Hello and welcome to an exciting week of the My Favorite Things August Release Countdown! Be sure to head over to the MFT Blog to see today’s full product reveals AND enter for your chance to win a $75 gift voucher on each of the 7 countdown day blog posts there!
I have two projects for you today. My first card uses the fabulous new Blueprints 18, a fantastic Spotlight Sentiments stamp set, and new Jumbo Polka Dot Stencil (being featured tomorrow). We needed a thank you card for two neighborhood brothers (aged 12 and under), so I was trying to keep this card on the young-masculine side:
I LOVE this exciting on-trend angled Blueprints -- it takes all the guess work out of those difficult angles and makes these cards so easy to create! I started with a Nightshift Blue card base and die cut the top angled piece from Orange Fizz cardstock. Then I used the the fabulous stitched circle (cuts stitches around the outer as well as the inside of the circle) to cut a circle out of the top Orange Fizz piece.
Next, I cut another stitched circle from Fuse Green cardstock and heat embossed the Spotlight Sentiment on it:
The button is actually a die from BP18 -- cut from an Orange Fizz watercolored circle from a piece of the leftover lower panel. The Orange Fizz star and Nightshift Blue flag are also from BP18 . . . tons of great accents in this set!
The lower angled panel was created on Primitive White cardstock, using the Jumbo Polka Dot stencil, watercolored with MFT's Orange Fizz, Fuse Green and Nightshift Blue Premium Dye inks . . . I love the the irregular colored dots!!
Inside, I used the remainder of the leftover front watercolored panel, stamped the Spotlight Sentiment again, this time in Nightshift Blue Hybrid ink:
The spotlighted Thank You was colored with Orange Copic Atyou Spica Glitter Pen.
My next card uses stamps and Die-namics from a brand new illustrator for My Favorite Things, Miss Tiina! Her first stamp set, Trick or Treat and coordinating Trick or Treat Die-namics made for this sweet, quick card:
Isn't that ghost adorable?!! I die cut him from a Smooth White cardstock panel, stamped his coordinating stamp image with Black Licorice Premium Dye ink and gave him google eyes! The white die cut panel was popped up on a Black Licorice card base die cut with the row of holes die from Blueprints 18. Then Mr. Ghost was adhered below the popped-up panel, flat and directly on the black card base:
The Ghostly Greetings sentiment is from the new Spooky Sentiments stamp set being featured next Tues, Aug 12. It was stamped in Black Licorice Premium Dye ink, hand trimmed (very quick and easy to do) and popped up on foam tape.
I can't wait to show more projects with Miss Tiina's new line on Product Launch Day, August 12, so please be sure to check back then!
All the new products will be available for purchase on August 12th at 10pm Eastern in the MFT Boutique. During this countdown you can enter to win some HUGE prizes over on the MFT blog . . . where you will also find links to the other design team members that are sharing samples using today’s featured products!
Thanks so much for stopping by … I’ll be back tomorrow with more August release inspiration!
{Watercolored Thanks Supplies}
Other Supplies: Copic Foam Tape & Orange Atyou Spica Glitter Pen; heat embossing tool, liquid platinum embossing powder, waterbrush
{Ghostly Greetings Supplies}
Other Supplies: Copic Foam Tape & Glue Marker, google eyes
