A Tiny Birthday gift

Hi Friends,

A quick and last post from me for the night.  Just wanted to share this little cutie.

It was my daughter's classmate's birthday and she wanted to give her a little gift.  So I cut strips of coloured paper, stamped them with little messages, then wrapped them around some Hershey chocolates.  Then I made a little matching box to put it all in.  Top it with a mini tag and ribbon and we got ourselves a cute little gift.

When I said the pressie was little, I meant tiny. Like really tiny!

So sorry for the poor quality pictures.  They were taken really late at night.  I hope you like my mini gift.  It might be small but it was made with alot of love.

Thank you.

Phi.

Challenges:

MFT Color Challenge 103

MFT The Birthday Project - Gussie Up Your Gifts

Falling Snowflakes

Hello,

I'm here to squeeze in a last minute challenge entry.

I made a card last week using stacked watercoloured snowflakes.  Today I found the leftover piece of watercoloured card lying around. It was too pretty to throw away so I cut and popped it up with foam tape on a white card base.  Added a very small and simple sentiment and the card is done.

I'm so glad I never throw anything away! I might even like this more than the original one I made with all the stacked snowflakes.

Thank you for stopping by.

Cheers,

Phi

Challenges:

MFT Color Challenge 103

Time Out Challenge - #120 - Colourful

HLS October Christmas Challenge

HLS October Anything Goes with Dies Challenge

Joyful Star

Hi Friends,

It looks like I just missed the deadline for the last MFT sketch challenge.  Thankfully I can still make it for their colour challenge #103.

I made two cards with the same design using MFT Color Drops stamps and stax dies.  One I left plain with a popped-up frame.  The other I made into a shaker card.  One is clean and elegant.  The other is fun and sparkly.  I love them both!

It's a bit hard to see but the sentiment reads " Wishing you a joyful Christmas".

Hope you enjoyed your visit today.

Smiles,

Phi.

 Challenges:
MFT Color Challenge 103
Time Out Challenge - #120 - Colourful
HLS October Christmas Challenge
HLS October Anything Goes with Dies Challenge

Stars and Snowflakes

Hi Friends,

The card I'm sharing today is a Christmas card featuring non-traditional colours.

On watercolour paper I loosely painted six squares with Black Soot Distress ink with hints of some lilac, green, and blue.  Then, on another piece of watercolour paper I painted large sections of purple, green and blue which once dried, I used to die-cut my snowflakes.  To give some of the snowflake layers sparkle and a different tone, I swiped the Silvery Shimmer Delicata ink pad over some of the snowflakes.  Then I stacked the them.  So pretty, but as always, the camera never captures the shimmer.

To put the card together, I quickly swiped the edges of the grey card base with the same Silver Delicata ink pad.  The greeting and some snowflakes were stamped on the watercoloured panel and the panel then adhered to the card base.  Lastly, all the beautiful snowflakes were attached.  The stars on the card are cutouts from the die-cut snowflakes which were too pretty to throw away or hidden so on they go onto the card too.

 

That's it for today.  I hope you have enjoyed visiting.

Smiles,

Phi.

Challenges:

MFT Sketch challenge - Sketch 406

MFT Color Challenge 103

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Starry night

HLS October Watercolour Challenge

HLS October Anything Goes with Dies Challenge

HLS October Christmas Challenge

Allsorts Challenge - Week 489 - Christmas
Time Out Challenge - #120 - Colourful

Hello Christmas

Hi Friends,

I have another monochromatic Christmas card to share.

This piece started off as an experimental piece. I knew I wanted a large tree but since I don't own a large tree stamp I thought I would create one out of a little fir branch stamp.  How hard can it be?  As soon as I stamped the first branch I was having doubts. But, as we do, I kept stamping, hoping for the best.  When I had the basic shape of the tree stamped out I cringed.  It was that bad.  By this time I knew this was a mistake.  But, as we do, I kept stamping.  At this point I was just mindlessly stamping away to relieve stress while trying to overcome the disappointment.  Along the way I kept switching to a different shade of blue.  Four shades in total.  And then magic happened. My tree began to take shape and I couldn't believe the detail and shading I achieved.  I got really giddy as I stamped the last layer with white pigment ink.

I love this tree! I spent some time deciding whether or not to add sequins and gems.  In the end I opted not to.  Didn't want to detract from the detail on the tree.  To finish up I just ink blended the sky, added snow with a white gel pen, and mounted the sentiment with foam tape.  Oh, I also added some clear Wink of Stella.  Too bad the camera cannot capture the shimmer.  Its subtle but very lovely in real life.

Did I mention I love this tree?  I hope you like my tree as much as I do.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers,

Phi.

Challenges:

A Blog Named Hero - Monochromatic challenge
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - Lets get ready for Christmas

Star Wreath

Hello Friends,

I'm getting into the Christmas cards early this year!

My first one for the year is a monochromatic one.  Looks simple but it actually took me a while as there were a few rounds of embossing to do.  To keep the embossing clean and white I started with blending the background first.  After I have my hazy wreath background I went ahead and stamped my images with versamark ink, then embossed with white.  Then I brought in some red markers to do some simple colouring and placing shadows on the larger images just to give it a pop.  Lastly I mounted on the sentiments with foam tape for some dimension.

I really do like this card and plan to make a few more in all sorts of colours.

Thank you so much for visiting today.

Smiles,

Phi.

Challenges:

A Blog Named Hero - Monochromatic challenge

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - Lets get ready for Christmas

Rainbow Balloons

Hi Friends,

Okay, this is my last post for MFT's second week of summer school. And it should also be my forth and final post for the day. Boy, I've been busy!

I enjoyed playing with the rainbow patterned paper and MFT's Birthday Balloon dies so much that I made another card with them.

This time I didn't struggle so much with the 'visual triangle' compared to my last card...since I'm experienced and all 😃.

Another CAS rainbow card.  Nothing makes me happier!

Cheers,

Phi

Challenges:
MFT Summer School 2018 Session 2 - Visual Triangle
MFT Summer School 2018 Session 2 - Rainbow
MFT - The Birthday Project - CAS Birthday
HLS Anything goes with dies challenge - August
HLS August CAS Challenge