Pink Fresh Floral card

This card came together right away, however I refused to stick it all down thinking that it wasn’t quite right. But I finally felt ok with it and stuck it down exactly how I had planned it all along. How crazy is that?!

I used the Pink Fresh inks for the first time (I treated myself while at a local scrapbooking store). What amazing inks these are! The background heart paper came from my Let’s Stay Home paper pad and that sentiment strip came from the ephemera pack. 

I know exactly who I will be sending this card too. 

I will be entering this in the following challenge 

https://www.pinkfreshstudio.com/blogs/card-making-challenges/august-2020-challenge

Pink Fresh Rainbow floral layout

I had a chance to play in my craft area tonight and this was the layout I came up with. 

I just had to document one of our many trips to the nursing home to see our 105 year old grandmother who (pre Covid) we use to visit 2-3 times a week minimum. Now we are unable to visit until we are no longer a “community of concern”. One of the many amazing nurses snapped this photo from inside while we were visiting and sent it to me. Technology has definitely been a saving grace for us during this tough time. Lots of phone chats through the window. 

I used the collection Let’s Stay Home which I just recently was able to pick up from my local scrapbook store. I really enjoy this collection. I also cut some flowers from some of the papers as well. And for the first time ever I bought the ephemera packet that goes with this set. I have never bought those before - but after seeing everyone using them I decided to get it to give it a try. I am quite happy with how it all came together. 

My background is created using those gorgeous Pink Fresh Studio watercolours. 

I will be entering this in the following challenge 

https://www.pinkfreshstudio.com/blogs/card-making-challenges/august-2020-challenge

Pink Fresh Floral card 1

Today I am sharing a card that I created for the Pink Fresh August monthly challenge. Following the prompt of florals this was a card that I created using a free cut file found on the Pink Fresh Studio Fan Page on Facebook. Of course I enjoyed using those amazing Pink Fresh Studio Water colors to color the beautiful cut file. 

https://www.pinkfreshstudio.com/blogs/card-making-challenges/august-2020-challenge?comment=76023136316#comments

MFT Summer School Day 4: Ombré

Day 4’s homework assignment was all about ombré (which I love). I used the lovely sea foam type color and made this card super simple using just 1 strip of ribbon in the darkest shade and then the 3 sentiments using the MFT happy die.  I do have to say that whenever I get a freebie from MFT I find that it is an absolute treasure! The happy die was a free add on when I spent a certain amount and It is easily one of my go to sentiment dies! Love love love this die!

I also really like this gorgeous ribbon. It is so sparkly and glittery- I think it needs a close up.

So there you have it! I know that I did not post these homework assignments in the proper order but I did it and greatly enjoyed my week of homework to be able to say:

This card will be entered in the following challenge:

https://mftstamps.com/blogs/news/summer-school-2020-day-4

MFT Summer School Day 2: Rainbow

I decided to do something a bit different for this days homework assignment. I used the MFT floral die Fresh Cut Flowers to cut a bunch of the flowers (no stems) from the 7 rainbow colors ROYGBIV and then placed them on my card. I then cut some leaves to help balance things out and finish off the card. My son pointed out to me that there is no black in a rainbow. Sadly I do have to agree with him that in the photo the Indigo coloured flower does appear to look black - but honestly in person it looks much better.

I will be entering this the the following as my homework for day 2.

https://mftstamps.com/blogs/news/summer-school-2020-day-2

MFT Summer School Day 1: Visual Triangle

This was a fun card to create. I knew right away that I wanted to use the adorable stamp set Hop Flip and a Jump with those cute critters playing on a trampoline. Can you spot my triangle that I created with the 2 critters playing on the trampoline? I also created a triangle with my butterflies and also from the flower and the 2 leaves. When you look you can find and make triangles quite easily. I used my stencil from MFT to ink blend those clouds. I am very intrigued with the newest cloud stencils that MFT is releasing in just a few days - they are definitely on my wish list.

I will be entering this in the following challenge 

https://mftstamps.com/blogs/news/summer-school-2020-day-1

MFT Summer School Day 3: Symmetry card 2

 Here is a second card that I created using the lovely quilt die from MFT.

This card follows the MFT Day 3 of summer school which is using symmetry on a card. 

This quilt die is so much fun to use to create.

I will be entering this in the following challenge:

https://mftstamps.com/blogs/news/summer-school-2020-day-3

MFT Summer School Day 5: White Space card 2

Here is a second card that I created using the beautiful lily die from MFT. It follows the school homework for Day 5 which is the use of white space.

I will be entering this in the following challenge:

https://mftstamps.com/blogs/news/summer-school-2020-day-5

MFT Summer School Day 5: White Space

I will be sharing with you my card for Day 5 of the My Favorite Things summer school.

White space cards are not my typical card makes and so this was an enjoyable one to create. 

This was a very simple make for a quick card - easy to mass produce. 

I am entering each and every day of the summer school fun. I will be entering this in the following challenge:

https://mftstamps.com/blogs/news/summer-school-2020-day-5

MFT Summer School Day 3: Symmetry

I am participating in the My Favorite Things Week of Summer School. I was looking forward to this after taking part in the camping version of it last year. I will be linking up items for all 5 days of school however likely not it the correct order - I will mix things up a bit.

So this post is for :

Summer School Day 3: Symmetry

This was a fun little card to make using the quilt die from MFT. I always like to have some cards on hand that have no sentiments - just a blank little note card. 

I will be participating in the following challenge:

https://mftstamps.com/blogs/news/summer-school-2020-day-3