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MFT Summer Camp Day 1 & MFT Color Challenge 121

Posted by Karen @ MisplacedMojo.com on July 18, 2019 in Cards, Challenges, Uncategorized

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Take 2 on Day 1 of MFT’s Summer Camp! This is another fully watercolored card, painted with the 36 color set of Gansai Tambi’s. I need to use these more often cause I just saw they now offer a 48 pan set but I refuse to buy it (yet) with so much paint left in this set. Today’s card is made with MFT’s Funky Flowers, painted in colors to match the current MFT Color Challenge 🙂 2 for 1 baby!!! I hand painted the background again, though this time its very simple to let the flowers shine! The flowers were fussy cut and popped up on foam tape. I added Nuvo drops to the flower centers for extra dimension. The sentiment is from another great MFT set, Birdie Brown Greetings Galore!

 

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MFT Camp Create 2019 – Day 2 – Remarkable Resist

Posted by Karen @ MisplacedMojo.com on July 17, 2019 in Uncategorized

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Today’s camp activity is called Remarkable Resist. For my card I used MFT’s Wavy Coloring Book Background with Versamark and platinum embossing powder. I love this background, especially for summer because it looks like waves in the ocean to me. Once that was heat set, I used several shades of Zig Clean Color Brush Markers to scribble in color. I wasn’t completely random with the coloring; I used certain shades for certain shapes throughout. I guess I’m a control freak! But then after color coding the image I sprayed the dickens out of it with water to blend the colors. Once dry it was die cut with a stitched rectangle die from Simon Says Stamp. The sentiment is MFT’s Simply Hello Dienamics, cut from silver mirror card stock. I added a few mirrored dots from my stash as a finishing touch. Here’s the close up:

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MFT Summer Camp Day 1 – Watercolor

Posted by Karen @ MisplacedMojo.com on July 17, 2019 in Cards, Challenges

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I’m making an effort to participate in MFT’s Summer Camp every day this week. I had so much fun with the first day’s event of watercolor, you may see more than one card from the effort! This card, using MFT’s Friends in the Forest, is my favorite!!! I used my 36 Gansai Tambi watercolors on Arches cold press paper to create a background freehand. I used greens to create loose trees, a pale blue wash for the sky, and blues and purples to create what I intended as snow drifts but it also kinda looks like a pond iced over. Either way, its a place for my critters to gather and share in the winter fun! I also used the same watercolor set to paint the stamped images, which were then fussy cut when dry and popped with varying thicknesses of foam tape. The sentiment is from the same stamp set and stamped directly on the card front, which I die cut with a Simon Says Stamp stitched rectangle die. As a finishing touch I added Wink of Stella to the snow/ice, which is notoriously difficult to photograph! I’m hoping you can see it on one of the close up pictures. So frustrating!!! I debated about flicking white paint for falling snow and couldn’t bring myself to do it for fear of messing it up! This was so much fun to create!!! I made multiple backgrounds while I had the paint and watercolor paper out so I’m going to see what else I can pull together this week!

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Watermelon Card Set

Posted by Karen @ MisplacedMojo.com on July 10, 2019 in Cards

Quick post today with a card set inspired by Chari Moss in a set she created for Lawn Fawn. Here are side by side pictures, first mine than Chari’s. She used dies to make her seeds, putting black paper behind the pink to use the negative space. She also used dies for most of the sentiments. I didn’t have anything suitable dies, and for my seed I used one of the first stamp sets I ever bought, KI Memories (remember them?) called Garden. Many times I almost purged this set as I’ve never used it, but it’s small and takes so little storage space, and “you never know when you may need it”. I was vindicated! Today just made purging anything from this point on even harder! LOL

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The Misti was invaluable in the repeat stamping of these cards. All the cardstock came from the scrap pile too. Gotta love that! The sentiments are from 1) MFT’s Friends in the Forest, 2) The Stamps of Life’s Stand Up 4 Sentiments, and 3) Technique Tuesday’s mini set You’re So Sweet, all used for the first time as well. Rarely do I ever case a card so quickly or so closely but I thought these would be quick and easy. Thanks to the repeat stamping, it was neither but still fun to make!

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As this was not my design or idea, I’m not submitting these cards to any challenges 🙂

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Sitting Here Thinking of You with Hero Arts

Posted by Karen @ MisplacedMojo.com on July 9, 2019 in Cards, Challenges

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My mom passed away 10 years ago. Seems like it was just yesterday. Certain dates and events are especially hard for my dad now that she is gone. Their anniversary is coming up, and while this isn’t “exactly” a sympathy card, that really is what this is. Thinking of you in your time of need and loss. My mom always taught me to pick sympathy cards that are in muted colors as she felt bright cards were too garish for the occasion. I see some cards posted by other crafters, and I think to myself… If you could change the sentiment to Happy Birthday and it work, than your card is too cheerful to be a sympathy card. But that’s just me. Coincidentally, my house is decorated in grays and blacks, so this looks close to where I might actually sit to think of someone dear. And conveniently A Blog Named Hero’s challenge this month with Hero Arts products is Sympathy. Good timing!

The stamps are from Hero Arts Wishing You Were Here, and I watercolored the images with Tombow markers and a waterbrush. The embossing behind the card front is from Lifestyle Crafts Woven embossing folder. The card front and mat were die cut with Pink & Main’s Rounded Rectangles dies.

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Happy Birthday Art Impressions!

Posted by Karen @ MisplacedMojo.com on July 8, 2019 in Cards, Challenges

As part of the celebration of Art Impressions 32nd birthday, their monthly challenge this month is Birthdays! I chose to make a card with their Birthday Wishes stamp set. I paired it with a color combo from the July Daring Card Makers challenge, though I didn’t follow their challenge requirements, so I’m not submitting to them. I did a little bit of masking on the balloons, and then colored all the images with Tombow markers and a water brush. If it were not for the card panel being matted on a kraft card base, this would be a one layer card.

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My dad and brother both have January birthdays, which I am notorious for not acknowledging with a card. I think I go into a post-holiday coma or something. LOL  Anyway, I decided to be proactive and make their cards early.

ETA: This card placed in the Top 3 at Createful Heart Design!

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Missing You Always beach scene

Posted by Karen @ MisplacedMojo.com on June 26, 2019 in Cards, Challenges

This card is hopefully going to serve two purposes… one, to tell my friend I miss her, and two, for her to re-purpose and send to her daughter 🙂

I was inspired by a color combo for the current challenge at Crazy 4 Challenges. And there are so many beach and summer challenges this week, so I had plenty of motivation to create this little scene.

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I stamped the images from Stampin’ Up’s By The Seashore in Impression Obsession hybrid inks. I really love their assortment of colors and how there are three shades of each color, perfect for layering stamp sets. Here I only used one shade on each. The water was created by using Tattered Angel glimmer mists (remember those?!?) and tearing the edge of the paper to reveal the white core, which I then coated with Wink of Stella. The card base is kraft, and to create the look of sand I dotted the lower corner with three shades of alcohol markers, a white gel pen, and my trusty Wink of Stella. The sentiment comes from the Brushstroke Expressions set from My Favorite Things and was stamped in Tree Branch Archival Ink in case the glimmer mist gave me any troubles. I realized (not for the first time) that you can never have too many inks 🙂 The shells are glued flat to the card but the crab is popped up on foam tape for dimension. Debated about adding Nuvo drops but I need this card to make it through the mail twice, so I decided against it. My friend can add bling on her end if she chooses. So much more shimmery IRL!

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The inside of the kraft card is lined with 2 white panels, the bottom glued down permanently, and the top with removable glue. My message will be on top but she can remove it to reuse the card for her daughter.

ETA: This card was chosen as winner of The Artist Stamper June challenge!!!

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I am submitting this card in the following challenges:

  1. Always Fun Challenges – #116 Fun at the Beach
  2. Crazy4Challenges – #489 Surf and Sand Color Combo
  3. The Artistic Stamper – By the Seaside
  4. Pile It On – #155 Vacation – beach –
  5. Make My Monday – Begins with Letter B – beach
  6. Just Us Girls – #493 Photo Inspiration – beach
  7. Words 2 Craft By – #66 Running Barefoot – on the beach!
  8. Simon Says Stamp – Vacation/Travel – beach
  9. Sasayaki Glitter Stamps – Making Waves –
  10. Daring Cardmakers – Midsummer Day
  11. Sweet Stampin Challenge – Summer
  12. Ellibelle’s Crafty Wednesday – June/July – Summer Scenes, Treats, or Colors –
  13. Bastel-Traum – #78 Summer –
  14. Angie’s Digital Stamps – #32 AG W/Opt Fun in the Sun
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