Swallowtail Mini - Mark's Finest Papers Preview Week

 

Welcome back to another preview of the December Mark's Finest Papers release.  This is the featured mini for this month called Swallowtail.  I adore this big beautiful butterfly and had to feature it on my card.  I used a couple of sentiments on my card.  I repetitively stamped beautiful and then overstamped the greeting with a darker color!  Fun stuff, this new set!  Now don't forget that Mark's Finest Papers is trying a new format for it new release hops.  You get a shorter hop list and a longer time to comment with the same amount of eye candy for sets.  I'm not part of the hop this week, so scoot on over to the Mark's Finest Papers blog to get started on the hop. 

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Details - Stamps: Swallowtail mini (MFP); Paper: Crumb Cake, MME Dolled up dp; Ink: Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Rich Cocoa; Accessories: MM edge distresser, paper snips, scor-tape, burlap twine, sponge dauber, stampin' dimensionals.

Lots of Words - Mark's Finest Papers Preview Week

 

Mark's Finest Papers is doing things a bit different for the December release.  The release will be spread over two weeks with fewer blogs to comment on and longer to comment.  You won't miss any of the great creations because the half of designers that are hopping will be featured on the Mark's Finest Papers blog.  Today's set is called  Lots of Words and features this sweet butterfly and many, many sentiments!  You don't want to miss a stop, so be sure to head on over to Mark's Finest Papers and get to hopping!.

 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

 

Details - Stamps: Lots of Words (MFP); Paper: Very Vanilla, Brushed Gold, MME In Bloom dp; Ink: Versamark: Accessories: Gold embossing powder, heat tool, stampin' dimensionals, scor-tape.

Friends and ABC (12/02/13)

Hey there!  We have arrived in December and I think this must be where time kicks into overdrive.  The year is completely flying by.  I made this  sweet little box for the current Friends of Speedy TV challenge to make Anything But a Card.  This challenge comes at a great time as this week begins pixie week at work.  I'm taking a little risk in that the staff member for whom I am a pixie could be reading this.  I provided my blog address as additional information for the staff member who drew my name.  While I don't think it's likely that she has my name, I have to admit that it's a possibility.  For this challenge I made a simple 2,5,7,10 box to hold some candy inside.  I chose color purple and navy as those were a couple of favorite colors listed by my pixie person!  Up close, it's quite pretty as I used a Sakura Clear Star gel pen to outline the eye of the feather.  That particular pen adds a bit of sparkle without changing the color drastically.

 

Don't forget that Mark's Finest Papers offers a free stamp set to one lucky participant.  This week, the stamp set being offered is Nature's Brushstrokes mini.  This is a great challenge for getting Christmas gifts done.  Won't you play along?

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Details - Stamps: Be A Showoff (MFP), Holiday Tag (MFP); Paper: Wisteria Wonder, Black Licorice; Ink: Night of Navy, Versamark; Accessories:  Scor-Buddy, Scor-Tape, heat tool, black embossing powder, corner chomper, Sakura clear star gel pen, 1/16" hole punch, 1/8" black taffeta ribbon, silver cording, 1/8" hole punch.



Friends and Anything Goes (11/25/13)

Good Monday Morning!  I'm back with a Friends of Speedy TV challenge.  This week on Speedy TV, the theme is "anything goes".  I have been feeling the urge to create for the holiday...as we are getting really close.  I stamped the snowflake from Calendar repeatedly with a few different colored inks.  I underscored the snowflakes with a sentiment from Joyous Season.  I scored a couple of lines to frame my silver cording and trimmed tiny triangles between the score lines to hold my cording in place. 

 

I used the current clean and simple stamping blog sketch, Fall To Layout 268, for my card.  Let's not forget that Mark's Finest Papers always offers a free stamp set to one lucky participant.  This week the stamp set is called Celebrate Mini. 

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great day!

 

Details - Stamps: Calendar (MFP); Joyous Season (MFP); Paper: Neenah Solar Crest White, Night of Navy; Ink: Night of Navy, Marina Mist, Baja Breeze, Soft Sky; Accessories: Scor-Buddy, paper snips, silver cording, glue dot, Recollections rhinestones, stampin' dimensionals.



Mark's Finest Papers Christmas/Holiday Blog Hop

Welcome to the final day of  Mark’s Finest Papers a Heinrich Co. Christmas/Holiday Blog Hop. We have some great tutorials for you to make some fun and easy projects for this Holiday Season. We will be giving away two stamps sets during this hop, so two lucky people will go home with both of these fabulous stamp sets. Be sure to comment on all the designers’ blogs. Our hop will run from November 19-22. Our two winners will be announced on November 23, 2013. 

November 19th - Christmas Crackers

November 20th -3D Ornament Ball

November 21st - Countdown Calendar

November 22nd - Pine Cone Frames

Here is a direct link to Thrifty's Pine Cone Frames Tutorial.

Be sure to check out all of our designers who participated in our hop. The more you comment the more chances you have to win one of these great stamp set give-aways! 

Thrifty
Lois 
Toni

Jane 

Oh my!  This was fun and deceptively easy!  I started by stamping my "snowchick" on some white paper and coloring her to my heart's content.  Then I used a pointillism technique to fill in the white space around her.  I die cut my paper and got to work applying my trimmed pine cone petals.  I added some white satin ribbon for a hanger and cut a piece of felt the same size as my paper to "finish" the back. 

 

Thanks for stopping by!  Don't forget to check out the rest of the hop.  Links for today's project are listed above and you can check out the rest of the tutorials and their links on the Mark's Finest Papers blog. 

 

Details - Stamps: Holly Jolly Greetings (MFP); Paper: Neenah Solar Crest White; Ink: Tuxedo Black; Accessories: Copic Markers, Nestabilities

Friends and Thanksgiving (11/18/13)

Good Monday morning!  Don't worry, it's not quite Thanksgiving yet.  I'm a little early and getting some help to be prepared from my Friends at Speedy TV.  The Friends challenge for this week is to create a Thanksgiving card.  When I sat down to create, I started thinking about what Thanksgiving means to me.  The ideas that came to me were family, friends, home, and warm.  With the home idea sticking in my mind, I reached for the Primitive Farm set with it's cute little house and tree.  I stamped, traced, cut and sponged to pull off this little number.  I finished it off with the classic "Happy Thanksgiving" sentiment from I am Thankful. 

Let's not forget that Mark's Finest Papers gives away a free stamp set for one lucky participant.  This week the stamp set is called the Little Church stamp set. 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Details - Stamps: Primitive Farm (MFP), I Am Thankful (MFP); Paper: MME Cowboy dsp, MME Dolled Up dsp; Ink: Crumb Cake, Soft Suede; Accessories: paper snips, sponge dauber, stampin' dimensionals.

Chill in the Air - A Mark's Finest Papers, A Heinrich Company Blog Hop

Nov. Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured Nov. 12

Tigers
Featured Nov. 13

Duck Hunting
 Featured Nov. 14 

Out on the Town

Featured Nov. 15
Chill in the Air

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the following blogs (don't forget this one), each day for more chances to win! (You do NOT have to comment on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly!) All four winners will be announced on Nov. 16, 2013 on the Mark's Finest Papers blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. (HINT: The more you comment, the more chances you have to win and comments on the MFP blog count twice!) The deadline for commenting is 10 PM EST on Friday Nov. 15, 2013.

 

 The special stamp set we have for you this month is:

Calendar

 The mini stamp set we have for you this month is:

Mini New Year

                         

 

Here's the Design Team: Guest Designer: Kelli Jo, Patty, Lois, Jane C, Pam, Pat G, Thrfity Stamper, Marilynn, Karen K, Bonnie, Kathy, Cathy C, Toni, Sue W, Janine, An'Jenic, Shirley Q,  Amy, Gail, Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.



For my last card  of this month's hop, I wanted to play with some sequins.  I scattered them about my card with some in my barren branches, some on my sentiment and some drifting down below.  My branches with stamped with a gray and then stamped again, generation fashion, to achieve a lighter color.  Finally, I stamped one sentiment below my branches and one on an embossed oval that I popped up on my card base.  When I sat back and looked at my card, the sequins took on a snowflake quality that I really liked.  I hope you do too!

Thanks for stopping by!  Don't forget to move on to Sue!!

Details: Stamps: Chill in the Air (MFP); Paper: Neenah Solar Crest White; Ink: Tuxedo Black, London Fog; Accessories: Scor-Pal, Nestabilities, sequins, crystal effects.