My Favorite Things - Friendship & Flowers February Card Kit

The MFT Stamp February card kit 'Friendship & Flowers' is now available for purchase.  If you loved January's Flower Fusion Kit you're going to love this one too!  Here's what I've used in the making of this card:-

Friendly Flowers 5 piece stencil set

Holiday Plaid 6 x 6 Paper Pad

Essential Stitched Sentiment Die-namics

Essential Messages

This is a 5 3/4 inch square card and I started by preparing my layered panels starting with a 5 3/4 inch white square, then a 5 1/2 inch patterned panel from the Holiday Plaid paper pad and then 3 decreasingly smaller panels created using MFT's cardstock in Cotton Candy, Poppin' Pink and then finally another white panel which I didn't glue down yet.

The floral stencil set has 5 stencils total, but for this design I only used stencils 1, 2, 3 and 5 and with stencil 2 I chose to only ink the trio of dots design.

My ink colours for stencilling are:-

Poppin' Pink by MFT

Cotton Candy by MFT

Spun Sugar Distress Oxide Ink

Field Day by MFT

Limelight by MFT

So I worked through the stencils I was using, softly ink blending, sometimes choosing not to fully ink blend the entire image for a more defused or 'shabby chic' appearance.

Once I was happy I adhered down this final panel.

To finish up, I stamped the sentiment from Essential Messages using Memento Ink in Rich Cocoa and applied the strip with foam tape and to add a little dimension I used Nuvo drops in pink and white to the centre of the flowers and a few scattered elsewhere.

Here's a look at the entire kit but you can as always, purchase components of the kit separately:-

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My Favorite Things - Friendship & Flowers February Card Kit

 

Welcome to my blog where I'm sharing my first of two cards featuring the February card kit by MFT Stamps which is called 'Friendship & Flowers'.  Following on from the very popular January card kit called Flower Fusion, this month's kit gives you some playful angles to work with, some new sentiments (although I used a sentiment from last month's kit) and reformatted layering stencils to work with the new angled stencil.  Here's what I've used for this card:-

Friendly Flowers 5 piece stencil set

Smart Mask - Diagonal Center Strip stencil

Essential Messages

My card started with a white A2 panel of sturdy cardstock.  Over this I layered the Smart Mask - Diagonal Center Strip stencil.  I then set about using each of the five Friendly Flowers layering stencils in turn and ink blending through them.  They are numbered for ease of use.

I used a selection of primarily purple, blue and green inks for my design these were either from MFT's ink line or Distress Oxide inks.   When it came to the fifth and final stencil in the set I used a sparkling Gelly Roll pen and drew around the outside of each little bloom cut-out and when I lifted the stencil off I continued to colour in with the pen.   It doesn't photograph well but in person when the card is handled it's a rather lovely sophisticated touch.  Before removing the Smart Mask stencil I continued with the Gelly Roll pen and went around the outside of the two portions and it looks like metallic thread.  Glitter is allll in the movement right?

To finish the card, I stamped the sentiment in my Misti using Grape Jelly Ink by MFT and I used a purple pen with a fine tip to go around the outside of those small light purple flowers to make them pop more.   I then sized the card up to an A6 by adding two panels of cardstock, one in Boysenberry and then the last one is white again.  These were all glued together and then to my card base and I highlighted sparingly with a white gel pen and added white Nuvo drops to the centre of some of the blooms for added interest.

Here's a look at the whole kit below.

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