Stamping In The Light: Pucker Up!

Monday, December 12, 2011

Pucker Up!

Hello! Welcome to Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Company's December Blog Hop!

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Pucker Up Featured December 13

Pussy Willows Featured December 14
Ice and Snow Featured December 14

New Pines Featured December 15

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! We will announce all four winners on December 16, 2011 on the Mark's Finest Papers blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. The winners will be chosen at 11PM EST on Thursday December 15, 2011.

Today we are featuring the set Pucker Up. I am in love with this set because of all of the different things you can do with it - scrapbooking, cards (funny, birthday, sarcastic, etc), altered items, and the list goes on. Both of my projects today feature cards arranging the images as if you're looking out of a window at the branches of a lemon tree. In California right now, the winter citrus crop is on the trees and just about ready to be picked. As you can see from my photos, the lemons on the trees in my backyard are ready for picking.

After all of my images were stamped in memento tuxedo black onto Grandma's Snow Covered Porch card stock, I colored them with prismacolor markers before stippling Stampin Up! bashful blue ink around the edges and center for sky. Once my coloring was done, I then stamped my background in green galore ink onto Mark's Finest Papers Spring Leaf card stock and layered using Morning Sun card stock before adding primas, gold ice stickles and faux brads.

My second card uses the same color combination as the first (only replacing Scrabbled Eggs card stock for Morning Sun) with a little twist. Once everything was stamped, colored, and layered, I added some primas with gold ice stickle centers and some Martha Stewart velvet ribbon I found in Michael's $1 bins a year or so ago. My biggest find in the Michael's clearance section is found on the inside of the card. Featured around the saying are some Jolee die cut dimensional chocolate bars I found at Michael's about 5yrs ago for only.49 cents!! That's right..only .49 cents!! Here's the inside with that famous Jolee buy -

Thanks for stopping by today. Don't forget to continue hopping for your chance to win a stamp set each day from the release by leaving a comment on each of the designers blogs. Have a great day.

Stamps: MFP Pucker Up

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Green Galore, Bashful Blue, Tim Holtz Scattered Straw

Card Stock: MFP Grandma's Snow Covered Porch, Scrambled Eggs, Morning Sun, Spring Leaf

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Stipple Brush, Primas, Ribbon, Small Hole Punch, MS 2-Way Glue Pen, Gold Ice Stickles, MS Velvet Ribbon, Jolee's Chocolate Bars Dimensional Die Cuts, Glue Dots