An inspired by challenge

 Today I have a new make I did for the Whimsy Stamps world card making day "Inspired by Challenge". I was inspired by Sue Hastead's card. Love the layout and how she has the girl looking through the heart. I attempted to make something similar with the Elephant and butterflies stamp from whimsy stamps.

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I colored the background with Daniel Smith watercolors and the elephant and grass is colored with copics. I placed the background into a pouch to turn it into an infinity shaker card.

I hope you enjoyed this card I'm entering it into the whimsy stamps inspired by challenge and Simon Says Stamps "anything goes challenge"

Love is in the air

 Hi crafty friends! Well here I am again entering my last card for MFT Card Design Superstar. I wasn't intending on entering the color virtuoso challenge after seeing all the spectacular entries. I don't think I stand a chance in that category. However I still wanted to complete this card because the idea was still in my head and I love to watercolor. As you can see from my entry I'm no expert, I'm barely a beginner at best, but I do enjoy it. I hate to have this card just sitting here and not putting in something in each category so I'm gonna give it a go!

Materials used:

MFT - Lets Stick Together

I used Daniel Smith watercolors to paint up this scene. Thanks for stopping by!

Yeti for Christmas!

 Hi crafty friends! I'm back with my next creation for MFT's Card Design Superstar. Today I decided to work on innovation master. Last year I entered with a chibi lights card and once again I'm back to the chibi lights, I have no idea why since they are kind of a pain to work with, atleast for me they are! So I had this idea to use the MFT dienamics meet in the middle to activate the chibi lights instead of the regular pressing down. I also wanted to make a couple of presents move to make it look as though my yeti was bursting through the gifts (not sure if I achieved that look.lol). So below you'll find a little on my process.

Materials used

MFT - Beast Friends, Jingle all the way (presents)

MFT - Meet in the middle, Starry circle

chibi lights, copper tape

While assembling this card I decided that the my pull tab would be going up instead of the bottom of the card because I wanted the presents to pull away from my yeti not towards him.

I put the copper tape around my pull tab at where I wanted it to stop on the card to make the connections for the lights. I then used score tape to adhere my battery to the top of that copper line, and put together my circuit. While testing it I ran into some problems, it wasn't making a strong enough contact between the pull tab and the circuit.  First I tried layering the copper tape to lift it higher so that it would touch the pull tab better, this didn't help. 

I solved this by placing my broken earth magnet to the back so when the battery runs over the magnet pulls it towards it making a stronger connection.

Colored with copic markers, and distress oxides for the background sky. Adding the chibi lights caused a lot of dimension in this card. I'll have to head to the store for more foam tape! Over all I'm super happy that I was able to accomplish my idea and really love they way this card turned out, hope you enjoyed it to! Here's a short video of it in action.

If you can't view this video here it's also available on my instagram @verlassen75

CAS card

 Wow! looks like I haven't posted anything on this blog for exactly one year, for the same reason, to enter MFT's Superstar Card challenge! Well here's hoping for the best this year. Today's post is for the Clean & Simple challenge. 

Materials used:

MFT - Hog Heaven

MFT - St Tri Peek-a-boo win, Stitched Sentiment Strips, Tag builder BP5 dienamics

MFT - cloud edges

I colored this with copic markers and used some prisma colored pencils to add a bit of details to my little piggy. Thanks for stopping by!

A really really big card!

Hello crafty friends, today I'm posting my last entry into the MFT 2019 Card Superstar challenge!
Other then the sentiment this is a one layer card. I wanted to create this scene without shoving my characters to close together resulting in one huge card! Hope you like it.

This was colored with copic markers and the sky was done with my copic airbrush.

Materials used : MFT Magical Dragons

MFT Stitched Sentiment Strips
MFT Trees in the forest

Wink of Stella clear

The red dragon looks speckled in this picture because he's layered with wink of stella! All of the dragons are layered with wink of stella because their magical, for some reason with my lighting in the PNW  it only showed up in that picture on the red dragon.lol

As you can see a lot of masking went on in the making of this. Thanks for stopping by!

I would like to enter this into the MFT 2019 Card Design Superstar: Coloring Virtuoso

Interactive Christmas card

Hi crafty friends I'm back again with another card for MFT's superstar contest! My make today is for the innovation master.  So for my make there's a lot of different things that went into it including chibi lights! I've also included some photo's below of my process and even a boo boo.

Looks pretty ordinary huh? Doesn't seem very innovative, but wait........

Ok now that's a little something a light up card, still pretty plain though, but wait........

That's it! Hope you enjoyed it and found it at least a little innovative.  Below are some photos of the process and a little accident I had!

Materials used:

MFT Santa's Elves (sentiment and ornaments)
MFT Well Connected Alphabet
MFT Lucky Dog
MFT Cool Cat
MFT Die-namics Home Sweet Home
MFT Die-namics Stitched Sentiment Strips
Chibi lights
Finnabair snowflake paste

And now for my mistake! While stamping the sentiment on the inside I didn't realize I had some ink on my fingers!

There's some ink by the bottom of the y and on the W!

Luckily I was able to mask this with some embellishments and a little bit of a white pen!

Thanks for stopping by!

I'd like to enter this into the MFT 2019 Card Design Superstar: Innovation Master

CAS card

Hello friends! I feel like its been a day and then some.  I've started to just post my makes only on instagram because I feel like its so much faster and easier. However today's make is for a few challenges, the biggest one being the superstar challenge!, so I felt it deserved some blog space.


Today's make is for the Clean and Simple challenge. I wanted to keep it with a black and white kind of look with a tad bit of color on the inside.

Materials used

MFT  Harvest buddies

Copic markers (some from every gray family)

Pretty Pink Posh mini stars and charcoal sequins

The sentiment is from the same stamp set, I just cut it in pieces.

The inside acorns were colored with colored pencils so it wouldn't seep through the back of my card.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges

MFT 2019 Card design Superstar: Clean and Simple Genius

SSS Monday Challenge: Stamp It

SSS Wednesday Challenge: Bling It On

Thanks for stopping by I hope you enjoyed this make!