When creating the Easter Basket earlier this month I had in the back of my mind that this would be perfect as a Baby Basket. Perfect to hold a little gift for a mother to be, or as party gift for attending people at a baby shower. I had so much fun choosing the pattern papers and matching card stock for this project. Below you can find a video Baby Basket Tutorial and a schema with measurements for cutting and scoring for the baby basket. If you want to see more baskets and boxes you can find all I have made HERE.
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Supplies
Happy Patterns Paper Pad: MFTSSS MFT Poppin’ Polka Dots Paper Pad: MFTSSS MFT Rainbow Love Paper Pad: MFTSSS MFT Pretty in Plaid Paper Pad: MFTSSS Pawsome Prints Paper Pad: MFT Mini Brads: MFTSSSSBC MFT Sno Cone Card Stock: MFT Sookwang Tape 1/4”: SSSAMZ
Did you know that a group of flamingos is called a flamboyance? Flamboyance, what a wonderful word! This card was inspired by flamingos, I recently found out that one of my siblings love flamingos, so I decided to make a birthday card! And when I think of flamingos I see in my mind those big watery fields that they wade through. So I wanted to make a flamboyance of flamingos.
I started by coloring and cutting out a lot of flamingos, I chose to go with the flamingo from Paradise Pals stam set. And also the smaller flamingo that came with the Top of the World stamp set as I felt they would work great for baby flamingos! I also colored five palm trees to help building a scene.
I then did my favorite smooching technique to make some hills and some water features. And put the card together. It was a real fun card to make and I hope you like it and like the video tutorial.
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The sketch challenge 590 is out on My Favorite Things. I had saved the Bubbly Birthday for May but this sketch was just too perfect for them to not use them. I colored one of them and then combined the mermaid with the Island Shell-ebration stamp set as they go so good together!
For the background I used my favorite ink color Sno Cone and blended it over the Classic Edges Stencil in a square that I masked out with the background die from the Blueprints 27 and some masking paper. I did buy the Classic Edges Stencil to use it for waves. I also added some splatters in Caribbean Sea Ink, Cornflower Ink, White Gesso and some Silver Shimmering Water color for texture. Not sure about that choice, but I’m ok with it.
I finished it off with my usual white heat embossed sentiment on colored cardstock. This time I choose to go with the Summer Splash Cardstock and I love the contrast. If you want to see the other my favorite sketch challenges I have entered you can find them HERE.
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I had so much fun making these origami corner bookmarks. They are quick and easy and don’t even need tapes or glues. After you made a few you will not stop making these, well I didn’t stop. I have made about 10 of them so far but I know I will be making more.
The bookmarks are an easy fold and you can make three out of one sheet of 6×6 paper. I do recommend using thinner paper as there is a couple of folds and thicker paper will be harder to fold, and the last piece that you end up sticking into the bookmark can be very hard to bend if the paper is of the thicker varient.
I ended up decorating a couple of these with some small stamps, and I think they ended up being adorable! The stamps are from the latest release by My Favorite Things and if you want to see more things I have made with the release you can find them HERE.
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Supplies
Happy Patterns Paper Pad: MFTSSS Colorful Canvas Paper Pad: MFTSSS MFT SPECtacular: MFTSSS MFT Top of the World: MFTSSS MFT Shout It from the Rooftops: MFTSSS MFT On-Point Precision Glue Pen: MFT
This was an awesome release from My Favorite Things! So many wonderful stamps. Think my favorite is the fairies, Fairy Special, who can say no to fairies. However I also love the new Stacey Yacula stamp Sunshine Friends, specifically the cute bees! Did you have any favorites from this release? If you want to see what I have done with these supplies, all projects I’ll make with them will be found HERE.
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MFT Thank You Die-namics: MFTSSS MFT Fairy Special: MFTSSS MFT You’re My Sunshine: MFTSSS MFT Dog Squad: MFTSSS MFT Better Together: MFTSSS MFT Top of the World: MFTSSS MFT Cloudy with a Chance of Rain Die-namics: MFTSSS MFT Stay Cool Die-namics: MFTSSS MFT SPECtacular: MFTSSS MFT Shout It from the Rooftops: MFTSSS MFT Sweet Señorita: MFTSSS MFT Sunshine Friends: MFTSSS
The My Favorite Things Sketch Challenge 589 was a fairly simple one. It was well balanced and I this time around I felt I wanted to stay in the box. I have these gorgeous dies, that sadly is retired, that are circles and have some details. I cut them from the Colorful Canvas Paper Pad and choose to go with the Sno Cone matching paper. And I thought that they would be perfect to add as backgrounds, backgrounds for these super cute cats from the newly released You’re My Sunshine stamp set. I really thought that they would be perfect as there is two cats in the same size that is facing each other and one that is facing straight.
The straight facing cat is a little small though, so I also stamped up the umbrella to give the center piece a little bit more. I did mask in the sun from the stamp set on the umbrella to give that some more details. To finish of the center piece I added some clouds from the Cloudy with a Chance of Rain Die-namics that was the free with $60 in this months release. For the sentiment I went with “Happy Birthday to one Cool Cat” which I white heat embossed onto some Sno Cone cardstock and cut it out with a flag die from the Blueprints 27 Die-namics. If you want to see the other challenges that I have joined you can find them HERE.
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Supplies
MFT Sunshine Friends: MFTSSS Colorful Canvas Paper Pad: MFTSSS MFT Sno Cone Card Stock: MFT Hero Arts White Embossing Powder: SSSAMZSBC
I’m a big fan of Vicky Papaioannou and her style of art journals. The are a perfect mix of messy and control. So decided to use that style but in a mini format and with my stamps and coloring that I love. My mini art journal will be a hodge podge of different styles as I play and learn, but I’m ok with that. My word of the year is creativity and that is what I will embrase.
Todays two layouts started with my left over images. I always color a bunch more images than I need when I do a project, so that I have them there if I feel I need to pivot. And I save all of those images in little bowls on my craft table. Well they are starting to become a lot so I decided to use some of them up.
I love the little stones and mountains (that comes from a recently retired stamp set) so the first layout got a pumice stone background together with a postage tissue paper as the idea was travel. I did add a circus artist as he was on a unibike, but I did cut off his hat to make it look more travel related.
For my second layout I started with the sentiment “Love, Laugh, Create” from my own Sentiment Strip cards (which you can buy from HERE) and decided to use the violin playing mouse. I did also add the bunnies from the same stamp set to fill out the place. For color I used abandoned coral paint mixed with some white gesso to mimic tattered rose, and I painted that over the “Melange” tissue paper that I had. If you want to see more art journal layouts I have made you can find all of them HERE
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Supplies
MFT You’re the Main Event: MFTSSS MFT Im So in Love with You, Still: MFTSSS Dina Wakley White Gesso: SSSAMZ Tim Holtz Distress Paint Abandoned Coral: SSSAMZ Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Moth Study: SSSAMZSBC Tim Holtz Distress Paint Pumice Stone: SSS Idea-ology – Tim Holtz – Collage Paper – Entomology: SSSAMZSBC Idea-ology – Tim Holtz – Collage Paper – Travel: SSSAMZSBC Craftybit Creations – Sentiment Strips – Positivity: ETZ
I have all of these alcohol inks in my stash but I never use them. One of the reason is that I only bought the inks (and some mixatives) and when using them on yupo you only get very colorful results. And I felt that my backgrounds was so over powering, I wanted a more soft alcohol ink background.
But a little while ago I picked some Alcohol Blending Solution and a alcohol ink air blower and I finally found some time to play with them. And it was so much fun! The only regret I have is that I didn’t pick up more yupo paper, as now I’m all out and I just want to make more backgrounds!
To get soft backgrounds there is a couple of things you want to do. The first is pour a nice blob of alcohol blending solution on your yupo, this will help the ink move faster (it’s like when you cover your watercolor cardstock in water before going in with your watercolors). Then you add a drop or two of your ink of choice and then start blowing. When you gotten a nice layer started you can add alloys and continue to blow around the ink and the alloys. A little goes a long way. For more tips see the video!
Which background was your favorite? My favorite is a tie between the Mermaid one and the Indigo one.
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Supplies
Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks Gumball: SSSAMZSBC Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks Fiesta: SSSAMZSBC Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks Flamingo: SSSAMZ Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks Dandelion: SSSAMZSBC Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks Valencia: SSSAMZ Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks Indigo: SSSAMZSBC Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks Mermaid: SSSAMZSBC Alcohol Blending Solution: SSSAMZSBC Alcohol Ink Air Blower: SSSAMZSBC Tim Holtz Yupo Paper 5 x 7: SSSAMZSBC Ranger Liquid Platinum Embossing Powder: SSSAMZSBC MFT Straight from the Heart: MFTSSS MFT Im So in Love with You, Still: MFTSSS
Mondays are dedicated for the My Favorite Things Sketch Challenges. And this week it’s Sketch Challenge 588 and the 14th I have taken part of since the start of the year! This weeks challenge I felt would be perfect to tell a story, it reminded me of a story box in a manga book. I’ve been wanting to use the Travel Buddies stamp set, I bought it with one card in mind but that one didn’t come out the way I wanted. So when this challenge came along I knew I needed to use it.
I did a couple of modification to the stamp set to make it fit into my story a little bit better. The little car got a cab sign. And the shopping bear lost what I think is a credit card (or money) so it would look like she was waving the car down. For the background I used cement cardstock and ink. But the ink I did stamp of on a separate paper to make it a little bit lighter. In the end I felt that the eiffel towers still was a little to dominant so I added some vellum to lighten them a little bit more. And lastly I uses some vellum and some blue embossing powder for the sentiment. Hope you enjoy the card!
If you want to see more of the challenges that I have followed, you can find all HERE.
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This is my last easter project for the year, I hope you have enjoyed them. This is an easter mini clutch box and they are made to fit 6 Lindt Mini Chocolate Eggs. But they can fit anything small that you could think of. You can also go the clutch version or add a “handle” and make it a purse.
You can follow the template above or you can download the pdf HERE and the free templates & cut files HERE. If you enjoy the tutorial and want to see more you can find all of my boxes with video tutorials, templates and cut files HERE.
Copic
YG11, YG23, YG01, YG25, B12, B23
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Supplies
MFT Floral Whimsy: MFTSSS MFT Sending Sunshine and Smiles: MFTSSS Happy Patterns Paper Pad: MFTSSS MFT Something Blue Card Stock: MFT MFT Something Blue Premium Dye Ink Cube: MFTSSS MFT Sour Apple Card Stock: MFT MFT Sour Apple Ink: MFTSSS Fiskars Trimmer : SSSAMZ Cutter Bee Scissors: SSSAMZSBC Sookwang Tape 1/4”: SSSAMZ We R Memorykeepers Corner Chomper: SSSAMZSBC Twine: SSSAMZSBC MFT On-Point Precision Glue Pen: MFT
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