Happy Halloween with MFT ghosts

Love these cute little ghosts from My Favorite Things. The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp and embossed with glow-in-the-dark embossing powder from WOW! It works great.

Frame is from Mama Elephant, Grid Window, grassy border from Lawn Fawn and the background is done with Distress Oxides.

Rainbow kitty tree

The latest release from Mama Elephant was so cute. My favorite however had, hands down, to be Oh Kitty Tree. Here I have colored it again with Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers in pastel colors. I first heat embossed with Versafine Onyx black ink and clear embossing powder.

For the gold details I've used Kuretake Gansai Tambi Starry colors.

The panel is die cut with the Wonky stitched frame from My Favorite Things.

A meowy christmas to all!

Partying penguins

Today I'm up on Pysslotekets blogg with another installment of the #likaolika theme. All of the design team got the same paper pack from KaiserCraft (Beach Shack) where we have all created different things with it. Today I also show one card with the partying penguins from My Favorite Things "Penguins in paradise". I also used stamps from Mama Elephant (Summer days) and Newton's Nook (Cocktail mixer).

Butterfly birthday card

Tried stamping with distress inks on a large butterfly stamp from Kaiser Kraft. Loving the result.

The gold specs are from a chunky gold heat embossing powder. Sentiment from Mama Elephant.

Newton is taking a bath

I received #happymail from Newton's Nook the other day with stamps and stencils. I decided to use them directly for this edition of the Inky Paws challenge which is a sketch challenge;

This is how my card turned out. I used stamps from Newton's Summer Vacation and the Ocean waves stencil. The window die is from My Favorite Things. I used Zig clean color real brush markers to color the images.

The window is mounted with foam tape for a little dimension. I added some clear droplets from Pretty Pink posh for some extra detail.

The scuba kitty also have some Spectrum Noir sparkle pen on them for some extra glitter.

Challenge
Inky Paws Challenge #70 - Sketch challenge

Guest-DT for Pyssloteket, starting off with a trifold

I've been asked by my local craft store Pyssloteket to guest-DT for a little while. Feeling so grateful! My first post is today and I've made a trifold inspired by the lovely Nicole Sphor and I used the cute unicorn stamp set from My Favorite Things.

You can see the whole post here;
http://blogg.pyssloteket.se/2018/04/20/farglaggning-av-en-hel-trifold/

Entry for #68 Inky Paws challenge - color theme

My entry for the current Inky Paws Challenge which is a color challenge;

I used one of the DT cards as my inspiration and created this one with stamps from the Newton Unwinds stamp set. Newton is colored with Zig clean color real brush markers and I added a little white details with a Signo uniball pen. I have such trouble using this pen but after a tip from superb color artist Sandy Allnock on her YouTube channel, I finally got it to work. The trick for me was to barely touch the paper with the pen, then the ink flows. I however need lots more practice to get that to work but thanks again Sandy!

The background panel is cut with an MFT stitched scalloped frame die and the yellow circle is cut with Lawn Fawn scalloped die and MFT circle stitched die. The banner die is also Lawn Fawn.

I finished off with some Nuvo drops in yellow.

Challenge
Inky Paws Challenge #68 - Color challenge

Out of this world glittery birthday card

The last card with the Lawn Fawn Out of this world stamp set and with the themes for the challenges from Lawn Fawnatics (color rainbow) and The Male Room craft challege (space);

The background is a water colored panel. I used a two star dies from Lawn Fawn to diecut the stars and shooting star and placed a gold glitter paper underneath. The panel is also framed with a black scalloped diecut frame from My Favorite Things.

All stamped images are colored with Zig clean color real brush markers with the addition of Stickles for a bit of extra glitter.

Challenges
Lawn Fawnatics challenge #25 - Color inspiration (rainbow)

The Male Room challenge #81 - Space/science

It's a beautiful day

For these two floral cards I used Altenew's Beautiful day stamp set. The images are stamped with Altenew inks (yellow) and My Favorite things (green). I heat embossed some images in the background and colored them with Zig clean color real brush markers.

The red ink is Lawn Fawn's Lobster ink (very red). The images are fuzzy cut and mounted with foam tape.

The gold mat is from a craft fabric.

The pink in the large flower is Altenew ink. Finished off the card with some clear droplets from Pretty Pink Posh.

The gold speckles is chunky gold embossing powder from Stampendous.

Challenge
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - Floral frenzy

Birthday wishes from the air

Love this cute stamp set Up in the air from My Favorite Things. Colored the images with Zig clean color real brush markers. The panel is diecut with the Wonky Stitched rectangle and mounted on some patterned paper from Lawn Fawn.

Plane in sunset happy thoughts card

Another card for a challenge using My Favorite Things rays stencil and the stamp set Plane and simple from Lawn Fawn where also the cloud border die comes from.

The plane is colored with Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers.

Challenge
I'm entering this into Cupcake Inspirations color challenge where the colors are pink, blue and white.
Cupcake Inspirations - CIC442 Paper inspirations

Puppy/kitty balloon birthday card

I have as a goal for this month to enter some more card challenges so I found a couple I wanted to participate in. Cupcake Inspirations is having a color challenge (blue, pink and white) and Seize the Birthday always have a "Anything goes" birthday challenge so I thought I'd combine those. Here is the card I made;

The stamps are from My Favorite Things - Up in the air. The stencil is also from My Favorite things. The cloud border dies are from Lawn Fawn.

Everything is adhered flat except for the side panels of the cloud borders.

Challenges
Seize the Birthday

Cupcake Inspirations - CIC442 Paper inspirations

Wine a little, laugh a lot

First set of wine tags I made with my new wine tag die from My Favorite Things. Love it.

Peek-a-boo seals

Time to use all those colored seals from the other day. Had this card in mind for a while and wanted to try it out. I made two and just used different patterned paper and a bit different mountain layout. All things Lawn Fawn except for the circle die which comes from My Favorite Things.

Inside of card.

Love that little "M'WAH"!

Second card inside.

Challenge
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - Anything goes

Trifold birthday card with flying elephants

I saw such a cute video with Nicole Sphor the other day with the new release from Mama Elephant with flying elephants on or with balloons. I don't have that stampset so I thought I would recreate it with what I have at hand. I dug out the Adorable elephants set from My Favorite Things and also a cute set from WPlus9 and went to town.

I used Bristol Smooth paper and stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink since I would be watercoloring this panel.

Laying out the images before hand to space them out

The whole panel fully stamped, now with erased pencil lines so they wouldn't get trapped under the ink.

The whole panel colored. The clouds are done by sponging with distress ink in Peacock Feathers and Salty Ocean. I used a Lawn Fawn cloud border die cut card panel as a stencil.

The front panel of the card, sentiment die cut from Gummiapan and stamped sentiment from Slöjddetaljer. It reads Congrats on your birthday in Swedish.

The panel folded out.

Critters on and in hot air balloons

Got this stamp set from My Favorite Things ages ago but never got around to playing with it. With a little Instagram challenge called #workyourstashwednesday I finally broke it out and did this card. I have a collegue who's leaving the company for new adventures and wanted to give her a card. This was perfect.

Watercolored kitty birthday card with 4 panels

I wanted to try my hand on watercoloring in 4 sections on one panel. One of my friends have a birthday coming up and she loves kitties so I decided to try this with these cute kitties from My Favorite Things. I started off by stamping the kitties on Canson Watercolor paper. Then I water colored the 4 background boxes with green. I chose to color with Distress Ink. I wanted the boxes to be very free flowing. After that was dry I colored the kitties with oranges and greys. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn stamp set Meow you doin' and is heat embossed.

Mass stamping with Misti

Mass stamping with the Misti of critters for some upcoming cards. I like to mass stamp and color like this to be able to have all the characters that I need.

Christmas tags

I wanted to make some cute christmas tags with critters from Lawn Fawn, Newton's Nook and My Favorite things. I cut a bunch of tags with a die from Nellie Snellen and I heat embossed the front with a Lawn Fawn snowfall stamp. I then sponged the tags with distress inks in various blues, masking off where the sentiment would be with a post-it note. I then heat embossed the sentiments in silver and mounted the critters either flat or with foam tape.

Kitties from Newton's Nook and bear from My Favorite Things.

Kitties from Newton's Nook and car from Lawn Fawn. The mountains are also Lawn Fawn, cut from white card stock and then sponged with Distress ink.

The last cute kitty is from Lawn Fawn. Love him with a bow tie!

Christmas wishes from polar bear pals

Loving these Polar pals from My Favorite things. Colored them up quite some time ago but had trouble on deciding on a layout. But, I created this gorgeous blue background the other day and it was really suitable for these cuties.

The finished cards together with the stamps from My Favorite Things.

First set up bears. Really loved that blue background. Want to try that one again.

Second set of bears. Snow flakes are from Sizzix and sentiment is Lawn Fawn's Merry messages.