Best Friends Will Always Be Remembered

I made this card a few weeks ago and never posted it. It was a request from a friend who is a dog lover herself, and the person who told me about the "rainbow bridge." I never heard about the "rainbow bridge" before, but I knew it should be part of the sympathy card I was creating so I blended Distress Inks and placed them behind a black heart outline. The large "Sorry" die cut is from Honey Bee Design, the smaller sentiment is from My Favorite Things (Critter Condolences), and the dog silhouette is from Impression Obsession. I am placing this card in the following challenges:

My Favorite Things Summer School Day 2, Rainbows

My Favorite Things Sketch Challenge #500

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes.

Snail Mail Hello

Sometimes when I least expect it, an idea pops into my head, and I just have to get to my craft room and start creating.  When I was thinking about My Favorite Things Summer School Day 2 - Rainbows, the image of a bunch of rainbow colored envelopes popped into my head. Hence the card project below! The background panel was stamped with MFT Typewriter Text background stamp. The envelopes are from Sugar Pea Designs and the "Hello" is from Hero Arts. I believe the sentiment on the purple strip is from MFT, but I could not find my stamp set to get the name!! :) Going to enter this is the SSS Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes too.

Happiest Birthday

This card project is a cute birthday bunny flying by to wish a little girl Happy Birthday! I used the My Favorite Things Color Challenge #146 Colors and the Sketch Challenge #500. Plus, since I wanted to use three balloons on the card, they demonstrated the MFT Summer School Day 1 lesson- Visual Triangle. I love the look on the bunny's face, "How did I get up here so high!" This is from MFT "Birthday Buds." The balloons are a layering stamp from Sunny Studio. The scalloped panel is mounted on a piece of Summer Splash card stock.

Thank You

Here is a fairly simple card which has a lot of punch. Rainbows are the focus of My Favorite Things Summer School Day 2. They are very versatile and can be made from lots of different products. Click on the link to see what other creations have been submitted for day 2 of MFT summer school!

This rainbow was created with Distress Oxide Inks for a thank you card. The bold sentiment is from MFT "Thanks So Very Much" stamp set.

Thinking of You

I tried a new technique which I saw on my friend's blog. It's called Split Four. Here's the link that shows this technique - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbP0ibNZn8Y&t=3s And take a look at  Cat's use of the technique here - Cat's blog post. So I selected some stamps and inks and here's the results-

The second part of the process involves cutting this large piece of card stock into four panels and making four cards. I had planned originally to have 2 landscape and 2 portraits cards, but it didn't turn out that way! I liked the landscape better. Here's the results - 

Lastly, I am going to enter one of these cards in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes.

Anna

This card was made special for a friend of mine, hence the Name prominently displayed on the front! It was a birthday card for a young lady so I used MFT stamps and dies, plus a new set from The Ton called Floral Bits. I was curious to see how The Ton's layering stamps work compared to Altenew layering stamps, and I have to say that The Ton has made it easier if you are planning on cutting the flowers out for your project. Because of the guide marks they use for the layers, which are displayed on the stamp itself, you don't have the flexibility of stamping out the flowers in any pattern you want if you follow the guide marks. In summary, I think both Altenew and The Ton have made layering easy, but the methods are a little different so both are worth considering depending on your project. This card is for the MFT Sketch #500 for this week's challenge and Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes.

Nuts Over Bolts

This cute card is for the My Favorite Things Sketch Challenge 500 and for MFT Summer School 2020 Lesson 1 Visual Triangle. I copic colored the central image, a small robot, placed it on top of a pink heart with white heat embossed hearts on top, and used some pattered paper in the lower part of my card base. The three pink Nuvo drops form the visual triangle on the card and add dimension (along with the robot which is popped up.) Below is the Sketch for this challenge.

Also entering Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes.