Ombre Label Sentiments

Happy Tuesday!

I'm following Jenny's lead today and continuing the masculine cards theme. I'm sure I'm not the only one that finds them tricky to make. I try to keep things as clean and simple as possible, and that usually works well for me.

I'm really loving typographic cards at the moment, with text as the main focal point. For these cards, I used the MFT label makers sentiments, stamping them repeatedly in various shades of blue and green MFT inks, then fussy cutting them out.

To get the spacing right on the card, I drew some faint pencil guide lines on the card base, erasing them as I added the sentiments with foam tape.

I cut off anything that overhang the card base, and that's the card finished. 

These cards are pretty simple to make several at a time, so you can have a whole set of masculine birthday cards ready when you need them. 

There are loads of other sentiments in the set, so this design could work for other occasions.

Thanks for joining me, 

Gemma

MFT Label Maker Sentiments

Greenery - Pantone Colour of the Year

Hello, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year.

Today I have a card based on the 2017 Pantone colour of the year, which is Greenery. It's a lovely fresh yellow-green, and is a calming, reinvigorating colour for the new year.

What better set to use for my card than the MFT Leafy Greenery die-namics!

To create the leaves, on watercolour paper I blended Zig Clean Colour Real Brush pens (44 Light Green and 45 Pale Green) with a little water to create a wash of colour. I then die cut several leaves from it, using the MFT Leafy Greenery die-namics.

From an A6 piece of white card, I die cut an MFT Single Stitched rectangle frame to create a window. The background needed some colour, so I used the MFT Distress Patterns stamp set with some green inks to add paint splatter detail.

On an A6 card base, I blended on some light blue distress ink to show through the window when the card is put together. I arranged the leaves to sit within the frame and adhered everything down.

To finish the card, I added a sentiment using the MFT Label Makers stamp set.

Thank you for joining me today. I hope I've inspired you to have a go at making a card using the Pantone Colour of the Year 2017.

Gemma

MFT Leafy Greenery

MFT Distressed Patterns

MFT Rectangle Frames

MFT Label Maker Sentiments

Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens

Rose Gold

I love the look of pink and gold together - it's so pretty and elegant on a card. 

I started this card by blending pink distress inks onto watercolour card. I flicked it with water to create some distressed patterns, then spritzed it with a gold perfect pearls water mix for some pretty shine. 

I dried the panel with my heat tool, then cut it down to fit on an A6 card base. Before attaching to the card, I used the Lil'inker Designs Woodgrain cover plate to add some some pretty detail to the panel.

The new Roses in Bloom die-namic from MFT Stamps is a great die to have in your collection. It's very versatile and inexpensive. For this card, I die cut it from gold foil card stock. You can use just the outline of the rose, but I decided to keep the petals in place this time.

I needed something for the rose to sit on, to help draw the eye from the strong background. I settled on an oval frame, created using two sizes of oval die-namics, with a vellum panel behind to diffuse the pink. As the oval die-namics are currently out of stock, I've linked to the oval frames - a great alternative to achieve the same look.

I added the rose on top, then stamped and cut out a greeting using the MFT Label Maker Sentiments set. I added this with foam tape, and finished the card with a gold heart embellishment.

Thanks for joining me today. 

Gemma

MFT Roses in Bloom

MFT Label Maker Sentiments

Lil'Inker Stitched Woodgrain Cover Up

MFT Stitched Oval Frames

Yes Please Enamel Shapes