Sending Hugs to Someone Special

Love the challenge this week over at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday blog with  "Get in Shape". They don't mean diet and excercise, just no squares or rectangles. Therefore, I came up with this below. 

Here is my card:

It's been a long time since I made an easel card, but this was so much fun to make and wanted to create something special for a dear friend of mine, so went on to create this card. Here is the view when the card is sitting up.

 This is the top view of the card using several products. Started off with die-cutting a Cross Stitched Circle where I created the background by sponging on the color for the grass and sky. Next, added in the sentiment from the set: Big Scripty Greetings. 

Afterwards, I colored in this cute little girl from the set: PI Heart Bouquet using my copic markers where I than added foam mount underneath and popped her up. For the scallop circle card, I used the Bigz Die called: Circle Scallop along with Wild Cherry cardstock

Inside of the card:

For the inside, I cut out another Cross Stitched circle and than another circle using from the new MFT paper pack Dots & Strips. Also, to decorate the inside of the card, I used Modern Blooms stamp set where I popped up the flowers using foam mount so that when you open the card, it acts as a placement stand. 

Once again, here is the finished look when the card is closed. Almost forgot, added some white details to the hearts with dots and stripes. As always, if you haven't checked out the challenge sites, please go take a look to see all the fabulous inspiration and creativity.

MFTWSC227 - Hello with Sweet Heart Bouquet

Such a cute sketch over at the MFT Card Challenges so I didn't want to lose out on a chance to play with this week MFTWSC227. Plus one more chance to join the Simon Says Stamps Wednesday challenge of "Let get sentimental".

Here is my card:

As you can see, I played again with some new stamps I recently got. This stamp set is called the Heart Bouquet. Started with Blueprints 15 using the Steel Blue card stock. Next used my new ink color Tickled Pink along with this beautiful background stamp called: Flourish
 

Colored using my Copic markers once again and than went on to create these flowers using the Modern Blooms set. For the sentiment, I die cut the word 3 times and stacked them up to add some more dimension. Top layer is Cotton Candy card stock.

As always, if you haven't checked out the challenge sites, go check them out to see all the wonderful ideas and inspiration.

Supplies Used: 

Stamp Set: Heart Bouquet (MFT), Modern Blooms (MFT)
Card stock: Smooth White, Steel Gray, Summer Splash, Kraft, Cotton Candy(MFT), X Press It Blending Paper (copic coloring)

Inks: Black Licorice (MFT Hybird), Banana Split (MFT), Lemon Drop (MFT),Certainly Celery & Old Olive (SU), Copic Markers

Accessories: Blueprint 15 (MFT), Stitched Fishtail Flags (MFT), Pierced Fishtail Flags (MFT), Happy Hellos Die-namics (MFT), Modern Blooms Die-namics (MFT), White Sharpie Pen, Wink of Stella, Foam Mount