Category Archives: My Favorite Things

Welcome back to Day 5 of the MFT teasers. It’s Sunday. I love Sunday.

Today, the team is sharing another beautiful set from Lisa Johnson Designs, Grand Holiday Greetings and a beautiful new Sheet Music Background. I decided to go a little shabby…

I stamped my sentiment in MFT Hot Fudge Premium Dye Ink on Whip Cream Card Stock and the music background in MFT Kraft Premium Dye Ink on Whip Cream Card Stock. I layered a Die-namics Oval Decorative Doily cut from kraft paper – so it’s thinner and less bulky – under the sentiment layer. Finally, I put everything together with MFT twine and a button. It’s a simple, but heartfelt message. I’ll love sharing this in a few months with a friend.

My husband and I are spending time with some friends from the Texas Panhandle this weekend. They are in town for the American Royal World Series of BBQ in the historic Kansas City Stockyards. They were invited to participate here after winning a state competition in Texas. Good times with good friends and great beef brisket!

If I can muster myself back to the desk after a weekend in bbq heaven, I’ll be back tomorrow with another teaser – probably one of my favorite projects yet!

Please be sure to visit the MFT blog for a peek at the full sets and more inspiration. I can’t wait to see the team projects! Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a beautiful Sunday!

I’m back today with another preview for the upcoming MFT release on Tuesday night, October 8th! Today I’m showing you a new Laina Lamb set called Holiday Subway Art.

This set comes with 15 sentiments and accent pieces (plus several accent snowflakes) to create your very own subway style Christmas greeting. It might sound a little intimidating to line everything up straight, but with a stamp press, it is EASY-PEASY. Let me show you:

This is the underside of my stamp press, where I’ll adhere my stamps. I chose all of the sentiments and accent pieces that I wanted to use and lined them up on the stamp press. When I had them all lined up and square with the grid on the press, I knew how big of a rectangle I would need to cut from card stock  to stamp on.

Then I was ready to stamp. I started with my top sentiment and red ink pad and worked my way down the sentiments. With the straight edges of the sentiment, it is easy to ink up one sentiment at a time. The foam feet on the stamp press allow you to hover over your card stock and make placement adjustments right up to the point that you make contact with the paper. (This is especially easy with clear stamps! I’ve saved many a mis-stamped project by using my press to re-ink a missed area.)

When I’ve inked and pressed a color, I simply pull that stamp off, clean it up and move to my next color of ink.

And here is my white rectangle all stamped off. This method makes mass-producing a little bit easier, too. I actually did three rectangles at the same time when I made this card.

I finished my card off with a diamond image strip from the new set Large Scale Backgrounds and the ‘Merry and Bright‘ sentiment from this month’s free with $60 set, Cheerful Christmas Greetings. Both of these are stamped in Blu Raspberry Ink on Blu Raspberry card stock. Very fun!

Thanks for stopping by. Please be sure to visit the MFT blog for a peek at the full sets and more inspiration. I know you’ll love today’s teasers!

Have a great Saturday, and I’ll see you tomorrow!

• Stamps: Laina Lamb Design Holiday Subway Art, Large Scale Backgrounds and Cheerful Christmas Greetings – My Favorite Things
• Cardstock: Smooth White, Electric Red and Blu Raspberry – My Favorite Things
• Ink: MFT Electric Red, MFT Razzleberry, MFT Orange Fizz, MFT Lemon Drop, Clearsnap Jalapeno, MFT Blu Raspberry, Clearsnap Bluebell and MFT Grape Jelly
• Accs: Fiskars Stamp Press

Just popping in with a quick Hope You Can Cling To card! I made this for today’s challenge Let’s Punch Out Breast Cancer!

I actually made two of these cards because once the layers were cut, I had doubles, and the horse and mat layers were easy.

I sent the second card in a box of cookies and Chex-mix with one of my local college rodeo girls who is on the road this weekend for a college rodeo in Kentucky. She’s here at our local college because of the rodeo team and a long way from home in Georgia. Since I love rodeo and Georgia, we’ve semi-adopted her during her stay here in town.

I’ll be stamping away today. Lots of things I want to get done for Hope You Can Cling To! Hope you can find time to join us! Have a fabulous weekend!

• Stamps: LJD Howdy – MFT & Back in the Saddle (sentiment) – Waltzingmouse
• Ink: Hot Fudge – MFT
• Card stock: Kraft & Whip Cream – MFT, My Mind’s Eye paper
• Accs: Blueprints Die-namics – MFT, twine, sequins

I’m back with another day of previews for the MFT release that is coming up this Tuesday night! Thank you so much for your kind comments and notes after Wednesday’s post. It really warmed my heart!

My first card today features an image from the newest stamp line at MFT, Sunny Day Doodles Sweet Christmas. Love this whimsy style and the sentiments that come with it! I stamped my gingerbread house on kraft cardstock and embossed with vanilla embossing powder and then cut it out.

I wanted to show you a close up of this beautiful new tag die – Pierced Traditional Tag STAX Die-namics. It pairs perfectly with the Traditional Tag STAX Die-namics that you see matted behind my pierced layer, both in Blu Raspberry Card Stock. Love the pierced Die-namics sets. Just an instant WOW! when you use them.

I added some twine, button and sequins to my tag and then created the main layout of the card with Blueprints 4 Die-namics!

My second card today uses a beautiful new die set, Tree Lines Die-namics. It’s open at the bottom so that you can go across your card at any height, and they are wide enough to cover 4.25 and 5.5 card widths. My sentiment is from a set that we’ll be showcasing a little later during preview week, Lisa Johnson Designs Grand Holiday Greetings and stamped in MFT Hot Fudge on Kraft Card Stock, again tied with twine and a button.

Here you can see both layers of trees cut and adhered to my card front. Super easy way to class up the Christmas card efforts. Love that.

I’ll be back tomorrow with more MFT goodness and a Hope You Can Cling To card! In the meanwhile, take a peek at the other MFT team projects. They will WOW you, for sure!

Don’t you love it when “busy” means paper crafting your heart out!?

So usually about this time, I’m hanging out and waiting for **my** My Favorite Things girlfriends to start posting previews for the upcoming MFT release. This month, I’ve got butterflies galore because, you read that correctly… I am here as a guest designer, sharing previews.  Can you believe that?

I’ve worked with the MFT team on many projects through the years at Splitcoast, I enjoy getting together with them at trade shows, catching up when time allows, and I am a huge fan of the brand. I’m so excited to be working with them this month! Thank you to Kim and her team for the warm, warm invitation. And, let me just throw it out here right now, I hit the stampy goodness jackpot! Everything you are going to see over the next week from the October release is beautiful!

I am sharing a card that was made with Lisa Johnson Designs Snowflake Splendor, coordinating Die-namics and new Die-namics – Blueprints 8.

I’ve mentioned before that I love using the Blueprint Die-namics. They are sets of dies that include a large layering piece, stamp panels and multiple embellishment dies. MFT offers several suggested layouts with each one or you, of course, can use your own. They really do allow for very fast card making!

My Snowflake Splendor flakes were stamped with MFT Blu Raspberry, MFT Grape Jelly, MFT RazzleBerry and MFT Sno Cone inks on Smooth White cardstock for a one-sheet wonder affect, and then I cut my panels with Blueprints 8.

This past weekend, I was in Houston for a trade show with Copic Marker, and I met the sweetest lady selling glitter in the booth next to ours. I brought two tubs of her Silk Micro Fine Glitter home, and this afternoon I used my Snowflake Splendor Die-namics to cut snowflakes from Xpress It Adhesive Sheets (peel one layer of backing paper from the die cut shape, adhere to project and peel second backing paper to reveal a sticky die cut shape on your project) and sprinkled with glitter. Oh. Shiny.

The little flags in the corner and the scalloped Blu Raspberry layer were also cut with Blueprints 8 and stamped with Washi Patterns. I love those little flags!

So, now you know my secret. Please be sure to head over to the MFT blog for direct links to each of the fantabulous designers, more samples, details regarding the October 8th  release and information on teaser PRIZES!

I’ll be back several more days in the next week with more MFT goodness. I hope you love the images and dies as much as I do.

Don’t forget that Hope You Can Cling To started yesterday at Splitcoaststampers. Thirty one days of challenges for cancer awareness.  My Favorite Things is the Pink Sponsor, so you could win one of five $100 gift vouchers from MFT for playing along there – or one of dozens of other prizes.

Thanks for stopping by! See you soon!

• Stamps: Lisa Johnson Designs Snowflake Splendor, DC Washi Patterns – My Favorite Things
• Ink: MFT Blu Raspberry, MFT Grape Jelly, MFT RazzleBerry and MFT Sno Cone – My Favorite Things
• Cardstock: Blu Raspberry and Smooth White – My Favorite Things
• Accs: Blueprints 8 Die-namics – My Favorite Things, Cool Diamond glitter – Elizabeth Craft, Xpress It Adhesive Sheets – Imagination International