Wednesday Stamp Club {Follow Your Heart}

 

Welcome to this week's MFT Wednesday Stamp Club sketch! Glad you stopped by for a look at a graduation card I made using Life's Direction, the new Blooming Roses and my new bestie, Mix-ables Sheer Shimmer Mist! It's a little hard to see the shimmer and sheen on this card, but it's there, folks!

On this full front view, you can also see where I've sprayed Mix-ables Sheer Shimmer Mist over the Graduated Dots Stencil after I'd stamped Blooming Roses to create a background pattern.  I also added a bit of shine and texture embossing the barn board stamp from Western Backgrounds on the Fishtail Flag. My horse silhouette from Life's Direction was stamped in Black Licorice on a Circle STAX die cut of Grape Jelly before I also spritzed it with Mix-ables Sheer Shimmer Mist. It's just gorgeous in real life and adds so much to the card.

The inside is stamped with another sentiment from Life's Direction in Black Licorice ink over a rose covered background using Blooming Roses. After stamping the images, I misted the Grape Jelly layer with Mix-ables Sheer Shimmer Mist for a beautiful shimmer that really dresses this card up for a classy graduation card. Oh, and by the way, this is so ironic that you might now believe me, but as I went to sign this card before we left for the graduation party last weekend, I realized that her middle name is...Rose. I know, get outta here!

Be sure to stop over at the MFT Blog to see the designers playing along with this week's sketch, as well as details on how YOU can win a little MFT cash-ola!
~Amy

Here are the products used on my WSC card today:

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MFT June Release Rewind

 Today is Day 2 of MFT's June Release Rewind, and I've got two cards to share with you today.  As I've said before, I am so thrilled with the mix-and-match-ability of MFT stamps and dies, and both of today's cards are proof in the pudding!

First up is the darling PI Gone Fishin' and Abstract Art in my version of water color meets pointillism, magnified. Ü

I overlapped various paint splatters from Abstract Art in Lemon Drop, Sno Cone and Sour Apple and then paper pieced cutie PI fisher-lady after coloring her with Copics.

A peek at the inside shows a bit more of Die-namics Speech Bubble with more drips and drops of my paint trio.

My second card features the Palm Tree & Peek-a-Boo Dots Die-namics matched up with stamps from Max Alphabet and Expand Your View. The Red Hot jet is courtesy of You Move Me.

I think the highlight of this card is the shimmery Blu Raspberry sky, m-hmm.  Baby, get your shine on and meet my new BSF Mix-ables Sheer Shimmer Mist!  I mixed her up with a few drops of Blu Raspberry Ink Refill and haphazardly sprayed across a piece of Primitive Ivory card stock and then brushed through the middle of the mist with a wide tip paint brush before it dried for the look you see here. Check out this MFT video for a nice demo of the Mix-ability Mist.

Being inspired by the pallet art I've been spying around the web lately, I tried to replicate the look with my sentiment using the Chalkboard Frame Builder Die-namics as my 'pallet' base. Each board was cut from a scrap of Primitive Cream card stock that had been sprayed with the Blu Raspberry Mix-ables Mist that I used for the sky on front. I mixed Max Alphabet with Expand Your View once again in Black Licorice and Red Hot inks for my message. Sand dunes courtesy of Die-namics Snow Drifts.

There you have it, my MFT Release Rewind for June! There is plenty more Release Rewind to be had, so stop over at the MFT Blog for a list of today's designers.  I'll be back tomorrow with this week's Wednesday Stamp Club sketch and then later in the week with my new favorite color, Red Hot, lovin' on some Nightshift Blue! Thanks for checking in on me today.
~Amy

MFT products used in Gone Fishin'

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MFT products used in RELAX

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Friday Fun {Red Hot}

It's Friday and that's fun. MFT's Red Hot is fun. Put the two together and you have Friday Fun! Seriously, I'm head over heels with Red Hot for summer because it has a deep coral look to it that is so hot and trendy right now and blends lends itself so well to many others in the MFT color family. Today I'm trending it with Orange Fizz...yummy, huh?!

 A Happy Hellos Die-namics in Kraft is supported by a Fishtail Flag in Orange Fizz and Red Hot Fishtail Flags fluttering below.

 

Here's a closer look at the new Washi Patterns stamped in either Red Hot ink or watermark ink onto Fishtail Flags of Red Hot card stock for varying intensity in color.

Inside is a sentiment from my new go-to set Bold Statements, underscored with another new favorite Abstract Art. Both are stamped onto a 3x4 Notepad Die-namics in Kraft with today's color combo Orange Fizz and Red Hot!

Next week I'll be pairing Red Hot with Nightshift Blue...eeps!
~Amy