up! Black and So Saffron
Paper: Tim Holtz Idea-ology Wallflower Paper Stash (blue/text background), map by The Paper Studio/Hobby Lobby, Bo Bunny Double Dots designs (gray dot), Jenny Bowlin Red Soda Label
Ink: Distress Oxides - Fossilized Amber, Antique Linen, Fired Brick, Aged Mahogany, Chipped Sapphire, Speckled Egg, Evergreen Bough, Gathered Twig, Ground Espresso; Distress Inks: Pumice Stone; Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, Versamark
Stamp: "Enjoy the Now" by Heidi Swapp
Embellishments: Tim Holtz Mini Fasteners, black thread, beige thread, Tim Holtz Idea-ology Snippets Ephemera Pack, Tim Holtz Metallic Stickers Quotations, Cheesecloth in Tan from ByFernStudio on Etsy.
Dry Embossing Folder: Wind and Water from Fun Stampers Journey(FSJ) (purchased from Spellbinders)
Embossing powder: Champagne by Recollections/Michaels
CS: Neenah Solar White 110lb, Tim Holtz Idea-ology Kraft-Stock in Cool (dark blue), Bazzill Basics in Raven, Stampin' Up! Black and So Saffron
Paper: Tim Holtz Idea-ology Wallflower Paper Stash (blue/text background), map by The Paper Studio/Hobby Lobby, Bo Bunny Double Dots designs (gray dot), Jenny Bowlin Red Soda Label
Ink: Distress Oxides - Fossilized Amber, Antique Linen, Fired Brick, Aged Mahogany, Chipped Sapphire, Speckled Egg, Evergreen Bough, Gathered Twig, Ground Espresso; Distress Inks: Pumice Stone; Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, Versamark
Stamp: "Enjoy the Now" by Heidi Swapp
Embellishments: Tim Holtz Mini Fasteners, black thread, beige thread, Tim Holtz Idea-ology Snippets Ephemera Pack, Tim Holtz Metallic Stickers Quotations, Cheesecloth in Tan from ByFernStudio on Etsy.
Dry Embossing Folder: Wind and Water from Fun Stampers Journey(FSJ) (purchased from Spellbinders)
Embossing powder: Champagne by Recollections/Michaels
Stamp Set: Tweet Friends by MFT
Markers: Spectrum Noir, Dick Blick and Copic
Stencil: homemade starburst
Ink: Memento Black, Daffodil Delight
Sentiment is die cut by Silhouette machine using Bebas Neue font, computer printed using the font KG What Does the Fox Say
Stamp Set: Tweet Friends by MFT
Markers: Spectrum Noir, Dick Blick and Copic
Stencil: homemade starburst
Ink: Memento Black, Daffodil Delight
Sentiment is die cut by Silhouette machine using Bebas Neue font, computer printed using the font KG What Does the Fox Say
I am entering this in the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge #sssmchallenge. I recently bought some envelopes specifically for mini slimline cards and I was determined to use them. I made this mini slimline by covering a 3.5 x 6" piece of cardstock in washi tape strips, adding a torn and inked piece of decorated paper, then adding a tree image stamped on watercolor paper (watercolored using inks). I did something I haven't done in about a decade. I sewed on my card using a little, old, but very sturdy machine. It is a Janome "Blossom" mini sewing machine I picked up many years ago on my local Craigslist. When I couldn't remember how to thread it, I looked on YouTube and found a tutorial made by none other than Gina K herself. The leaves are cut with my Silhouette and inked with Distress Oxides. The brown messy circle is from a fantastic Sizzix set. The sentiment is from Tim Holtz Idea-ology stickers.
CS: 80lb white cardstock, covered with washi tape, Canson XL watercolor paper
Patterned paper: text paper - unknown, brown circle - leather looking paper is Authentique
Washi Tape: combination of large set of rolls from Michael's and a set called Natural Fleurs from the Park Lane line at Joann's (just love the wooden chevron)
Stamp: Tree from a set of trees by Inkadinkado
Ink: Black Versafine, Gathered Twig Distress Ink, Distress Oxides - Stormy Weather, Faded Jeans, Chipped Sapphire, for watercoloring - Distress Ink Chipped Sapphire, Shabby Shutters, Peacock Feathers, Stormy Sky
Dies: Sizzix Thinlets Mixed Media Motifs
Embellishments: Ivory epoxy dots - unknowns, Tim Holtz Idea-ology Quotations Metallic Stickers, black thread
I am entering this in the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge #sssmchallenge. I recently bought some envelopes specifically for mini slimline cards and I was determined to use them. I made this mini slimline by covering a 3.5 x 6" piece of cardstock in washi tape strips, adding a torn and inked piece of decorated paper, then adding a tree image stamped on watercolor paper (watercolored using inks). I did something I haven't done in about a decade. I sewed on my card using a little, old, but very sturdy machine. It is a Janome "Blossom" mini sewing machine I picked up many years ago on my local Craigslist. When I couldn't remember how to thread it, I looked on YouTube and found a tutorial made by none other than Gina K herself. The leaves are cut with my Silhouette and inked with Distress Oxides. The brown messy circle is from a fantastic Sizzix set. The sentiment is from Tim Holtz Idea-ology stickers.
CS: 80lb white cardstock, covered with washi tape, Canson XL watercolor paper
Patterned paper: text paper - unknown, brown circle - leather looking paper is Authentique
Washi Tape: combination of large set of rolls from Michael's and a set called Natural Fleurs from the Park Lane line at Joann's (just love the wooden chevron)
Stamp: Tree from a set of trees by Inkadinkado
Ink: Black Versafine, Gathered Twig Distress Ink, Distress Oxides - Stormy Weather, Faded Jeans, Chipped Sapphire, for watercoloring - Distress Ink Chipped Sapphire, Shabby Shutters, Peacock Feathers, Stormy Sky
Dies: Sizzix Thinlets Mixed Media Motifs
Embellishments: Ivory epoxy dots - unknowns, Tim Holtz Idea-ology Quotations Metallic Stickers, black thread
