mft may countdown day 3

The countdown to the MFT Stamps May 2023 release continues today with sweet little birds and some no-line coloring!

No-line coloring is a technique I love but struggle with. To practice I like to use small images and there is something just perfect about Stacey Yacula's sets! The new Peaceful Birds is no exception!

To keep my focus on coloring the birds, I stamped the birdhouse & sentiment in black on a white card.

Then I stamped the birds in the lightest tan ink, die cut them and colored them with Copic markers.

I love how they turned out!

Thanks for stopping by! You can find more peeks at the MFT May release on their blog!

Have a great day!

Carly

easy masking + mft may countdown day 4

We're counting down the days until the next MFT release and today I'm excited to share a clean & simple card that uses a little easy masking and one of my favorite new sets!

How cute are these Little Rascals?! I couldn't wait to get coloring so I decided to create a really clean & simple card.

I stamped the top racoon first and then created a mask by stamping him again on a post-it note, cutting it out with scissors and covering the stamped image on my card.

Then when I stamped the second racoon and removed the mask, it looked like the top racoon was balancing on his buddy's head.

After that I had a blast coloring!

Pop over to the MFT blog when you have a minute to see more of the May release!

Thanks for stopping by!

Carly

die cut shaker bits + mft may countdown day 5

I adore shaker cards and I'm always on the lookout for die cuts that might make cute shaker windows or cute shaker bits...

As we countdown to the next MFT Stamps release, I might have found a new favorite die for sweet little shaker bits...Patio Plants!

Not only does the set have the sweetest tiny flower that makes great shaker bits, it has multiple plant & planter options. It's so fun!

For this card I paired a circle shaker window with the planter box and bushes. And the stamped sentiment is from the Outdoor Oasis Sentiments set.

Pop over to the MFT blog to see more of the new May stamps & dies!

Have a great day!

Carly

easy black & white card backgrounds + pretty pink posh blog hop day 3

Pretty Pink Posh has spring covered with their adorable new release and I'm thrilled to be joining in day 3 of the PPP May release hop!

Before I show you want I made, there's more fun! There are 3 $30 gift certificates to Pretty Pink Posh up for grabs! Enter to win by leaving comments along the hop by 11:59pm PST of May 8th, 2022. The winners will be announced on the PPP blog.

Now let me show you the easy black & white background cards I made!

Sometimes critters...like these sweet birds from the A Little Birdie set...are so cute they don't need much!

I used the branch & birdhouse from the Spring Birdhouse set stamped just in black on white cards to create an easy background for the little birds that I stamped, die cut and colored with Copics.

I also added a few music notes on the birdhouse with the Just A Note set and a little faux black splatter (with a pen) on both cards. What do you think?

Your next stop on the hop is Leica Palma's blog and I know she's going to make something fantastic!!! And here's the whole hop list if you need it...

Pretty Pink Posh blog 
Wanda Guess
Gemma Campbell
Melody Rupple
Stefanie Loh
Carly Minner
Leica Palma

Thanks so much for hopping with us! Hugs!!!

Carly

post-it note card with mft stamps

It's time to mix business & pleasure with the adorable work themed card kit from MFT Stamps, The Office! It's available now in the MFT shop!

Before you run off to get yours, I want to show you a card I made using the Sticky Note die set and Sticky Note Sentiments stamp set.

I love post-it notes so it was so fun to add them to a card! I used the Sticky Note die and some lightweight yellow paper from my stash (which I will now be hunting for more of). I added a few layers stacked together to look like little notepad.

The sentiment is absolutely something I actually say so I love it!

The background is an easy stencil technique (and you can see it HERE on the MFT YT channel).

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you have time to pop over to the MFT blog to check out more cards made with the kit!

Hugs!

Carly

the office card kit

It has been a minute since I worked in an office but some of my best friends have started as coworkers and how fun to celebrate that with MFT's latest card kit, The Office! Want a little peek?

The kit includes a collection of the most adorable dies to create an office scene but for this first card I decided to go super clean & simple with just a water cooler!

I die cut the water cooler pieces from white cardstock and had fun coloring them all with Copic markers.

Pop over to the MFT blog to learn more about the The Office Card Kit and stay tuned for more ideas this week!

Thanks for stopping by!

Carly

how to make birthday shaker cards with essentials by ellen

I'm sharing a some sparkly birthday shaker cards in a quick video over on the Ellen Hutson blog today and I would LOVE it if you stopped by!

Hugs!

Carly