Camp Create -- Session 3

I was thrilled to see that MFT was offering a third session of Camp Create 

earlier this week and even more excited when Sage said she's play along with me!

So, today, I'm sharing the cards that we made for the week of camp.

Day 1's challenge was Monochromatic Magic.

I wanted to make a card to thank Denise, our slo-pitch

team's organizer and coach.

Since her favourite colour is pink, I knew this would be the 

perfect challenge to make her a card.

I decided to use the stamps and dies from my Flashy Florals kit.

I started by partially stamping my background using the 

MFT Scattered Surface Background stamp.

I stamped the flowers on their coordinating diecuts

and had fun stamping my leaves in pink, too!

I diecut the "thanks" die from white cardstock and blended ink

onto the bottom half of it before adhering it to my card with dimensional adhesive.

Sage used the same background stamp to make her card.

She blended ink onto white cardstock and diecut it

with the Soda Pop bottle dies.

She added the details to the bottles and stamped the sentiment 

(also from Soda Pop) onto it.

We both earned this badge:

Day 2's challenge was Awesome Ombre.

We were both inspired by Laurie's fabulous card to use

the same Geometric Grid stencil that she used.

We also both decided to use this challenge to create birthday cards

 for my twin brother -- whose birthday is today!

Happy Birthday, Chris!

Sage created her card first.

You may know that Sage is new to ink blending -- not that 

you can tell from the results on her cards!

But this was the first time that she blended ink using a stencil -- and she loved it!

She used four shades of ink to create her ombre effect.

She stamped the sentiment (from Soda Pop) and added some enamel dots.

For my card, I used the ColourQ Challenge #354:

Here's my card:

I used my new Clarity Stencil Brushes to apply Hawaiian Shores ink 

to my white cardstock panel.

I, too, used the Soda Pop sentiment, stamping it onto strips of black cardstock

and heat embossing it in white.

I stamped the "Chris" using Hand Lettered Holiday (I selectively

inked the "Christmas" stamp) and added a trio of enamel dots to finish it off.

For this challenge, we earned this badge:

Day 3's Challenge was Remarkable Resist.

For my card, I used the Color Throwdown #405:

And MFT Wednesday Sketch 293:

I used emboss resist three different times on my card.

I started by stamping the lines from the leaves onto a piece of 

white cardstock in Altenew Forrest Glades. 

Then, I stamped over top in versamark using the solid leaf image, 

which I heat embossed in clear.

I blended Altenew's Frayed Leaf ink over top with my blending tool.

For my background, I heat embossed the Scattered Surface Background stamp

in white and blended Altenew Ocean Waves over top.

I diecut my Flashy Florals blooms and stamped them with Ocean Waves 

in the centre and then a second time in versamark (using my MISTI).

I heat embossed these in clear and then stamped the blooms in yellow

over top, so the centres resisted the ink.

I added a Reverse Confetti All Framed Out diecut to frame my sentiment

(stamped in Forrest Glades using PTI's Phrases and Praises stamp set.)

Sage decided to use the Soda Pop set again to make her card:

She stamped the sentiments onto her card base and heat embossed them 

in white before blending ink over top and spritzing it with water.

She blended ink onto white cardstock and diecut her bottles from it.

It's so bright and cheerful -- I love how it turned out!

Here's the badge we earned:

Day 4's Challenge was Divine Dry Embossing.

For my card, I used my Soda Pop stamp set and dies,

as well as MFT Colour Challenge 51:

Here's my card:

I started by embossing a MFT Circle onto my background and trimming 

a strip off of the side (I was planning on using something else for my border --

like a dark cardstock, impressed cardstock or patterned paper -- but in the end,

I just replaced the strip, with a bit of dimension for the card front.)

I blended ink onto my circle and adhered my pop bottles over top.

I stamped the sentiments (from Soda Pop) onto black cardstock,

heat embossed them in white and cut them into strips, which I adhered

with dimensional adhesive.

A few wooden stars finish it off.

Sage used the thanks die from the Flashy Florals kit to make her card.

She impressed the die and then diecut it from a post-it note,

which we used to create a mask (I helped her with this, since it was new to her.)

She used my Clarity Stencil brush to brush Hawaiian Shores ink 

over the bottom half of the word.

She stamped the leaf from Modern Blooms in three shades of green to make a wreath.

We both earned this badge:

Next up was a bonus challenge on Thursday evening:

 the Bonfire Craft -- Single Layer Savvy.

Sage was getting a little tire of making cards, so she decided to

make her previous "thanks" card for both the Dry-embossing Challenge

and for the Bonfire Craft Challenge, since it's a one layer card

 -- we hope that's okay!

And here's my card:

I started by stamping my sentiment (from PTI's Phrases and Praises)

in versafine onyx black ink and heat embossing it in clear onto a piece of watercolour paper.

Then, I stamped the leaves from Flashy Florals in five different shades of ink.

I took a paintbrush dipped in water and "coloured" over my stamped leaves

to create a watercolour effect on my card.

Here's the badge we earned:

And lastly, Day 5's Challenge was Stunning Shadow Stamping .

The store where I sell my cards wanted some anniversary cards,

so I decided, since I was using my MISTI to create my card for this challenge,

to make five cards in five different colours, using Modern Blooms.

I  started by stamped in the flowers and leaves in Wplus9 white

and then moving my panel over slightly and down to stamp the colour.

I diecut the "happy" from PTI's Colour Pop Butterflies kit and trimmed off

the "so" that was attached by hand.

I stamped "anniversary" on a strip of smokey shadow cardstock 

and heat embossed it in white (using PTI's Wet Paint stamp set.)

I adhered the strip using dimensional adhesive.

And here's Sage's card, using stamps from Flashy Florals.

Isn't it pretty?

I think she was getting a little tired of making cards, but decided

to persevere to earn all five badges.

When she was done with this card, however, she was saying

how much she enjoyed this technique. :)

It's always fun stamping with my best girl!

And here's the final badge we earned:

Okay, well, I know that was a lot of cards for one post

but I hope you'll indulge me -- it is my birthday after all! ;)

Thanks for looking!

MFT Camp Create: Days 4 & 5

I am back today to share the last two cards that I made for MFT's Camp Create: 

Day 4's challenge was Magnificent Masking.

For my card, I was inspired by Anna Kossakovskaya's planner pages

that she shared last week -- aren't they gorgeous?

Here's my card:

I started by using some masking to stamp the flowers and leaves 

from Flashy Florals onto my card base.

Then, I diecut the flowers and leaves from post-it notes to use to cover my flowers

while I stamped over top using a SSS wide stripes background stamp.

To get solid black lines, I repeatedly stamped, using my MISTI,

but this unfortunately left a little black on my flowers.

So I diecut those from white cardstock, restamped them and adhered them over

my original flowers.

I have to admit that I didn't get the cleanest of lines around my masked flowers,

so I used a black fine line marker to colour in over the fussiness.

I diecut my hello (from the Flashy Florals kit) from white and black

 cardstock, stacked them together and adhered them over my flowers.

I earned this badge:

And Day 5's Challenge was Background Bonanza.

I decided to use the MFT Colour Challenge 49 to make my card:

I thought of stamping my background using flowers, but decided

to just use leaves (from MFT Flashy Florals and Modern Blooms) instead.

I stamped them in Altenew Ocean Waves and Dusk and 

added the "berries" in Ruby Red.

I diecut a large banner from MFT navy cardstock and adhered

the thanks diecut from white cardstock.

I earned this badge:

I really enjoyed the challenges from MFT's Camp Create

and was super excited that I could play along this session!

I always enjoy being challenged to created a card that I otherwise

wouldn't have thought to create on my own.

Thanks for looking!

MFT Camp Create: Days 1, 2 & 3

I was unable to play along with MFT's Camp Create in June

because we were away on our trip to Denver,

so you can imagine how thrilled I was when I found

out that they were doing a second session this week!

So, today, I'm sharing the cards that I made for the first three days of camp.

Day 1's challenge was Fantastic Foiling.

I decided to diecut some of my Bazzill Gold Foil for the challenge.

For my card, I also used MFT's Wednesday Sketch 289:

I stamped a panel of white cardstock using my BG Etched Flower Background stamp, 

which I heat embossed in white.

Over top, I blended aqua mist and harvest gold ink

and cut it into strips before adhering it to my card.

I diecut the "absolutely" from aqua mist cardstock and blended ink

onto the bottom half of it.

I diecut the fabulous from the Bazzill gold foil.

A few clear sequins finished it off.

Sage, Jonah & I volunteered at Vacation Bible School

at our church last week and I gave this card to our Children's Ministries Director.

She organized everything and did a fantastic job!

Here's the badge I earned:

Day 2's challenge was Colouring on Kraft.

At first, I was at a loss as to how I would complete this challenge,

because I don't have any MFT outline stamps that you colour in.

But then, I remembered the MFT BG Etched Flower Background stamp

and decided to use it to make my card.

I stamped it on kraft in versamark and heat embossed it in white.

Then, I coloured it in white three Zig Markers: Pale Pink, Light Pink and Light Coral.

It was cool to see how the different colours looked on the kraft!

I diecut the "absolutely fabulous" from black cardstock, adhering

the "fabulous" over a second diecut from a coaster to add dimension.

I gave this card to my friend, Kathy, who acted with me last week

in the skits at VBS -- she's so talented and fun!

I'm also linking these cards up for Day 2 of Heat Wave,

a class I'm taking this week at Online Card Classes:

For this challenge, I earned this badge:

And lastly, Day 3's Challenge was Inlaid Made Easy.

I started by stamping the flowers from Modern Blooms and Flashy Florals on my card base.

From that, I diecut the hello die (it came in my Flashy Florals kit)

and replaced it with one diecut from coral cardstock.

I stamped the "friend" sentiment from Soda Pop.

I added a border of the same coral cardstock, which I stamped repeatedly

using the Flashy Florals leaves in ruby red.

A trio of buttons and twine finishes it off.

I gave this card to a friend who also volunteered at VBS last week --

we met for coffee the other day in the afternoon and I just

wanted to let her know how much I appreciate her.

She really loved it and asked so many questions about how I made it. :)

Here's the badge I made:

Okay, so that's it for me for today...

Stop by tomorrow to see the cards I made for the last two days of Camp Create

-- that's right, I was a successful camper & earned all of my badges!

Thanks for looking!