Introducing...à la modes! Teaser, Day Two

To continue the fourth birthday celebration, MFT is launching a new line of stamps called à la modes! Here's what you need to know:

• à la modes will be available only in rubber
• Each set is produced in the USA using the highest quality rubber, with the deepest etch possible.
• Each image and sentiment is backed on cling foam and scroll cut, making it ready for stamping right out of the bag!
• Packaged in a clear hang bag, we've also provided the ideal storage solution by including a thick laminated header card in each set that can be used to store the stamp set, in its entirety after purchase.
• $10.95 for the 3 x 4" set.
• Previews continue today--be sure to check by Kim's blog, where you can see the full list of participants for today’s previews.
• Blog Hop and Shop will be tonight at 10pm--the blog hop will start at Kim's blog.

What do you think of that!? MFT has listened to the stampers who love rubber! These girls are seriously cute. Today I'm showing you the à la modes in Birthday Girl.

Looks like this girl is dressed to party, doesn't it? I stamped the image on a Perfect Paper Panel, colored her with Copic markers, and frosted her cupcake with some Liquid Applique. Other MFT products I used are Fossil card stock and Summer Glittered Garnishes.

Here's the inside of the card with another sentiment from the set, along with a border made with the recently released Open Scallop Border Die-namics die.




We're so excited about the this new line of stamps and hope you will be too! Hope to see you back tonight for the Hop and Shop!

~Supplies~
Stamps: à la modes in Birthday Girl (MFT)
Paper: Fossil card stock, Perfect Paper Panels (MFT); Groovy Guava (SU!); The All About Girls Stack (DCWV)
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa
Accessories/tools: Cuttlebug (Provocraft); Open Scallop Border Die-namics die, Summer Glittered Garnishes (MFT); Petite Oval Nestabilities (Spellbinders); ribbon, Pop Dots (craft store); sewing machine

Miracles

WOW!!! Did everybody have a great time at the CTD 100 celebration?! I know we did!! Thanks so much for all the participation and the wonderful comments--we were just blown away by the response! We had some awesome prizes and will be announcing the winners on Friday, July 16 on the Throwdown blog. And we appreciate all those prizes donated by all those fantastic companies/individual so very much!

So, are you all fired up and ready for a new challenge to help us start our second 100 challenges? Our newest team member, Laura, chose these colors and I love 'em!!!

I decided to do a little CAS with this card because it's my CAS-tastic Wednesday card, too. The challenge is S-I-M-P-L-E--use at least three of these techniques/items on your project: Stamped image, Inked edges, Masking, Piercing, Lace, and Embossing. Fun stuff, huh? I used four on my card: Stamped image, Inked edges, Piercing, and Embossing. Actually, I used two kinds of embossing--does that count twice? ;-)



I'm using Taylor's Sketch #120 for my layout and her stamp set called Faith and Hope. First I dry embossed the top Kraft layer with my Leafy Branch Cuttlebug embossing folder then I stamped the swirly images on PTI Rustic Cream with Versamark and heat embossed with clear detail embossing powder. Then I sponged over top of that with my Kiwi Kiss and Baja Breeze ink, leaving the embossed areas showing. I love this technique! The rest is just following the layout, with a little paper piercing on the sentiment panel. Finally, I made a rolled flower from MFT felt using the Rolled Flower Die-namics die and a couple of leaves with Kiwi Kiss/Vanilla satin ribbon.

Remember, you do not have to have the exact colors to play. If you don't, just use the closest you have. So, c'mon over to the Color Throwdown blog and play along with us this week. Please use the link service to post your card and please link directly to your card so we can find it easily. And please include a link in your post to the Color Throwdown. If you upload your card to a public forum, please use the keyword CTD101 so we can see your beauty all in one place. Hope to see you there! Be sure to check out what the other team members have come up with this week!

Broni Holcombe--Splashes of Watercolor
Danielle Kennedy--Wild Dragonfly Designs
LeAnne Pugliese--Wee Inklings
Tammy Hershberger--Stamp Happy
Kristin Beuter--Mindless Creativity--on leave for several weeks
Laura Pryor - Lil' Inker Designs
Makiko Jones - MakInk Studio

And, I hope you'll play along with the CAS-tastic Challenge this week, and don't forget to check out my team mates' creations :)

Agata
Angie (Creator)
Bonnie Rose
Deb
Karen
Maylee
Regina

Thanks so much for stopping by!

~Supplies~
Stamps: Faith and Hope (Taylored Expressions)
Paper: Basic Black, Kraft (SU!); Rustic Cream (PTI)
Ink: Versamark, Versafine Vintage Sepia; Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss (SU!); Antique Linen Distress Ink (Ranger)
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Leafy Brance embossing folder (Provocraft); Classic Square and Scalloped Nestabilities (Spellbinders); Rolled Flower Die-namics Die, felt (MFT); ribbon (SU!); Clear Detail embossing powder (Judikins); heat tool

Introducing...à la modes Teaser, Day One

To continue the fourth birthday celebration, MFT is launching a new line of stamps called à la modes! Here's what you need to know:

• à la modes will be available only in rubber
• Each set is produced in the USA using the highest quality rubber, with the deepest etch possible.
• Each image and sentiment is backed on cling foam and scroll cut, making it ready for stamping right out of the bag!
• Packaged in a clear hang bag, we've also provided the ideal storage solution by including a thick laminated header card in each set that can be used to store the stamp set, in its entirety after purchase.
• $10.95 for the 3 x 4" set.
• There will be previews today and tomorrow--be sure to check by Kim's blog each day, where you can see the full list of participants for that day’s previews.
• Blog Hop and Shop will be July 14th at 10pm--the blog hop will start at Kim's blog.

What do you think of that!? MFT has listened to the stampers who love rubber! These girls are seriously cute. Today I'm showing you the à la modes in Picture Perfect.




I thought some photo mounts punched out of patterned paper would be a cute way to mount this image :) The image is stamped on a Perfect Paper Panel with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copic markers--except her skirt, which was paper pieced. And I used the new Rolled Flower Die-namics die for an embellishment.

Here's the inside of the card with another sentiment from the set, using the die from the new Framed Greetings Stamp Set and Die, along with a border made with the recently released Open Scallop Border Die-namics die. Other MFT products I used are Sweet Tooth and Gumdrop Green card stock.


Thanks for stopping by! Don't forget to check out what the other DT members have to show you today!

~Supplies~
Stamps: a la modes in Picture Perfect (MFT)
Paper: Sweet Tooth and Gumdrop Green card stock, Perfect Paper Panels (MFT); Olivia 6 x 6 pad (Basis Grey)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories/tools: Cuttlebug (Provocraft); Rolled Flower, Framed Greetings, and Open Scallop Border Die-namics dies (MFT); photo mount and leaf punches (Martha Stewart); Copic markers; Prima flower

In all things of nature...FTTC#75

It's time for Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge (FTTC75)! This week Betty Wright is our challenge host. Betty is challenging us to use felt! Felt is everywhere right now in the crafting world. It is easier to use than ever with all of the wonderful die cuts available. You can create flowers, borders, accents, and so much more! We would love to see what you create using felt!

I think I've mentioned that I love sentiment stamps. Maybe once. Or twice. Anyway, I'm loving the sentiments in this set by Flourishes, called Life Lines. Isn't that font gorgeous!? Since I wanted it to definitely be the focal image, I kept my layout simple and used my paper and embellishments to complement the theme--nature. The patterned paper is from a Memory Box collection called Jubilee, and the sentiment and card base are Classic White card stock. I cut my felt flower out with my Dahlia Nestabilities dies and did a little sewing on them--they looked a little blah just stacked up. I hand cut the leaves from more felt and added a sweet little button for the center. A strip of pleated and stitched ribbon and some Basic Grey pearls finished it off.

Thanks for stopping by! Be sure to go see what my team mates are doing with felt today! I hope you'll play along with us!

• Betty Wright - Team Coordinator
• Cindy Haffner
• Dee Jackson
• Makiko Jones
• Silke Ledlow

~Supplies~
Stamps: Life Lines (Flourishes)
Paper: Classic White (Flourishes); Simply Chartreuse (PTI); Jubilee 6 x 6 pack (Memory Box)
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa
Accessories/tools: Cuttlebug (Provocraft); Labels Ten Nestabilities (Spellbinders); ribbon (SU!); pearls (Basic Grey); felt, button (MFT); sewing machine; Pop Dots

Absolutely Fabulous

Wow, this card came to me in a flash and went together just as fast! This Prima flourish looks like it was made for Basic Grey's Cappella paper. Not much to say about this card's construction: layers, bling, sentiment ;-) The sentiment is from PTI's Mega Mixed Messages and was stamped on patterned paper with Memento Rich Cocoa, then punched out and layered on a piece of Mellow Moss cut/embossed with a Label's Ten Nestabilities die. With this paper, and that bling, nothing much else was needed except the sentiment. I'm liking it.

Thanks for stopping by! Look for my FTTC card bright and early tomorrow!

~Supplies~
Stamps: Mega Mixed Messages (PTI)
Paper: Blush Blossom, Mellow Moss (SU!); Cappella 6 x 6 pad (Basic Grey)
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa; Antique Linen Distress Ink (Ranger)
Accessories: Cuttlebug (Provocraft); Labels Ten Nestabilities (Spellbinders); bling (Prima); medium punch (SU!); foam squares (craft store)