Mississippi McGyver: April 2016

Friday, April 29, 2016

MFP Bugs and Butterflies- Day 4- Mixed media challenge

Bugs and Butterflies

BLOG HOP

Watch out for creepy crawlies !

JOIN US EACH DAY, April 26-29 FOR A BUTTERFLY KISSES GOOD TIME. 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 APRIL 29th 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 BUGS AND BUTTERFLIES 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 APRIL 29 post. The winners will be announced on MAY 14, 2016 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 May 13, 2016 at 10:00 PM EST.

Tutorials

April 27-- Flower Arranging by Sandy

April 29-- Retiform by Pat

Let's get started !!

Here's the Design Team

Bonnie

Gail

Karen

Kren

Lois

MariLynn

Pat

Pam

Enjoy the Hop. Come back each day. We hope to inspire you to start your own Bugs and Butterflies projects. Get to work on the tutorials, show us what you made by May 13th and

check back on May 14, 2016 to see if you are a winner.

I used the butterfly from MFP:
Daffodil Greetings- Stamp Set

Butterflies need beautiful flowers. My flowers are a little mixed media style. I am sure that is a not a shock to anyone who follows my blog. The splitcoaststampers mixed media challenge this week is to paint flowers. Stamping is allowed, but not on the flowers.
This is the photo that was my inspiration.

I sketched the flowers quickly with a pencil on white cardstock.

I watercolored the flowers using crayola markers on acetate and water.

I ran the flower panel through my cuttlebug using my script embossing folder. I added gold metallic rub over raised areas, I sprayed the flowers with a really fine mist of old spray. I added gold wink of stella on the centers of the flowers. I put little drops of white acrylic paint for highlights on the centers.

I decided to have burlap and a brown paper doily to go with the flowers.

I stamped the butterfly with light grey ink. The technique that I tried on Monday, where you stamp the image with light ink and gov over it with a pencil to make it look like it was sketched. I thought it would go well with my sketched and painted flowers.
I added gold wink of stella to the body, and I made the antenna out of gold thread. I drew a flourish with a pencil. Went over it with the gold metallic rub, but finally went over that with glue and glamour dust glitter.

Thanks for reading this long post. I hope you have a blessed day today.

Thursday, April 28, 2016

MFP Bugs and Butterflies Blog Hop Day 3

MFP STAMP SHOP

Bugs and Butterflies

BLOG HOP

Watch out for creepy crawlies !

Please Hop along with us!!

Tutorials

April 27-- Flower Arranging by Sandy

April 29-- Retiform by Pat

Let's get started !!

Here's the Design Team

Bonnie

Gail

Karen

Kren

Lois

MariLynn

Pat

Pam

Enjoy the Hop. Come back each day. We hope to inspire you to start your own Bugs and Butterflies projects. Get to work on the tutorials, show us what you made by May 13th and

check back on May 14, 2016 to see if you are a winner.

I used the butterfly from MFP:
Daffodil Greetings- Stamp Set

I made this for a friend of mine who loves to read.
I thought this butterfly and these papers
would make a pretty bookmark.
It was a super fast and easy project.
It took less than 10 mins. to make.
I die cut several scraps of paper that
coordinated with the floral lace.
I cut some burlap and some pearls.

I used hot glue to

hold all the layers together.

I sandwiched the lace,

burlap and pearls between

two of the dp circles.

I hot glued a paper clip
to the back. To reinforce
the hold, I put a small
rectangle over the spot I glued.

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

MFP Blog Hop- Bugs and Butterflies- Golden Afternoon

MFP STAMP SHOP

Bugs and Butterflies

BLOG HOP

Watch out for creepy crawlies !

Please Hop along with us!!

Tutorials

April 27-- Flower Arranging by Sandy

April 29-- Retiform by Pat

Let's get started !!

Here's the Design Team

Bonnie

Gail

Karen

Kren

Lois

MariLynn

Pat

Pam

Enjoy the Hop. Come back each day. We hope to inspire you to start your own Bugs and Butterflies projects. Get to work on the tutorials, show us what you made by May 13th and

check back on May 14, 2016 to see if you are a winner.

I used the following MFP Sets:
Brick Wall
Daffodil Greetings
Glad Glads

I made this video so you can see how I made this card. It took me about 2 1/2 hours to make the card, and almost as long to make the video. I would love for you to take a look at the video.

MFP BLOG HOP BUTTERFLIES AND BUGS

TO MFP STAMP SHOP

Bugs and Butterflies

BLOG HOP

Watch out for creepy crawlies !

Please Hop along with us!!

Tutorials

April 27-- Flower Arranging by Sandy

April 29-- Retiform by Pat

Let's get started !!

Here's the Design Team

Bonnie

Gail

Karen

Kren

Lois

Marilynn

Pat

Pam

Enjoy the Hop. Come back each day. We hope to inspire you to start your own Bugs and Butterflies projects. Get to work on the tutorials, show us what you made by May 13th and

check back on May 14, 2016 to see if you are a winner.

I used the following MFP Sets:
Mushroom Selections
Dragonflies
Shello

My teenaged son needed an "I'm sorry" card. He mumbled something under his breath that hurt a friend. He asked me how he could say he was sorry. I suggested a card. So this card is going along with a bag of m&m's. Hopefully that will help him out. I had so much fun with the big dragonfly. I watercolored him all different colors then, I added glitter. He is so sparkly.

Monday, April 25, 2016

Fairy Garden

This week's Technique Lover's Challenge on Splitcoaststampers was hosted by my friend Kelly. TLC583

The challenge is to stamp lightly and use a pencil to sketch over the images so it looks like you sketched it. Kelly posted it last night, so I had all night to think and dream about it. I had imagined a "fairy garden" And although my finished card didn't look like I had imagined it, I really like how it did turn out.

I usually stamp with black stazon ink. I knew that would be too dark, even if I stamped off first. So I tried using versamark ink. I heated it with my heat gun to make sure it was dry before I went on.

I stamped the mushroom (MFP) dragonflies (MFP) bunny (?) and circles. I don't think I have ever used the bunny before today. It was a cheap clear stamp that I bought at Hobby Lobby in the clearance section.

Here is how it looked after stamping the white cardstock with versamark.

I added background color by doing ink, spray smash with markers and acetate folder.

Here is how it looked with the pencil sketching. I sketched in the door on the center mushroom.

I added some extra layers of color with the grass and mushrooms and bunny.

I really didn't like how the bunny's face looked, but good thing about pencils... you can erase them and do it again. I felt like it needed something more. My son walked buy and said the bunny looks like he should be holding something. So I sketched a little key in his hands. I love how it turned out. It is actually my favorite part of the card.

I did this week's MOJO sketch 445, well sort of. It was at least inspired by the sketch.

When I used my die to cut out the image, it cut the left dragonfly. I didn't feel like getting the dragonfly stamps out so I sketched the left dragonfly by hand.
Of course with a fairy garden, I needed to use some sparkle. The dragonflies have sparkle, but the mushrooms also have sparkle.... black glitter. I rarely have a use for black glitter, but today it worked perfectly.

Isn't this bunny cute?

Can you see all the glitter?

Friday, April 22, 2016

Golden Garden

Since I picked the elements-challenges yesterday, today was Pam's turn. She picked:

1. Stamping on DP

2. flowers

3. satin ribbon

4 dry embossing

5 inka gold

6. Cheesecloth

This is the dp that I choose. I stamped flowers on smaller panel on this dp, I also did the butteffly on this dp. I also used it for the base of the card.

I put cheesecloth over the dp and a square of brown cardstock

I took a brown paper doily and cut it in half.

I took some lace and gathered it on one edge. I stapled it to hold it together.

So the flower panel would lay flat over the lace, I built up the back of the panel with circles of cardstock and hot glue.

I added my satin bow and pearls in corner.

I wanted my butterfly to hover over the page so I built up the back with circles of cardstock and hot glue

Since my cards have lots of dimension, envelopes don't work. I make boxes out of dp that I don't really like. It still looks better than an undecorated box.

See how the card fits right in the box?

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Fire formed- butterflies

MIX169- splitcoaststampes Earth day challenge

Water, wind, fire.

I chose fire for my card. I burned the edges of my top panel with matches. I sprayed that panel with gold spray. The butterflies were heat embossed with a mixture of gold ep and watering can ep. I stamped the music notes in top left corner with black stazon. I added lace, pearls, burlap, twine and ribbon and rhinestone butterfly trails.

The Free For All Challenge is to make something from nature for Earth day as well. I hope these butterflies count.

Butterfly Girl

At Splitcoaststampers today the Ways to Use it challenge

WT580 was to USE A TREE on your card.

Well, I am a bit of a nonconformist. I thought it would be amusing to use FAUX WOOD technique on my card. Because in my mind FAUX WOOD = FAUX TREE(albeit cut down)

But just in case the challenge police are out and about, I did use trees on my card you can see them on this panel. This panel is behind butterfly girl on my card. The wings of the bird are right behind her head.

Pam let me pick all the challenges today. I chose, faux wood technique, burlap, twine and pearls. She said oh is that all, so I tossed in Butterfly. She joked about that being all? So I added wink of stella to the list so the list was:
1. Faux Wood
2. Burlap
3. Twine
4. Pearls
5, Butterfly
6. Wink of Stella-gold
7. Recycled cardboard (since I was being ornery and doing wood which is cut down trees and the reason the challenge was given was to celebrate Earth Day, I thought I would toss, recycling on my card to make it up to our Earth.)