Two-Tone Resist, Try #1

I tried, I really did! I know what went wrong, but this card turned out pretty, none the less! I tried the two-tone resist technique from the mfp February blog hop as my background. The resist didn't show up due to the fact that I slightly embossed the black leaf pattern on. In person this card is shiny and pretty. Here it is dull and simple looking. Hmm, maybe I need to use a real camera rather than my phone for these photos. More work, but worth a try!

I'll enter this in the Mark's Finest Paper's Oriental Sketch Challenge #67.

I used the flowers from the Asian Delights stamp set for the resist background and the flowers in the foreground. I also used that sentiment.

I'm also going to enter this in the Word Art Wednesday Challenge.

Circles too

Here is another card for the mfp Speedy Fox and Friends "Sponged Circles" challenge. I tried to use different colors and sizes of circles. I'm still a big fan of the warm colors but I am happy with how this turned out.

I used the Java Time 2014 stamp set. It's so exciting to have a host of new stamps to play with!

It's disappointing that my pretty blue card stock is showing up as white. I think it's time to google the best way to take pictures to be able to show the colors better!

Circles

With all the new ideas for making your own background, I may never have to buy designer paper again! The challenge this week in Speedy Fox and Friends is to create a background using Sponged Circles. This can lend itself to so many themes by just changing the colors and circle sizes.

And by reading the blogs from the Design Team, I decided to pre-cut my circles from a piece of acrylic. It was super easy after that to sponge them neatly on the card stock. (Thank you Lis!)

The DT did a great job with their cards. Be sure to see their cards by clicking on the link above.

This card is made using an owl stamp from the Halloween Selection 2012 that I received this year and the saying is from the Take Time 2013 set.

Diamond Fold Technique

How fun is it to learn a new technique and have it turn out good the first try? WooHoo!

The Diamond Fold seems a little tricky until you make one and then you get the Ah-Ha moment. The tutorial from Mark's Finest Papers is here.

I'm sure no one will be surprised that I'm putting this in the mfp FOSTV#154 challenge.

Oriental Sketch

I admit, oriental is not the way I go for decorating or usually card making but I recently received some stamp sets from Mark's Finest Papers for challenges won in the past and one of them was the Asian Delights 2012 set. (Thank you Cora and Amanda!!)

So I had to enter this week's oriental challenge to use the new stamps! I love the sketches that are offered and this particular one couldn't be any easier to follow.

I am getting to this late in the time frame allowed but since I've only been home one week and 2 days, I feel I'm getting back into the fun.

I will enter this in the mfp Oriental Sketch Challenge #64. These ladies are very pretty and I used the tutorial on the website called Beyond Borders to highlight them. The background card stock is a pretty yellow from my home made stash.