So this weeks
MFT challenge was to create ANYTHING!! Well that sounds simple enough, but it was actually hard for me. What do I create? Should it be bright and with lots of sparkle? Should I make it fun and bright? Too many choices. Well after sleeping on several ideas I finally decided to do a picture frame. I took a plain wooden picture frame from the craft store, painted it lime green, and
modge podged paper on it from AC Pattern Paper "Teen". I then punched out stars from the pattern paper with my
marvy star punch. I used
shimmerz on the edges of those stars to give it a little sparkle. I had bought some really cool glitter paper a while back and used it in my
cricut for the other stars. I then tied my ribbon on the sides but still something was missing. So I added the chipboard words to the frame and added
stickles to make them sparkle.
The frame was complete....now it was time to work on the picture. I decided to use
MFT's "Ben Paper Dolls" by
Stephanie Fizer. Now in my house it is all girls, the only boy is my husband, so naturally everything is pink, purple, shiny, sparkly, glittery, you know
girly! So poor Ben he had to be made a little
girly for this project. I stamped him out using Brilliance Graphite Black ink, then colored with
copics. I then used different colors of
shimmerz to paint sections of his space suit. I cut him out and then took wire to make the wires coming from his helmet. I also added crystal effects to Ben's face to make it look like the helmet had a clear visor. I then stamped his little puppy and colored with
copics. I stamped him twice so I could cut out his cape. I added
shimmerz to his cape and added foam tape to make it look as if the cape was blowing forwards. I also added Crystal Effects to his nose to make it shiny. For the moon, I used my
cuttlebug to give it the "craters". I then stamped
VersaMark Dazzle in 'frost' all over the moon and used clear embossing powder from
CTMH. It gave it a nice shimmer to moon. I cut it to fit the paper. I put Ben and his puppy up on foam dots and adhered it to the page.
I also made a "
bibbity boo" (magic wand) as they are called in our house for my 3 year old. I took a wooden star wand, colored it lime green and pink. I used AC Pattern Paper "Teen" and
modge podge it on. Then I colored, cut and put on foam dots to adhere the puppy. I added some crystals around the puppy to give it a little sparkle. Tied my ribbon and I was done!
Close up of Ben's visor and wire
antenna...
Close up of the puppy...I added crystal effects on his nose...
Another close up...
The foam tape to make his cape look like it is blowing forward...
Close up of the "
bibbity boo"...
Thanks for looking!
I love flowers, but tulips are one of my favorite flowers. Fresh cut tulips seem to brighten up any room or any mood. I'm hoping my paper tulips do the same thing. When I was browsing through my MFT stamps I found these tulips in the "Bundles of Bouquets" and just had to use them in this weeks Idol Judges Challenge. I painted my pencil holder barn red and then got coordinating cardstock and wrapped around it. I used my Fiskars border punch on the yellow gold cardstock. I masked my flowers and colored with my copics. I added a little shimmerz to the leaves and the flower. I then wrapped it around my pencil box. Then I had some spare flowers, so I used my cuttlebug and nestabilities to make a frame for them. Hence the title Framed Tulips...hee hee. For the pencil holder I added the sentiment "from the heart" and made it look like the butterflies were carrying it away. The butterflies were stamped multiple times and then colored with copics. I used shimmerz on the top layer of the butterflies to give them a little sparkle. For my card I did the same thing I did with the pencil holder just used a larger size nestabilities. In both frames I used the clouds from MFT's "Hooga Booga" stamp set. I stamped them on vellum and ran them through the cuttle bug. Then just added a touch of shimmerz around the edges for that silver lining. For the sky I used light blue chalk to give it a little color. I think it turned out pretty well. This pencil holder will sit nicely on my desk and will brighten the day. 
Today is Celebrate My Favorite Things Day! So today I decided to play with one of my Flopsey stamp sets that hadn't been inked yet...I know shame on me for waiting so long to ink this cute lil' "Flopsey Flowers" stamp set! I wasn't really sure on which sentiment I was going to put, but I started thinking...scary huh...but sometimes things in life happen and you either need an apology card or a sympathy card. And when these things happen normally we are so consumed with everything we don't have time to make a card to say we care. So I figured why not make one now, so that heaven forbid one of these instances do occur I will be ready. Plus this set is so versatile for any occasion, I am absolutely sure it will be inked over and over!
This is my card for this weeks MFTIJ06 challenge. The challenge was to make a single layer card. It normally takes me a little while to figure out what I am going to come up with, but this week, it came to me right away...thanks to those new sprint commercials! You know the one where they say 234 thousand people are breaking up right now on the phone, 127 thousand of them are breaking up via text message....well anyway they had a lot of yellow and black and it made me think of taxi's which in turn made me think of the little car in one of MFT's sets...and well this is the result. I am very pleased with myself. I think it turned out cute!
