Freshly Made Sketch Meets Time Out

Hello folks,

I just had time to make quite a clean and simple card using this week's Freshly Made Sketch and taking some inspiration from Time Out's photo challenge:

 

I struggled initially with the diagonal line on the card sketch but then remembered my favourite Cheery Lynn die cut. I added a couple of blooms from Ink to Paper with a sentiment from Clearly Besotted. The background lines have been white embossed with Mama Elephant's Basic Borders.

No guessing required as to where I drew my inspiration from - the colours from the surfboard and the stripes from the flip flops (or thongs as we say in Australia.)  The starfish immediately made me think of  Grout Gray card stock.

Hope you have the chance to ink up some of those stamps this week!

Thanks for popping by,

Claire

MFT Summer School - Final Challenge: White Space

Hello fellow inkers!

I made my final card to graduate from MFT's Summer school, the last challenge being 'white space:'

 

I bought the gorgeous Hanging with my Gnomies set a couple of weeks ago - I had to really restrain myself as all I wanted to do was colour but since the challenge was white space I thought I'd better limit it to one gnome! I've partially stencilled Radiating Rays Stencil behind the image and framed it with the smallest Stitched Rectangle Frame Die-namics.

Thanks for popping by,

Claire

MFT Summer School - Card 4: Ombre

 Hello, happy weekend!

I've had  Circle Celebration background stamp on my wish list for quite a while and thought it would work perfectly for MFT Summer School's day 4 ombre challenge:

I've blended a very bright background with a variety of pink hued distress inks over the white embossed background stamp. I've then cut the Celebrate  die twice and matted it on black card stock to ensure it pops against the busy background. I'm tempted to smother it in a layer of glitter to make it stand out even more...doesn't everything look better with a bit of sparkle after all?

Happy stamping!

Claire 

MFT Summer School - Challenge 3: Symmetry

Hello, hello,

I feel like I'm on a bit of a roll with these MFT Summer School challenges but I have to admit I struggled with their third challenge which is to make a symmetrical card. In the end I opted for one of the cute little spacemen from Space Explorer, set against a stencilled background using Radiating Rays:

Thanks for stopping by!

Claire 

MFT Summer School: Lesson 2 - Rainbow

Hello again,

Here's another card for Day 2 of MFT's Summer School series - the challenge is to create a card using a rainbow:

Summer School luckily coincided with me receiving some new MFT goodies yesterday - one of the sets I bought is All the Cupcakes. Perfect for colouring in rainbow colours! 

I'm also popping this over to AAA Cards who have an 'Along the Edge' challenge this week.

Hope your day is sprinkled in happiness!

Claire

MFT Summer School - Visual Triangle

Hi folks,

It's MFT's Summer School this week and the first lesson is all about using a 'visual triangle' in card design.

I created a visual triangle using Fluttering Friends. coloured with the pretty hues from the latest Colour Challenge. For the background I used Cloud Stencil and a variety of dies from Blueprints 24 Dienamics.

Thanks for stopping by!

Claire

MFT Sketch #500!

Hello, hope you're having a great weekend!

Can you believe it's MFT's 500th sketch challenge?  I inked up this sweet little fairy from Flower Fairies:

I white embossed some cardstock with Happy Birthday background and blended a layer of colour with some distress inks, die cut a heart and set it all against a Grout Gray background,  stamped with Wood Plank.  A touch of holographic glitter added some sparkle to her wings. 

Happy stamping!

Claire