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Saturday, March 16, 2013

St. Patty's Day Clovers

Second post for me today. If you're looking for my Hero Arts post, please scroll down one. Thanks

I'm trying to get back into the swing of stamping and participating in challenges since my latest migraine flare up had me down for over 3 weeks and I was unable to literally do nothing since it sat right behind my eyes. The head and eyes are still sore, however, not pounding so they're tolerable at the moment.

I decided to make a quick and easy St. Patty's Day card for a few challenges and use up some scrap card stock at the same time. After stamping my clover image from the Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company set called Lots of Luck in memento tuxedo black, I pulled out my prismacolor markers and colored them with using the emerald marker. Once the coloring was finished, I just stamped my saying in upper left hand corner and the card was finished. For the envelope, I stamped the clover just once and colored it using koh-i-noor pencils and a blender marker for a slightly different look.

Challenges entered:

CardzTV - Erin Go Braugh
Speedy Fox and Friends - Green Challenge
Friends of SpeedyTV #63 - St. Patty's Day
4Crafty Chicks #133 - Clean and Simple

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great day.

Stamps: MFP Lots of Luck
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Card Stock: White
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Koh-i-noor Pencils, Envie

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Silly Shells - Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop Day 4

Welcome to Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Company's

June Blog Hop!

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Welcome Poppies Featured June 19

I'm In Stitches Featured June 20

Island Life Featured June 21

Silly Shells Featured June 22

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 June 23, 2012 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 June 22, 2012.

Sue

Mark's Finest

When I first saw this set, I thought "it has to be framed", not sure how, but it has to be in a frame. With this in mind, I pulled out one of the frames I had picked up at the dollar store recently to make sure the colors I used looked good within, and outside, the framed area. Then I stamped several images of the shell trio, and the boat once, from Silly Shells on scrap snow storm smooth card stock so I could cut those out to pop up on the frame later. Then I stamped the main underwater scene out in memento tuxedo black ink onto snow storm smooth card stock, making sure the shell trio was included into the corners before coloring everything with prismacolor markers. Once my coloring was finished, I stippled Tim Holtz tumbled glass, broken china, and Adirondack caramel inks over and around the underwater images to complete my scene. Then it was time to start building the 3-D portion of my scene.

I started out by cutting out the additional images I had stamped onto the scrap paper then popped those up using pop dots. Then taking my cuttlebug seashell/seahorse die I bought on clearance at Michael's several years ago, I ran it several times through my big shot using scrap paper to get several different sizes, and colors, of seahorses, seashells & starfish. Then I took my Martha Stewart branch punch and punched several branches to use as "sea ferns" or "kelp" along with my underwater scene. Finally, I took my Martha Stewart sand dollar punch to get a couple of extra starfish, and a fiskars crab punch, ran all of my die cut, or punched, pieces through the paper crimper and began adhering them using Ranger Crystal Accents or micro glue dots. The final embellishment was some mini pearl stickers from Michael's and googlie eyes to the seahorses.

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

Stamps: MFP Silly Shells

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Adirondack Caramel

Card Stock: MFP Snow Storm Smooth, Various Scraps

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Frame, Big Shot, Cuttlebug Die, Ranger Crystal Accents, Martha Stewart Branch Punch, Martha Stewart Sand Dollar Punch, Fiskars Crab Punch, Glue Dots, Stipple Brushes, Pearl Stickers, Googlie Eyes, Paper Crimper, Pop Dots

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Island Life - Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop Day 3

Welcome to Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Company's

June Blog Hop!

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Welcome Poppies Featured June 19

I'm In Stitches Featured June 20

Island Life Featured June 21

Silly Shells Featured June 22

Sue

I have to say I absolutely love this set!!! That being said, I have two cards to share with you today.

The first one incorporates one of my favorite images - lighthouses! I also knew this image just had to be watercolored too. So, I stamped my main image from Island Life in memento tuxedo black ink onto snow storm smooth card stock and pulled out my prismacolor watercolor pencils with blender marker to color. Once all of the watercoloring was finished, I pulled out my stipple brushes and lightly stippled Tim Holtz tumbled glass distress ink around the top edges of the main image for the sky and then Adirondack lettuce ink for the grassy area before layering. Once all of my layering was finished, I stamped my background using the new Silly Shells set stamped in Adirondack aqua ink. My final touches were some birds and grass from Scenic Selections, grossgrain ribbon, and some Making Memories brads.

My second card is also watercolored using the prismacolor watercolor pencils and blender marker, only using the second image in the Island Life set - the docked island boat. Once my coloring was finished, I again stippled Tim Holtz tumbled glass distress ink for the sky, layered and added some gold mini brads before stamping my card using Silly Shells stamped in Adirondack sailboat ink before adding gold cording at the top with a brass palm tree charm and birds from Scenic Selections.

I'm also submitting both of these cards into this months Craft A Scene beach challenge.

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

Stamps: MFP Island Living, Silly Shells, Scenic Selections

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Adirondack Sailboat, Lettuce, Aqua, Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass, Forest Moss

Card Stock: All MFP

Accessories: Prismacolor Watercolor Pencils, Blender Marker, Charm, Gold Cord, Gold Brads, White Brads, Stipple Brushes, Grossgrain Ribbon

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

I'm In Stitches - Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop Day 2

Welcome to Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Company's

June Blog Hop!

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Welcome Poppies Featured June 19

I'm In Stitches Featured June 20

Island Life Featured June 21

Silly Shells Featured June 22

Sue

For my card, I chose to go with a simple black/white with a pop of color theme - vintage style, so I pulled out some Echo Park Yours Truly designer paper and thumbed through it to find my inspiration.

Once I had decided on the designer paper, I stamped the sewing machine from In Stitches in memento tuxedo black ink onto Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company snow storm smooth card stock before taking a memento ladybug red teardrop ink pad to the edges and adding just a little bit of ink; then layering. Once my layering was finished, I added some Making Memories black baby brads and adhered the image over a small strip of red damask designer paper also from the Echo Park Yours Truly pack before stamping my saying, making sure it matched the sewing machine image before adhering. The only embellishments I added were black/white Recollections paper flowers from Michael's with a red gem center and then some additional red gemstones on the bottom left hand corner.

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

Stamps: MFP In Stitches

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Ladybug Red

Card Stock: MFP Snow Storm Smooth, Black, Tomato Red, Echo Park Yours Truly Designer Paper

Accessories: Recollections Paper Flowers, Glue Dots, Red Gem Stones, Brads

Monday, June 18, 2012

Welcome Poppies - Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop Day 1

Welcome to Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Company's

June Blog Hop!

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Welcome Poppies Featured June 19

I'm In Stitches Featured June 20

Island Life Featured June 21

Silly Shells Featured June 22

Sue

The poppies are back!!!! Yippee!!!!!!! Can we have a shout out for the graphic designers for bringing our favorite flowers back into the fold?

For my card, I chose to be inspired by California's wild poppies that grow just about everywhere in the late spring and early summer. They are just beautiful but don't you dare pick them!! Since the poppy is the California state flower is against the law to pick them, however, no one said anything about inspiration being illegal ;) even with migraines - yes, they're still hanging around.

I started out by stamping my images from the new Welcome Poppies set by Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company in memento tuxedo black ink onto snow storm smooth card stock and coloring with prismacolor markers before stippling Tim Holtz tumbled glass ink around them and layering. Once my layering was done, I stamped the card and first card layer in Tim Holtz spiced marmalade and Adirondack lettuce inks. The saying is directly stamped onto My Minds Eye Miss Caroline designer paper I was gifted by a friend in memento tuxedo black. The only embellies I added are some punched Martha Stewart mini butterflies with bling bodies, orange satin ribbon with a green hat pin and some orange brads.

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

Stamps: MFP Welcome Poppies

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Spiced Marmalade, Tumbled Glass, Adirondack Lettuce

Card Stock: MFP Snow Storm Smooth, New Leaf, Orangerie Sunset, Morning Sun, Tomato Red Scrap, My Minds Eye Miss Caroline Designer Paper

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Brads, Ribbon, Hat Pin, Glue Dots, Stipple Brush, Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch, Bling

Hot Summer Flamingos - Friends of SpeedyTV Challenge #25

Hello again. Second post for me today. If you're looking for my YNS challenge card, please scroll down one post.

I'm late uploading for this week's Friends of SpeedyTV by Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company. Since summer is starting this week, the FOSTV are challenging you to created a summer themed card. Since my daughter kept talking about someday wanting to visit Disney World© in Florida, I chose to pull out the Flamingos On Vacation and make a summer themed card inspired by her dream to visit Florida someday.

I started out by stamping my images in memento tuxedo black ink onto MFP snow storm smooth card stock and colored with prismacolor markers before stamping just the palms two more times in memento bamboo leaves and cottage ivy onto scrap snow storm smooth to cut out and pop up later. Once all of my main image stamping & coloring were finished, I stamped the polka dot ribbon in Stampin Up! pixie pink diagonally onto the card to create my own background before lightly stippling Tim Holtz tumbled glass ink around my beach scene, layered and added some white Making Memories baby brads. The only other embellishments were some white silk bridal flowers I found on clearance at Wal-Mart last year with hot pink gem centers. The final touch was 4 small "coconuts" punched from scrap brown card stock using a small hand held hole punch and 2-way glue pen.

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great day and don't forget about the blog hop that starts tonight at 12:00am EST on the Mark's Finest Papers blog.

Stamps: MFP Flamingos On Vacation

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Bamboo Leaves, Cottage Ivy, Stampin Up! Pixie Pink

Card Stock: MFP Snow Storm Smooth, Stampin Up! Pixie Pink, Black, Brown Scrap

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Glue Dots, Stipple Brush, Gem Stickers, Making Memories Baby Brads, Small Hole Punch, Martha Stewart 2-Way Glue Pen, Silk Flowers

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Cool Breezes

Hello and welcome to Thursday! The week is almost over and thank goodness for that since I've had an awful one with my migraines. Since I couldn't sleep thanks to said migraines, and the meds were not working again, I decided to stamp and give you a sneak peek at a couple of new sets being released by Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company next week called Silly Shells and Island Life.

I decided to use the color scheme from this week's Color Throwdown, however, I was missing a couple of the colors so I had to improvise. After stamping my main image from the soon to be released Island Life in memento tuxedo black ink onto MFP snow storm smooth card stock (no vanilla card stock), I pulled out my prismacolor watercolor pencils and a blender pen and got to work water coloring the image. For some reason, I just see this beach scene water colored instead of using markers since it reminds me of a painting. Once my water coloring was finished, I pulled out my Scenic Selections set to add some seagulls and then the saying from Island Life, stippled bashful blue ink around the edges for the sky and a bit of so saffron to age the entire image a bit; plus make up for not being able to use the vanilla card stock and began layering.

After my layering was finished, I pulled out the soon to be released Silly Shells and stamped my background in sahara sand before sponging the same ink around the edges of the card. I decided the only embellishments would be some bakers twine and a lighthouse charm since I was making this card for my husband's upcoming birthday in a couple of weeks.

Challenges card is submitted for:

Color Throwdown 196

Splitcoaststampers - WT379 Man Up Challenge

CCEE124 - Nautical Theme

Anything Goes #69 - Around The World (Travel)

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great day.

Stamps: MFP Island Life, Silly Shells, Scenic Selections

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Bashful Blue, So Saffron, Sahara Sand

Card Stock: MFP Snow Storm Smooth, Stampin Up! Sahara Sand, Bashful Blue, So Saffron

Accessories: Prismacolor Watercolor Pencils, Blender Pen, Bakers Twine, Pop Dots, Small Hole Punch, Martha Stewart 2-Way Glue Pen, Lighthouse Charm

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Take Time To Live

Hello and welcome to Wednesday!!! I am late uploading my card for this week's Friends of SpeedyTV Father's Day challenge by Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company. My migraines have just been out of control lately. It took me 4 days to stamp this clean and simple card and another 3 to be able to upload it. Not good if you ask me. However, I digress.

I started out by stamping my images from Father Time in memento tuxedo black onto MFP corn husk card stock and then using the direct to paper technique added some Tim Holtz forest moss to the sides of my layered images. Once that was done, everything was then layered onto some vintage watch designer paper I bought at Costco years ago and then onto a black linen card.

The inside saying is also stamped in memento tuxedo black with the same clock image over stamped lightly in Stampin Up! going grey.

I also decided to enter this into SCS's Queen For The Day challenge. Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great day and why not join this week us at Friends of SpeedyTV.

Stamps: MFP Father Time
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Forest Moss, Stampin Up! Going Grey
Card Stock: MFP Corn Husk, Black Linen, Costco Designer Paper
Accessories: Brads

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Lemon Branches & Butterfly

Second post for me today. If you're looking for my Play Date Cafe and Just Inspirational challenge post, please scroll down one post.

This week's 4 Crafty Chicks challenge is all about branching out - basically using anything with branches. Here in the Central Valley it's fruit picking season so I went with the idea of lemon branches. Also this week's Crazy 4 Challenges blog challenge is all about butterflies - no problem there since I have lots of butterfly images. So even though my migraine was bothering me again, I got to work stamping since it was either stamp or cry.

After stamping my images from Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company Pucker Up and I'd Pick You mini stamp sets onto snow storm smooth card stock and colored with prismacolor markers before stippling Tim Holtz tumbled glass distress ink around them for the sky before layering. Then taking my extra images, I cut them out and added them to the main panel allowing parts of the lemon and butterfly to extend off the layered panel before adding some small pale yellow prima flowers with gold ice stickle centers. The only other embellishments I added were some faux brads made from scrap spring leaf card stock and purple & black ice stickles to the butterfly.

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great day.

Stamps: MFP Pucker Up, I'd Pick You Mini

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Green Galore, Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass

Card Stock: All MFP

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Stipple Brushes, Primas, Glue Dots, Ice Stickles, Small Hole Punch, MS 2-Way Glue Pen

Flap Your Wings

Hello and welcome to the weekend!! Today I am sharing a card I made for a few challenges since they all just fit together nicely. Once I saw this week's Play Date Cafe and Just Inspirational color challenges, I knew I had to pair them both with the new Crazy 4 Challenges butterfly challenge. The colors all just screamed flowers and butterflies. So I pulled out two of my favorite Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company sets, Hello Butterflies and Mother's Magnolia, and got to work stamping, even with a nasty migraine (thank goodness the meds were working).

I started out by stamping my flower images in memento tuxedo black onto snow storm smooth card stock, then colored with prismacolor markers before stamping one butterfly directly above the magnolia's and the rest onto scrap snow storm smooth card stock before coloring, then cutting out to pop up later. Now I just had to have some sort of sky behind my butterflies, so I cheated a bit on the colors and added just a stipple or two of bashful blue to barely color the background before stamping my saying.

Once I had all of my layering finished, I then added the cut out butterflies by popping them up on dimensionals, then pinching the wings up a bit for some added dimension. My only embellishments is some crystal ice stickles highlighting parts of the butterfly wings and some ripened tomato satin ribbon tied into a knot.

Challenges submitted:

Crazy 4 Challenges - Butterflies

Just Inspirational #31 - Color

The Play Date Cafe #134 - Color

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great weekend.

Stamps: MFP Hello Butterflies, Mother's Magnolia

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Bashful Blue

Card Stock: MFP Snow Storm Smooth, Stampin Up! Pure Poppy, Summer Sun, Pink Pirouette

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Ice Stickles, Stipple Brush, Dimensionals, Soft Subtles Brads

Thursday, May 31, 2012

A Quiet Day Fishing

Second post for me today. If you're looking for my Technique Junkie blog hop card, please scroll down one post.

I've had this fishing hole idea floating around in my head since Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company released the new Scenic Selections and Get Reel stamp sets and finally got a chance to put it to card stock when I saw the challenges for this weeks Party Time Tuesday's and Tuesday Throwdown. I remember my dad taking me fishing and camping during the summer months while in elementary school. I had so much fun and wanted to capture those memories.

I started out by stamping my images in memento tuxedo black ink onto MFP snow storm smooth and then colored with koh-i-noor pencils and a blender marker. Once I coloring was done, I pulled out my stipple brushes and stippled some Tim Holtz tumbled glass distress ink and then along the sides before sponging my lake using Tim Holtz chipped sapphire distress ink and then stippling forest moss along the bottom. Once I was satisfied with my ink coverage, I stamped some extra rocks and a butterfly, colored them, and cut out to pop up using pop dots before adding some vintage brads and highlighting the water ripples and grass with copic spica pens.

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great day.

Stamps: MFP Scenic Selectsion, Get Reel

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Chipped Sapphire, Tumbled Glass, Forest Moss

Card Stock: MFP

Accessories: Koh-I-Noor Pencils, Blender Marker, Stipple Brushes, Sponge, Pop Dots, Copic Spica Pens, Brads

Pines and Pinecones - TJ Green & Brown Blogger Challenge

Hello and Happy Thursday!! I found this bloggers challenge blog hop last week through Technique Junkies. The challenge is to only use various shades of brown & green. So with that in mind, I pulled out my Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company stamps and got to work only to be interrupted by yet another migraine, so one week later, here's my card.

I started out by stamping my pine branches from New Pines onto MFP corn husk card stock in Tim Holtz walnut stain distress ink and then coloring with prismacolor markers. Then I stamped the extra pines from the New Pines and Ho Mini stamp sets in Tim Holtz Pine Needles distress ink before lightly stippling Brushed Corduroy distress ink over them and cutting out to pop up using dimensionals and pop dots. Once that was done, I decided to add a couple of pine cones from the New Pines set stamped in walnut ink and stippled before cutting those out and popping them up as well. My final embellishments were some vintage brads and copper cord tied into a knot.

Stop by all of the participants here:

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great day.

Stamps: MFP New Pines, Ho Mini
Ink: Tim Holtz Walnut Stain, Pine Needles, Brushed Corduroy
Card Stock: MFP Corn Husk, Evergreen, Mahogony
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Pop Dots, Dimensionals, Stipple Brushes, Brads, Copper Cord

Friday, May 25, 2012

Scenic Stamping

Last Tuesday, May 22nd, I was the Featured Designer over at SpeedyTV by Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company and I was asked to do a tutorial on Scenic Stamping after the May release blog hop using Scenic Selections. If you haven't had a chance to check out the tutorial on SpeedyTV, here it is again.

Stamps Used: All Mark's Finest Papers, A Heinrich Company

Christmas In The Country

Scenic Selections

New Pines

Supplies Used:
Koh-I-Noor Pencils
Prismacolor Blender Marker
Stipple Brushes
MFP Card Stock
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
Tim Holtz Distress Inks: Broken China, Tumbled Glass, Forest Moss
Flower Soft Summer Mix
Tacky Glue
Toothpick
Brads
Glue Dots

1) Start by stamping the church from Christmas In The County in memento ink onto snow storm smooth card stock.

2) Take the large trees from Scenic Selections and stamp in memento ink next to the church overlapping the branches if necessary.

3) Stamp the large fir trees from Scenic Selections in various spots around the church to help fill in some of the "gaps".

4) Next, take the medium fir tree, stamp only the top half of it near the bottom of your scene. Stamp additional images in scene if there are any gaps you want filled in with trees.

5) Stamp bird trio from Scenic Selections in sky area and butterfly onto scrap white card stock to cut out and add to scene later.

6) Color your images and scene, blending colors as needed. Stipple Tim Holtz tumbled glass distress ink lightly for the sky and forest moss around the edges of the "ground" to fill in.

7) Next, stamp pine bough from New Pines onto aqua card stock in Tim Holtz broken china distress ink and stipple around the edges to give the card itself some dimension.

8) Layer colored scene, add brads, then add to the stamped card.

9) Add Flower Soft© into bare trees to change the trees look from winter to spring/summer. Add tops of grass images, if desired, stamped in Tim Holtz forest moss distress ink in remaining gaps.

10) Cut out butterfly and add using glue dots, pinching the wings up to give it some dimension and to finish your project off.

I hope you give this tutorial a try. Scenic stamping is really fun and not as hard as it looks.

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great weekend.

Sunday, May 20, 2012

In God We Trust - Friends of SpeedyTV Challenge #21

Hello and welcome to Monday. I hope you had a wonderful weekend and are ready for some stamping! This week the Friends of SpeedyTV, by Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company are challenging you to make a Memorial Day card. With the holiday fast approaching, it's time to say THANK YOU to all of our men and women in uniform.

I started out by stamping my image from Liberty Lady Mini stamp set before coloring with a grey prismacolor marker before stippling Tim Holtz tumbled glass distress ink around her before layering and adding some star eyelets. Once I stamped my saying from the same mini stamp set, stippled tumbled glass distress ink around the edges, layered and added the same star eyelets, I added them to a dry embossed star panel. My card is stamped with the sayings from the Patriotic American Mini stamp set. The only other embellishments I added were a star printed ribbon I found in the Michael's $1 bin over a year ago, and a silver star clip.

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great day and make sure to participate in this week's challenge.

Stamps: MFP Liberty Lady Mini, Patriotic American Mini
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass, Stampin Up! Real Red
Card Stock: MFP Snow Storm Smooth Scraps, Stampin Up!
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Star Eyelets, Ribbon, Crop-A-Dile, Ribbon, Star Clip, Star Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Glue Dots

It's All In the Eyes!

Second post for me today. If you are looking for my FYI challenge post, please scroll down one.

While waiting for migraine meds to kick in last night, I was looking at the inspiration picture for the Play Date Cafe's color splash challenge, as well as a couple of other challenges, and an idea came to me. I had already reached the point of stamp or cry with the pain, so I chose to stamp and keep my card very clean and simple.

I started out by stamping my lion image from Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company set called Big Cats in memento tuxedo black ink and then colored with prismacolor markers; making sure to highlight his mane in different shades of yellow to give a more realistic look before layering. Then taking some white card stock, I dry embossed it using a tree branch cuttlebug embossing folder with my big shot. The only embellishments I added were some Making Memories black baby brads. Even with this CAS look, what should have only taken me 20minutes to make took well over an hour. Geez! Anyone want a headache? Free to a good home?

Challenges this card also submitted for:

Play Date Cafe #132 Color Splash

Anything Goes #67 Color Combo

Moving Along With The Times Keep It Real

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great day.

Stamps: MFP Big Cats

Card Stock: All Stampin Up!

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Big Shot, Tree Branches Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Making Memories Black Baby Brads

Born To Be Wild

Hello. I hope you enjoyed the Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company blog hop last week and received lots of inspiration.

Today I am sharing a card I made, even with another migraine, for a couple of challenges. I mean, when inspiration hits, I have to go with it even with the pain, or there's no sleeping off the headache for me. My card was mainly inspired by the colors of the picture from this week's For Your Inspiration challenge.

Take a look - isn't this sunset just gorgeous?! Keeping with the tropical theme, I pulled out some black and orange Stampin Up! card stock to go with my images from MFP's Big Cats stamp set.

Once I had my tiger stamped twice in memento tuxedo black onto snow storm smooth card stock, I pulled out my prismacolor markers and got to coloring before cutting one image out to pop up later and then stippling Tim Holtz tumbled glass distress ink around the edges of the layered tiger. Then I pulled out my cuttlebug leafy branch embossing folder and dry embossed the card before adding a strip from MFP's Safari Fabric Collection tied in a knot with a tiger charm. My final embellishments were some Making Memories black baby brads and some Colorbok black metallic stickers before popping up the cut out tiger image.

This card also fits a couple of other challenges I discovered this last week before the migraine set in:

Just Inspirational #29 - inspired by animal globe

For Your Inspiration #30 - inspired by colors from above picture

Tuesday Throwdown #98 - fabric challenge

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great Sunday!!

Stamps: MFP Big Cats

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass

Card Stock: MFP Snow Storm Smooth, Stampin Up! Black, Pumpkin Pie, More Mustard

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Stipple Brush, Dimensionals, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Big Shot, Fabric Strip, Tiger Charm, Thread, Making Memories Baby Brads, ColorBok Black Metallic Stickers, Glue Dots

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Flamingos On Vacation - Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop Day 4

Welcome to Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Company's

May Blog Hop!

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Oopsy Daisy Featured May 15

Get Reel Featured May 16

Scenic Selections Featured May 17

Flamingos on Vacation Featured May 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 May 19, 2012 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 May 18, 2012.

Sue

Welcome to the final day of our hop. Today we are featuring the new set called Flamingos On Vacation and I decided to try something that was brewing in my mind for it. I pulled out a Stampendous shirt card from my stash I've had for over 8 years and stamped the larger flamingos in memento tuxedo black before coloring them with prismacolor markers. Then I added the palm trees in memento black, colored and added the ribbon in Adirondack sailboat blue ink across the top and along the front "opening" of the shirt. My final touches on the outside were to stipple Adirondack lettuce ink around the edges of my shirt and the collar; then small white prima flowers with gold ice stickle centers. Once I was done adding the ice stickles to the prima centers, I suddenly decided to add them also to the flamingo's body designs.

The inside of my shirt has both of my sayings and two more palm trees to tie everything in.

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great day. I hope you enjoyed this week's blog hop and received lots of inspiration. Don't forget to stop by all of the designers blogs to leave some love for a chance to win today's featured set.

Stamps: MFP Flamingos On Vacation

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Adirondack Sailboat Blue, Lettuce

Card Stock: Stampendous Hawaiian Shirt Pre-Folded Card

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Stipple Brushes, Primas, Mini Glue Dots, Gold Ice Stickles

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