Back To School!

Second post today.  If you're looking for my Wednesday Stamp Club post, please scroll down one posting.  Thanks.



Back to school.   It's the most....wonderful time.....of the year.......

Ahhhh, back to school.  A time for good cheer for parents since the kiddos are gone & occupied during the day again.  A time for kids to complain about having to get up early and go to bed early.  A time to sign papers similar to the papers you signed at the beginning of last school year. 

To celebrate the occasion, I dusted off retired MFT Back To School Who's That Girl set and Punny Farm sets and paired them with some Stephanie Fizer Digital School Designer Paper.    Once my images were stamped with memento tuxedo black onto MFT Cream Perfect Panels, I then colored the images with prismacolor markers before cutting out the ones I had planned to put onto a desk and also the teacher's hat.  Now, since there are no desks with any of the MFT school sets, I had to make my own by using the Just My Type Die-Namic, and then modify the "paper" coming out of the typewriter to create the desk and the legs.  Taking a white gel pen, I then wrote the days class assignments onto the "black board" before layering and adding the vintage brads.

For the final touches on the outside, I pulled out my Perfect Petal Trio Die-Namic, distressed the flowers before adding them, and then added some retired Sheltering Tree grossgrain ribbon before attacking the inside of the card. 

For that, I needed my trusting MS Word program and a sense of humor.  After typing my saying and printing it out on Stampin Up! so saffron card stock, I layered that onto the same Stephanie Fizer Digital School Designer Paper. 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.


Stamps: MFT Back To School Who's That Girl, Punny Farm
Card Stock: MFT Cream Perfect Panel, Stephanie Fizer Digital School Designer Paper, Stampin Up! So Saffron, Close To Cocoa Scrap
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Creamy Caramel
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Brads, Big Shot, Die-Namics, Stipple Brush, MS Word, Computer, Printer, Ribbon, White Gel Pen, Glue Dots

Teapot Polkadot Cherries

Playing catch up with some of the teapot challenges I've missed.  I made this one for challenge 131 and we had to use cherries of some sort so I pulled out my MFT set called Feelin Fruity (which appears to be retired). 

After stamping my cherries on MFT's cream Perfect Panels, I then colored them with Prismacolor Markers before layering with Stampin Up! real red and glorious green card stocks.  After wrapping some silver cord around the middle, I popped the layered images up over the cord using Stampin Up! dimensionals.  The card front is finished off with some silver baby braddies, silver faux brads, and a red polka dotted prima.  I made sure the inside of the card matched the front as much as possible minus the silver cord.

Here's a look at the inside.


Stamps: MFT Stephanie Fizer Feelin Fruity
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Soft Sky
Card Stock: MFT Scalloped Chocolate Notecard, MFT Cream Perfect Panel, Cosmo Cricket Garden Variety Designer Paper, Stampin Up! Real Red, Glorious Green
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Silver Cord, Prima, Glue Dots, Colorbook Silver Faux Brad Stickers, Dimensionals, Stipple Brush

The Queen Of Hearts

Hello again.  Thanks for stopping by.  Today I have another card to share with you using MFT's Costumes In Wonderland set.  I just love the Alice In Wonderland cartoon movie!

I started out by stamping my queen on MFT white Perfect Panels in Memento Tuxedo black ink and colored with Prismacolor markers.  Before layering, I outlined sides of the panel with a Stampin Up! old olive marker.  To make my image stand apart from the My Minds Eye Home Mat Stack designer paper, I die cut two scalloped strips of card stock using MFT's Jumbo Scallop Die-Namic and layered the strips on top of each other.

Now since, I had also wanted to have some sort of matching flower on the strips, I used MFT's Rolled Rose Die-Namic and tried my hand at making one.  It turned out "ok" but I definitely need more practice with these rolled roses, not to mention the rolled flowers too. 

Here's the detail of the rose.  To finish off the rose, I added a lightly colored red dew drop from Michael's using Ranger's Glossy Accents to hold it down, then I added three more of the dew drops in the bottom right corner of the card with mini glue dots.  A small pre-made rose ribbon bow in the upper corner finishes the card off nicely.

Here are the Die-Namics I used:

Stamps: MFT Costumes In Wonderland
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Card Stock: My Minds Eye Home Mat Stack Collection, MFT Perfect Panels, Stampin Up! Baja Breeze, Old Olive, Rose Red
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, MFT Die-Namics, Michael's Dew Drops, Ranger Glossy Accents, Stampin Up! Rose Red Brads, Glue Dots, Pre-Made Rose Ribbon Bow

Pure Innocence Tag Card

Hello again.  Did you have fun at the release party?  Hopefully you also had fun shopping afterwards too.  Today I'm showcasing another brand new Pure Innocence set called Splish Splash which is part of the Boy And His Dog line. 

I wanted to do something a bit different with this card, so I used some pre-folded tag card stock from Joann's I've had in my stash for years.  Pulling out some We Are Memory Keepers quad square 12x12 designer paper, I cut the squares out and then made sure the designer paper layered out into several tags.  I then stamped my image onto MFT white Perfect Panels (my favorite stamping paper) and colored everything with Prismacolor markers.  Once that was done, I layered my image to without adhering so I could see what I would need to cut down to make it fit after stamping the rain dots from MFT's Stephanie Fizer's Rainy Day Friends in the background. 

Once the cutting was done, I stippled Stampin Up! bliss blue ink around the edges and then added some Michael's sticker dots to resemble rain.  I did the same thing for the inside of the card, only I also added sticker dots to parts of the saying as well.

Here's a close up of the inside of the card.

The ribbon fibers is something else I discovered in my stash.  Not sure when I bought that one either. ;)  Maybe I should go through it more often since I'm finding new stuff to play with and match with my MFT stamps.  Although I have plenty of stamps from other companies, my MFT stuff is my favorite.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Stamps: MFT Pure Innocence Splish Splash, Stephanie Fizer Rainy Day Friends

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Bliss Blue, So Saffron

Card Stock: MFT Perfect Panels, Stampin Up! So Saffron, Bliss Blue, We Are Memory Keepers Quad Designer Paper

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Joann Pre-cut Tag Card, Fibers, Stipple Brush, Michael's Sticker Dots, Stampin Up! Ticket Corner Punch

Digital Family

Did you know when using digital images, size is not a problem? Sounds weird doesn't it? LOL Ok, let me explain.

I'm starting on some of my Christmas presents, especially for my brother and sister-in-law since I have to mail them.  So since they had not seen my family in a couple of years, I thought sending an album with pictures would be a great idea as well as a cute table decoration. Both my brother and sister-in-law are computer programmer's, so the robot theme fits their family perfectly, especially since both of their kids are taking after mom and dad.

I started off by printing all of MFT's digital robots onto white cardstock in different sizes, and then also downloaded and printed off some Stephanie Fizer robot digital paper.  After coloring all of them, and cutting out the smaller ones, I layered the larger images onto Stampin Up! pretty in pink, razzleberry cardstock and designer paper.  I then lightly stippled bashful blue ink around the images to fill in all of the white areas and held everything together with Stampin Up! pretty in pink brads before putting everything into a frame I picked up at Wal-mart.

Next, I took the Stephanie Fizer robot digital paper and covered a Stampin Up! chipboard mini brag book (inside and out), and the holder, that I had in my stash.  Once that was done, I inked the edges with Stampin Up! basic grey dye ink using a stipple brush allowing the brush to "hang over" and stipple the side where the images would be.  Once that was done, I added my cut out images and pictures to the inside.

A quick and simple ensemble that I'm sure my brother and his wife will enjoy.  Of course, I'll probably add something else to the mix as well.

Thanks for visiting today.

Dress Up And Play!

Remember when paper dolls were "all the rage"?  I sure do even though that dates me pretty much. 

MFT's Wednesday Stamp Club had a dress up challenge last week, so I thought I would try to get something done before the challenge deadline, but didn't make it in time.  (thank you headaches again)

I pulled out my Stephanie Fizer Paper Dolls and retired Ben Paper Doll sets and ended up making two cards for the challenge.

For my first card, I stamped only part of my Ben Paper Doll, his clothes and parrot in memento tuxedo black ink on MFT's Perfect Panels and then colored them with prismacolor markers.  Once I had everything cut out and assembled, I pulled out my cloud Die-namic and stamped only part of a saying from another MFT set Trick or Treat With Who's That Girl. 


For my second card, I stamped my Stephanie Fizer Paper Doll on MFT's perfect panels and colored with prismacolor markers.  I added some Jolee's For You stickers and a pre-made Martha Stewart bow for the final touches.


Stamps: MFT Stephanie Fizer Paper Doll and Ben Paper Dolls, Trick or Treat With Who's That Girl
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Cardstock: Stampin Up! Ballet Blue, Creamy Caramel, DCWV All About Boys Mat Stack, MFT Perfect Panels
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Jolee's For You Stickers, Martha Stewart Bow, Colorbook Brad Stickers, MFT Cloud Die-namic

Reading Rocks Vintage

Happy Saturday everyone! I actually accomplished two things with this blog post today. One, sent my oldest to his first prom (sniff) and two, completed my Wednesday Stamp Club card before Monday night.

I wanted to try my hand at this week's featured Splitcoast tutorial rolled flowers. However, since the designer paper I chose was a darker, almost vintage color, I decided I would make sure my project would show a little age with it.

I started out by pulling out some Stephanie Fizer digital paper I had already printed out, then pulled out the matching Stephanie Fizer I Heart Books stamp set and the Grow Love Plant A Tree set and stamping my images on MFT cream perfect panels in memento tuxedo black ink before coloring with prismacolor markers. Once I had everything colored, cut out and my card made, I took a small stipple brush and stippled Tim Holtz old paper ink over the entire card and along the edges of my designer papers to "age" them a bit before adding just a little bit of Tim Holtz walnut stain ink as well.

Taking my large scallop die-namic, I ran it through my big shot with two different colors of felt to make the "hilly" grass to complete my scene. Once my felt was cut down to size, I also stippled Tim Holtz old paper distress ink over the felt to "age" it as well so the overall look would match and the felt wouldn't too bright against the distressed background.


For the final touch, I added a ribbon I had tried die cutting with the scallop die-namic but didn't like how it turned out, so instead of throwing the ribbon away, I tied it into a knot and frayed the edges, then distressed the ribbon to match the card.

The inside of the card was distressed with Tim Holtz old paper ink as well before adding my Stephanie Fizer designer paper and matching images.

Following Joanne's tutorial on SCS, I made my rolled flower, added some glitter, then using some glue dots added it to the bottom left hand corner of the card.


Stamps: MFT Stephanie Fizer Grow Love Plant A Tree, I Heart Books
Cardstock: Vanilla, MFT Cream Perfect Panels, MFT Stephanie Fizer Digital Paper, Stampin Up! Chocolate Chip
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Old Paper and Walnut Stain
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Stipple Brushes, Glue Dots, Pop Dots, Making Memories Baby Brads, Felt, MFT Die-Namics, Ribbon, Glitter, Stampin Up! Crystal Effects,

Heavy Metal Rock Band

Second Post. For my Wednesday Stamp Club post, please scroll down.

Hello again. I've been working on this project off and on for about two weeks. When I first started coloring the digital images, then cutting them out, the overall layout of the card just wouldn't come together the way I had it envisioned in my head and I just kept getting frustrated with it. Ever have that problem? So I would have to work on it a bit, then put everything aside, and work on it some more. Perhaps some of my problem is all of the stress going on at work with the hospital moving in a week to the brand new facility and having to a hospital while still treating patients is quite the chore.



Since I had decided my lead singer of the band would be the cute girlie robot, I colored her in pink and purple then put a mini microphone in her left hand. Now I created the left arm by printing off two of the robot couple and then just cut-n-paste the arms/hands together as needed (since I would need to do the same with another robot). Each of the remaining "guy" 'bots were colored slightly differently and then highlighted with a silver prismacolor marker.



I pulled out my Stephanie Fizer set The Poppies to create the musical instruments, stamped them in memento tuxedo black, colored with the prismacolor markers, cut out and then set aside. As I figured out which robot I wanted where, I began matching up instruments with the 'bots, popped up robots and drew in matching cords from the guitars to the amps as needed.

Since I had decided the name for my "rock band" would be Heavy Metal, I needed to have some sort of banner hanging above them for their concert. I dug through my stash and found some Making Memories silver brad alphabets and pulled out just the capital initials for the band. Since the base drum center needed to match, I also found some Making Memories eyelet alphabets in the stash and set that using my crop-a-dile after I dusted it off first. ;) There still seemed to be something missing, so I added two silver glittered primas with silver baby brad centers and that seemed to be the perfect embellishment and gave kind of a "disco" ball feeling to the corners of the card.

Overall I'm really happy with how it turned out considering how long it's taken me to put it together.



Stamps: Stephanie Fizer Digital Robots
Cardstock: Stampin Up! Ballet Blue, Going Grey scrap, White, Star Designer Paper
Accessories: Computer, Printer, Prismacolor Markers, Black Stampin Up! Marker, Primas, Glue Dots, Silver Brads, Dimensionals, Making Memories Alphabets, Crop-A-Dile