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Sketch Challenge 593 – So Cool

Sketch challenge 593 from My Favorite Things is a fairly simple one that really would work perfectly for a scene. However I have been wanting to play with the SPECtacular stamp set. And while I was putting away the stamp pile on my desk from last weeks creations, I picked up the You’re My Sunshine and saw the cute cat with the glasses and realised it would work perfectly with the SPECtacular stamp set.

So instead of doing a scene I just used the glasses from SPECtacular stamp set and creating my own background with Lazy Day ink over Lazy Day and Smooth White card stock. Stamping the Be Cool sentiment from the SPECtacular stamp set on a Lazy Day card stock flag in Lazy Day Ink and adding some dimension with my white gel pen. And adding that to the left on the card, then adding the Copic colored cat on the right. And to finish it off I added some self-adhesive crystals sprinkled around the card.

If you want to see more of my sketch challenge entries, you can find them HERE

Copic

Cat: N0, N1, N3, N4, R30
Scarf: B91, B93, N1
Glasses: E44

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Supplies

MFT SPECtacular: MFT SSS
MFT You’re My Sunshine: MFT SSS
MFT Smooth White Card Stock: MFT
MFT Lazy Day Card Stock: MFT
MFT Lazy Day Premium Dye Ink Cube: MFT SSS
Foam Squares: SSS AMZ SBC
Self-Adhesive Pearls: SSS SBC
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Sketch Challenge 592 – Thank you

It’s Monday and I’m here with another entry for the My Favorite Things sketch challenge. This week it is sketch challenge 592. It is a great sketch, well balanced and easy to work with.

My process this week started with the Thank You sentiment die. I saw it laying on my craft table and I wondered if it could fit the sketch. So I cut it out to measure it on the card base and then it started to come together. This sketch has three bubbles, with the thank you sentiment being one I was wondering what to add as the other too. I remembered that I had a pile of colored images in the living room (I do most of my coloring at my sofa) with two little bees. So I picked up the pile and added the bees to the card. I felt it was a little bit to empty, so I added the tree behind the thank you sentiment, it was now coming together. The last part of the sketch is a rectangle that looks like it runs around the card with a opening on the left hand side. As the images was colored with pencils very softly, I wanted the background to be soft too. So I went with my favorite technique, smooching, and used distress inks for it, i did do a little bit of splatters just to break up the color a little bit.

Did you like this way of explaining my thought process through out making the card? Also if you want to see more of my sketch challenge entries, you can find them all HERE.

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Supplies

MFT Thank You Die-namics: MFT SSS
MFT Sunshine Friends: MFT SSS
Polychromos Colored Pencils: SSS AMZ
MFT Milk Chocolate Card Stock: MFT
MFT Stitched Rectangle A2 STAX Die-namics 1: MFT SSS
Cutter Bee Scissors: SSS AMZ SBC
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Sketch Challenge 591 | Fairy Special Day

Working against a challenge is a great way to both inspire and challenge yourself. So I thought why not double up! So for todays card I both follow the My Favorite Things Sketch Challenge 591 and Color Challenge 188. The colors in the challange where, Princess Pink, Cotton Candy, Ripe Raspberry and Sour Apple and the sketch challenge looked like a landscape. So I decided to make a pink sunset where the fairies could dance around a beautiful tree. Hope you enjoy the card, if you wanna see more cards that I made that follow challenges you can find them HERE.

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Supplies

MFT Fairy Special: MFT SSS
MFT Princess Pink Premium Dye Ink Cube: MFT
MFT Cotton Candy Premium Dye Ink Cube: MFT SSS
MFT Ripe Raspberry Premium Dye Ink Cube: MFT SSS
MFT Sunshine Radiating Rays Stencil: MFT SSS
MFT Grassy Edges Stencil: MFT SSS
MFT Sour Apple Ink: MFT SSS
MFT Slimline Grassy Hills Die-namics: MFT SSS
MFT Cotton Candy Card Stock: MFT
Polychromos Colored Pencils: SSS AMZ
Hero Arts White Embossing Powder: SSS AMZ SBC
Versamark: SSS AMZ SBC
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Flamboyance of Flamingos | Card Tutorial

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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Supplies

MFT Paradise Pals: MFT SSS
MFT Top of the World: MFT SSS
Slimline Drifts & Hills Stencil: MFT
Distress Ink Saltwater Taffy: SSS SBC
Distress Ink Worn Lipstick: SSS SBC
Distress Ink Peacock Feathers: SSS SBC
Dinstress Ink Ground Espresso: SSS AMZ
Distress Ink Speckled Egg: SSS AMZ SBC
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Origami Corner Bookmark Tutorial

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: MFT SSS
Colorful Canvas Paper Pad: MFT SSS
MFT SPECtacular: MFT SSS
MFT Top of the World: MFT SSS
MFT Shout It from the Rooftops: MFT SSS
MFT On-Point Precision Glue Pen: MFT
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MFT April Haul 2022

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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Supplies

MFT Thank You Die-namics: MFT SSS
MFT Fairy Special: MFT SSS
MFT You’re My Sunshine: MFT SSS
MFT Dog Squad: MFT SSS
MFT Better Together: MFT SSS
MFT Top of the World: MFT SSS
MFT Cloudy with a Chance of Rain Die-namics: MFT SSS
MFT Stay Cool Die-namics: MFT SSS
MFT SPECtacular: MFT SSS
MFT Shout It from the Rooftops: MFT SSS
MFT Sweet Señorita: MFT SSS
MFT Sunshine Friends: MFT SSS
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Sketch Challenge 589 | Cool Cat

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.

When possible affiliate links are used, this means that I receive a small commission when products are purchased through the links (at no extra cost to you) I use the money to support my blog and youtube channel. If you like my projects and tutorial please consider supporting me by clicking through these links when you shop. Thanks!

Supplies

MFT Sunshine Friends: MFT SSS
Colorful Canvas Paper Pad: MFT SSS
MFT Sno Cone Card Stock: MFT
Hero Arts White Embossing Powder: SSS AMZ SBC