Outdoor Fun mfp bloghop. Day 1

WELCOME  
TO MFP STAMP SHOP

The Great Outdoors
 BLOG HOP

JOIN US EACH DAY, June 21-24 FOR SOME OUTDOOR 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 June 24th 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 Outdoor THEMED 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 June 24 post. The winners will be announced on July 9, 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 July 8, 2016 at 10:00 PM EST.

Tutorials
June 22-- Tin Foil Tags by Gail
June 24-- Scrapbook Layout by Sandy

Let's get started !!

Here's the Design Team

Bonnie
Gail

 Karen
Kren
Lois  
MariLynn

Pam
Sandy 

Shirley

Toni

Vickie

MFP Stamp Shop 

Enjoy the Hop. Come back each day. We hope to inspire you to start your own Outdoor fun projects.  Get to work on the tutorials, show us what you made by July 8th and 
check back on July 9, 2016 to see if you are a winner.  

With yesterday being the first day of summer, my thoughts turned to summers when I was a little girl. What stood out to me the most was my mother's garden. She loves growing flowers. So I decided to make a garden card using Chrysanthemum Stamp Set.

I made a mosaic background. I stamped the mum with versamark and ep and heat embossed.. I also ran it through my cuttlebug to dry emboss. I stamped the mum on white cardstock and water colored it. I then fussy cut it out. Thanks for looking and leaving a comment.

K-cup holder

I made this coffee tag, You can see how I made it on THIS POST.

 I thought that I need to make a project to put the tag on. I decided to make a K cup holder.

Front view of the holder

Top view of box.

Make sure you check out all the coffee themed projects for the Coffee Lovers Summer Blog Hop.

Coffee Lovers Summer blog hop mixed media tag

Today is the start of the Summer Coffee Loving Papercrafters Blog Hop.

STAMPlorations is one of the sponsors of the hop.

 I used STAMPlorations, MINI MIXED MEDIA BACKGROUNDS CLEAR STAMP

to make this floral coffee tag.

This is also for the Mix-ABILITY Challenge on SCS to make a layered floral mixed media tag.

Here are some photos showing how I made it.

I started by taking a Kraft tag and gluing scraps of different dp. Then I stamped the music notes from STAMPlorations.

 I sent the tag through my cuttlebug with my script embossing folder.

I went over the embossing with gold metallic rub

I cut a coffee cup out of floral paper. I used versamark and UTEE to make it look like glass. I curved it over my finger so that when it cooled it had a slight curve. I added punched circles to glue the cup to the tag.  I added cheesecloth and lace to the tag.

I added quilled roses. 

I knew it needed a bow. I used the ribbon that I won from Diana Larson last hop. It was perfect.

Love

This weekend my daughter is getting married. My family will not only be celebrating this new love, but we will also be celebrating the long love of my parents and my in laws. 

My parents had their golden anniversary:  50 years.

So I added a lot of gold to this card with metallic gold rub. as well as gold netting ribbon.

My in laws had their diamond anniversary: 60 years.

I added diamond glitter and rhinestones, to this card to look like diamonds.

When my husband and I got married 25 years ago, We honored our parents, then married 25 and 35 and my grandparents married 50. I pray that my daughter and her future husband have a long life of love together.

Birthday card in blues

I made this card on Tuesday for the SCS -CC586  color challenge 

  

 

and for the MOJO Monday Sketch 451 challenge.

 

I did watercoloring lifting using the markers that matched the colors. I ink spray smashed the colors onto a piece of white cardstock. 

Then I used STAMPLORATIONS mini mixed media background stamp 

embossed with clear embossing powder. Then I lifted some of the color up.  I dry embossed with a script folder and rubbed with gold metallic rub. I used gold glitter glue for the butterfly trail and glamour dust glitter for the center of the flower. 

A note of encouragement for Grace

The mix-Ability challenge for SCS this week is to do scratch art. Where you laydown color using crayons or pastels and cover it with a dark paint and then scratch some of the paint away to reveal the colors underneath. I used pastels in blues and greens. Once I had completely covered the caredstock, I painted it with black acrylic paint. Once the paint was dry I embossed it with a music notes embossing folder and my cuttlebug. I then took sandpaper to scratch the paint off. 

I added crimped tissue paper and cheesecloth for texture. I wanted my die cut bird and music note to stand out, so I put them on a scrap that I had left over from last week's mix challenge. After I had glued the bird and music note down, I splattered the whole card with white acrylic paint. I added a little golden rhinestone for the birds eye. I hand lettered the sentiment. This card is going to my friend Grace who found out last night that there is problem with her pregnancy and that she has to be bedridden for the remainder of the time. He due date is in Dec. That is a long time to have to be put up especially since she has 3 small preschool children. Will you join me in saying prayers for God's protection and provision for this little baby?

My delicate shabby beautiful MESS

Today the TLC was a rerun of an old technique. It has been done as a tlc challenge 2 times before. That technique was FAUX cloisonne. TLC589

I used a uniform catalog. One of the things I remembered when I started working on this card was how flimsy the magazine paper is. I didn't want it to look cheap. I wanted it to have a little bit of firmness, so I glued it to a piece of cardstock. I wish I had used a glue stick because the white glue that I used left it a little warped. 

 I embossed a pretty piece of cardstock with Stamplorations mini mixed media backgrounds. I used the music notes.I ran the floral carstock through cuttlebug with script folder and rubbed gold metallic rub over raised areas. I was thinking that since I was already recyling on my card with the catalog that I would add cardboard. Of course what is a card without lace, ribbon, pearls, rhinestones, cheesecloth...? So I pulled all of that out of my embellishments boxes and I placed it all on the embossed floral cardstock. I took this photo and sent it to my friend Pam. I told her it looked like my embellishments had puked on my desk.

After a little bit of layering and adjusting, and changing out ribbons
I came up with this finished card.

 Here is a close up of the faux cloisonne butterfly. What I liked about my butterfly is having the cardstock underneath gave it a more elegant look, I think. When I first cut it out you could see the white cardstock so I rubbed gold metallic rub over the edges to give it a finished look.

When my card was all done, I sent a photo of it to a friend... who will remain anonymous. She said, and I quote. "That is delicate shabby beautiful mess." She had been voice texting and meant to say beautifulness. I thought it was funny because it did sort of start out as a mess that when put together gave a shabby beautiful vintage feel to my card. She felt bad about it. but it made me laugh and smile. And I love how my delicate shabby beautiful MESS turned out.

Lifting up a song- mix-Ability card

My card that I'm sharing today is for several challenges.
First for:
Pals Paper Arts Color Challenge PPA303, I love the colors in this challenge.

Second challenge:
Try it on Tuesday: I can Hear Music I used music notes for my little birds to sing.

The third challenge is :
Word art Wednesday 232-233

The fourth challenge is the MIX-ABILITY challenge on Splitcoast stampers. I am the hostess this week. My friend Maxine shared a card using this technique last month and you can see it HERE.

When I saw it I knew I was going to use Jennifer Mcguire's Watercoloring Lifting Heat Embossing

Here is what my watercolor wash looked like when it dried. 

I stamped the music notes with versamark and clear embossing powder. Then I lifted the color up. I then stamped the birds and grass, with  black stazon. The black didn't completely fill in because the paper was a little warped. I thought about filling it in with a sharpie marker, but then I decided to color it in with blue and green. I added green to the grass as well.

I added white acrylic paint drops and lines to the grass.

 I sprayed gold shimmer paint on panel. I splattered white acrylic paint with a toothbrush. I also added glamour dust to the flowers.

I added cheesecloth and brads to finish off my card. 

Stamps I used on this card:
CAS-ual Fridays Stamps -LOVE NOTES

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps: NATURE SILHOUETTES CLEAR STAMP SET

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps: NATURE SILHOUETTES 2 CLEAR STAMP SET

Grazie, Jevous remercie, thank you

On Saturday, I joined my daughters and friends for my daughter Kristina's bachelorette party. We started out by doing a painting class at The Lost Canvas, (719 Main Street Keokuk, IA). We painted love birds in a cage. When we were done there was more that I had wanted to do to my canvas. I thought about just changing the canvas, but decided to leave it how it was when we finished class because it was part of a memory. I did however decide to make a mixed media card with similar design as a thank you card for Ginny, our teacher for the evening.  I added embossed polka dots in the corner for this weeks Dragonfly Journeys POLKA DOT challenge.

 Today when my friend Pam and I saw the colors for the color challenge on splitcoast CC585 we decided to challenge eachother. We challenged eachother to make a card with a bird cage, inka gold metallic rub, cheesecloth and the colors. I really tried, but ended up with the card you just saw. I just couldn't make the colors work. So I decided to give it a second try.

 This photo shows the colors and the papers that I pulled from my stash to make my second card for today.

 As I started working on my card I decided to make two of the colors into the Italian flag. I drew another birdcage. I added music notes from stamplorations mini mixed media set. I added quilled roses using the colors.

 

I hand lettered it to say "Grazie per il mervaiglioso pasto!" Which translated from Italian says

Thank you for the wonderful meal.

 

This card is going to be going to the staff at La Tavola Italian Eatery (316 N. 4th St. Burlington, IA). After we did the painting class, we jumped into our cars and drove up to Burlington IA to eat at a marvelous restaurant, La Travola Italian Eatery. Because the painting class took longer than we had planned for, we were running late for dinner. We ended up getting to the restaurant 10 mins before the kitchen closed, with a party of 10. If it had been me working, I would have been irritated and frustrated. I am sure the staff felt that way too, but you never would know it from the service that we had. Our waitress Molly, didn't even sigh or roll her eyes when waiting on us. The food was fantastic and I will definitely go there again. Service like we got was outstanding and I think needs a thank you card letting them know.

MFP Wild West Blog Hop - Boots Burlap and Lace

WELCOME  
TO MFP STAMP SHOP

The Wild Wild West
 BLOG HOP
Ride em Cow Boys!!
and Girls!

JOIN US EACH DAY, May 24-27 FOR SOME RIDING HORSES 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 May 27th 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 WESTERNED THEMED 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 May 27 post. The winners will be announced on June 11, 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 June 10, 2016 at 10:00 PM EST.

Tutorials
May 25-- Faux Wood Technique by Marilynn
May 27-- Technique by Sandy

Let's get started !!

Here's the Design Team

Gail

 Karen
Kren
Lois  
MariLynn

Pat
Pam
Sandy 

Shirley

Toni

Vickie

MFP Stamp Shop 

Enjoy the Hop. Come back each day. We hope to inspire you to start your own Cowboy Fun projects.  Get to work on the tutorials, show us what you made by June 10th and 
check back on June 11, 2016 to see if you are a winner. 


I used Cowgirls Rule stamp set.
I was thinking about writing a WILD WESTERN song.

"la la la Boots Burlap and Lace...
I am more than just a pretty face.
I am strong and tough with a bit of grace.
I have a place in this world no one can replace... la la la"

What do you think?
It might need a little more work.
Here is my card featuring Boots, burlap and lace.
 

Relax MIX-ability card

The MIX-ability challenge this week is to take text paper, and make a beach themed card to welcome summer.(Bonus points if Shabby) 

I decided to use a page from an old hymnal. I stamped the beach scene

circles and flowers. I  watercolored it. I knew I wanted to add cheese cloth. This is how it looked. I thought it was a good start but as it is here I thought "BLAH"

 So I asked my friend Pam and she said maybe embossing or glitter or the word relax. I fSollowed her suggestions and love how it turned out. How do I attach burlap and cheesecloth? Can you see the staples? Staples hold it secure and I knew they were going to be covered up by the beach panel.

I stamped the palm tree 5 more times on white cardstock and fussy cut it out. I watercolored them and glued them together.

Here is a side view to show the tree's dimension.

I added texture paste for the beach. I added glue and glitter for the water. I added gold glitter glue to the sun and centers of the flowers.