Mississippi McGyver: October 2015

Friday, October 30, 2015

MFP IT'S ALL ABOUT THE KIDS BLOG HOP DAY 4

WELCOME TO MFP STAMP SHOP

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE KIDS
BLOG HOP

JOIN US EACH DAY, OCT. 27-30 FOR SOME CHILD LIKE FUN. WE'LL HAVE TUTORIALS AND DT INSPIRATION. THERE WILL BE PRIZES FOR LEAVING COMMENTS ON THE DESIGN TEAM'S BLOGS AND PRIZES FOR TRYING OUR TUTORIALS. YOU WILL HAVE 2 WEEKS TO ADD YOUR PROJECT to the OCT 30 POST FOR US TO SEE SO THERE IS NO EXCUSE NOT TO JOIN IN THE FUN.

Please Hop along with us!!
You could win one of the MFP Stamp Shop Child related STAMP SETS Just comment on the following blogs ( don't forget this one ) each day for more chances to win! ( You do NOT need to comment on on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly.) Try one of the tutorials shown during the Hop and add your photo to the Inlinkz at the bottom of the post. The winners will be announced on Nov. 14, 2015 right here on the MFP Stamp Shop Blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. ( HINT: The more you comment the more chances you have to win. And comments on the MFP blog count twice. ) The deadline for commenting and posting pics of your projects is Friday Nov. 13, 2015 at 10:00 PM EST.

Tutorials
OCT. 27- GIFT CARD HOLDER by Vickie
OCT. 29- A FUN FOLD by Sandy

Let's get started !!

Here's the Design Team

Bonnie

Jane

Karen
Kren
Lois
Marilynn

Pat
Pam
Sandy

Enjoy the Hop. Come back each day for more Kiddo fun. We hope to inspire you to start your own Kids projects. Get to work on the tutorials, show us what you made by Nov. 13 and check back on Nov. 14, 2015 to see if you are a winner.

I used AUTUMN SPLENDOR SET

Because my kids loved jumping in leaves.

Photo of 3 of my little leaf jumpers taken 11 years ago.

Thursday, October 29, 2015

MFP BLOG HOP day 3 IT'S ALL ABOUT THE KIDS

WELCOME TO MFP STAMP SHOP

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE KIDS
BLOG HOP

Tutorials
OCT. 27- GIFT CARD HOLDER by Vickie
OCT. 29- A FUN FOLD by Sandy

Let's get started !!

Here's the Design Team

Bonnie

Jane

Karen
Kren
Lois
Marilynn

Pat
Pam
Sandy

Every little girl deserves to be loved like a princess. That is what I was trying to do when I made this card. I might have added too much bling...but can a princess have too much bling?

I used the BUNDLE OF JOY set

Here is a photo of me and my two princesses.

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

MFP BLOG HOP DAY 2

WELCOME TO MFP STAMP SHOP

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE KIDS
BLOG HOP

Tutorials
OCT. 27- GIFT CARD HOLDER by Vickie
OCT. 29- A FUN FOLD by Sandy

Let's get started !!

Here's the Design Team

Bonnie

Jane

Karen
Kren
Lois
Marilynn

Pat
Pam
Sandy

When I think of little kids I think of pop up cards. I decided to make a bifold card into a little barn. I added the animals from this set:

COUNTRY CHARM

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

MFP BLOG HOP

WELCOME TO MFP STAMP SHOP

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE KIDS
BLOG HOP

Tutorials
OCT. 27- GIFT CARD HOLDER by Vickie
OCT. 29- A FUN FOLD by Sandy

Let's get started !!

Here's the Design Team

Bonnie

Jane

Karen
Kren
Lois
Marilynn

Pat
Pam
Sandy

I stamped the buggy on watercolor paper. I added silver inka gold. I stamped a sentiment frame. I added a paper doily and sequins. This card is going to my Fried Rosalyn who just had her little boy last Friday. Thanks for looking. Thanks also for leaving comments.

Thursday, October 22, 2015

JOY- mixability challenge

This is the card I made for this week's mix-ability challenge for Splitcoaststampers. The challenge is to use a phrase on your card. I choose the simple one word phrase... JOY. I have been thinking about the difference between being happy and having joy. Being happy is dependent on circumstances, but joy is more of a choice and a state of mind. I can go through hard times and still have joy. My mother is an example of that to me. She is in pain a lot of the time. She may not feel happy because of the painful circumstances, but my mom has joy. She is content and she never complains. I am going to send her this card to let her know I'm thinking about her. It was really hard to photograph the sparkle of the glitter or show the shininess of the gold, so I made a quick video to try and show what a still photo can't.

Adornit - Mountain Plains Crafters Blog Hop

Welcome to the Adornit and

Mountain Plains Crafters Blog Hop!

We're featuring the brand new

Art Play Paintables

which include themes for Halloween, Christmas, Adventure, Critters, Faith and more; 18 brand new pages to color with multiple images on each sheet. They're perfect for watercoloring, markers, colored pencils and more. Use them in multiple ways - cardmaking, scrapbooking, treat boxes, tags..... you're only limited by your imagination!

IT'S a lot of fun to sit and color. My favorite way to color is to use crayola markers. However I don't use markers the way most people do. IT'S a lot more fun to do it the way I do it. I take an acetate folder and I scribble on the folder with the markers. I spray a puddle of water onto the the folder and I paint with the marker's inks. IT'S cheap and it gives me quite a lot of colors to start with. By painting with the marker ink IT'S easy to blend the colors.

My first project was from the
RAINBOWS PAINTABLE sheet.

Here is a photo showing the marker scribbles, the water and the paint brush I used.

I colored the backgrounds first and let them dry before I painted the inside images.

When coloring the backgrounds I used a color wheel and kept in my mind the color that I wanted the images to be and tried to use complimentary colors.

You can see a couple of places where the color tried to escape the lines. This was partly due to the fact that my puppy dog jumped into my lap while I was coloring. Silly puppy. I wasn't too concerned about that because I knew I wanted to add some copper and gold to my card.

Both of these products are very similar. They add such a cool metallic look. I just dipped my paint brush in water and then into the metallic rubs and painted with the copper and gold.

Here you can see the gold metallic rub that I put between the rectangles as well as accents on the heart.

I used a bamboo skewer to dip into white acrylic paint to add dots.

I added glue and glitter. to make it sparkle. You can see the sparkle here:

Here is the finished card. I made it into an easel card.

Here are 2 more cards that I made.

For this card I used the FAITH PAINTABLE sheet

For this card I used the

TODAY IS THE BEST PAINTABLE sheet

I used this week's mojo sketch for this card.

If you are playing along with the hop you need to collect words along the way. IT'S not hard to figure out what my word is. However, if you really need a clue my word is actually a contraction of 2 words-
It and Is.

Thanks for reading my long post.

Next stop on the hop is my friend

Pam.

Friday, October 2, 2015

Latte Love tags Thank you VERVE.

Had to play one more time for the Fall Coffee Lover's Blog Hop.
I used the free digi images from VERVE.( Thank you VERVE)

I made two tags to go on a bag of coffee that I'm going to send to my daughter who is away at school.

HOPE

Started and Ended my week off with COFFEE. One last card for the Fall Coffee Lover's Blog Hop
it is also for this week's mixed media challenge on Splitcoaststampers.com. Mix-ability Challenge 140

I started by stamping leaves with versamark ink and embossing them with gold embossing powder.

Then I did ink spray smash technique to add some color. I used mostly cool colors for this part.

Then I water colored the leaves using warm colors. mostly yellows and reds

After that I sprayed the whole card with gold shimmer spray. I stamped with black stazon ink in the corners. I stamped Unity stamps (distressed criss/cross) and (classified newsprint). I used MFP set called Java Time for the cup as well as the coffee rings. I stamped the rings with versamark and stamped it on the background. The cup I stamped with black stazon ink and water colored it. I cut it out and put it with rhinestones for steam. I added the ribbon at the top with scrabble letters I made from a pizza box. I rubbed gold metallic lustre on the letters. I made my card an easel card. I added ribbon roses and lace to the inside. I used the gold shimmer spray on the white ribbon roses to make it match the card.

Now the word HOPE is used a lot in October in relationship to breast cancer. I "hope" that some day - ALL cancer is a thing of the past. Having said that, my card has HOPE on it for a different reason. Owning and running a business in a small town is really hard these days. A year ago a small coffee shop-art gallery-art supply shop opened in our town. Yesterday they celebrated being in business for 1 year. Now for those who live in big cities with lots of choices for getting your coffee, I'm happy for you. This is the ONLY coffee shop in our town. If you want anyone else to make your coffee it will be McDonalds. So I HOPE -"THE LOST CANVAS"-coffee shop-gallery and art supply shop will be in business for a long time to come. I plan to go this afternoon and give the owner this card.