MFT Guest Designer| Monkey Valentine's Day Card

MFT Guest Designer | Monkey Valentine’s Day Card

I’m very excited to be joining My Favorite Things Sketch Challenges as a Guest Designer for January 2016. I’ll be sharing 4 cards over the next 4 weeks based on the sketches provided, sharing my first project today. Its been awhile since I made a project base on a sketch, I miss that a lot. A good sketch is always fun to work with, it makes it very easy to make a card or any project really.

I have to say it was fun and exciting to play with new goodies from MFT, double that considering most of them are Valentine’s Day products and I had a blast making Valentine’s Day cards! Today I’m sharing a Monkey Valentine’s project – I like you more than a monkey likes bananas.

MFT Guest Designer| Monkey Valentine's Day Card

I used Cheeky Monkey stamp set and Die-namics to create these adorable animals on my card. I used my VersaFine Onyx Black ink and stamped images onto Arches cold press watercolor paper, cut out using matching dies and colored using my watercolors.

MFT Guest Designer| Monkey Valentine's Day Card

The background was created by drawing stripes using a large flat brush and watercolors, I used the same Arches watercolor paper for the background as I used for the monkeys.

MFT Guest Designer| Monkey Valentine's Day Card

Finally I heat embossed a sentiment in white embossing powder, foam mounted my watercolor background onto light grey card base, foam mounted my monkeys and added a few clear dots.

MFT Guest Designer| Monkey Valentine's Day Card

SUPPLIES

Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# FOG Gray FG27
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Arches COLD PRESS WATERCOLOR PAD 9x12 inches 012852
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Tsukineko VersaFine ONYX BLACK Ink Pad VF-82
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Spellbinders Platinum Die Cutting and Embossing Machine
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Zig Kuretake Gansai Tambi 24 COLOR SET
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Ranger Studio Paint ARTIST BRUSHES Brush BRU40842
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ScraPerfect PERFECT CRAFTING POUCH Multi-Purpose Craft Tool 000013
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Hero Arts WHITE EMBOSSING POWDER PW110 Emboss
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Versamark Watermark Emboss Ink Pad VM001
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Precision Heat Embossing Tool Gun Hero Arts PW200 Wagner
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Scrapbook Adhesives 3D 217 WHITE FOAM Squares Adhesive
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Pretty Pink Posh 4MM CLEAR DROPLETS (small)
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3L Scrapbook Adhesives - EZ Runner Grand - Permanent
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3L Scrapbook Adhesives - EZ Runner Grand - Permanent - Refill
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14 Comments

    1. Yay for guest designing with us! LOVE your take on the sketch and gotta love those pink monkeys!!

    1. Excited to see what else you have in store for us. Love your work

    1. Hi Yana,

      Love your little pink monkeys, such fun! I too like to use Arches Watercolour paper for projects (for real painting too LOL!) It takes the watercolour and inks so much better than cardstock of any sort. What a joy to find your blog! Congrats on being GD at MFT!!!

      Blessings

    1. Love the monkeys on this card the colors make the monkeys really stand out this is must have it’s really great

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