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.
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Supplies
MFT SPECtacular: MFTSSS MFT You’re My Sunshine: MFTSSS MFT Smooth White Card Stock: MFT MFT Lazy Day Card Stock: MFT MFT Lazy Day Premium Dye Ink Cube: MFTSSS Foam Squares: SSSAMZSBC Self-Adhesive Pearls: SSSSBC
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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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 ColorChallenge 188. The colors in the challange where, Princess Pink, Cotton Candy, Ripe Raspberry and SourApple 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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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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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
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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Have been having so much fun creating with these sketch challenges, and sketch challenge 587 wasn’t different. This time around I followed it to a T, only different was turning it 90°, to use it in landscape mode.
I have been wanting to use these little dinos since I picked them up and finally found a great and simple way to use them. This card is almost monochromatic, but I felt it would be little bit odd to do a green sun and clouds. But I kept mostly to green to make it soft to the eyes. And as always I matched the sentiment card stock to the pattern paper. Also colored the dinos with my favorite greens YG01 and YG25. And just made a couple of layers of YG01 for a better blend, and of course making little dots for texture.
And as usually you can find all the previous sketch challenges I have entered HERE.
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MFT You’re Ext-ROAR-dinary: MFTSSS Colorful Canvas Paper Pad: MFTSSS
I’ve had this Feel Better stamp set in my stash for awhile now (sadly it’s retired). And the first time I colored it up when I just gotten it, I just couldn’t get it soft enough with my copic markers and I really didn’t like the result. But this time around I decided to try using my polychromos color pencils and I love how it came out.
The layout of the card is based on the My Favorite Things Sketch Challenge 586. And as the coloring ended being real soft I wanted to have an even softer background to make them stand out. So I used the smooching technique with two blues for the sky and two greens for the grass. I then splattered the same inks and a couple of darker in the same color scheme, so blues for the sky and greens for the grass. Both got some splatters of Ground Espresso as I love it. And finally I splattered some pearlescent watercolor just to get a little bit of glitter.
The sentiment is stamped in Vintage Timber Ink as I felt it would go great with the rest of the soft colors. And I finished the card by stamping the inside with the tissuebox and another sentiment. Hope you liked the card if you want to see the rest of my sketch challeges this year you can find them HERE.
Polychromos
Ivory, Light Flesh, Cinnamon, Bistre, Nougat, Walnut Brown, Black, Light Yellow Ochre, Caput Mortuum Violet, Red-Violet, Pink Carmine, Rose Carmine, Dark Flesh, Cold Grey IV, VI, Warm Grey I, II, III, IV, V, VI
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When working with sketch challenges I try think out of the box. Working with sketch challenge 585 I really had to think. I did try another one before settling on this one. When seeing the challenge my first thought went to bubbles or balloons but I felt that was so on the nose. After playing a bit I decided to go with squares that was falling. And into those squares I stamped some of the creatures from the IslandShell-ebrations Stamp Set.
When it come to the card base I decided that it would be fun to make it look like sand. So I grabbed a sheet of kraft card stock and made a card base out of that. But I wanted some more texture and decided to splatter some white gesso, some kraft ink and finally some golden watercolor. For my sentiment I used the kraft card stock just plain and then I stamped the sentiment with some Vintage Timber Ink as I wanted the sentiment to have a little more darkness than kraft on kraft. After attaching my squares I felt they needed something extra to stand out, and as I love white gel pen on craft I draw some scribbles around the images. And that is the card! How did you like it? Wanna see more challenge entries? You’ll find them HERE.
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When I saw this weeks sketch I knew that I wanted to use the You Make My Heart Race stamp set. It was so fun going back and playing with the Tiddly Ink stamps. I was blessed to join their GDT for 4 months in 2015 (this was before they started designing for My Favorite Things).
The sketch challenge 584 is wavy layers with a circle in the top left corner. So I decided to make a very simple scene. In retrospect I wish I chosen brighter colors however I didn’t have time this weekend to remake it. For the wavy layers I used the Slimline Drifts & Hills Stencil, I drew with a pencil and then cut them out. If I had the snowdrift dies I would have used them, would have been easier and I would have gotten a stitched border. I blended some Bundle Sage Oxide Ink over the hills and then splattered Peeled Paint, Forest Moss and Ground Espresso Oxide Inks over it.
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