Hello Scrapbook Expo friends! We are back today with another great giveaway from one of our friends. This week, I had the pleasure of working with stamps and dies from My Favorite Things. I really enjoy working with clear stamps that have coordinating dies. These coordinated sets make it much easier to cut out the small characters that are so fun to work with. For these projects, I worked with the Birdie Brown You Gnome Me stamps and dies, Pure Innocence Heart Bouquet stamps and dies as well as the Die-namics Blueprints 23 set.
I started off by die cutting a series of items on white cardstock and stamping their coordinating images onto the cut shapes.
I then used my blendable colored pencils to colour a series of images. I always colour more than I am going to use so I can see how the different colours affect how the characters will look on the white and/or coloured cardstock base. It also means I have lots of images for later as well 🙂
On this first card, I used the large rectangle panel to mount the image and sentiment. I really like how the rectangle has the appearance of stitching on both the top and bottom edges.
On this next card, I added a few enamels dots to the coloured images to add a little bit of dimension to the card. hehe … I love this sentiment … “You Gnome Me So Well.”
For this last card, I created a shaker card. I started by cutting the navy cardstock piece to the full size for mounting on the card base and then used the rectangle panel die to create the opening space. I adhered a single red heart on to the heart bouquet that the little girl is holding. I then filled the shaker space with matching foil hearts. The sentiment was stamped using a rainbow stamp pad and is raised on foam dots above the clear acetate piece of the shaker.
This last project includes a few project life style cards. Given that I have been filling my albums with a combination of both 12×12 layouts and pocket pages, I often create 2×3 and 4×6 project life style cards that I can use later.
As soon as I saw the Birdie Brown stamps, they reminded me of moments with my kids when they were small. The card on the left reminds me of my daughter when she was small. She loved to wear orange and used to pick flowers from our garden and bring little bouquets to me all the time. I can’t wait to find one of her photos to use with this card!
So there you have it. Wasn’t that fun! I am a new fan of the Birdie Brown and Pure Innocence collections.
Now that you have seen how much fun that I had using the stamps and dies from My Favorite Things, would you be interested in winning some for yourself? Of course you would!
Our friends at My Favorite Things are offering a $25 gift certificate to one lucky Scrapbook Expo friend. For your chance to win this giveaway, leave a comment on this blog post telling us what stamps and/or dies you would choose from My Favorite Things if you won this giveaway. The giveaway runs until 6pm EST on Thursday, April 30th. Once you have left a comment on this blog post, why not visit My Favorite Things at one or more of these locations:
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- Challenge Blog: cardchallenges.com
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Last week’s Freebie Friday post was sponsored by Stampendous. Thank you to everyone who commented on last week’s blog post! Lots of you have jumped in and gotten your hands messy, and lots more of you are excited to jump in and get your hands messy. I sure enjoyed turning my fingers blue! The winner of the Stampendous prize pack is Evelyn.
Congratulations Evelyn! Please send your mailing address to Jen Walker and include ‘Stampendous winner’ in the subject line.
Don’t forget … If you want a chance to win a $25 Gift Certificate from My Favorite Things, you need to leave a comment on this post telling us what stamps and/or dies you would choose from My Favorite Things if you won.
Thanks for joining me this week and I hope you have a fabulous weekend! See you next week! Until then, have fun getting creative.
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~ Jen
Love the cards…one of my girls loves gnomes…
C U T E Cards!!!
I like the MPD Winged Beauties Stamps!!!
THANKS for the Chance to W I N !!!
I love MFT stamps and die-namics! I have a whole bunch on my wish list that it’s so hard to pick just one. But I have been wanting the Stitched Rectangles die-namics for a while now! Thanks for the chance to win! Fingers crossed! 🙂
Love this!! I adore MFT products–my wishlist is quite large!! I have the stitched dies on my list…and I love the word dies….
I really like the stamps and dies by Lisa Johnson Designs. I think my favorite are the Primative pumpkins stmps and dies. The for the great giveaway!
Does all of their stuff count because I think I’d take the whole site lol. But I am really wanting the You Gnome Me set because the little guy with his hands up is screaming make me into a shaker card.
I really like the entire Pure Innocence line! It would be very hard to choose which ones!
I have been eyeing the stacked stitched inside out rectangles for months! I would finally be able to get them if I won!!
I would choose Lisa Johnson’s grand peaceful garden!! Thanks so much for a chance to win!!!
Love, love, love the Gnome set – I have so many My Favority Things dies that this set would go nicely!
I would choose one of the STAX-nested shape dies. They would make it so much easier to create beautiful homemade greeting cards. Right now, I cut nearly everything out by hand.
I LOVE their dies! I would pick the Pierced Snowflakes set! So beautiful!
I just love Birdie Brown, she is so adorable. And these are super cute cards and products. If I won the gift certificate I would pick up BB Warmest Wishes stamp and die set.
There are so many cute stamps it’s hard to decide. Maybe the music background or the abstract art.
I love flowers so my fav is LDJ Grand Wildflowers! They are beautiful and so versatile !!!!
I would choose MFT’s video game stamps and with as I am surrounded by gamers.
I love the Birdie Brown stamps!
This is such a great give a way. I enter so many but never win. If I am lucky enough to win this one, I think I would love some from the pet and animal collection. Maybe something from winter as a second choice. They are all so special it would be hard to choose.
I love the you gnome me stamps !! Thanks for running the contest….love the cards
I love MFT. they have the cutest stamps and dies.
Love the cards. the coloring is wonderful.
thanks for sharing.
I love the mushroom and little snails. I have all kinds of ideas to use them. They are so cute!
I adore so many of the stamps and Dies! Were I blessed to win this contest, I would start with the BB I Knead You Stamp and Die-Namics set. ( Praying it will be back in stock soon!) It is too precious. Next up would be the BB Everyday is a Picnic set. I WANT IT ALL!!!! Thank you for this opportunity to register for the generous prize.
I am a Disney fanatic so I would love to win the Magical Memories dies. They would be a perfect addition to all my Disney layouts. Thanks for the chance to win.
Super cards…love the gnomes!!!!!!!!
I love the dienamics mini doileys…they would be so useful!!! Thank you for the chance to win some!!!!!!
Cute cards! I only have one Blueprint set. I would like a couple more of those. And their newest diecut/stamp for felines. Since we love our cats in my family. TFS
I love all the different cards you made with those stamps Jen. I’m a HUGE MFT fan. If I was lucky enough to win, I’d either pick a new blueprints set or the stitched circle STAX set. Thank you for the chance to win such a great prize!
There are so many that I want, but first on my list is the Garden Flourish Background stamp and then the Simply Circles Background stamp. But that is just the beginning of my wish list. I love this company and am slowly but surely adding to my stash. Thanks for the chance to win such an awesome prize.
Love the gnome stamps. My husband is obsessed with gnomes. I would make a Father’s Day card with gnomes for him.
I love stamps with coordinating dies. The images are adorable and the cards are so cute!! Thanks for the chance.
Oh my!! I think I might just have to get this set! I was just at Scrapbook Expo in Puyallup over the weekend, and bought some gnome brads from Eyelet Outlet! My brother-in-law is a gnome collector, and his birthday is in May. Would be so perfect for him!
Cute cards. It is a hard choice to chose just one because I want them ALL! 🙂
I would love the BB Somebunny stamps as well as PI Holiday Hugs Snowman – so cute! Thanks for the chance to win.
I would pick the hightop sneakers die set and the coffee cup stamp /die set they are so cute .
Love the birdie brown little girl with the flowers.
Oh my gosh – if I won I would without a doubt have to get the Super-boy stamps and matching dies to go along with the “You’re Super” ones that I already own! Then I would probably have to get some MFT stencils because they have the coolest stencils ever!!! I think the brick wall stencil would go good with those super hero sets – Hmm – my wish list keeps growing!!!
Wow – I’d never been to their website before to see how much they have! I would probably get the Die-namics Blueprints 13. Finding ways to journal, other than on a plain white square of paper, is a problem for me. With something like the blueprint dies, I would be able to dress up the journals in a cute way.
I love the Pure Innocence set, so many cute, fun stamps from MFT that it is hard to chose. All your cards are adorable & I love the colours!
I’m just building up my stash of dies and I really like the fishbowl set, it would coordinate well with some of the stamps I already have.
I would love to have the LJD words of inspiration set. I am disabled and I know what it means to me to receive a card with words like that so I like to make cards with those same kind of words and send them to others in need and brighten their day, Paying it forward is what I say. You never know when your words may save a life. 🙂
I love many, many of your products – it is really hard to choose!! I would be happy with anything! I like the Pure Innocence series, the stitched stax dies, Birdie Brown stamps & dies and most any of the word stamps. 🙂
Love the gnome set – could really have fun with those!
I would probably get the berry box die for my best friend!
I would love to get the heart balloon dies, the bicycle die, the tool dies and some adhesive sheets…….to start : D
I would get the pet stamps BB You Make my Tail wag and BB you have my heart. Also love all the pet dies. My dog is my baby so I love everything to do with pets.
I’d definately have a hard choice here but my order would start with the YOU GNOME ME SO WELL AND ENDED WITH ANY OF THE LAST FOUR BLUEPRINTS,BUT DEFINATELY this stamp an dies
love the cards and the ideas of stamp and dies the ones I like are the You gnome me and then I would move on to the Stencil sets that I have started to love more and more I would start with Stencil MPD Winged Beauties, move on to the fishnets and waves, and so many more that I want
Love the ideas….love the gnomes…love this company!!
I love all things MFT, but I would love to have their Coffee stamp and die set! Thanks for a chance to win!!!
I love the set you used! There are so many ways to use the dies and stamps! It would be awesome to win a GC!