Simple By Design

Hello

Hope you are all enjoying your weekend, sadly I am working, but hoping after work I might pop into the craft room to enjoy a little bit of crafting..

Speaking of crafting, I trust you are really enjoying seeing everyone’s creations from the May Release Countdown from MFT, be sure to head over HERE to view even more today, with the halfway of the countdown..

I chose to use the Pure Innocence set called Love you a Bunch…

Of course we all know I love to paper piece these sweet gals, so I firstly coloured in her hair, skin and shoes, then paper pieced her dress with pattern paper from the Sweet Celebration paper pad, finishing off by colouring the flowers she was holding..

I then worked on the background, by trimming a piece of white card stock and adding blending to one section so that each colour would overlap to bring in another colour, Lemon Drop, Berrylicious and Ripe Raspberry were the colours of inks chosen..

I stamped a sentiment off to one side and added my little girl, along with a strip of black and white paper from the Black and White Stripes paper pad along the base of the card stock..

I realised that the card needed just a little addition, so taking Ripe Raspberry card stock and Stitched Heart Grid, I added some hearts in a row, under the sentiment to complete the card..

Enjoy the rest of your day!

See you all again tomorrow..

Hugs

Hi there

Hope you enjoyed viewing day 5 of the May Release Countdown for MFT, we have more installed for you today so be sure to hop on over to the blog for more inspiration from the DT..

I am back with the latest from Birdie Brown and Torico has certainly created another amazing set to work with called Little Buddies..

I stamped out the image that I wanted to use and coloured with Copics, die cutting and setting aside..

I then die cut a Pierced Heart out of Black Licorice card stock and within the heart I die cut into one corner using a paw print from the Paw Prints, backing a piece of Electric Red card stock to the back..

Still at the die cutting machine, I die cut two circles using the Inside and Out Stitched Circles, one with white card stock and the other with Gumdrop Green, with the Gumdrop Green, I took the Grassy Fields die and die cut a piece at the base of the circle..

With the white circle, I took the Mini Cloud Stencil and applied Berrylicious ink over the top to form the background to my project, adding the grassy panel to the base along with my little boy and heart..

Next, I took a piece of trimmed white card stock and inking up the Itsy Bitsy Polka Dots Background stamp with Cement Gray ink, I covered this panel, giving my own pattern paper effect..

I added the circle feature to the centre and completed the card by adding a sentiment..

I look forward to seeing you all again for Day 3 and halfway through the Countdown..

Have a fantastic day!

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Hello

I hope you are all having a great day and have enjoyed seeing all the amazing creations from the DT using the Stitched Blooms April Card Kit..

Today is the day that you can order your kit and the last day the team will be sharing inspiration..

I chose to feature more die cutting but this time in a different way..

I firstly wanted to use the colours Blue Breeze and Tropical Teal inks on a white card stock, so I blended the 2 colours until I was happy with the look..

On another piece of trimmed white card stock, I took the leaf die from the Stitched Blooms kit and die cut several times into the panel, creating a background effect..

I added foam tape to the back of this panel and adhered to the blended ink panel..

I completed the card by stamping and embossing in White Embossing powder onto Black Licorice card stock a sentiment from the Deepest Sympathy set, adding this to the middle of the panel..

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Hello

I hope you are enjoying seeing all the creations from the DT using the April Card Kit called Stitched Blooms..

Today I have another die cut version, this time using Persimmon, Orange Zest and Kraft card stocks..

I die cut the flower and leaves out of the above colours of card stock and put together..

I then die cut the word Hugs from Twice the Hugs out of white card stock, 4 times adhering each layer together, realising the colour was washing out against the white background card, so I took some Cement Gray card stock and die cut another one, adhering to the white..

I added the word Hugs to the centre of the card base and went about adding my flowers either side of the die cut word..

It was still looking a bit plain to me, so I added some score lines around the white card base and finished the card by adding some Clear Sequins..

I will be back tomorrow for the big reveal and the purchasing of the card kit..

Have a fantastic day!

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Hi there

It is that time of the month again that the DT bring you projects sharing the card kit for the month..

This month we have a fabulous kit called Stitched Blooms…

I am sharing a creation today based around one of the stitched blooms dies, using Tropical Teal, Limelight as the base of the flower and then added impact with sentiment strips..

Die cutting a flower and centre of the flower out of Tropical Teal and then die cutting 2 leaves to place at the back of the flower out of Limelight card stock..

Adhering the leaves to the flower, I set aside to work on the sentiment strips..

To which I trimmed 5 strips of Black Licorice card stock and taking sentiments, From the Heart stamp set, stamping several sentiments with Versamark and embossing with White Embossing Powder..

Assembling the card, I took a trimmed piece of white card stock and adhered the sentiment strips across the middle of the card, then placed my flower off to one side and completed the card by adding a scattering of Clear Sequins..

I will be back again tomorrow with another creation using more of this wonderful card kit..

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