Made in Minutes!

Good morning my sweet friends & welcome to another "Made in Minutes!" 

I hope you ALL had a FABULOUS weekend….for me….it was busy, but FUN!  I don't know about all of "YOU", but I think my tummy is STILL full from all the YUMMIES we had for the Super Bowl yesterday! ;)

Okay, for my card today, it took me around 17 minutes to make! I tried a technique that I learned from Day 6 from my Online Card Class!  The technique was called "Masked Stripe Background".  I wanted to try something using a heart mask just to see how it would turn out….and I actually LOVED it! 

Basically what you do is put some masking tape, washi tape or post it tape & place it on your paper & start inking! After each time you ink, you are going to move your tape each time until the area you like is all complete!  I probably could've finished this quicker, but I kept stopping & over analyzing it after each time I moved the tape! lol….. 

As you can see in the picture below, after I removed the heart mask, it came out super clean & bright! 

Here is my finished card in its entirety!  At the end, it landed up being a SUPER SIMPLE card that was REALLY easy to make! Just as long as you don't stop after each time you move your tape to analyze it, then you will be just fine!!! hehehe! ;) 

MCT Products Used:

~ Springtime in Paris

~ Heart 2 Heart Love Frame Die

Okay, now on to my AMAZING design team!!! Don't forget to visit their blogs to see how long it took THEM to complete their GORGEOUS projects from beginning to end! :) 

Miss Cindy

 Miss Kim

 Miss Liz

 Miss Nikki

WOWEE! I am TOTALLY in LOVE w/my team's projects for today!  I hope we inspired all of "YOU" to challenge yourself to create something in 20 minutes OR under! :) 

Have a FABULOUS day my sweet friends & I will see you all back here soon! xoxo

Throwback Thursday "Do Over" & my homework for Clean & Simple 4 online card class day 3

GOOD MORNING my sweet friends & welcome to our first Throwback Thursday "Do Over".

This is a NEW segment we will be doing on our blog! I think it's an AWESOME idea! :)  

Basically what we need to do is make over a project from the past & post the before & after pic! Well, to be honest w/you ALL….I "THINK" I did mine wrong!!! lol….. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to use the doggie again….but I just RE-DID the entire card! I just did a WHOLE NEW MAKE OVER! hahahaha!  After seeing my design team's before & after pics….that's when I realized….'houston, we have a teensy problem!!!'  hehehe! 

Well, here is my "original" card!  To be honest, I think I like my ORIGINAL card BETTER!!!! LOL…..

Okay, what I ALSO incorporated with my card was the technique I learned from one of the teachers, the TALENTED Miss Karolyn Loncon from the online card class!  She did this FUN stamping technique that I HAD to try! I explained in my video below exactly how I created it! 

MCT Products used:

~ Forever stamp

~ Fun Stitched Edges

~ Build a Scripty & Watercolor Background stamp

~ Grainy Wood Background stamp

Here is my video for you today! :)

Okay, now onto my AMAZING design team! Don't forget to click on each name to visit each blog & see their original project! :) 

Miss Kim

Miss Liz

Miss Nikki

Didn't my team do an AMAZING job???  Well, I hope we inspired all of YOU to take an older card that you created & "do it over!" ;)  Thank you ALL for stopping by & I will see you ALL SOON!!! :)
Have a FABULOUS day my sweet friends! xoxo

Inspiration Wednesday & my homework for "Clean & Simple 4" online card class!

GOOD MORNING my sweet friends & welcome to another "Inspiration Wednesday!" 

For my card card today, I was inspired by the talented Miss Shari Carroll!  She is one of the teachers for the "Clean & Simple 4" online card class & she did a technique by die cutting an image out of fun foam & using it as a stamp!  I adhered the die cut to an acrylic block, inked it up & stamped it directly to my card! Using that same foam that I inked up, I removed it from my acrylic block then adhered it slightly on top of the stamped butterfly! Next I used the smaller butterfly die & just cut it out using the same fun foam, but just kept it white!  I added some wink of stella to all 3 of my butterflies! I used some gold/bronzey paint & flicked a tiny bit of splatters on to my card.  I added 3 different kinds of washi tape to the right edge of my card & this is what Miss Shari did to her card & I LOVED that touch! Before I adhered that front panel to the base of my card, I used some gold/bronzey thread, tied it around a few times & made a simple bow~!  I used my Label Font stamp set & stamped out HELLO using that same ink I used for the butterflies which was Simon Says AUDREY BLUE! Then I used some clear embossing powder on top of the sentiment to give it a little shine, then layered it on top of a gold card stock! Last, but certainly not least, I added sequins! 

MCT Products:

~ Pretty Butterflies & Dragonfly dies (will be back in stock on Feb 9)

~ Label Font stamps

Now onto my AWESOME design team! :) Don't forget to click on each name to see what "THERE" inspiration was behind these GORGEOUS projects!

Miss Katie

Miss Kim

Miss Lucia

Miss Nikki

Didn't my team do an AWESOME job like ALWAYS?  Don't forget to visit their blogs to leave them some LOVE!

I just wanted to let you know that I will do a video for you tomorrow!  It's been a crazy busy week & there were NOT enough hours in the day for me to make videos for you these last few days :(
But I will, because I feel like my blog isn't complete w/o a video for you! :)

Thank you ALL for stopping by & I hope you all have a FABULOUS day my sweet friends! xoxo