November VIP Blog Hop - Teacher's Pet

It's MFT VIP Hop time! If you got here from Sherrie's blog you're good, if not, hop on over to Kim's blog 'cause that's the starting line. This month is all about teachers. It is a ONE DAY ONLY product (will be available through October 20th at 11:59 PM EST), that gives you the opportunity to purchase the WTG set TWO WEEKS early. The mini set that is included in the VIP kit for free will be EXCLUSIVE to the VIP kit and will never be available for purchase. Here's what's in this month's VIP package:

Awesome, or WHAT!? This set is so much fun! And don't forget that the two à la modes: It Must Be Love and What's Cooking?, that were previewed yesterday and today, will be fully released tonight, as well! SO much goodness in one place!

I'm using the Crate Paper School Spirit paper on my project--it's just PERFECT, don't you think?? I stamped WTG on a Perfect Paper Panel with Memento Rich Cocoa ink and mostly paper pieced her, finishing up with some Copic coloring. I love that little grade card element--it's from a piece of the patterned paper :) With that amazing image and that great paper, not much more was needed. I did some distressing, some machine stitching, and some embellishing and it was done. I can see LOTS of uses for this new WTG, can't you? Other MFT products I used are Fossil and one of the newest additions, Blu Raspberrry cards stock.

Here's the inside:

LOVE that little touch of red :) All of the sentiments on my card are from the Teacher's Pet Sentiments mini set, and Teacher's Pet has some fabulous sentiments, too.

Now, you'll want to head on over to the amazing Melody's blog to see what she has on the books for you (I know, GROAN!).

Thanks for stopping by, and happy shopping!

~Supplies~
Stamps: Teacher's Pet, Teacher's Pet Sentiments (MFT)
Paper: Fossil, Blu Raspberry card stock, Perfect Paper Panels (MFT); School Spirit 6 x 6 pad (Crate Paper)
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa; Antique Linen Distress Ink (Ranger)
Accessories: paper clip, distressing tool (Tim Holtz); sewing machine; twill; button, twine (PTI); Copic markers; Cuttlebug (Provocraft); Tag Trio (Spellbinders)

MFT's Greatest Hits - Girl's Night Out

The DT decided it would be great fun to have a hop that would introduce new MFT fans to some sets they might not be aware of, or that might have been forgotten about. I chose Girl's Night Out for my set.


In a couple of weeks I'm going to a Victorian Tea Room for luncheon with my Red Hat girls. My visions of that tea room are what inspired this card. I wanted it to be very girlie and elegant. And white. So, after I'd chosen my colors I stamped the image on a Perfect Paper Panel, on the background patterned paper, and the two dress papers. Then I did a little coloring with Copic markers, cut out the girls, paper pieced the dresses, and adhered the girls to the background paper. That saved me the tedious task of paper piecing the background, plus added a little dimension. The white in the patterned paper is not quite white and not quite ivory, so I started looking for something in between. SU!'s Shimmery White card stock was perfect, and the shimmer added to the elegant feel of the card, too. I think the card construction is pretty easy: lots of layers, embossing, and punching. Silk ribbon, silk flowers, and pearls. And wispy leaves punched from patterned paper.

Here's the inside. If you click on it to enlarge it you can see some of the shimmer, I think, and I added more with a Sakura glitter pen on the wine glasses here and on the outside of the card.


If this tea room doesn't live up to my expectations I'm gonna be so bummed, LOL! If that's the case, maybe I'll do a card inspired by the reality ;-) So, do you want to see what the other girls have come up with? Then be at Kim's blog after 11:00am this morning for the link list. I can't *wait* to see what they've done!

Thanks for stopping by today!

~Supplies~
Stamps: Girls Night Out (MFT)
Paper: Shimmer White, Almost Amethyst (SU!); Perfect Paper Panels (MFT); Frond 6 x 6 pack (Memory Box)
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Victorian embossing folder (Provocraft); Curved Rectangle Nestabilities (Spellbinders); 3M foam squares, Pop Dots, silk roses, pearls (craft store); border punch, leaf punch (Martha Stewart); Curly Label punch (SU!)

Who's That Birthday Girl - My Favorite Things Teaser Day Five

[If you're looking for my Color Throwdown card, please scroll down to the next post. Thanks!]

Here we are at the last day of teasers for My Favorite Things' March release! Are you lovin' what you've seen? Oh, yeah, I thought so :) Today I have this month's Who's That Girl and she's been in the kitchen again, LOL. This time she whipped up a big ol' birthday cake!

Years ago, I took a cake decorating class and actually made lots of cakes for fun and profit. I loved doing wedding and tiered birthday cakes, so I decided to decorate this one up with some tiny flowers and pearls. I stamped the image on a Perfect Paper Panel with Memento Rich Cocoa ink and did a little coloring with Copic markers, but WTG's dress and the cake are paper pieced--I think the rest is pretty obvious.

Here's the inside:

To see more DT offerings, be sure to hit Kim's blog at 11:00am today. She'll have links to everyone with something to share :) And don't forget: the release party is TONIGHT from 8:00pm to 10:00pm in the MFT Company Forum over at SCS where there'll be more teasers and games and prizes, and chatter, and...and...and FUN!!! Then the Shop and Hop starts at 10:00pm. Don't miss it!

Thanks for dropping in today--hope to see you tonight!

~Supplies~
Stamps: Birthday Girl (MFT)
Paper: Whisper White, Pale Plum, Certainly Celery (SU!); Perfect Paper Panel (MFT); Gossamer 6 x 6 pack (Memory Box)
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa
Accessories: Cuttlebug (Provocraft); Classic Oval and Scalloped Nestabilities (Spellbinders); 3M foam squares, Moire' ribbon, Pearl cotton, flat-backed pearls (craft store); Copic markers; Prima flowers, Vintage buttons (PTI)

My Favorite Things Teaser - Day Five

[If you're looking for my Color Throwdown card, please scroll down to the next post. Thanks!]

Hope you're liking all the goodness you've been seeing the last few days :) We're sure having fun showing you, LOL! Today My Favorite Things is sneaking peeks of the new Who's That Girl set: Chick Flick. You may have seen it back in December as the VIP offering. It's just fantastic!! AND, we also have sneaks of another set in the Clearly Sentimental Line: Clearly Sentimental About Emerson. I LOVE sentiments and this one has some fantastic ones!

First, for my Chick Flick project, I decided to make a little DVD tin giftie for a friend. She'll get a huge kick out of the sentiment ;-) I'm still trying to decide what movie to include--any suggestions?

I'm using Taylor's Sketch, flipped, for my layout. And I'm using my quickly dwindling supply of Chloe's Closet patterned paper. I've been hoarding it :) I stamped the image on a Perfect Paper Panel and colored with Copic markers and paper pieced. I just can't seem to *not* paper piece WTG, LOL!

For the sentiment, I stamped two of the ticket images and cut off the full ticket part before stamping the sentiment on them, then popped them up on foam squares. I added Blue Bayou double stitched ribbon and a button from the Chloe's Closet collection tied on with twine.

For my Clearly Sentimental About Emerson card, I went simple--sort of ;-)

I love this sentiment, don't you? And I thought nothing would be better with it than some stars! First I made my stars--the patterned paper was made by stamping my In the Background stamp on Kraft paper with Versafine Onyx Black ink. The other layers were made with my star Nesties and layered. After I decided exactly where I wanted to put them, I added the jewel swirls, the center element, and then the stars, popped up on 3M foam squares. I cut the sentiment out with a Spellbinders label die and rounded the corners of the black layer with a corner rounder to match.

More of the same on the inside--with a different sentiment, but one which compliments the one on the front, I think.

I'm so glad you stopped by today! Don't forget to head on over to Kim's blog at about 11:00am EST today and see the line up of the DT members sneaking peeks of the new sets. I can't wait to see what they've got! And remember the festivities tomorrow night, January 6: 8-10pm EST release party at the Member Company Forum on SCS followed by Hop and Shop at 10:00pm EST. See you there!

~Chick Flick Recipe~
Stamps: Chick Flick (MFT)
Paper: Very Vanilla, Dusty Durango, Blue Bayou (SU!); Chloe's Closet 6 x 6 pad (Making Memories); Perfect Paper Panels (MFT)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Swiss Dot embossing folder (Provocraft); Classic Circle Nestabilities (Spellbinder); 3M foam squares (craft store); Copic markers; ribbon (SU!); Vintage twine (PTI); DVD tin (MFT)

~Clearly Sentimental Recipe~
Stamps: Clearly Sentimental About Emerson, In the Background (MFT)
Paper: Basic Black (SU!); Kraft (PTI)
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Accessories: Cuttlebug (Provocraft); Star Nestabilities, Label Trio (Spellbinder); black crystal swirls (craft store); border punch (Martha Stewart)

My Favorite Things December Blog Hop

Welcome to my stop on My Favorite Things' December Blog Hop! If you didn't get here from Bonnie's blog, you've missed a ton of goodness along the way. So head on over to Kim's blog to start at the beginning and work your way back here. If you did get here from Bonnie's, you're in the right place.

Did I mention before that I hate to vacuum? Maybe I did. Once. Or twice. Because. I. Hate. To. Vacuum. REALLY hate it. And I really appreciate that my my sweet husband does all the vacuuming at our house. But he's retired and does lots of other things around the house, too. And he keeps lists. Lists on scraps of paper, lists on pads of paper. Lists everywhere. So, I thought I'd use this new Who's That Girl release called Maid For WTG to alter a little book of lined paper on which he can keep ALL his lists. In one place. Neatly :)

I got this book at Michaels in the dollar bin (love that place, LOL!) and used Cosmo Cricket's The Boyfriend (appropriate, no?) paper to alter it and for the matching card. Here's the set:

My husband came in when I was working on it and asked what I was making. So, I told him, and all he had to say was, "Don't make it look girlie." I had to laugh! OK, so there's a bow on it but it's made with twill--manly enough, don't you think? I also used my Herringbone embossing folder for the strip of vanilla card stock under the twill. Can't get much more manly than herringbone, can you? I stamped the images on a Cream Perfect Paper Panel with Memento Rich Cocoa ink, and colored it with Copic markers, along with a little paper piecing.

Here's a close-up of the book:

Here's a close-up of the card:

And, lest you think it's all work and no play for John, the card is actually a gift card holder, complete with a gift card to his favorite book store, so he can...

...after a hard day of vacuuming ;-)

Thanks for stopping by! Now, hop on over to my wickedly talented friend Kelli's blog. I'm sure she's got something fabulous to show you!

I know I'm forgetting something...now what is it? OH! There's blog candy waiting somewhere along the way ;-) You might want to be sure and leave a comment on each DT member's blog to be sure you'll get a chance to win :)

~Recipe~
Stamps: Maid For WTG (MFT)
Paper: Very Vanilla, Always Artichoke, Ruby Red (SU!); The Boyfriend Mini Deck (Cosmo Cricket); Cream Perfect Paper Panels (MFT)
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa
Accessories: 3M foam squares, Pop Dots, twill ribbon, antique pewter brads (craft store); Cuttlebug, Herringbone embossing folder (Provo Craft); Copic markers

My Mr. Right - MFT December Teaser Day Five

[If you're looking for my Color Throwdown card, please scroll down to the next post. Thanks!]

I have the final sneak peek for this month's My Favorite Thing's release: my favorite girl, Who's That Girl. You saw her here a couple of weeks ago when she was available in the VIP package. Tonight you'll be able to get her if you missed out then.

I might have mentioned then that I hate to vacuum. I still do. My sweet husband still does the vacuuming and this card says it all. Any man that will vacuum for me is my Mr. Right.

I stamped the image on a Perfect Paper Panel with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and paper pieced and colored with Copic markers. The rest is pretty simple, but I do want to point out that my "ribbon" is really a piece of Ultra Suede fabric that I found in my stash. I used to sew a lot and when I got rid of a lot of fabric I kept all these scraps. That stuff is expensive, you know, LOL! Anyway, I thought of the suede ribbon I'd been seeing and wondered if the US would work. So I cut a strip to try and it worked beautifully! Manly ribbon, too, doncha know ;-)

MFT DT members (both full-time and guests for December) will be showing you more ways to use this set, so head on over to Kim's blog to see the line up--she'll have the list up at 11:00am EST. Be sure to check them out--I can't wait to see all the ideas everyone comes up with for this set!

Thanks for stopping by today...don't forget the blog hop tonight, also starting at Kim's blog at 10pm EST. There will be much fabulousness--you will not want to miss it!

~Recipe~
Stamps: Maid For WTG (MFT)
Paper: Very Vanilla, Basic Gray, Kiwi Kiss (SU!); Lotus Mat Pack (K & Co.); Perfect Paper Panel (MFT)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: 3M foam squares, pewter brads (craft store); Copic markers; Vintage Buttons and twine (PTI); Ultra Suede fabric (stash); sentiment punches (SU!)

Time to Splurge

The girls over at the MFT forum on Splitcoast are shaking things up a bit. Now, both weekly challenges (sketch and My Favorite Challenge, which is taking the place of the Who's That Girl challenge) will be posted on the same thread. Every Thursday a new thread will be started with the challenges, and this is where we meet and chat throughout the coming week. You can read all about it here. Today I'm showing you my card for this week's sketch challenge. Here's the sketch:


My base card is Very Vanilla with layers (gotta have layers!) of Basic Black, Pretty In Pink, and DP from the Sabrina 6 x 6 pad from Making Memories. The next element is more of the same. To follow the sketch, I added some 5/8" satin ribbon tabs accented with buttons from the Sabrina collection, tied on with Perle cotton and then popped the entire element up on 3M foam squares. The focal image, from the Girls Day In set was stamped on DP with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and totally paper pieced on top of the DP. The areas that were colored were stamped on a MFT Perfect Paper Panel with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copic markes (see below). It was matted with Pretty In Pink and Basic Black and is also up on foam squares. The sentiment was stamped on Very Vanilla with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and cut/embossed with a Nestabilities Label Four die, then popped up on some Prima flowers. Some black faceted jewels finish it off.

We hope you come on over to the forum, join in the challenges and chat with us. The challenges have prize money attached, so come on over and give them a try :)

I'm so glad you stopped by today!

~Recipe~
Stamps: Girls' Day In (MFT)
Paper: Very Vanilla, Basic Black, Pretty In Pink (SU!); Sabrina 6 x 6 pad (Making Memories); Perfect Paper Panel (MFT)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Cuttlebug/Nestabilities Label Four; 3M foam squares, ribbon, Perle cotton, faceted jewels (craft store); Copic markers; Prima flowers

Feel better soon!

This card is for My Favorite Things' Who's That Girl Challenge 22. The challenge was to use the Can You Dig It? set and add some ribbon and three flowers. I don't have that set so I used Bunny Slippers instead. I figured if you're sick you can use some flowers to cheer you up! This card is using Jen del Muro's Sketch For You To Try for this week, too, although I had to flip it to accommodate this image.

My base card is Whisper White with layers of DP from Basic Grey's Two Scoops 6 x 6 pad with some retired Wild Wasabi double stitched ribbon as the first element. The next element is more DP with ribbon tabs that follow the sketch and is popped up on 3M foam squares. The focal image was stamped on Solar White card stock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and is, for the most part, paper pieced. What wasn't paper pieced was colored with Copic markers (see below for the colors I used) and is up on foam squares. The sentiment was stamped directly on the base card with brad and paper piercing accents. Three Primas were attached with another brad and another foam square.

Thanks for dropping by!

~Recipe~
Stamps: Bunny Slippers (MFT)
Paper: Whisper White (SU!); Solar White (PTI); Two Scoops 6 x 6 pad (Basic Grey)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: 3M foam squares, brads (craft store); Prima flowers; Wild Wasabi double stitched ribbon (SU!)