Thursday, April 16, 2015

Hello Friend and Believe In Yourself!






I am popping in with a couple of cards to share today.  For my first card, I am playing along with The Color Throwdown and  Freshly Made Sketches.  


 
I am using MFT Stamps products.  I started with smooth white, tropical teal, gumdrop green, and kraft.  The base is sweet tooth.  I used Blueprints 15 to cut the stitched borders. I trimmed the edges of the kraft panel to comply with sketch.  I stamped the sentiment from Chalkboard Greetings Too.  I used my new MISTI to stamp the sentiment.  I LOVE THIS TOOL!  It is amazing!  I stamped the sentiment in Hybrid black licorice ink.  I needed a little branch and thought the stem from Modern Blooms along with a few leaves would be perfect.   I die cut the Modern Bloom stem and leaves.  I stamped the stem with Memento cocoa ink.  The leaves were stamped with sour apple ink using the Modern Blooms stamp set.  I die cut Tweet on You birdies and stamped with Tweet on You stamp set coordinating images using hybrid black licorice ink.  I colored with copics.  I popped the little birdies up using some foam tape.  I finished my card with some loose white quilting thread and clear sequins.






 
For my second card, I am playing along with The Curtain Call and The Sweet Sunday Sketch.
I started with MFT smooth white and summer splash card stocks.  The base is smooth white.  The summer splash panel was die cut with Blueprints 13.  The bottom was die cut with Stitched Basic Edges.  I stamped this panel with Linen background in summer splash ink.  I die cut the stitched jumbo fishtail banner stax.  I stamped it with field day ink using pinstripe background.  I die cut the circle element using Blueprints 18.  I stamped the sentiment from Fall Foliage using hybrid black licorice ink.  I die cut several of the Modern Blooms die namics.  I stamped the flowers using Modern Blooms stamp set.  I arranged my flowers and finished my card with a few matching sequins.

As always thanks so much for stopping by!

Betty

11 comments

  1. OMGosh Betty. Those birds, the design and sentiment are all so amazing. I just adore this card so much. Love how you framed the flowers around the one side of your sentiment. Beautiful!

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  2. Fabulous cards as always Betty. I'm so glad you are loving your Misti.

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  3. These are beautiful, Betty! LOVE your take on the sketch, the bold colors and textured details of the pretty flowered card.

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  4. Beautiful cards! Love the sentiment on the first one! Glad you shared it at FMS!

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  5. Both of your cards are so wonderful...I LOVE the quote on your bird card and then to team it up with the sweet birds...perfect! FABulous floral card, great job on the sketch...beautiful!

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  6. Betty...these are just so beautiful. I always love how you use bright and vivid colors with amazing and bold sentiments.

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  7. Adorable!! Love the dot sides on the CTD card and the curved panel on the other one!! Gorgeous as always!! Happy you played with us at CTD!

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  8. Beautiful cards Betty! I love those sweet little birds! Great colours! Love the thread peeking out from behind the centre panel! Great sentiment! Thanks for joining us this week at Freshly Made Sketches!

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  9. Oh, wow, both of these cards are fabulous! Isn't the MISTI the most fabulous tool?! I love mine, too. Thanks for joining us at Color Throwdown!

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  10. Fabulous cards, Betty! I love that first sentiment and the bright flowers on the second card are awesome! Thanks so much for playing along with us at the Color Throwdown this week!

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  11. Two absolutely fabulous cards. The colors are perfect for both.

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Thanks so much!

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