Christy Gets Crafty with My Favorite Things - May

Hey everyone! I'm so excited to bring you the May edition of Christy Gets Crafty with My Favorite Things! This month I was so inspired by the cuties of Kangaroo Crew. Aren't they just adorable? And I knew I wanted to make a birthday card, so I combined it with a few accessory images from Birdie Brown's Birth-Yay.

I colored my images with Copics and trimmed them out with the matching dies. Then I created a background scene for them with an A2 Rectangle Frames panel and some Distress ink with the Cloud and Drifts & Hills Stencils.

I replaced the outside edge of the frame with Peach Bellini Cardstock to match my card base, and popped that whole panel up with foam tape. Then I layered it on top of a pretty plaid patterned paper from the Sweet Celebrations Paper Pack.

I had so much fun creating this card! If you'd like to see how it came together click below or visit the My Favorite Things YouTube Channel. And please don't forget to like and comment and let them know how I did! Thanks so much for watching. Have a great day!

Butterfly Skies - Lawn Fawnatics #53

Hey there, welcome to Lawn Fawnatics Challenge #53: Spectacular Skies! If you love creating cool scene cards with sky backgrounds, this is the challenge for you! I decided to showcase Butterfly Kisses  on today's card, since I can't think of anything much cooler than a sky swarmed with butterflies!

I decided to give my Copics a rest, and instead pulled out my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens, which I haven't used in a while. I think I fell back in love! The colors are so vibrant and pretty with so little effort! I watercolored my images, let them dry, then trimmed them out with the matching dies.

Sometimes the simplest backgrounds are the most effective, because they really allow the images to shine. I did a watercolor wash with more Zigs on a Stitched Journaling Card and adhered my images with a combination of foam tape and Glue Tube. Then I finished it up by popping it up over some pretty patterned paper.

To see how this card came together, click below or click the YouTube icon at the bottom right to watch there in HD. And don't forget to like and subscribe!

And now it's time to head over to the Lawn Fawnatics Challenge Blog and check out the other amazing design samples. Then you can get busy creating your own project with Spectacular Skies!

New Puppy to Love - Lawn Fawnatics Challenge #52

Hey friends! Welcome to Lawn Fawnatics Challenge #52! This round is all about Pet Love, which could not have come at a more perfect time, since I just got a brand new puppy! We'd been so sad since the passing of our beloved Zadie the week before Christmas, and we decided we were finally ready to open our hearts to a new little fur baby to love!

Meet Gemma! She's an 8 week old Australian Shepherd, and she is such a little love bug! So far she's a total mama's girl, and I could not be more pleased. There's nothing sweeter than snuggling with a little fur ball with puppy breath blowing in your face! Lol! But seriously, she's already stolen our hearts and we couldn't love her more.

And yes, she has her own instagram, so if you love adorable puppy pics, feel free to follow. But now, back to today's card. I knew the star had to be the puppy from Bicycle Built for You, which I colored to look like Gemma. To give it more of that element of surprise, I decided to have her jumping out of a box from Holiday Helpers. And I also used images from Critters in the Dog Park to create my own patterned paper for the background. 

I colored everything with Copics and added my focal images on a Stitched Circle Stackables layered onto a Fancy Scalloped Circle Stackables. I  trimmed down my background with an Outside In Stitched Rectangle Stackables and added a sentiment from Rub-a-Dub-Dub on an Everyday Sentiment Banner. 

If you'd like to see how this card came together, click on the video below and stay tuned to the end for bonus puppy pictures! And if you enjoyed it, don't forget to like and subscribe.

And now it's time to head over to the Lawn Fawnatics Challenge Blog and check out the other amazing design team samples. Then go and get creative using your pet for inspiration! What a fun one this will be!

Lawn Fawnatics April Feature

Hey friends! I'm so happy to be featured over on the Lawn Fawnatics Challenge Blog today with this sweet unicorn card. I created it for our current Sketch Challenge, but I reimagined the sketch in a few different ways. I'm sharing some of my tips and walking you through the whole process in my post over there, so I hope you'll go check it out!

You can also see the whole card come together in my video tutorial. Click the YouTube icon to watch it in HD, and don't forget to like and subscribe! It means the world.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Christy Gets Crafty with My Favorite Things - April

Hey friends! I'm so happy to be back for another edition of Christy Gets Crafty with My Favorite Things! This month I fell in love with the adorable animal selfies from the new Birdie Brown set, Picture Perfect. There were so many cute ones to choose from, but I decided to pair up the jungle critters.

I colored my images starting with the background using a dot technique to look like there was more jungle foliage just out of focus. Then I colored my monkeys in warm browns and the sloth in cool browns for some contrast. The Selfie Square Die-namics perfectly trims them out. 

I die cut two Polaroid Shaker Frame Die-namics out of Blu Raspberry cardstock and used the #Captions Die-namics to add my sentiments. I popped out the letters and replaced them with new ones in Grout Gray.

I took a standard A2 sized Sour Apple card base and stamped over the surface with the All Lined Up Background in coordinating green ink. Then I layered my polaroids so that they were overlapping slightly.

To finish up the card, I "hung" my animal selfies from the Tree Branch Die-namics, and added leaves in various sizes to both the branches and also one to each frame down near the sentiments.

To see how this card came together, click below or visit the MFT YouTube channel to watch it there in HD. And don't forget to hit that thumbs up button and leave me a comment! I always look forward to your feedback.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a crafty day!

Dino-mite Birthday - Lawn Fawnatics Challenge #51

Hey friends! Welcome to Lawn Fawnatics Challenge #51! Today we've got an awesome sketch for you to try! I personally love using card sketches as inspiration for new designs and layouts for cards. On this card I'm featuring the adorable Rawrsome stamp set. Too cute!

I colored my images with Copics and trimmed them out with the matching dies. For my focal panel I used a Stitched Circle Stackable with a Grassy Border on the lower half. I added two clouds from Spring Showers to complete the scene.

For the background I took a piece of Narwhal cardstock and layed long, thin strips of colored cardstock diagonally across the panel. Then I trimmed it down with the Outside In Stitched Rectangle Stackables. I popped my focal panel over top with foam tape and finished off the card with a greeting on an Everyday Sentiment Banner stamped in Hippo ink.

To see how this card came together, click below or click the YouTube icon at the bottom right to watch it there in HD. And don't forget to like and subscribe! It truly means so much!

And now it's time to head over to the Lawn Fawnatics Challenge Blog and check out the rest of the amazing design team samples! And don't forget to link up your own card sketch projects to play along!

Choco Bunny - Lawn Fawnatics #50

Hey friends! Today I'm sharing my card for the latest Lawn Fawnatics Challenge: Fun with Food. Unfortunately, that's all I'm sharing at the moment, as I have been sick in bed with a nasty case of the flu since last Wednesday. I will be back soon with card details. The video will take a few days longer, as I have been unable to record the voiceover due to all the coughing/strained voice. I'll get it up as soon as I can. Be well, all. Hugs.