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MFT July Release Countdown-Day 5

Happy Independence Day to all my US friends! Welcome to the third day of My Favorite Things July Release Countdown week – just 4 days left until the new products are available on July 8! 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! Honoring the USA's "birthday" of independence today, I used something I'm REALLY excited about -- MFT's new Tag Builder Blueprints 1 -- to create my July calendar 6-inch page! You should have heard the squeal of delight when I learned about these new Blueprints, especially since I adore tags! I combined it with two of this month's new background stamps, Diagonal Stripes and Confetti ... and sneaked in a little preview of tomorrow's featured sweet new Pure Innocence Happy Banner stamp set and coordinating Die-namics: The sweet Happy Banner PI girl was stamped on her coordinating Die-namics, cut from X-Press It Blending Card and colored with Copic markers (colors listed below in supplies): The fabulous new Tag Builder Blueprints 1 tag was cut from Nightshift Blue cardstock, stamped with the... Read more →

MFT July Release Countdown-Day 6

Welcome back to the My Favorite Things July Release Countdown – just 5 days left until the new products are available on July 8! 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! My project today uses the darling new Birdie Brown stamp set, Sweet Birthday Wishes, being featured today, along with the fabulous new Pinking Edge Circle STAX and two new background stamps (Happy Birthday and Confetti) being featured later this week: I used the new weekly MFT Wednesday Stamp Club 183 Sketch AND the brand new monthly Color Palette Challenge for July ... together they made for a quick and easy card (and I love this color combo)! You can find all the details about the Color Palete Challenge by clicking the graphic below: I stamped the darling cupcakes/stand with Chocolate Brown Hybrid ink onto X-Press It Blending Card, then colored them with these Copic markers: After coloring the cupcakes, I topped them with MFT's awesome Glitter Glaze: The Happy Birthday Background was stamped with Blu Raspberry Hybrid ink onto Primitive White... Read more →

MFT July 2014 Release Countdown-Day 7

Hello and welcome to an exciting week of the My Favorite Things July 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! Are you ready to get this release party started? You are in for a HUGE bunch of birthday bash F-U-N this month from MFT! :) My project today uses both stamp sets (Birthday Chalkboard Greetings and Celebrate You) and the new Blueprints 17 Die-namics being featured today! I'm in love with this new Blueprints -- isn't it fun?!! A chalkboard easel for all of your chalkboard sentiments and "drawings"! I die cut Steel Grey cardstock for my "chalkboard" and used Grout Gray for the easel. I'm not sure you can see it here on the lighter cardstock, but the easel has a fabulous woodgrain texture to it (click on any photo for a larger view)! The Birthday Chalkboard Greetings was stamped and heat embossed with white detail powder onto the chalkboard, then Sweet Tooth pigment ink smudged on the chalkboard to resemble chalk. Next, I used the gift border from... Read more →