My Favorite Things Weekly Sketch Challenge

This week's sketch challenge over at #mftstamps was so much fun.

I started by using Whimsical Wishes stamp and Black Archival ink stamped the lines stamp onto white card.  I then used the circle die from Blueprints 18 and a larger one from the Zig Zag set to make the circles and initially p,aced them reverse side up in position on my card.

I used my Embossing Buddy from Stampin' Up! To prepare my card then using the scribbles stamp and VersaMark I stamped all around the card.  I then removed my two circles and heat embossed the scribbles with gold embossing powder from SU.

I used the Hello You framelits to make the 'happy' and the Rotary Alphabet stamp for the birthday, both from SU.  I adhered the first 'p' to the butterfly with Glossy Accents then used glue dots for behind the peg.

The butterfly is the Neon stack from DCWV and I used the Bold Butterfly framelit from SU.

Inside I stamped the line stamp again in Black and die cut a Scribbles from gold foil paper from SU to accent.

Here is the #mftstamps sketch challenge, I hope you have enjoyed my interpretation.

A great challenge I'm sure you agree.  Why not head over to the My Favorite Things  blog and check out what other folk have been up to.  Take care of you.

Pauline x

3 in 1 Challenges

I have been very time short this week so I am making one card for a couple of challenges, something I rarely ever do as I simply love making cards and usually do them all individually.  However, I am back at work now so am coming home really tired but I will get back to normal soon.  So the challenges are Colour Q and Freshly Made Sketches.  I then remembered about MFT Summer School so considered how I could throw in another lesson too.

When I first saw this colour challenge over at Colour Q this week I thought was 'no way' I was going to be able to do this as the colours are so far off my normal spectrum palate but I think I did a pretty good job.

The colour combo for the weekly challenge was Early Espresso, which I used in the sentiment, Pumpkin Pie, which I used on the My Favorite Things Pinstripe stamp at the far edge, Rich Razzleberry with the heart and Taken With Teal, which I substituted for Island Indigo where I used Cheesecloth stamp from MFT also.  The Island Indigo looks more navy on this photo but it is quite a good teal replacement in real life.  The other orange is Distress Ink Dried Marigold where I used with the Sweater Stitch stamp from MFT.

Inside.

 

Meanwhile at Freshly Made Skches the challenge was this design.

So I flipped it round to make my card.  I could have followed the design in its entirety but where's the fun in that lol.

Lastly, over at My Favorite Things Summer School Symmetrical and Asymmetrical was a lesson and I had already submitted a symmetrical card, so another challenge for me was to do an asymmetrical card.  I think I managed it.

I used the flag from the Die-namics Blueprints 18 set and added rhinestones to embellish.

So great fun meeting 3 challenges in 1 I hope you think I met them too.

To go over to the Colour Q blog click the link and to go to the Freshly Made Sketches blog click that link also.  To see some other Summer School lessons click the My Favorite Things link.  I hope you have fun checking out all the other creations.  See you tomorrow. Take care of you.

Pauline x

Summer School

I have various blogs going out on different days including examples of the Summer School lessons but I thought I would also do one solely focussed on all of the lessons together.

Day 1, Lesson #11 was about Repetition 

Repeated sentiment.

Repeated pattern.

Day 2, Lesson #12 was Design: Symmetry /Asymmetry

Symmetrical

Asymmetrical

Day 3, Lesson #13 was Design: Hard vs. Soft

Hard as there are more square angles but does have some soft evidenced in the circles,  butterfly and scribbles.

Day 4, Lesson #14 was Colour:Colour Saturation

Desaturation of colour.

Saturation of colour.

Day 5, Lesson #15 was Colour: Colour Temperatures

 

This has been a great Summer School, click the link My Favorite Things  to go see other projects and what the MFT teachers had as their lessons.

Take care of you.

Pauline x