MFT's - Round 2

This month, I had a chance to participate in the MFT monthly challenge and now I am even able to sneak a card in for the weekly challenge as well.  How fun!!

Our son just accepted a engineering co-op but its in a city almost 3 hours away from us.  It's a beautiful city - a place he was hoping to get the opportunity to live at some point, so he is totally psyched about  moving there and we're psyched for him.  He has never rented an apartment before and we certainly are no experts, having lived in homes for the last 25 years, but between the 3 of us, we hoped to figure things out.  Being the weekend, no one was available to show us around (we knew that going there), but we did accomplish a lot and we have a long list we are waiting for call backs on. 

Our son had to get back to school to finish some projects and study for semester exams and we headed back toward home.   We were exhausted!!  We had done a LOT in less than 24 hours.  When we got home, there was tons I could have done around the house but we both just crashed on the sofa to watch a movie.   That gave me the chance to get this MFT done. 

This is the sketch for MFT's this week..... They always have such good ones.

And here is my take on the sketch.   I love these A' La Mode stamps.   So cute and super simple to color.

Here's a close up.

So glad I got the chance to play along!
Joyce

Supplies:
Stamps - MFT - a' la mode - miss you a latte'. 
Ink - Momento - Tuxedo black
Paper - Authentique - stripe & paisley papers, Heidi Grace - Argylle, basic card stock - white, burgandy
Tools & Accessories - Cutter bee - piercer to achieve the "stitching", rhinestones, copic markers, paper flowers with brad in the middle.

My Favorite Things - Guest Designer Challenge MFTGUESTDT1212

I love to play along with the MFT's challenges - especially the monthly guest design team challenges.  It gives me a chance to use my MFT stamps - love them.  Especially the Pure Innocence line and the A La Mode line.  This is my entry in the MFT's Guest Designer Challenge - MFTGUESTDT1212.

With all the Christmas crafts I've been doing recently, I just wanted to create something completely different, so this baby image seemed like the perfect change of pace.  This is the A' La Mode image called 'Oh, Baby!!'  The 'Welcome Little One' verse comes from that same stamp set.

Here's a close up....

This is a 'simple is more' kind of card which is a great way to make this adorable image the focal point.  Each layer of paper is matted with this shimmery blue paper from DCWV and the plaid print paper is from the DCWV - Linen paper pack.  The velvet brads make a great soft, fuzzy touch. 

Thanks so much for stopping by

Joyce

Supplies:

Stamps - Image & verse - MFT - Oh Baby! for the A' La Mode stamp line.

Ink - Momento - Tuxedo black

Paper - blue flocked polka dot - Cloud 9 Design, Glitter print plaid - DCWV - Linen paper pack, Blue shimmer paper - DCWV

Tools & Accessories - Copic markers, flocked brads, piercer, Tim Holtz ruler for piercing

MFTWSC84

Here is the card I submit in the My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Challenge - MFTWSC84.  I am totally addicted to their Pure Innocence stamp line.  So darn cute!!!  No matter what you do with them, they are just adorable.  This set is called Purfect and it is just that.

Be back soon
Joyce

Supplies:
Stamps - Image -MFT Pure Innocence Purfect, verse - PTI
Paper - Me & My Big Ideas, basic card stock
Tools & Accessories - Buttons, Copic markers, Momento Ink - Tuxedo black,

MFTWSC-60 How Sweet

This is the first post on my new blog.  Woot woot!! For the last few years, I have shared a blog with some friends but it is time to venture out on my own.  :)  I'm not super computer savvy, so this will be a learning process.  Bear with me......please.

This is my entry in this weeks My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Challenge.  I love the skethes over at MFT and wish I could participate much more often.  Work - sigh!!! Though I don't have a lot of MFT stamps (wish I did), I totally love their dies and have several of them.  You can never go wrong with their dies.

I participate in a card club at a LSS - The Stamp Shoppe - and this month it was my turn to create the challenges - the assignment for projects to make for next months meeting.  My idea challenge was to add 3-D flowers to any project - a card, tag, scrapbook page - basically anything the ladies want to create.  There are tons of 3-d flower tutorials and ideas out there, so I am totally psyched to see what everyone creates.  

This is one first contributions to that 3-d flower challenge.  I should be sharing more between now and the next club meeting on the 13th of March.

To create this card, I used the MFT verse "How Sweet".  I also use one of MFT border dies.  love that one.  The patterned paper is from Colorbok - Flea Market.  I purchased an 8 X 8 of this adorable paper.  I used so much of it, that I ended up buying and 2nd pack of it. 

Joyce M.