Happy Birthday Cheeky Monkey

Hi there!  I'm popping in with a quick card that I created using the My Favorite Things Cheeky Monkey stamp set and the current MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge #276. I started out my card by stamping and die cutting these cute monkey images along with the bananas and then coloring them with Copic markers.  I kept my card clean and simple with the focus on the images.  On my main panel, I stamped the happy birthday from the MFT Adorable Elephant set and then only inking up a portion of the "you're a cheeky monkey" sentiment from the Cheeky Monkey set I stamped under the happy birthday.  I added a strip of orange polka dot designer paper along with some orange & hot pink cardstock to the bottom portion of my card and two pink banners along the top and then added some pink and white bakers twine.  Next I added my monkey's, popping up the bottom one with foam tape.  To finish off my card, I added the bananas and a few yellow enamel dots. Thanks for stopping by!

Wildflower in Blue

Hi!  Today I've got a watercolored thinking of you card that I'm sharing using the Concord & 9th stamp set, Wildflower.   My card is pretty straight forward, I started out with a 3 1/2" x 3 1/2' square piece of watercolor paper that I stamped my images on, then watercolored using my Zig Clean Color brushes.  After watercoloring, I sprinkled on some water droplets, let it set for a few minutes and then blotted them up with a paper towel.  Then I used a fine point black pen and drew lines around the outside edge of my watercolored piece, added some Wink of Stella glitter pen to the flowers (see above photo) and some dots of white gel pen to the centers of each flower.  I also added some silver and royal blue sequins scattered throughout the image.  I matted my watercolor piece to black cardstock and adhered it with foam tape to a piece of brilliant blue cardstock trimmed to show my white card base on each side.  I ran two horizontal score lines under under my watercolored piece and added my sentiment from the MFT Label Maker Sentiments set. Have a great day!

Petite Pots - (CTD388)

Hi there!  It's my turn over at the Color Throwdown to host this week's challenge and I've chosen a springtime inspiration photo and colors.

For my card I used the Papertrey Ink stamp sets, Petite Pots (last years anniversary set) and Garden Variety for the watering can.  I used a piece of watercolor paper to watercolor some brocade blue ink for my background, then once it was dry I stamped my happy birthday sentiment and matted my watercolor piece to a die cut scalloped mat.  I die cut all my pieces and stamped the watering can, bird and flowers using daffodil delight, going gray, summer sun and new leaf.

For more inspiration, check out the design teams' blog links below OR you can go to the Color Throwdown blog for details on how to play along and you can see all the sample entries in one location.
Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders   

Broni Holcombe   

Jodi Collins 

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put   

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen

 Amy Rohl - April Guest Designer

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Sweet Friend

Hi there friends!  Today I'm sharing a duplicate of a card that I created and posted a few days ago using the Spotlighting Technique because I had several questions on the steps I used to create it.  You can see my first card here or if you're visiting my blog you can scroll down below this post.
I actually made an attempt to do my FIRST craft video which you can watch below.  Please be gentle because it is far from perfect and I'm still learning how to create a video.  Also I must warn you that this video has NO SOUND because I ended up having to speed up the whole video to shorten the length of it and in doing so it of course affects the sound.  I'm hoping that even without the sound that you can at least see the steps I used to create my card.  And of course since this video is not edited you can see how I smudge ink on the edge of my card and how I conceal it (real life stamping in action, lol)

I used the stamp set Wildflower from Concord & 9th for my flowers and stems and the My Favorite Things, Label Maker Sentiments set for my sentiment.  I stamped on a piece of Strathmore watercolor paper and I used the Zig Clean Color Real Brushes,  an aqua brush, Zig Wink of Stella glitter pen, Sakura silver gelly roll pen and circle dies. Thank you for stopping by!