The other day I was playing along with My Favorite Thing’s Background Bonanza challenge and I came up with another idea.

I finally had a chance to make the card and get it posted here.

I made my own Scrabble tiles by using some wood veneer paper and alphabet stamps. Normally I would have centered the letters, but, with this alignment, it is like an actual game with everything making correct words.

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Today is the last day of MFT Camp Create Session 2. The challenge is: Background Bonanza (stamp an all-over background using little images). Here is my card:

I chose three small flowers from the Flashy Floral set and added a few Grout Gray dots from Party Patterns. The leaf is actually the second layer, so to add a second layer, I used a brush-tip marker.

My last badge (I caught them all *wink*):

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Today’s MFT Camp Create challenge is Magnificent Masking. Here is what I made:

My background was made by die-cutting a bunch of snowflakes from masking paper and laying them onto my card stock. I sponged on a few distress inks. Unfortunately, my masking paper is very old and not very sticky, hence the fade of sponging at the edge and the not-quite-as-blended-as-I-would-hope-for look.

I loved Camp Counselor Laurie’s card and how she used a vellum pennant for the sentiment. So I did the same. My sentiment is heat embossed.

I don’t have any clear sequins, but I do have these iridescent ones that I thought complemented the background colors well. Hmmm…they actually look like clear ones in the photo, but in real life they are somewhat creamy white with a iridescent pink/purple shine.

Another badge:

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A new day at camp: MFT’s Camp Create! Today’s challenge is Inlaid Diecutting.

When doing a multi-layer scene with inlaid diecutting, I like the base to be black – I love the pop the colors make, and doing this with stamping and masking is so much harder to me.

It was a challenge to keep track of all the little pieces, but totally worth it – I love how this turned out.

I earned another badge:

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I’m playing along with today’s MFT Camp Create challenge – Coloring on Kraft.

I only have a couple outline images from MFT, so figuring out what image to use was actually pretty easy 🙂 I knew I could have fun coloring these flowers in an artsy way.

I used my MISTI to stamp the images with a light brown ink. Then I colored them. And then I stamped the images a few times using a dark brown ink. I’m a messy colorer, so I knew my lines would get lost – hence the overstamping after the coloring.

We won’t talk about how this is the second card I made. Word to the wise – even if you have a super awesome tool (like MISTI), if you aren’t paying attention, you can still mess it up on the VERY LAST impression! But it worked out as I didn’t like the way I colored the smaller flowers the first time, so I was able to correct it the second round!

I’ve earned another badge:

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My Favorite Things has started another session of Camp Create. Last session looked fun, so I definitely want to participate this week!

The first challenge is Fantastic Foiling. The challenge was to use something shiny on your card.

To be honest I haven’t had much luck with foiling, so I went a different route with this card:

I used a gold liquid leaf to add highlights to my flamingo (hence the “golden sun” in the post title). I also die cut the sentiment from gold foil paper.

The card needed just a bit of something else but I didn’t want to compete with the gold, so I added some die-cut leaf embossings.

I’ve earned a badge!

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