Beary good birthday | MFT

Hi there! I wanna show you my first attempt at coloring my own background scene. I am far away of being good at it but I thought I give it a try and really enjoyed the process.

I stamped the sitting bear from 'polar bear pals' from MFT in Archival jet black ink. Then I draw ice bricks with a light blue zig clean color real brush marker. I used a water brush to soften the edges and create the watercolor look. When everything was dry I used more blue zig clean color real brush markers and created the frozen water on which the bear is sitting.

(with a second card I made)

I colored in the polar bear and added the sentiment. Last but not least I diecut a frame with one of the 'stitched square scalloped frame' dies from glitter cardstock and added some Nuvo jewel drops.

Although it's far from being a "masterpiece" I decided to enter it to the MFT card design superstar contest because I had so much fun during the coloring and I guess it hasn't to be perfect :)

And here the result of the second card:

Thanks for stopping by and have an amazing day!

xo

Lisa

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Yeti Christmas | MFT

Hi everyone! I love this 'beast friends' stamp set from MFT from last year so I wanted to use it for Christmas cards before the new sets are released :)

I will also enter this card to the MFT card design superstar challenge in the category "clean and simple". For me this card is clean and simple because the background is really easy, there are only two colors and I used only a few products.

So for the background I blended peacock feathers distress ink on distress woodgrain cardstock. Then I stamped the cute Yeti images, colored them in with Copics and fuzzy cut them. I diecut some square frames out of iridescent glitter cardstock with the 'stitched square scalloped frames' and adhered everything to the background.

After adding the sentiment from another stamp set from MFT I chose a white metallic cardstock as a cardbase.

Thank you so much for stopping by and have an awesome day!

xo
Lisa

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Vegetable birthday card | Clearly Besotted

Hello everyone! I created this healthy birthday card for a hobby gardener. I used the sweet images from 'vegetable patch' from Clearly Besotted.

I started with the background by blending distress oxide inks and using a self made mask. I love the combination of walnut stain, fossilized amber and peeled paint. It's just so pretty.

Then I colored in the images with Zig clean color real brush markers and fuzzy cut them.

I also added some grass bushels with a green Copic marker and stamped the sentiment from 'number it' (Mama Elephant). Last but not least I adhered all the cute mice and added a diecut 60.

I used a white metallic cardstock as the cardbase.

Thank you for stopping by and have a great day!

xo
Lisa

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Birthday Bus | Avery Elle

Hello everyone! This time I am really on to the dailymarker30day challenge which lasts all September long. Although there isn't much time I enjoy coloring a bit every day. That's why I don't have many minutes for writing blog posts and completing card projects.

However, I can show you this Birthday card for today. I made two at once for my stash. I started with coloring the cute birthday bus from Avery Elle with Copics. After fuzzy cutting the image I created the background by stamping more images from the set with manatee Lawn Fawn dye ink. 

Then I used a heart stencil and Nuvo embellishement mousse to create some texture. I colored in strips of paper with Copics and used the sentiment from the set. After adhering all to the cardbase I added some Nuvo drops and shimmer with the wink of stella pen. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a great day!

xo
Lisa

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Christmas Cards 2017 No. 1 | Mama Elephant

Hi everyone! Today I post my first Christmas card this year. Yap - I am really early this year. However, I plan to make Christmas cards parallel to all year 'round greeting cards. Then I won't run out of birthday cards etc. during winter (that's what I hope).

I started out by covering a piece of white cardstock with the blizzard bold prints background stamp from Hero Arts. I used the moonstone ink from Lawn Fawn because it is a beautiful soft blue color. Then I die cut that paper with the stitched hillside cover die from Mama Elephant a long with another piece of white cardstock. From that I cut only a piece so that I looks like snow hills. 

From grey cardstock I die cut the snow caped mountains from Mama Elephant. Before I adhered them to my background I had added stitched details with one of the stitched borders dies from Lawn Fawn so that it matches the stitched hillside cover.

After my little background scene was finished I stamped the images from Pix's happy holiday with Memento tuxedo black and colored them in with Copics. I also added some shimmer with the wink of stells pen. I fuzzy cut the images and adhered them to my winter scene.

Thank you so much for stopping by and have a nice day!

xo

Lisa

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