It's time for a new Birthday Project Challenge over at the MFT Challenge & Inspiration blog. This month we're challenged to use bears on our birthday projects.

I chose the Beary Special Birthday stamp set & Die-namics, the Wish Die-namics, and the Circle Burst stencil to create my card for today.

I die cut a panel of Smooth White card stock using the A2 Stitched Rectangle STAX Set 1 Die-namics and stenciled the Circle Burst using Lemon Chiffon and Bubblegum Premium Dye Inks to create a background. I die cut the "WISH" out of it, and also cut the word three times out of Bubblegum card stock. I stacked them up after adhering the panel to the card base.

I stamped the bear image on watercolor paper with Kraft Hybrid Ink and colored with watercolors. I'm obsessed with watercoloring recently. Honestly, I'm not so happy with how my coloring turned out. :( I'm still learning the basics of watercolor techniques by watching so many tutorial videos on YouTube. I know that watching videos doesn't improve my skill, those videos are very helpful in knowing about basic techniques though. I need to do a lot of practice and experiments, just wish I had more free time for that.

Anyway, I cut out the colored image with the matching die, cut off one of his legs (Ouch!), and adhered next to the "H" so he is peeking out from behind the word. I stamped the "Happy Bear-thday" on a speech bubble cut with a die from the Essential Speech Bubbles Die-namics. Several sequins were added to finish off the card.

Visit the MFT Challenge & Inspiration blog for the challenge details and for more inspiration from the DT! Remember that you'll have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher by entering your project to the challenge.

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Hello!! Today I'm sharing a card that I made for this week's MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge (WSC 390).

To create this card, I cut a Smooth White panel using the A2 Rectangle STAX Set 1 Die-namics and stamped it with the Triple Stripe Background using Lemon Drop Premium Dye Ink. (I'm really sorry that the Triple Background stamp has just retired. I made this card before I got to know it was on the retirement products list.) Then I cut out two openings with the Mod Square STAX Die-namics and stamped the sentiment with Hot Fudge Premium Dye Ink. I made a watercolored background on a panel of watercolor paper, adhered it to the card base, and attached the stamped panel over it with foam tape.

The bird images were stamped on watercolor paper with Kraft Hybrid Ink and were colored with watercolors. The leaves were stamped with Limelight and Dill Pickle Premium Dye Inks. I cut them out with the matching dies and adhered with foam tape. I added several Clear Round Drops (3mm, 6mm, 8mm) to finish off the card.

Head on over to the MFT Challenge & Inspiration blog for the challenge details and for more inspiration from the DT. Hope you'll play along with us this week!

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It's time for a new sketch challenge over at the MFT Challenge & Inspiration blog.

This week's sketch is very simple, so it has many possibilities.

First I cut a panel of watercolor paper with the largest die from the A2 Rectangle STAX Set 1 Die-namics. I made a watercolor background and stamped the schools of small fish from the Beach Buds stamp set with Tropical Teal Premium Dye Ink.

I stamped the fish with Kraft Hybrid Ink on watercolor paper and colored it with watercolor. After it dried, I cut it out with the matching die and adhered with foam tape. The sentiment was white embossed on a Purple Rain panel cut with the Slanted Sentiment Strips Die-namics. After I adhered the panel to a Summer Splash card base, I added a couple of Crystal Clear Confetti to finish off the card.

Head on over to the MFT Challenge & Inspiration blog for the challenge details and for more inspiration from the DT. Remember that you'll have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher by participating in the challenge! 

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