Hearts and Peace - Friends of SpeedyTV 2012 Challenge #5

Hello and welcome to Monday and another Friends of SpeedyTV challenge by Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company.  This week we are challenging you to use sentiments only on your card as the focal point.

For my card, I chose to use the All About Love mini stamp set.  I pulled out a strip of scrap Markie's Strawberry Milk premium paper and lightly stippled Tim Holtz Tattered Rose and Dusty Concord inks around the edges and over the top of the card itself.  I then took a couple of punched pieces of card stock I received as a RAK and stamped my sentiment in memento tuxedo black ink on the white before stippling the tattered rose around the edges again.  I did the same again with the scalloped layer before adhering to the card and then adding some Recollections glitter flowers with bling centers.  My card took a total of 10 minutes to make and I'm pretty happy with it.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and come join us this week at Friends of SpeedyTV.


Stamps: MFP All About Love Mini
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Dusty Concord, Tattered Rose Distress Inks
Card Stock: MFP Markie's Strawberry Milk Premium Paper, Punched Scraps
Accessories: Stipple Brushes, Flowers, Glue Dots, Bling

Love Roses

Welcome and happy Sunday.  Although my migraines are still giving me fits, I decided to medicate and stamp anyways and see what happens - other than a little crooked alignment. LOL  I decided to combine a couple of challenges with this post, both the Inspiration and Crazy 4 Challenges. 

For my card, I pulled out Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company newest set called Love Remains and stamped the main rose image several times on Mark's Finest Papers Grandma's Snow Covered Porch premium paper in memento tuxedo black before coloring with prismacolor markers.  I then took one rose, stippled turquoise ink around the edges, and layered it before adding some rose brads to the side.  For the remaining roses, I cut various sections of them out to pop up with dimensionals and pop dots for varying levels of layers before adding diamond ice stickles to highlight.  I then took the finished product and popped it up over several layers of scalloped die cut borders before adding a gold heart clip.  My final touch was carefully cutting the LOVE saying apart and stamping the letters seperately underneath my layered rose.  Here's a close up of the finished product.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.


Stamps: MFP Love Remains
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Tempting Turquoise
Card Stock: MFP Grandma's Snow Covered Porch, Stampin Up! Tempting Turquoise, Black, Rose Red
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, MFT Scalloped Die-Namic, Stampin Up! Rose Red Brads, Stipple Brush, Diamond Ice Stickles, Gold Heart Clip

Winter Knit Cap - My Time Made Easy Pretty Pattern Sketch #45

Hello and welcome to another My Time Made Easy Pretty Pattern Sketch challenge.  Sorry about missing last week's challenge, however, my migraines have been awful the last couple of weeks and I couldn't even look at the computer let alone stamp.  This week I chose to use one of our recently released sets called Winter Knits paired with the matching digital paper Femmie Flakes & Fuzzies.

After downloading and printing out my image twice onto white card stock, I pulled out my prismacolor markers and got to coloring trying to match the digital paper as much as possible.  Once both images were colored, I put one aside to cut out and pop up later and began stippling Stampin Up! sage shadow ink around the first before layering.  Once my layering was done, I pulled out my Martha Stewart snowflake punch and punched some scrap sage shadow card stock, added some bling to the snowflake centers and then some faux basic grey brads.  The final touch to my card was popping up the second image using pop dots from Michael's.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and join us this week at My Time Made Easy for the challenge.

Stamps: MTME Winter Knits Digital Stamps

Card Stock: MTME Digital Femmie Flakes & Fuzzies, White, Stampin Up! Sage Shadow, Rose Red, Basic Grey

Ink: Stampin Up! Sage Shadow

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Computer, Printer, Martha Stewart Snowflake Punch, Glue Dots, Bling, Stipple Brush, Mini Hole Punch, Martha Stewart 2-Way Glue Pen

You Are Cherished - Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop Day 4

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

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Love Remains Featured January 17
Cowgirls Rule Featured January 18
Sending Happy Thoughts Featured January 19
You Are Cherished Featured January 20

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!)We will announce all four winners on January 21, 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!) The winners will be chosen at 11PM EST on Friday January 20, 2012.

Lois

Vicky

Anne

Pat G.

Karen H.

Patty P.

Mary

Dawn M.

Marilynn

Chrissy

Karen K.

Pam

Debbie

Nancy

Bonnie (that's me)

Harriet

Kathy

Silvia

Brenda

Mark's Finest Papers

Hi there.  Thanks for hopping with us all this week.  I hope you have found some projects to inspire you with the new stamp sets from Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company.  Today is the last day of our hop so make sure you've left comments along the way for a chance to win one of the daily stamp sets.

My project today touches on a subject we all have to address at some point, yet seem to have a hard time stamping - Sympathy cards.  I found out this week that a family friend lost both of her parents recently, and I thought the new You Are Cherished set would be perfect. 

After stamping my image onto Mark's Finest Papers Snow Storm Smooth premium paper and colored with prismacolor markers, I went looking on the Internet for the lyrics to Celine Dion's song from Titanic "My Heart Goes On" and printed those off in a MS Word document on regular white card stock.  Then I decided to stipple Tim Holtz Scattered Straw and Tattered Rose distress inks around the card and layered heart image before adding some satin ribbon, heart clip and angel charm from my stash with a circle clip.  My saying was created by taking the PEACE from the stamp set and carefully cutting it apart so I could stamp the letters individually and split the heart.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and don't forget to stop by the rest of the Design Team's blogs for a chance to win today's stamp set.

Stamps: MFP You Are Cherished, Happy Pansies (for ladybugs)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Scattered Straw & Tattered Rose Distress Inks

Card Stock: MFP Snow Storm Smooth Premium Paper, Limeade, Barely Pink, Morning Sun

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Stipple Brushes, Charm, MFP Satin Ribbons, Heart Clip, Circle Clip, Pop Dots, Brads

Sending Happy Thoughts - Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop Day 3

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

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Love Remains Featured January 17
Cowgirls Rule Featured January 18
Sending Happy Thoughts Featured January 19
You Are Cherished Featured January 20

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!)We will announce all four winners on January 21, 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!) The winners will be chosen at 11PM EST on Friday January 20, 2012.

Lois

Vicky

Anne

Pat G.

Karen H.

Patty P.

Mary

Dawn M.

Marilynn

Chrissy

Karen K.

Pam

Debbie

Nancy

Bonnie (that's me) 

Harriet

Kathy

Silvia

Brenda

Mark's Finest Papers

Growing up I had always wanted to collect butterflies and flowers.  However, living in an apartment back then, having a collection wasn't exactly an easy thing to do.  There wasn't all of the fun collectors shadow boxes, preservative stuff, etc that kids have now-a-days.  If I wanted to smash a flower between the pages of a heavy book, then that was possible even though afterwards there was no place to "store" or "show" them. 

Today's set, Sending Happy Thoughts by Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company allows me, and anyone else, to be a kid again.  Once I saw this set, I knew what I how I wanted to present it for today's blog hop.  After I stamped my images on Snow Storm Smooth premium paper in memento tuxedo black ink and colored them with prismacolor markers, I cut all of them out to be "pinned" or "glued" into a Martha Stewart shadow box I had bought a Michael's a year ago or so on clearance.  Once all of my cutting was done, I pulled out some Prima flowers and leaves, roses, and my Martha Stewart large butterfly punch with some scrap designer paper.  After arranging everything in my shadow box, it was time to glue/pin it all down then add some bling for the final embellishment.

Here's a close up of the shadow box without the cover on.  I'm pretty happy with how it turned out considering I'm still dealing a migraine and my project was put together while still on meds for it.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Don't forget to stop by all of the designers blogs and leave a comment for a chance to win today's set.  Have a great day.

Stamps: MFP Sending Happy Thoughts

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Card Stock: MFP Snow Storm Smooth

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch, Martha Stewart Shadow Box, Prima Flowers, Prima Leaves, Bling, Glue Dots, Pop Up Glue Dots, Pins

Cowgirls Rule - Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop Day 2

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

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Love Remains Featured January 17
Cowgirls Rule Featured January 18
Sending Happy Thoughts Featured January 19
You Are Cherished Featured January 20

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!)We will announce all four winners on January 21, 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!) The winners will be chosen at 11PM EST on Friday January 20, 2012.

Lois

Vicky

Anne

Pat G.

Karen H.

Patty P.

Mary

Dawn M.

Marilynn

Chrissy

Karen K.

Pam

Debbie

Nancy

Bonnie (that's me)

Harriet

Kathy

Silvia

Brenda

Mark's Finest Papers

When I first saw the new Cowgirls Rule stamp set by Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company, I literally squealed with delight.  In all of my years of stamping (14+), I have not seen a more adorable cowgirl set.  I am in love with this little girl and her horse.  She is so easy to color even with a migraine. *wink*

I started out by stamping my images in memento tuxedo black ink onto Mark's Finest Papers Vanilla Bean premium paper before coloring with prismacolor markers and stippling Tim Holtz Tattered Rose distress ink around the layered image and Adirondack caramel ink lightly over it.

My final embellishments were some thread along the card and thread curled into a rope, mini pewter brads for "nails", and popping up my cowgirl's Stetson hat over the saddle.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Don't forget to stop by all of the Design Team blogs and leave some love for a chance to win today's set.  Have a great day.


Stamps: MFP Cowgirls Rule
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Tattered Rose, Adirondack Caramel
Card Stock: MFP Vanilla Bean, Pink, Florida Peach, Michael's Designer Paper
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Pop Dots, Pewter Brads, Thread, Ranger Crystal Accents, Stipple Brushes

Love Remains - Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop Day 1

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

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Love Remains Featured January 17
Cowgirls Rule Featured January 18
Sending Happy Thoughts Featured January 19
You Are Cherished Featured January 20

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!)We will announce all four winners on January 21, 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!) The winners will be chosen at 11PM EST on Friday January 20, 2012.

Lois

Vicky

Anne

Pat G.

Karen H.

Patty P.

Mary 

Dawn M.

Marilynn

Chrissy

Karen K.

Pam

Debbie

Nancy

Bonnie (that's me) 

Harriet

Kathy

Silvia

Brenda

Mark's Finest Papers

Hello and welcome.  I hope you're enjoying the blog hop so far.  Today I have two projects to share with you featuring today's set Love Remains.  This is a beautiful Valentine's set, anniversary set, birthday, or just because you want to say I Love You to someone.  When I first saw this stamp set it reminded me of my great aunt Aggie's prize rose garden she had in front of my grandparents house in San Fernando, California.  Every summer while growing up I'd get to spend a week or two at grandma & grandpa's down south and aunt Aggie would let me help tend her roses.  That was really a treat since she didn't let many people touch those roses since they were her "babies".  After she and grandma died, grandpa tore the rose garden out since he didn't have the health to take care of them.  However, every time I look at the roses in this set, I keep seeing Aggie's rose garden and it's aunt Aggie's red and pink roses I let be my inspiration for both of the projects I'm sharing with you today.

My first project is, of course, framed art.  I love making framed projects that can be used as gifts or placed around the house.  I decided to pair my framed roses with my favorite song, Bette Midler's The Rose, so I hunted down the lyrics online, and pasted them into a MS Word document and copied/pasted the lyrics until I had an entire page covered when printed landscape.  I then cut down the page to fit the open part of the frame before removing the glass and then replacing the glass behind the lyrics for added support.  Once that was done, I took the large rose, and smaller rosebuds, and stamped them in memento tuxedo black onto Mark's Finest Papers Snow Storm Smooth premium paper before coloring all of them with prismacolor markers and cutting out the rosebuds and leaves.  I then took all of the cut out images and started adhering them on top of the lyrics using glue dots, pop dots, and pop up glue dots as needed to achieve varying layers of dimension.  Once that was done, I pulled out my sentiment, stamped it onto scrap card stock, added some faux brads, and adhered it to the top right corner before adding ice stickles to the roses for a little sparkle.

My second project uses the rosebud stamped on the card itself with the Happy Valentine's Day saying as the background to the larger rose as the centerpiece.  Again two roses are stamped on Mark's Finest Papers  Snow Storm Smooth premium paper and colored with prismacolor markers, with one of the roses cut out and popped up for dimension.  Stampin Up! poppy ink is lightly stippled around the edges of the layered image before some adding pearl heart brads I picked up at Michael's during the Christmas holiday's. 

Once my layered image was added, I pulled out some Ripened Tomato Luxury Satin ribbon and adorned the knot I tied with a white heart hat pin threaded through a pewter heart charm from my stash.  My final embellishment is some mini magenta roses adhered with glue dots.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Don't forget to stop by all of the designers blogs and leave some love for a chance to win today's stamp set.  Have a great day.

Stamps: MFP Love Remains

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Poppy, Real Red

Card Stock: MFP Snow Storm Smooth, Speedy The Cat Black, Cherry Slush Premium Papers

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Dollar Store Frame, Hat Pin, Glue Dots, Pop Dots, Pop Up Glue Dots, Heart Charm, Pearl Heart Brads, Magenta Roses, Ribbon, MS Word, Computer, Printer, Ice Stickles

The Rose Lyrics © Bette Midler

Working With Pencils - Friends of SpeedyTV 2012 Challenge #3

Hello and happy Monday.  Welcome to another Friends of SpeedyTV by Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company.  This week we are challenging you to work with your colored pencils.  Yes, that's right - put down those Copic markers, Prismacolor markers, Stampin Up! markers, or any other marker you're used to working with on a normal basis and dust off those pencils we all HAD to have at one point or another.  Since I had a hard time deciding on which images I was going to work with this week, I made two cards for my challenge inspiration.

My first card uses one of Mark's Finest Papers winter sets, however, I chose to turn it into a spring set instead.  Let talk you through it.  I stamped the winter set What A Fox in memento tuxedo black ink onto Mark's Finest Papers Snow Storm Smooth premium paper and pulled out my koh-i-noor pencils and prismacolor blender marker.  I chose various shades of blue for the stream since it wouldn't be frozen and I wanted to show some "depth" to the water and made sure to "pull" the water far into the distance.  Once my coloring of the water was done, I pulled out a couple of different browns for the trees; making sure to use the lightest brown for the smallest limbs so they would blend well with the green "leaf canopy" I would be making.  I used the lighter shades of green for the meadow grass and then all of the green pencils I had to make the "leaf canopy" making sure to bring the color down close to the meadow.  Once my coloring was done, I pulled out my stipple brushes and some Stampin Up and Tim Holtz inks and lightly stippled over the penciled coloring to "soften" and blend finish everything together.  I did the same for the stream using bashful blue ink.

Once the coloring of my meadow, stream and canopy was done, I turned my attention to the foxes I wanted to add to the scene.  I had also stamped two additional foxes to color, cut out and pop up for some added dimension when I was totally finished with the card.  Once all of the layering was done, I pulled out my Tim Holtz bark texture embossing folder and ran the card through my Big Shot as well as a border strip and add some mini pewter brads to hold that in place.  My final embellishments besides the popped up foxes was adding some Ranger Crystal Accents to the stream for added dimension there too, and some wonderful Mark's Finest Papers sheer ribbon.  Now isn't this a great way to get extra mileage out of a winter set that can be used for any occasion??

My second card is strictly for the boys.  I had wanted to use Mark's Finest Papers background set, Background Fun, but wasn't quite sure what I was going to do with it until I was completely done with my fox card.  Taking the "weave" image from the background set, I stamped it on my card in artichoke ink (so it would look like the back of a pickup) before embossing it using the Tim Holtz bark texture embossing folder I still had out.  Once the card was stamped and embossed, I pulled out the Big Boy Toys stamp set and stamped the truck scene in memento tuxedo black on Snow Storm Smooth premium paper and also colored it with various koh-i-noor pencils and a prismacolor blender marker.  Once my coloring and layering were done, I pulled out my distressing tool and distressed the sides of the layers for a "rugged" look and then added some screw shaped designer brads for that "all boy feel".  Just before adhering the layered image, I last minute decided for a stamped border, so once again pulled out the background weave stamp, stamped the border in weathered wood ink and adhered it using the same designer brads before adding some silver sticker dots to the bottom right corner.

Using colored pencils can be a lot of fun.  So take a break from those markers and come join us in this week's challenge over at SpeedyTV.  Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps:  MFP Big Boy Toys, Background Fun, What A Fox

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Pine Needles, Weathered Wood, Stampin Up! Artichoke, Bashful Blue, Garden Green, Wild Wasabi, Caramel

Card Stock: MFP Snow Storm Smooth Premium Paper, Deep Olive, Hurricane Gray,

Accessories: Koh-I-Noor Pencils, Prismacolor Blender Marker, Ribbon, Pop Dots, Tim Holtz Bark Texture Embossing Folder, Big Shot, Mini Pewter Brads, Stipple Brushes, Glue Dots, Metal Sticker Dots, SU Distressing Tool, Ranger Crystal Effects

Warm Hugs

Hello everyone.  Sorry about the short post.  I've been having some major migraine issues this last week again.  In fact, I have been in the dark since last Wednesday and just typing this post is hurting the head. 

Today I'm sharing a card with you I made for the Clearly Inspired Valentine Challenge for Clear Dollar Stamps.  I used the Toasty Bears digital set and just paired it up with some valentine background papers, cuttlebug embossing folder, heart brads and ribbon.  I printed out the images twice and colored with prismacolor markers before cutting one set out and stippling Stampin Up! bashful blue and sage shadow inks around them to soften up the white areas.  Once that was done I popped up the bears and fire on pop dots for a little added dimension and my card was done.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: CDS Toasty Bears Digital Image

Ink: Stampin Up! Bashful Blue, Sage Shadow, Regal Rose

Card Stock: White, Stampin Up! Regal Rose, Rose Red, Sage Shadow, Designer Paper

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Big Shot, Stipple Brushes, Ribbon, Heart Brads, Pop Dots, Glue Dots

Underwater Friends - My Time Made Easy Pretty Pattern Sketch #43

Hello and welcome to another My Time Made Easy Pretty Pattern Sketch Challenge.  This week the team has come up with a simple sketch with a twist for you.  The "green line" in the upper left corner can be made into several different things.  I've seen the design teams doing all kinds of twists with that layer.

For my card, I chose to use My Time Made Easy's Underwater Wonderment digital set paired with the Under The Cabana digital paper again.  After I downloaded the images, I then "overlapped them" using Photoshop and added my own sentiment as well before coloring and  lightly stippling Stampin Up! bashful blue ink around the images for a slight watery feel.

Once my layering was done using the star flowers from Under The Cabana, alternating with Stampin Up! sahara sand, I adhered the main image panel to a baja breeze card with a layer of wave designer paper that's been in my stash for years.  The only embellishments I used were pearl stickers and then ice stickles to highlight portions of my colored image.  I'm pretty pleased with my card considering I made it while still dealing with these blasted migraines and was on pain killers at the time.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and we hope you'll play along with us at My Time Made Easy.

Stamps: MTME Digital Underwater Wonderment

Ink: Stampin Up! Bashful Blue

Card Stock: White, Stampin Up! Baja Breeze, Sahara Sand, MTME Digital Under The Cabana, Scrap Designer Paper

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Stipple Brush, Ice Stickles, Pearl Stickers

I Want To Hold Your Hand - TCP Tuesday 191 & 192

Hello and welcome to Wednesday and knowing that your week is half over.

Double challenge here!!!  How's that for multi-tasking??  I was able to get both the TCPTUES inspiration and embossing challenges with the same card by using one of my favorite TCP sets Idols.  Now who do these little guys remind you of?  They are so much like the Beatles (I know I added an extra singer) that I just had to buy the set when first I saw it. 

For the inspiration part, I chose to go with the hearts in the photos and pulled out my cuttlebug heart blocks embossing folder to use for the embossing challenge since I refuse to use my heat gun as much as I can. 

After I stamped all of my images on Mark's Finest Papers snowstorm smooth white premium paper in memento tuxedo black, I pulled out my prismacolor markers and colored the open images; blending as needed.  For the cymbal, I pulled out my metallic crayola pencils to use the gold pencil on that part.  After I was done cutting some of the images, and hair, out, I pulled out some pop dots to add a little dimension to the "stage" before adding some musical note brads I had found at Michael's a few months back.  Some ribbon tied in a knot at the top is the only other embellishment I added to my card.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Hop on over to Alma's blog for all of the deets about this week's challenge and the opportunity to be next month's Swanky Stamper!!  Have a great day.


Stamps: TCP Idols
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Card Stock: MFP Snowstorm Smooth, Stampin Up! Real Red
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Cuttlebug Heart Blocks Embossing Folder, Big Shot, Musical Note Brads, Pop Dots, Ribbon

Dogs Have Owners....

Cats have staff!!!  That is sooooooo true!!!  At least in my household with the 5 cats I have and the one dog.  That fantastic saying is from the retired Mod Mod World set from The Cat's Pajamas. 

I signed up for an ATC swap over on Splitcoaststampers back in December having never made ATC's before.  Not exactly the brightest thing for me to do, huh?  However, thanks to my trusty friend KJ, aka KelliJo on SCS, she reminded me of the resources section on Splitcoast so I found the tutorial on how to cut ATC's.

So once I stamped all of my images from Mod, Mod World, I colored Miss Sprinkles eyes and the stripe on her spaceship with prismacolor markers before realizing my spaceship was the same size as the main layer of the ATC.  That's a slight problem.  So I then had to cut out all of the images I had just colored, set those aside, then cut my ATC's, designer paper layer, and then another black layer with a stamped background.  After punching holes for my ribbon to go through, I also punched some Martha Stewart rockets and some funky looking star clusters.  Since the rockets looked a little plain to me, I found my MFT Banner Alpha and stamped the TCP on the rockets before adding them to the ATC's.  After popping up Sprinkle's spaceship, the rocket, adding bling to the funky star clusters and ice stickles, my ATC's were done.  Well?  What do you think?

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: TCP Mod Mod World, MFT Banner Alpha

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Lady Bug Red, Paris Dusk, Bahama Blue, Stampin Up! Going Grey, Basic  Grey, Pallet Canvas White

Card Stock: MFP Snow Storm White, DCWV Glitter Mat Stack, Stampin Up! Going Grey, PTI Black, HOTP Silver Designer Paper

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Ice Stickles, Fiskars Star Cluster Punch, Martha Stewart Rocket Punch, Bling, Pop Dots, Glue Dots, Stipple Brushes

With Our Thanks - Friends Of SpeedyTV 2012 Challenge #2

Hello.  Short post today thanks to another migraine.  Welcome to another Monday and to another Friends of SpeedyTV challenge by Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company.  This week we are challenging you to make a thank you card.  With the holidays over, we all have a lot of people we need to send thank yous to.

For my card this week, I chose to ink one of my favorite sets A Trip To Lancaster.  This set is so versatile and can be used for birthday's, thanks, just because, well just about anything that strikes your fancy when paired with a sentiment from another set as well. 

After stamping my image in memento tuxedo black onto Mark's Finest Papers Snow Storm Smooth premium paper, I pulled out my koh-i-noor pencils and blender marker and got to coloring before stippling Stampin Up! bashful blue ink around the image for the sky.  This image looks fantastic colored with just pencils instead of markers because to me pencils give more of a rustic, or even a painted, feel.  After adding some vintage brads and my sentiment from A Walk In The Woods, my card was done with a clean and simple look along with a rustic feel to it.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and I hope you'll join us this week for our challenge over at SpeedyTV.


Stamps: MFP A Trip To Lancaster, A Walk In The Woods
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Bashful Blue
Card Stock: MFP Snow Storm Smooth, Stampin Up! Tangerine Tango, More Mustard, Wild Wasabi, K&Company Designer Paper
Accessories: Koh-I-Noor Pencils, Prismacolor Blender Marker, Vintage Brads, Stipple Brush

Pines Sympathy

Short post today thanks to another migraine.  I thought I had uploaded this card already, however I found out I hadn't.

Recently I had need for a sympathy card for someone that lost her grandson suddenly and had to make one in a real hurry, so I pulled out my Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company set called A Walk In The Woods.  I like using this set for sympathy cards, or any card in general, because for me talking a walk amongst the trees is soothing and reassuring.  Hopefully, it will be for the recipient as well.

I decided to keep the card simple and stamped the background using PTI's artichoke ink on Stampin Up! garden green card stock before stamping the main image panel in PTI landscape ink twice on to a Mark's Finest Papers Corn Husk scrap piece of premium card stock.  My only embellishments were a pre-made organdy bow and some black baby brads.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.


Stamps: MFP A Walk In The Woods
Ink: PTI Landscape
Card Stock: MFP Corn Husk, Stampin Up! Garden Green, Black
Accessories: Bow, Brads, Glue Dots

You're A Rare Jewel - My Time Made Easy Pretty PatternReview Sketch #42

Hello and welcome to another My Time Made Easy Pretty Pattern Sketch Challenge.  This week we are doing a review of sketches 27-33, so just pick one and join in the fun!

For my card, I chose to go with sketch #28 and altered it just a tad.  I started out by downloading and printing off My Time Made Easy's Under The Cabana digital paper and then downloading the matching digital set Underwater Wonderment and added my own sentiment using Photoshop Elements.  After my image was printed off onto white card stock, I pulled out my prismacolor markers and got to coloring before lightly stippling Stampin Up! tempting turquoise around the edges and adding matching brads over the layers.

I then eliminated the smaller oval in favor of dew drops adhered over the digital paper and added some Michael's silk seashell bridal confetti to the side panel.  Overall a quick and fairly easy card.  The hardest part, was deciding what to do.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and a wonderful rest of the week.

Stamps: MTME Digital Underwater Wonderment

Ink: Stampin Up! Tempting Turquoise

Card Stock: White, Stampin Up! Tempting Turquoise, Groovy Guava, Summer Sun, MTME Digital Under The Cabana Designer Paper

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Brads, Stipple Brush, Michael's Silk Seashell Bridal Confetti, Dew Drops, Glue Dots, Ranger Crystal Accents

Time For Tea - Friends of SpeedyTV Challenge #14

Hello and Happy New Year!!!  Welcome to the first Friends of SpeedyTV challenge of 2012 by Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company.  Our challenge this week is to make a gate fold card.  I've never made one of these so this was definitely a challenge for me until I figured it out.

For my card, I pulled out Mark's Finest Papers Floral Tea stamp set.  After stamping my images in memento tuxedo black onto white card stock, I pulled out my prismacolor markers and got to coloring.  Once my coloring was done, I pulled out my Spellbinders scalloped circle nesties and die cut three layers to place in the center over the panels opening and then sponged some Stampin Up! sage shadow dye ink around two of the layers and the card for some extra color.  Cutting out my teacup and adding some ice stickles were all the final touches I needed to this simple card.  Took a total of 30min to make including die cutting with the nesties.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and join us this week for the Friends of SpeedyTV's first 2012 challenge.

Stamps: MFP Floral Tea

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Sage Shadow

Card Stock: White, Stampin Up! Sage Shadow, Making Memories English Garden Designer Paper

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Big Shot, Spellbinders Scallop Circle Nesties, Ice Sticles, Sponge