Hello there and a happy Saturday to you!
I just LOVE this stamp set from My Favorite Things of Snuggle Bunnies. It has the cutest images ever! I'm not a cute person, but MFT knows how to do cute just the way I like cute.
Kimberly Crawford is on the MFT Design Team and she did a video using this stamp set a few months ago coloring on fabric adhesive sheets and I've been wanting to ink this stamp set up since. I loved her card so much that I pretty much CASEd it, but I changed the main image panel on how I ink blended the grass and sky, how I colored the images and used my absolute favorite paper pack of Off The Grid for my background. I finally got a chance to play yesterday and it was an experience to color on this type of fabric. I ended up using some kind of alcohol ink replacement nib rather than the Fantastix that Kimberly used – mainly because I couldn't find all of mine, but managed to find 4 after a short sauna hunt in my garage and the nibs. I colored the images twice. With the Fantastix, my red ended up bleeding. When I switched to the nibs, there was no bleeding in the smaller areas of the images. I used the Fantastix on the larger portions of the image and the nibs on the smaller portions of the image, such as the red stripes on the bunny T-shirt. Coloring on fabric is definitely temperamental. I was pretty proud of myself for staying inside the lines – seriously. Ink and fabric do not generally play well together.
You can rinse out your Fantastix and nibs with warm water after use without soap, but be sure to scribble the color out first on a piece of scratch paper. All stamping and ink blending was done using MFT Hybrid Ink.
For the inside of the card, I went really overboard on the sentiments, but that's okay. It's my card.
I hope that you enjoyed today's card and don't forget to enter my July card drive challenge for Jacob Priestly and to follow me on Instagram for my $500 prize giveaway if I get 500 followers by August 15. It's a lofty goal, but I think I'm going to use IG as my main social media outlet. There is so much out there that keeping up with it is a FT job in and of itself, not to mention a total drag, until I find that magical plug-in or widget that will do it all for me with the correct hashtags and keywords.
Thank you so much for stopping by to visit me today and God bless!
Cut a piece of My Favorite Things Kraft card stock to a standard landscape A2 top-folding card measuring 5-1/2 x 4-1/4 when closed. Use a Teflon bone folder to burnish your score line.
Die-cut a piece of MFT Off The Grid 6×6 Paper Pack using Blueprints 15 and adhere to the Kraft card stock base.
Die-cut a piece of beige Xcut Xtras Adhesive Fabric Sheet with the largest MFT Stitched Rectangles Die-namics. On the same sheet of fabric adhesive, stamp the bunny and bear image using MFT Black Licorice Hybrid Ink and die-cut with the coordinating Die-namics. You can run everything through your die-cutting machine with one pass. I do recommend using an electronic die-cutting machine for this process. I used my Vagabond and ran it back and forth a few times. If an image does not die-cut all the way through, you can either fussy cut or simply flip the sandwich over. As Kimberly demonstrated in her video, she placed her Die-Namics blade side up on her cutting pad, placed the fabric with the front side down on top of the Die-namics, and then ran it through her Big Shot.
Using an ink blending tool, blend in Sour Apple Hybrid Ink on the bottom of the main image panel and Summer Splash Hybrid Ink onto the top 2/3+ of the image panel and the go back to the Sour Apple Hybrid Ink to blend the colors together for a seamless color blend. Using the Fly By Friends stamp set by MFT, stamp on the grass image with Sour Apple Hybrid Ink over the ink blending. I stamped 2 rows.
Stamp your chosen sentiment from MFT Snuggle Bunnies with Black Licorice Hybrid Ink to the upper right of the main image panel. I used my MISTI to do this just in case I needed to stamp the sentiment twice. Then stamp your bunny and bear images onto the fabric from Snuggle Bunnies with Black Licorice Hybrid Ink. For the bunny, I used Pink Lemonade Hybrid Ink for the middle of the ears and cheeks, Cement Gray Hybrid Ink for the rest of the body and Wild Cherry Hybrid Ink for the stripes on the bunny's T-shirt. For the little bear, I used Pink Lemonade Hybrid Ink for his ears, cheeks and paws. The rest of the image was colored in with Chocolate Brown Hybrid Ink.
I carefully peeled off the the backing of the main fabric image and adhered to the center of the card and then peeled off the backing of the images and adhered them to the main fabric image panel with the bunny on the left to balance out the card.
For the inside of the card, I die-cut a piece of Primitive Cream card stock with Blueprints 15, put the panel inside my MISTI, lined up my sentiments and stamped them with Black Licorice Hybrid Ink. I colored the bear for the inside of the card using the same colors as described above onto the fabric, peeled off the backing and adhered to the left of my sentiments. I used 3 different sentiments for the inside of the card and 1 sentiment for the outside of the card.
