The Joys of Card Making | Sweet Art Designs by Myrna Sweet

Outlawz – Thursday with a Twist – Fun in the Sun – June 22nd

June 22, 2017 / Myrna / One comment

Hello everyone. I was invited to be a guest designer for the month of June by the DT team at Outlawz. You can join for free! They have a fabulous blog – full of challenges, tutorials, forum, freebies, gallery and more. I am designing for their Thursday Twist Challenges. This challenge is “open” with a added twist each week. This week’s Twist is “Fun in the Sun.” I designed two different cards for this challenge. Click on the link below to find out more about this fabulous group, The Outlawz Challenges. I made two cards for this challenge. This month’s sponsor is Whimsy Stamps.

Card 1: For my first card, The sentiment is by Whimsy Stamps, called “Vintage Sentiments.” This is my “Go To” for digital sentiment stamps. There are 14 general script sentiment stamps with this file. I used an adorable Bugaboo (retired) stamp called, “Sumduckdive.”. I coloured him with Copics, fussy cut him out and set aside. Next I arranged the layout and using Sun die from MFT - SUN, MOON & STARS, and the wave and fish dies from Marianne Designs - Eline’s Whale and Eline’s Tropical Fish. I assembled the card using glue and dimensionals and added some gem bubbles for the finishing touch.

Card 2:

For my second card, The sentiment is by Whimsy Stamps, called “Vintage Sentiments.” This is my “Go To” for digital sentiment stamps. There are 14 general script sentiment stamps with this file. I used an adorable Bugaboo (retired) stamp called, “Sumduckswim.”. I coloured him with Copics, fussy cut him out and set aside. Next I arranged the layout and used the wave, fish, and plant dies from Marianne Designs - Eline’s Whale and Eline’s Tropical Fish. I assembled the card using glue and dimensionals and added some gem bubbles for the finishing touch.

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Category: Birthday, Guest Designer / Tags: Bugaboo Stamps, Marianne Designs, Whimsy Stamps

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge 421 – 22nd of June – Animals

June 22, 2017 / Myrna / No comments

A couple of months back. I took a class with Heather Telford. She is on the Design Teams for both Penny Black and Darkroom Door. She showed us how to create beautiful and colourful backgrounds using Distress Ink Stains on watercolour paper. These are the cards I made at home. The stamp sets are from Darkroom Door - Background Stamp – Tribal and Rubber Stamp Set – African Trees.

I stamped the images first and let dry for five minutes. Next using a wide brush and plain water I wet the paper surface. Next using the same brush I blending various shades of yellow, orange and red. Once dry, I glued image to the card base and added a sentiment.

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Category: Birthday, C.R.A.F.T. Challenge Design Team, Cards / Tags: Darkroom Door, Distress Ink

52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown – Theme Challenge – Nutcracker(s) or Toy Soldier(s)

June 17, 2017 / Myrna / 2 comments

I love this challenge because I challenged myself to make a Christmas Card designed specifically for a boy. I used Tim Holtz’s Christmas Stamps. Their were 4 stamps in this group: tree, snowman, toy soldier, and snowflake. Note: You can also buy them as individual stamps. I stamped and coloured the soldier 4 times. I used the dull image for the base and inked the areas around the soldier with various brown distress inked. The actual soldier, I coloured with Copics. I then fussy cut his head, hat, gloves, boots, and crossed embellishments and layered them on the base using foam dimensionals. I also distressed the card stock around the toy soldier image and added amber gems and natural twine.

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Category: 52 {C}CT Design Team, Cards, Christmas / Tags: Copics, Distress Ink, Tim Holtz

Outlawz – Thursday’s with a Twist – Christmas – June 15th

June 15, 2017 / Myrna / One comment

Hello everyone. I was invited to be a guest designer for the month of June by the DT team at Outlawz. You can join for free! They have a fabulous blog – full of challenges, tutorials, forum, freebies, gallery and more. I am designing for their Thursday Twist Challenges. This challenge is “open” with a added twist each week. This week’s Twist is “Christmas.” To find out more about this fabulous group click on the link below.

I made two cards for this challenge. Both Skating themes, both totally different.

Card 1: For my first card I used an adorable image from Bugaboo Stamps, called “Winbird Skate”. I coloured him with my Copic markers and layered him on red and black card stock. For some added fun, I used red Stickles for snowflakes and the heart tattoo on his rump. The sentiment is by Whimsy Stamps, called “Merry and Bright Digital Sentiments“. There are 11 fun sentiments and 4 Christmas stamps.

Card 2: I love bears, especially Polar Bears! The bears are from MFT, “BB Polar Bear Pals.” I started by colouring the bears with my Copic markers. Next I fussy cut them out and put aside. Next using scraps of card stock, I made a snowy background, complete with frozen lake. I arranged my little critters and for the final detail added clear Stickles. The sentiment is by Whimsy Stamps, called “Merry and Bright Digital Sentiments“. There are 11 fun sentiments and 4 Christmas stamps.

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Category: Cards, Christmas, Guest Designer / Tags: Bugaboo Digis, Copics, MFT, Whimsy Stamps

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge 420 – 15th of June – Christmas

June 15, 2017 / Myrna / No comments

I don’t use patterned papers as often as I should. For these two cards I found these great papers by Kaisercraft and just let the papers decide the appropriate images the add. I thought they both made a wonderful background for Tiddly Inks - WinterLight Wishes – Wryn | Digital Stamp. I often will stamp or print out numerous images and colour them at night while watching TV. In this case I used Copic markers. When I was going through my paper/card stock stash I thought the papers and image were perfect. I fussy cut out the little girl and bear and layered them on the paper. The sentiments were part of the same paper pack. I love the results.