Pirate Ben

Another quickie post, and another Ben Paper Doll card. I'm just having too much fun with this set right now and the DCWV boys papers. It took me forever to get the set inky, and now I'm on a roll.


Seriously, if you do not have this set from MFT, you have to get it!!


I stamped our little pirate in memento black and colored with prismacolor markers and blended everything to look kind of like faded pants and old leather. After coloring, I cut out Ben's outfit and glued it over him, including the hat and eye patch. I then stippled creamy caramel for the sandy beach, bashful blue for the ocean, and soft sky for the sky

Here's a close up of my little pirate.

Stamps: MFT Ben Paper Dolls

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up Bashful Blue, Creamy Caramel, Soft Sky

Accessories: Stipple Brushes

Cardstock: Creamy Caramel, Brocade Blue, DCWV

Alien Friends

I'm not quite done playing with paper dolls yet. Now that's Stephanie Fizer's Ben Paper Dolls by My Favorite Things. This set is so cool to work with.

I'm also still playing with my Die Cuts With A View All About Boys mat stack too. This stack of designer papers has so many fun papers just for boy cards. Fabulous!!!

For this card I stamped Ben seperately in memento tuxedo black ink and colored only his face and hair before cutting him out from the waist up. I then stamped the little alien and space suit in memento black and colored with prismacolor markers, cut out and cut out the face-plate so Ben's face would show through. Assembled the card, added a button and the card was done. Perfect!!

Stamps: MFT Ben Paper Dolls

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Cardstock: Stampin Up Going Grey, Wild Wasabi, DCWV

Accessories: Glue Dots, Prismacolor Markers

Happy Father's Day!

I would like to take a moment to wish all of the fathers out there a Happy Father's Day!

I've attached the cards I sent to my dad and my step-dad for Father's Day. Both cards were made using Papertrey Ink's Pond Life stamp set.

This set is so versatile. I stamped the "rock" using the turtles shell twice in Stampin Up's basic gray dye ink and cut one out to pop up later with dimensionals. The mallard duck was stamped in PTI's new leaf ink and the duck's wing in Stampin Up's bravo burgundy, then cut the duck out and popped up on all night media pop dots. The reeds and cattail were stamped in PTI new leaf, ocean tides & dark chocolate. I then stippled Stampin Up's soft sky around the top to fill in the white areas and Stampin Up bashful blue for water at the bottom before layering. Although the pictures do not show it very well, the center strip of cardstock is Stampin Up's creamy caramel.

Since my step-dad is a practical joker, I included the frog from PTI's Pond Life his card.

To all the father's out there, enjoy your day.

Stamps: Papertrey Ink Pond Life
Ink: PTI New Leaf, Ocean Tides, Dark Chocolate, Spring Rain, Stampin Up! Bravo Burgundy, Bashful Blue, Soft Sky, Memento Tuxedo Black
Cardstock: PTI Ocean Tides, White, Stampin Up! Creamy Caramel, Bravo Burgundy
Accessories: Stipple Brushes, Dimensionals, All Night Media Pop Dots

Garden Stocking - My Time To Create!

Ok, this week Lauren decided to throw a curve ball at me by making me create our own patterned paper with our templates. Hmmmm, what to do, what to do? Oh, yeah, let's pull out the template I printed, cut out, and started to work with, and just never finished. I'll just finish it within Lauren's guidelines, right?

Well, the template I had printed out was the stocking stuffer one when her templates had first come out, so that tells you how long this has been sitting unfinished. So that part's been done....check!

Ok, make own patterned paper. Since I printed the template on plain white cardstock, I wanted to stamp on that too, even wwaaaayyyy back then when I first started this project, so I had pulled out Garden of Life and Butterfly Kisses. Who says stockings need to be just for Christmas, right? I had done the stamping a while ago in baja breeze, riding hood red, kiwi kiss and pacific pointe just to see how a "floral" stocking would look. Now all of those colors are retiring for Stampin Up! So my patterned paper was already done for the challenged. Check!

All that seemed to be left was assembly and decorating. Wait!!! Assembly....done! Dust that project off instead!!! Decorating to the rescue!

I found primas and pearl stickers to decorate the front with and then decided to do the same with the backside so it would look uniform. Now what else to have in a garden? A butterfly flying about! Since there are smaller butterflies on the backside, I stamped a larger one in baja breeze and pacific pointe, cut it out and made it look like it was landing on the stocking by pinching the wings up.




Now the back of the stocking.

My original intent with starting the stocking a while ago was to prove to myself I could do these 3-D packages, and/or stamping. Now that I've done a few, if I can do them, anyone can. Hmmm, think I can teach my husband to do one while he's laid up with a broken ankle?

Superkid!

It's Celebrate MFT Day!!!! On the 20th of every month, all the MFT Junkie's pull out our new stuff, stuff that needs inking, etc, and celebrate everything that's My Favorite Things.

This month we had a small challenge associated with our celebration - anything and everything that's Stephanie Fizer, one of MFT's set designers.

I decided to use one of my sets that needed to see some ink - Ben's Paper Dolls. It's a really cute set just for boys even though the name has paper dolls in it.

I started off by stampin my images in memento tuxedo black on MFT perfect panels and then coloring with prismacolor markers. Let me tell you, these panels let you color like a dream. I then paired my colored images up with some awesome Die Cuts With a View All About Boys Paper that totally reminded me of the old Batman & Robin TV shows when the "Bop" Wham" and stuff like that would show up on the screen. Add a small bow, stippling around the images, some buttons with thread and our superhero is finished.

Stamps: MFT Ben Paper Dolls
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Bashful Blue
Accessories: Stipple Brush, Buttons, Mini Glue Dots, Thread, Prismacolor Markers, Ribbon
Cardstock: Stampin Up! Real Red, Yoyo Yellow, MFT Perfect Panels, DCWV All About Boys Mat Stack

Little Surfer Girl

Little surfer little one,
Made my heart come all undone
Do you love me, do you surfer girl
Surfer girl my little surfer girl


I have watched you on the shore
Standing by the oceans roar
Do you love me do you surfer girl
Surfer girl surfer girl

Anyone remember that song by the Beach Boys? Although I didn't grow up during the Beach Boys era, my mom played their songs a lot during my teen years so, I heard them quit a bit later on. Now my own kids get a healthy dose from time to time.

That's what I remember whenever I use this set from Lizzie Anne Designs. The surf board and hula girl when combined just start that song going through my head. This set is more of a two-step stamping set than just coloring although it can be used both ways. I stamped the flowers PTI berry sorbet and spring moss before stamping the outlines in pallet noir black. The hula girl & surf board were stamped in memento black and then colored with Stampin Up markers. Stampin Up! regal rose is stamped in the background and sponged around the edges of the cardstock.

Overall a very simple design and card to make.

Do you love me do you surfer girl
Surfer girl surfer girl........

Stamps: Lizzie Anne Designs Garden Isle

Cardstock: DCWV Textured, White

Ink: PTI Berry Sorbet, Spring Moss, Stampin Up! Regal Rose

Accessories: Stampin Up! Markers, Sponges

All Grown Up?

Have you ever needed a birthday card with a punchline? This set from The Cat's Pajamas is just for you. It's cute (love those penguins), flexible for male/female, and definitely has a couple of punchlines to be used.

For this card, I chose to put the punchline on the outside of the card, and the Happy Birthday on the inside. In fact, I made a card just like this for my "little" brother. I say that little lightly too. He's only four years younger than me, but he's taller, smarter than me and makes way more money than I do.

I stamped the penguins and cupcake in memento tuxedo black and colored them with prismacolor markers before stippling Stampin Up! green galore dye ink around the edges. For the border, I used a retired Stampin Up! color, cool caribbean. Once my layers were added, I then added diamond ice stickles to the cupcake sprinkles to add some sparkle.

I then stamped the inside saying and the image, colored, added my ribbon and was done. Easy peasy as a friend of mine would say. :)

Stamps: The Cats Pajamas

Ink: Stampin Up! Cool Caribbean (retired) & Green Galore, Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Diamond Ice Stickles, Stipple Brush, Ribbon

Remember Our Troops

Here's another Thomas Kincade found in my computer I had submitted for publication, this time to Cards Magazine last year that didn't make it.

I love this image because it reminds me of a quiet, small town street, and just has such a warm feeling to it.

The image is stamped in memento tuxedo black and colored with prismacolor markers. The only embellishments used are the gold brads in the corners and a simple yellow ribbon folded in the street.

With Flag Day having just past, the Fourth of July coming up, and tensions in the Middle East escalating, please remember our troops serving overseas, Europe, or wherever their orders may take them. Say a prayer for them; for their safety during their service, and for their safe return home.

Stamps: CHF Thomas Kincade Hometown Pride

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: Ribbon, Mini Glue Dots, Prismacolor Markers, Brads

CardStock: White, Stampin Up! Brilliant Blue, Real Red