Blooming Where You're Planted

     Even though I posted on Saturday and expressed how excited I was to now be a member of MHK Designs DT, today is my official introduction as a team member so I'm sharing one more card.

I based this on the sketch from The Outlawz,

turned sideways 1/4 turn.

     This gorgeous image comes from the "Blossoming" set, as does the sentiment.  I colored it lightly with my ProMarkers, then die cut it with one of my newest Spellbinders die sets.  Oh, yes, I'm really going to love this set of dies!   I layered that onto black CS and hand cut around the outside shape so that the black makes a mat behind the negative parts of the die cut.  The entire image piece is adhered on Pop Dots.

     I used Swiss Dot embossed CS and added black ribbon across the bottom of the card.  The Bow Tie bow was made on my new Zutter Bow-It-All.   I'm going to be doing more of those, too.  I love the way they look and, in fact, I used the rest of that roll of black and white polka dot ribbon, turning it all into Bow Ties.  The sentiment was fussy cut and matted, then fussy cut again.

     I suppose this is actually a CAS design but the die cut frame makes it look rather fancy, don't you think?  I guess this is another example of why paper crafts are such a favorite of mine -- an immediate "satisfaction" reward seeing the end result quickly.  :-D

     Challenges:
As You Like It
Aud Sentiments
Craft Rocket
Crafty Addict
Crafty Friends
Crafty Girls Creations
Crazy 4 Challenges
Hannah and Friends
I {heart} ProMarkers
Inspiration Destination
Let's Color Saturday
Moving Along with the Times
Scrapper's Delight
Sweet Stampin'
Time Out (turned sideways)
WordArt Weds.
   
     I hope you're going to fall in love with Mynn's gorgeous designs as much as I have.  She has the most fabulous combination of vintage and retro digis along with lots of shabby papers and modern sentiments.  Don't forget that MHK Designs has its first ever challenge going on until February 16 and all you need to do is take a peek at the inspiration photo, and make something inspired by it.  It might be the colors, the flowers, the ribbon -- you pick it.  Then come play with us in the Challenge.

     Additional information regarding the challenges at MHK Designs --

You are NOT required to use MHKDesings products to enter the challenge BUT if you do, the challenge theme then is ANYTHING GOES.   That means you can choose not to follow the challenge inspiration at all but only if you use MHK Designs products.

You all have a choice of EITHER using the Photo Inspiration OR the Colour Swatch provided by the challenge prompt.  You are not required to use both. If you want to do both, that's ok too. It's all about options.  :-D

We are not a card-only challenge. All forms of paper crafts are welcome: cards, scrapbook layouts, tags, gift card holders, boxes, bags, art journal pages, multimedia artwork, etc. 

     Happy Stamping.  NanaConnie

Blossoming Set

   Challenge Inspiration Photo