No Sour Grapes - Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop Day 2

   January Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are
 

Fantastic Dogs Featured January 15
No Sour Grapes Featured January 16
In My Den Featured January 17
Love, Love, Love Featured January 18

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 January 19, 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 11PM EST on Friday January 18, 2013.

Happy New Year!!! Welcome to the first blog hop of 2013! We are so excited to share the great stamp sets we are releasing this month and the months to come. 

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

" OH Baby" 

The mini stamp set we have for you this month is

"Not So Ugly"

 

Patty P.

Lois

Vicky

Jane C 

Debbie 

Pam 

Pat G 

Thrifty Stamper 

MariLynn 

Karen K 

Bonnie 

Kathy B 

Angela B 

Cathy C 

Toni 

Sue W 

Janine B 

Tammylee 

An'jenic 

Kate Z 

Shirley Q 

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co 

Today's featured set has so many possibilities for it: get well, anniversary, birthday, celebrations of any kind, etc.  For my project I went with the get well theme.

 

I started out by stamping the chef image from Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company's set called Celebrate Big before adding the wine bottle/glass image from No Sour Grapes onto the chef's tray as well as some scrap card stock in memento tuxedo black ink then coloring with prismacolor markers.  Once the coloring was finished, I cut out the additional wine bottle/glass image and adhered it over the first stamped image for a cleaner look.  I then lightly stippled Tim Holtz tumbled glass and dusty concord distress inks over and around the image to soften the white spaces before layering.  The same was done around the sentiment too.  Everything was then layered over some Provo Craft designer paper I've had in my stash for 10 years or so before stippling the dusty concord ink around the edges and adding my image/sentiment panels.  The final touches is some eggplant ribbon along with a wine glass charm I found in the Michael's $1 spot several years ago and bought hoping I would use it someday.

 

Here's a close up of the embellished panels.  Just click on the photo to make it larger.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and don't forget to stop by the rest of the design team blogs to leave some love for a chance to win today's featured set.

 

Stamps: MFP No Sour Grapes

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass, Dusty Concord

Card Stock: MFP White, Stampin Up! Elegant Eggplant, Garden Green, Provo Craft Designer Paper

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Stipple Brushes, Brads, Glue Dots, Charm