Friday with Amy: Galentines | Avery Elle

Hello and Happy Valentine's Day!  It's Amy and I'm sharing a handful of Galentine's that I made for some friends.   They feature Avery Elle's:

Cool Beans Stamp + Coordinating Elle-ments Die

More Furry Friends Stamps

Quilted Frame Elle-ments Die

I used the MFT Stamps On-Point Patterns 6x6 Paper Pad because the colors coordinated with my copic coloring.

Here they are all together:

The Cool Beans set is so fun to play with because it basically has an empty canvas just waiting to be filled up.  The More Furry Friends set was perfect sized and I have tons of friends that are dog + cat owners.

I think the cat ones are my favorite.  I put grey cats at the top of my list because they have such sweet personalities.  The copics I used for the cats:

R0000

E000 |YR000

C00 | C1 | C2 | C8

The grey stripes are so fun, aren't they?

The other grey cat one has a lively panel of pattern paper, don't you agree?

The dog cards are copic colored with:

R0000

BG10 | BG11

C00 | C1 | C2 | C8

My intention wasn't to use the same pattern background more than once but I thought the grey stripes looked nice with the poodle cup to.

This last one makes me smile.  I love the bold stripes and the puppy's sweet face.

Do you celebrate Galentine's Day?  It's on Valentine's Eve, February 13th.  

Thank you so much for visiting today!

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Tuesday with Toni: MFT Farm

Hello, everyone! My farm girl heart is doing a happy dance with the re-release of MFT Green Pastures stamps and the MFT Barn dies!

I paired them with MFT The Whole Herd which, surprise!, has a whole bunch of cute animals to choose from.

I stamped the various images and colored them up with Copics. I added a paper-pieced shirt made from MFT Tiny Check 6x6 paper to the MFT Green Pastures girl.

I usually use an A2 card base but I wanted to jam pack so many elements on I just couldn't get it to work to my satisfaction so I made a slimline card instead.

Then since I had so much space with the slimline size, I decide add lots of layers with the scenery.

I sponged MFT Mini Cloud Edges at the very top with Distress Oxide Salty Ocean then used DO Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn for the grass, followed by DO Vintage Photo and Ground Espresso for the ground. I spattered a touch of water too and used my water brush for grass.

I added a tiny of bit of Distress Oxide Weathered Wood to the Sugarpea Designs Farmscape Border and MFT Rolling Hills fences to give them a bit of definition.

After that I assembled the various layers, ending with the fence from the MFT Spring Scene Builder dies for the fence nearest the barn. It's got lots and lots of layers, including a little foam on the girl, but still flat enough to mail. Yes, I'm a bit obsessed with ease of mailing. Go to the actual post office? Eww!

I'll see you next week.  In the meantime, if you'd like to check out my other creations, you can visit my blog, Frankie Helps Craft, my Instagram, or my Pinterest Board.  

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Friday with Amy: All A-Boat You

So last week I had the pleasure of spending time on Kauai, Hawaii.  It was our first time on that island and we loved it.  It was a family trip that included my kids and my mom.  She's going to be celebrating her 80th birthday later this month so it was an early birthday gift.  My project today was inspired by one of the places we visited while on vacation.  More about that in a bit. Here are the Lawn Fawn supplies I used:

Smooth Sailing stamp set

Smooth Sailing lawn cuts

Really Rainbow Scallops 6x6

Lawn Fawn Jet Black Ink

We traveled to the Kīlauea Lighthouse on Kauai.  It's a beautiful area and had me so inspired to use the Lawn Fawn Smooth Sailing set.  I was going to add a couple more sets to create a scenery card but decided to just focus on Smooth Sailing.

The copics I used:

R05 | R08

Y17 | Y38

E30 | E31

C0 | C2

 Here's a one of the many photos I took during our vacation:

Thank you so much for visiting today!

Links to supplies used can be found below:

Tuesday with Toni: MFT Cute Chemists

Hello, everyone! Today's card is cute to me on many levels.  I was in the chemistry field for quite a few years both in education and work so geeky sets (yes!) have a special place in my heart.

The MFT Cute Chemists set is right up my alley. Not only is it super cute Birdie Brown but it's beyond punny. Swoon!

I colored the male image with Copics, after waiting a bit for the Copic Multiliner 0.2 enhanced glasses to dry. I used a LOT and didn't want to chance it smearing--yes, that's a horrible lesson learned.

In the meantime I worked on the background.

I stamped the MFT Our Story lamps then masked them before sponging Distress Oxide Fired Brick through the MFT Small Brick Wall stencil.

I also masked beneath the lamps and sponged some DO Mustard Seed lighting in.

For the flooring, I used a leftover strip of Sunny Studio Subtle Grey Tones 6x6 paper. Stencils and paper are a really quick way to create a background, let me tell ya.

Now, had you noticed something different about the chemist?  Shouldn't he be holding a beaker and flask?  Yes, but I masked those out while stamping then added in the MFT Friends at First Sip coffee to-go cup. I had to draw in a bit of his lab coat but that was easy enough!

I'll see you next week!  In the meantime, if you'd like to check out my other creations, you can visit my blog, Frankie Helps Craft, my Instagram, or my Pinterest Board.

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