MFT Card Challenge #285 and Summer Coffee Lovers

Good Monday afternoon crafty friends! I hope y'all are having a great day

so far! Little man and I spent to morning at the pool! My Sunday school class does

a thing once a month called Monday Mornings with Mom where they

usually get together for Bible study, snacks, and crafts. They decided today to switch

it up and hit the pool at one of the ladies' in laws house. I decided it's never

too early to get a kid used to the pool! He seemed to like it... or at leas he didn't

dislike it. lol I had two cards I wanted to share today that I made last night.

Unfortunately since I didn't get this post up before I left this morning the Linky has

closed for entering one of them but I'll share it anyways.

This first card I made is following the current sketch from My Favorite Things.

I am also entering it into the the Summer Coffee Lovers Hop.

Enabler's List:

Paper: Paper Studio: Ninth Street

Stamps: MFT - Perk Up

Ink: CTMH - black

Dies: MFT - coffee cup

Misc: Paper Studio - enamel dots

Here is the second card I made. I was supposed to link it up to Freshly Made Sketches

but I forgot that their linky closes at noon on the due date. I am a few hours late.

Enabler's List:

Paper: CTMH - Happy Times

Stamps: Verve - Bloom and Grow

Ink: CTMH - fern, pomegranate, and blush

Misc: Recollections - aqua ribbon and Paper Studio - enamel dots

Here's a pic of me and little man at the pool!

Freshly Made Sketches #240

Good morning crafty friends and happy Lord's day. I hope you all have had a great
weekend so far! Well we managed to make it to Sunday School last week with
little man. We are going to try and make it to the service beforehand today. We have to
try to be early enough to sit in the back by the doors in case little man gets fussy.
We have some good friends with a 4 month old who sit there. They're usually on time,
maybe I should text them and ask them to save us a few seats... lol! 

Before we head out though I wanted to share a card I made last night following the
current sketch from Freshly Made Sketches. I also wanted to share a pic
of how I have been finding the time to craft even though I have a three week old.
I have been asked by a few people how am I finding the time to craft...

Baby wearing! It's totally legit! When he doesn't want to go down for a nap after a
feeding without being held, but I have stuff I want or need to do, these wraps come in
super handy!! He snoozed like this for over an hour until he got hungry again.

Enabler's List:

Paper: Paper Studio - Hello Darling

Stamps: SU - Wild about Flowers

Ink: CTMH - blush

Misc: Paper Studio - enamel dots

FMS #189 and Coffee Lovers

Good morning crafty friends and happy weekend! I hope y'alls days are

off to a great start! We don't have much of anything planned for

this weekend which I am happy about after a busy week. I just want to

relax and spend a little time doing absolutely nothing! Followed

by cleaning and crafting though of course! I made a card last night following

the current sketch from Freshly Made Sketches. I am also entering

this card into the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop and
the current Verve Inspirations Challenge.

Enabler's List:

Paper: MME - Flair

Stamps: MFT - LLD Perk-Up

Ink: CTMH - Hollyhock

Dies: MFT - LLD Coffee Cup

Misc: CTMH Ocean Breeze sequins, Verve polka dot ribbon,

and Recollections Doily

Simply Create Too #76

Good morning Simply Create Too fans! Hope y'all had a wonderful

Christmas and New Years with family and friends! We are

starting out the new year with an appropriate challenge:

Let's Celebrate!

You have two weeks to enter a celebration themed creation!

Here is my take, I did a card for a new baby:

Enabler's List:

Paper: Echo Park Bundle of Joy - Boy

Stamps: MFT Beautiful Baby

Ink: CTMH chocolate

Misc: MFT Beautiful Baby die set

I used the current sketch from Freshly Made Sketches for this card

Freshly Made Sketches #156

Good morning crafty friends! I hope y'all are having a 

great weekend so far! I wasn't able to sit down and make

any cards Saturday for National Cardmaking Day

but I was able to sit down yesterday afternoon and

get started on some Christmas cards. I am going to be

doing a craft show in November and wanted to 

make a few new Christmas cards for that. For the card

I am sharing today I followed the current sketch 

from Freshly Made Sketches.

Enabler's List:

Paper: CTMH Snowhaven

Stamps: CTMH Be Jolly hostess rewards set

Ink: Versamark, CTMH Cranberry, and Glacier

Misc: Recollections glitter snow flake sticker,

and Recollections black ep

Freshly Made Sketches #154

Good Sunday Morning crafty friends! Hope y'all are

having a great weekend! I sure am! The hubby

and I will be celebrating our second wedding anniversary

tomorrow! We are taking a little shopping trip to Dallas!

Yep, that's where people from Oklahoma go for vacation... lol!

I love making trips to Texas to shop or go to my aunt

and uncles lake house. That lake is one of my most favorite 

places! One day hubby and I plan to have a house there.

Anyways, I wanted to share a great masculine birthday

card i made before I head off to church. I sometimes have a

hard time with masculine cards, but having good

paper is a great start! I found this pack at Hobby Lobby

the other day and it was half off! It has great patterns.

I followed the current sketch from Freshly Made Sketches.

Enabler's List:

Paper: Paper Studio Happy Birthday to you Sir, and 

Paper Studio solid cardstock

Stamps: MFT Birthday Greetings

Ink: CTMH Black

Misc: Verve Starry Die

Freshly Made Sketches #151

Good Friday morning crafty friends! It's about long weekend 

time! Can't wait to have a little time to relax! I have a card to share

real quick that I made last night but it was too dark to get a good pic of it.

 I used the current sketch from Freshly Made Sketches.

Enabler's list:

Paper: Carta Bella Ahoy There, Fancy Pants Nautical, 

CTMH Outdoor Denim and Ruby CS

Stamps: Verve Big Wish

Ink: CTMH Exclusive Ink in Outdoor Denim

Misc: Verve Pennant Trim die

Watercolor Butterflies

Good afternoon crafty friends! Hope y'all are having a great

weekend so far! I decided that I wanted to try to get into a little

bit of painting for my cards. I went to Hobby Lobby and

bought this watercolor pigment set and used my 40% off coupon

so it was pretty inexpensive. I did some YouTube searching

for how to incorporate stamps into watercolor painting and I found

this awesome tutorial by Dawn of Wplus9 stamps. I just used 

a butterfly stamp I already had from a MFT butterfly stamp set.

I painted two butterflies and put them on cards. The first butterfly

I put on a card following the August week 2 sketch from Viva la Verve.

The second butterfly I put on a card following the current 

Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

Enabler's List:

Paper: Watercolor paper, CTMH cardstock in White Daisy,

Whisper, Honey, and Lagoon

Stamps: MFT Blissful Butterflies, and Verve Big Wish

Ink: CTMH ink in Slate and Whisper

Misc: Watercolor pigments, brushes, Darice honeycomb folder,

SU chevron folder,Verve sequins, Ranger mini misters.

Other Challenges:

Verve August Diva Dare: Celebrate 

Verve Diva Inspirations: Sequin Stunner

Closer look at butterflies:

Sketches:

Freshly Made Sketches #141

Good evening crafty friends! It is almost the weekend! Whoop!

Hope everyone has some crafty time planned! I think I will do a little

along with putting some hangin's on the walls to make this new

house look more like home! I also want to work in the flower bed if

it doesn't rain. This house was empty for quite a while before

we moved in so the outside has been a bit neglected.

Here is a card I made this evening following the current sketch from

Freshly Made Sketches. I am also entering this card into this month's

Verve Diva Dare which calls for a masculine themed card.
I am also entering this card into the current Nautical challenge over at
The Card Concept. For the style part of the challenge, I would consider
the style of this card to be a bit clean and layered. It seems at
first glance that there is a lot going on on this card because of the
different patterns of paper, but it really is quite a simple card.

Enabler's list:

Paper: Carta Bella Ahoy There, CTMH cardstock in White Daisy,

Ruby, and Outdoor Denim

Stamps: Verve Strong Anchor, and Birthday Bash

Ink: CTMH Exclusive Inks in Ruby, Outdoor Denim, and Desert Sand

Misc: Verve Strong Anchor dies, Nestabilities sm and lrg circle dies,

misc twine and button.

Freshly Made Sketches and Verve Diva Dare

Good evening my crafty friends! Hope y'all are having a great

weekend! We finally got moved into the house yesterday 

so had our first night here last night. Unfortunately because of

the storms I didn't sleep well... Been trying to stay busy

today to keep from taking a nap. We still have some thing to get 

out of the shed and garage at the old house but have to 

wait a few days until the rain dies out to finish building the new shed.

Anyways I took a break from unpacking and decided to make

a shaker Father's day card for my daddy. I used the current

sketch from Freshly Made Sketches and am also entering my card

into this month's Verve Diva Dare which is called "A Man's World."

For this card the Timberline paper pack from Close To My Heart

along with some Kraft CS. The sentiment stamps are from Verve.

I stamped the sentiment in CTMH Twilight ink and also

inked the edges of the card and tag with a sponge in

CTMH Chocolate ink. I used two different sizes of Marvy tag punches

to do my shaker part. I used a bit of a clear acetate sheet and 

3D Foam Tape to finish off the shaker box. The sequins 

are from Hobby Lobby. for some added embellishments I used a

random assortment of twine and ribbon and some Triangle Studs.

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