Bear Hugs - Pretty Pink Posh

Hello crafty friends! I am back with some Pretty Pink Posh inspiration for you. I am happily staying on with Pretty Pink Posh for another term! Don't forget to check the Pretty Pink Posh blog for a giveaway.





Today's card features the Bear Friends stamp set and some sparkling clear sequin mix with a little spotlight ink blending. I cut a little frame using some thin paper to use as a mask for my ink blending. Once I taped it into place I ink blended first with a layer of Spun Sugar distress oxide and then some Worn Lipstick around the edges for a little added depth. The little bear and tree stump are colored with copic markers. Lastly I added a little heart embellishment and my sequins.

Copics: E53, E51 E50 for the bear, YG23, YG00 for the leaves & E59, E47 & E55 for the tree stump.

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Santa Bear is coming to town! - Avery Elle

Hello Crafty Friends! I am back with a stamp set designed by my friend Elena for Avery Elle. I was so excited to see Bear all dressed up as Santa!  This set has a special place in my heart because I just absolutely treasure the time my son has spent with out local "Santa". I know someday the magic will end but I am so glad to see his wonder and excitement. Our kindhearted resident travels around our local area and my son has not met any other Santa (so far). Every year he stops for lunch at our little coffee shop and all the kids come and see him. Its such a fun personal magical meet and greet. I cant imagine it any other way now.

Leaf Dance - Waffle Flower

Hello Crafty Friends! Back with card #2 for this new Waffle Flower release. I love Big Bear and Bird designs so I was over the moon to receive Blessed Bear. I was inspired directly from the designers feed for my bear color here. I just love her soft fuzzy bears. This set was so whimsical the card just kind of fell together with the bear dancing in the leaves with his little bird friends.

I started with a dark navy blue cardstock and took some distress ink in black soot to the edges. I splattered the finished ink blended card with several colors of the Gansai Tambi starry color watercolor palette; red gold, yellow gold and blue gold. I used a gold embossed sentiment on a white cardstock banner so it really pops against the dark background. The images are copic colored.

Bear: E44, E43, E40
Scarf/Leaves: Y38, Y35, YR30
Red Leaves: E18, E15
Green Leaves: YG67, YG63, YG61
Birds: B02, B00, B000

MFT Card Design Superstar Contest 2019

Hello crafty friends! Today I have a card that will be my entry for My Favorite Things  2019 Card Design Superstar contest. I chose to do a clean and simple design this year. This card features the new BB Sweater Weather in the Woods stamp set. The clouds I got from another MFT BB set called Prehistoric Fun.

I did some center ink blending on this card with some distress oxide in peacock feathers and then splattered with copic opaque white. The bear is colored using copic markers and then die cut. Marker #s E47, 44, 43 & 41. The jacket is B02, 00, 000 wwith some BG75 & 72 for the details. I added just a hint of BG10 to the edges of the clouds along with some glitter brush pen that cant be seen in the photo.

Hope you enjoyed today's entry!

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Schoolhouse (Release Week Neat & Tangled)

Hi! back again for day 3 too! Can you tell I am enjoying this release?

Day 1 is here.
Day 2 is here.

Neat & Tangled is here.

Onto the cards!


The background again is just a soft wash of distress ink in Hickory Smoke & Peacock Feathers. The adorable bear & accessories are copic colored. I added some of the teal sequins from the new Starry Night sequin mix. I thought this worked well for thank you teacher cards.

I also wanted to make a gender neutral card to give to a friend so this time I only used Nuvo drops for accents.  These little mice were my favorite. I thought the background reminded me of a chalk board.


I want to make a few more and have a set!

Crafty Christmas Collaboration

I was so super excited when my friend Jess asked me to be a part of her Crafty Christmas Collaboration series! If you are new to the collaboration please visit the original post by Jess here. Basically we all know what its like to face last minute holiday cards and as a way to combat this Jess decided to make cards all year long. As an extra exciting way to keep up the spirit she decided to invite her friends to play along in a crafty collaboration. Each of us put together some supplies to send and an extra for ourselves and this is what we used to make our cards! I was so anxious to see what she would send! See what she made with my supplies here!

Oh man I had a tough time deciding what to send! I had picked out four different company stamp sets and just couldn't narrow it down. So like Christy did last month I snooped her feeds for what she didn't show having used before. This cut out two companies right away. And in the end I had to go with Lawn Fawn since that was the company I bought my first real set of stamp from. Since I didn't get to use this set over the holidays, I figured it was the perfect time to bring it out! I went a little overboard in sending stuff I hoped she would like...

And so here is what she sent me:

I was immediately inspired by what she sent that I sat down that day to make my card. I mean who can resist The Greeting Farm? Jess must have snooped too because I don't own this set. (but I plan on fixing that really soon) As well as the Be Merry Sentiment from Wplus9. That sentiment set was my go to this year. 

For my own card I did a quick distress ink background, a little copic coloring and finished it off with some layers of Lawn Fawn papers. Which I also didn't use much of this year even though they are very much in my favorite colors!

and a close up: 

When I got Jess' supplies I was in the middle of playing with my new Distress Ink Oxides and decided to do a bunch of ink smooshed backgrounds. These are some of my favorite non traditional colors for the holiday.  I used the same inks to color the scarf on the bead. Jess knows how much I love to watercolor and my images were stamped on watercolor paper so I had a blast watercoloring all my stuff. I just had to use all the critters and used the banner to tie everything together. I even had to add tiny stars to the bears scarf. 

and a close up:

Seriously this bear tho!

Please head over to Jess' blog to discover what she made with our supplies. Be sure to leave a comment at both our blogs for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to Lawn Fawn! Plus you can link up your own cards all year long at Jess's blog for a chance to win a big grand prize in December so you have to go check it out!

Hope you have a wonderful day, thanks for stopping by!

Plaid about it - Lawn Fawn CF DT

Happy New Year! My first post of 2016 & my first design team post for Craft Fancy!
I've been a regular at their store for many years now and love seeing the ladies there all the time. It's where my love of Lawn Fawn began as well. They had one small little section with some older stamp sets. I bought one and ended up going back and buying them all. Slowly this has grown into a whole wall section of all the Lawn Fawn products. So if you are in the Chicagoland area I highly suggest a visit!

Onto my card for today:

I made this card today using distress inks for the background in festive berries and black soot along with Tim Holtz watercolor paper. I used the tutorial from Kristina Werner here. I used I simply adore buffalo plaid and am thrilled its on trend right now.  The bear, scarf & sentiment are from Lawn Fawn along with the rectangle dies with the stitching and the tag die. I wanted a more masculine card as I have so many birthdays for the men in my life during the winter months and I was running low on cards. I find making masculine cards the hardest.

Supplies:
Party Animal - Lawn Fawn
Baaah Humbug - Lawn Fawn
Small Stiched Rectangle stackables - Lawn Fawn
Stitched Lables - Lawn Fawn