Crazy Dog Birthday Wishes

We are celebrating my granddaughter Shawnee's birthday today so I made this card for her using one of the Tim Holtz Crazy Dogs & Crazy Things stamps & dies. It can be time consuming coloring & cutting out all the little embellishments when you want to pop them up on the card like I did, but it's so worth it!! I used my Promarkers to color him & attempted to put glossy accents on his eyes, but it got all botched up, so I covered them up with some googly eyes which I thought looked even cuter!!  I didn't have any pink paper that matched the pink Promarker I used to color with, so I just took white card stock & used that same pink Promarker & colored all around the edges.  I popped all the elements on another piece of white card stock I cut out using a stitched rectangle die I had.  I had just enough room on the right to stamp the Birthday Wishes sentiment.  Thanks for stopping by to take a look!

Challenges Entered:

Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge

Crafty Calendar Punches or Dies

Virginia's View Colorful Challenge

Great Impressions Anything Goes

Penny Black Anything Goes with A Stamp

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday - Family

MFP Stamps Challenge 31

Pink Gem - Animals

Pencil Cases - Anything Goes

Little Claire's Designs Anything Goes

Morgan's Art World Use A Die

Crafting with Dragonflies Anything Goes

Aloha Friday Challenge Anything with Animals

Happy Birthday

Challenges Entered:

Daily Marker 30Day Challenge

MFT Color on Kraft Paper

Simon Says Things With Wings

Inlaid Made Easy

Another MFT Camp Create challenges is "Inlaid Made Easy"!   I had never attempted inlaying a die cut on a card yet but had watched many videos doing so!  So I used the flowers from Stampin Up Posy Punch and stamped them across the front of a white card base & then die cut the word Amazing from MFT Stamps over top of them.  The stamped words "You Are" are also from a MFT set.  I collected all the bits & pieces from die cutting & put them back in place where they belonged across the card front among the posies.  The inks I used to stamp the posies were from Colorbox & Versamagic.  The only "goof" I feel like I made in making this card was the colors I chose.  The Amazing die cut in red doesn't show up much when running through the middle posy!  Oh well...that's what Camp Create is about right?  Try & learn!!  Thanks for stopping by!!

Challenges Entered:

MFT Color Challenge

MFT Inlaid Made Easy

Magnificent Masking

Another Camp Create challenge by MFT stamps was to do a masking project.  I had just completed a card using masking & it was very tedious, masking upon masking, upon masking...but so much fun to see the results...my daughter was amazed when I peeled off all the masking!  I'm sure there are less tedious masking techniques out there in the card making world that you can try!  I used the Hero Arts Stamp Set # CL944.  It has a matching frame cut set, but I did not use it on my card.  I used Colorbox Pigment Ink sets to stamp these flower & leafs layers, and the Happy Birthday sentiment is from the Simon Says Big Scripty Greetings stamp set. Thanks for stopping by to take a look!!

Challenges Entered:

MFT Magnificent Masking
Virginia's View Summer Challenge

Creative Background

One of the MFT Camp Create challenges was to color a creative background for your card using small stamps!  I don't have many small stamp sets precisely because they are a challenge to use & therefore not a stamp set I desire to purchase.  I was going to just give up trying stamps small enough to use on this challenge, but found a beach set at the last minute.  I colored them with Promarkes Mandarin Orange, Bright Green, Yellow, & True Blue, then cute the panel out with a stitched rectangle from Simon Says Bundle of Stitched Shapes.  I have no clue where this stamp set came from...probably the $1.00 bin at Michael's, but it was enough to use for the card challenge!  I die cut both sentiment panels out with Simon Says Stitched Rectangle set & stamped & colored the bikini. Thanks for coming by to take a look!!

Challenges Entered:

MFT Background Bonanza

Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge

Simon Says Nautical/By the Sea

DiesRUs Water and or Beach

Virginia's View Summer Challenge

Your Kindness Means So Much

 I am not a creative person by nature- I love making homemade cards so it is my hobby since I work full time & I squeeze it in whenever I can!!  I made this card using the Simon Says Stamp Spring Flowers Set.  I saw many card maker's tutorials & thought it looked like a CAS stamp set for me!!  The MFT blogspot has a color challenge going on right now, and I thought I might as well use their pretty color challenge to complete my card. Not having their exact ink colors, I colored the flowers, leaves & butterfly with the Promarkers I have on hand that matched the closest.  The butterfly stamp I used is from the Daisy Thanks Stampendous set, and I used the clear Wink of Stella marker on it to give it a little sparkle. The sentiment is from a Recollections set I own.  I really like how it turned out & think I'll make a few more using different colors for the flowers & butterfly.  I will be donating this to the Send A Smile 4 Kids charity.  Sorry about the awful picture...had to get a new computer recently, and took this one from my phone. Thanks for stopping by!!

Challenges Entered:

Virginia's View Color Challenge

Great Impressions Anything Goes

ABC Challenge

Crafty Sentiments - Flowers

MFT Color Challenge