Faith Hope Courage Strength - My Time Made Easy Pretty Patter Sketch #58

Hello and welcome to another My Time Made Easy Pretty Pattern Sketch Challenge.  I have been so sick from my migraines that I haven't been able to participate in the weekly challenge.  This week, however, I made sure I participated no matter what.

For my card, I combined several sets to get the completed look.  First, I took the Harriet Hop Along Basket single image, printed it off onto white card stock and colored with prismacolor markers.  Then, I stippled both bashful blue and garden green inks around the edges.  Then, I randomly stamped on my scrap layers using images from my Tending The Garden acrylic set before stamping onto the card itself using Tending The Garden and the saying from Bold Botanicals cut up so it would be centered just right before adding a knotted scrap of pink ribbon for my only embellishment.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and stop by the My Time Made Easy blog for this week's challenge.

Stamps: MTME Harriet Hop Along Digital, Bold Botanicals & Tending The Garden Acrylic Stamps

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Pink Pirouette, Bashful Blue, Garden Green, Adirondack Caramel, Sunshine Yellow, Tim Holtz Tattered Rose

Card Stock: White, MFP Old World Gold, Scraps

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Computer, Printer, Ribbon Scrap, Glue Dots

Train Talk - Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop Day 4

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

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Fabulous Dogs Featured April 17

Daffodil Greetings Featured April 18

Hey, Cowboy! Featured April 19

Train Talk Featured April 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!) All four winners will be announced on April 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 and comments on the MFP blog count twice!) The deadline for commenting is 11PM EST on Friday April 20, 2012.

Lois

Vicky

Anne

Pat G.

Karen H.

Patty P.

Mary

Marilynn

Pam

Debbie

Nancy

Bonnie

Kathy

Brenda

Toni

Tangii

Anna S

Sue

Kelli

Janine

Mark's Finest Papers

I've always loved trains and when the new Train Talk set came out I literally jumped for joy.  After stamping the silhouette image in memento tuxedo black ink onto white storm before stippling several inks over and around the image to resemble a sunrise.  Once I was satisfied with the ink coverage and my image was layered, I added some Making Memories black baby brads before stamping a border using the train tracks from the On Track mini set.  My final embellishment was to die cut a couple of gears using Tim Holtz Bigz Gadget Gears die.

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

Stamps: MFP Train Talk, On Track Mini

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Spiced Marmalade, Stormy Sky, Dusty Concord, Forest Moss, Adirondack Sunset Orange, Sunshine Yellow

Card Stock: MFP White Storm, Black, Scrambled Eggs, Orangerie Sunset

Accessories: Stipple Brushes, Big Shot, Tim Holtz Gadget Gears Die, Brads, Twine, Pop Up Glue Dots, Glue Dots

Hey, Cowboy - Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop Day 3

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

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Fabulous Dogs Featured April 17

Daffodil Greetings Featured April 18

Hey, Cowboy! Featured April 19

Train Talk Featured April 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!) All four winners will be announced on April 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 and comments on the MFP blog count twice!) The deadline for commenting is 11PM EST on Friday April 20, 2012.

Lois

Vicky

Anne

Pat G.

Karen H.

Patty P.

Mary

Marilynn

Pam

Debbie

Nancy

Bonnie

Kathy

Brenda

Toni

Tangii

Anna S

Sue

Kelli

Janine

Mark's Finest Papers

Do you remember watching the old westerns on TV and them having a cowboy go riding off into the sunset?  Well, I used that as the inspiration for my card today. 

I started off by stamping my image in memento tuxedo black ink onto MFP white storm premium paper and then stippling several inks around and over the image.  Once I was satisfied with the ink coverage, I layered my cowboy and then added some pewter baby brads before stamping the barbed wire fence in memento black ink directly onto some wood grain designer paper I found in my stash before layering that and adding the same pewter baby brads to resemble nails.  The only embellishments I added to my card were some buttons and bakers twine.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and 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.

Stamps: MFP Hey Cowboy

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Spiced Marmalade, Tumbled Glass, Faded Jeans, Stormy Sky, Dusty Concord, Adirondack Latte, Sunshine Yellow, Caramel

Card Stock: MFP White Storm, Chipboard, Black, Provo Craft Wood Grain Designer Paper

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Stipple Brushes, Brads, Buttons, Bakers Twine, Glue Dots

Daffodil Greetings - Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop Day 2

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

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Fabulous Dogs Featured April 17

Daffodil Greetings Featured April 18

Hey, Cowboy! Featured April 19

Train Talk Featured April 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!) All four winners will be announced on April 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 and comments on the MFP blog count twice!) The deadline for commenting is 11PM EST on Friday April 20, 2012.

Lois

Vicky

Anne

Pat G.

Karen H.

Patty P.

Mary

Marilynn

Pam

Debbie

Nancy

Bonnie

Kathy

Brenda

Toni

Tangii

Anna S

Sue

Kelli

Janine

Mark's Finest Papers

Daffodils are my favorite flower, especially since the flower is part of the American Cancer Society's annual Daffodil Days fundraiser so when Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company decided to release the new Daffodil Greetings stamp set, I jumped all over this set!! 

I started out by stamping my images twice in memento tuxedo black onto MFP white storm premium paper and then coloring with prismacolor markers before cutting one of the images out to pop up later.  Once my coloring was done, I lightly stippled Tim Holtz tumbled glass distress ink around the edges of the daffodils before layering and adding some Making Memories baby brads from my stash.  Then I alternately stamped daffodils and the butterfly in Adirondack citrus ink for the card base background before adding some morning sun gingham ribbon, then my layered main image, popped up daffodils and then the butterfly popped up twice on dimensionals.  The final embellishment was to add some ice stickles to both the butterfly's wings and daffodil stamens for just a bit of bling.

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 Daffodil Greetings

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass, Adirondack Citrus

Card Stock: MFP White Storm,  New Leaf, Scrambled Eggs

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Stipple Brush, Brads, Ribbon, Pop Dots, Dimensionals, Ice Stickles

Fabulous Dogs - Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop Day 1

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

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Fabulous Dogs Featured April 17

Daffodil Greetings Featured April 18

Hey, Cowboy! Featured April 19

Train Talk Featured April 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!) All four winners will be announced on April 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 and comments on the MFP blog count twice!) The deadline for commenting is 11PM EST on Friday April 20, 2012.

Lois

Vicky

Anne

Pat G.

Karen H.

Patty P.

Mary

Marilynn

Pam

Debbie

Nancy

Bonnie

Kathy

Brenda

Toni

Tangii

Anna S

Sue

Kelli

Janine

Mark's Finest Papers

I am totally in love with this set and just had to use some "bone" designer paper I found in my stash from Cloud 9.  After stamping my image twice in memento tuxedo black ink on Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company white storm premium paper before coloring with prismacolor markers and cutting one of the images out to pop up later.  Once my coloring & cutting were done, I lightly stippled Adirondack latte ink and Tim Holtz tumbled glass distress ink around the edges of the layered image before adding some paw and bone brads I had found at Michael's and then popping up the entire panel over some MFP chocolate paw ribbon before adding a brass bone charm with some thread.

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

Stamps: MFP Fabulous Dogs

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Adirondack Latte, Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass

Card Stock: MFP White Storm, Mahogany, Chipboard, Cloud9 Bone Designer Paper

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Pop Dots, Ribbon, Charm, Brads, Thread, Stipple Brushes

Celebrate Like A Big Dog - Friends of SpeedyTV Challenge #16

Hello and welcome to Monday!!  This week the Friends of SpeedyTV is having an "Anything Goes" challenge - so basically you make your own challenge for us.  This week we are also giving away Cowgirls Rule, so make sure you play along for a chance to win.

For my card, I decided to focus on birthday's since I never seem to have enough birthday cards around. I started out by pulling out a new set being released this week by Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company called Fabulous Dogs.  I just love the big ol' boxer in this set.  It's too cute!  After stamping my image in memento tuxedo black twice onto MFP white storm premium paper and coloring with prismacolor markers, I pulled out my stipple brushes and got to work filling in the white spaces.  First, I lightly stippled Tim Holtz tumbled glass distress ink immediately around my boxer before stippling Adirondack latte ink on the edges with a "light coat" of Tim Holtz tea stain distress ink over the latte ink as well as stippling the edges of my card base.

Once the stippling and layering were finished, I pulled out some dog bone/paw brads I found at Michael's last year and added those to the corners of both my image and saying.  After adding some chocolate paw ribbon to the side, and my main image slanted in the middle, I finally added the cut out boxer popped up on dimensionals.  My final embellishment was to add a punched out dog paw to the inside of my card (knew that punch would come in handy someday). 

Here's the finished inside:

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

Stamps:  MFP Fabulous Dogs

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Adirondack Latte, Tim Holtz Tea Stain, Tumbled Glass

Card Stock: MFP White Storm, Chipboard, Mahogany, Stampin Up! Bashful Blue, Cloud9 Dog Paw Designer Paper

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Dog Paw/Bone Brads, Chocolate Dog Paw Ribbon, Dimensionals, Pop Dots, Stipple Brushes, Fiskars Dog Paw Punch

Lighthouse Hello - For Your Inspiration #27

This week's For Your Inspiration photo challenge is all about one of my favorite subjects - lighthouses!  Isn't this just a gorgeous inspiration photo?

Once I saw the photo, I just knew I had to use one of my lighthouse sets from Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company.  I pulled out the Light My Way stamp set and stamped my lighthouse in memento tuxedo black onto MFP white storm premium paper before coloring everything with prismacolor markers.  Once my coloring was done, I lightly stippled some bashful blue ink around the edges of the lighthouse before stippling a touch of Adirondack sunshine yellow by the light and then some Tim Holtz stormy sky and a touch of Adirondack caramel ink around the edges as well. I then took the Vacation Messages mini set and stamped some grass in Tim Holtz forest moss ink before adding my saying from You Light Up My Life stamp set.  After embossing some gray card stock using a Tim Holtz retro circles embossing folder and stippling some nite of navy ink over the raised images, I was ready to add some brads, circle clips and some white/navy organdy ribbon.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: MFP Light Up Your Life, Vacation Messages, Light My Way

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Forest Moss, Stormy Sky, Adirondack Sunshine Yellow, Caramel, Stampin Up! Bashful Blue

Card Stock: MFP White Storm, Stampin Up! Basic Gray, Nite Of Navy

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Stipple Brushes, Circle Clips, Tim Holtz Retro Circle Embossing Folder, Big Shot, Ribbon, Brads, Dimensionals

Time Is Like The Wind - My Time Made Easy Pretty Pattern Sketch #56

Happy Thursday and welcome to another My Time Made Easy Pretty Pattern Sketch challenge. 

I almost forgot about the sketch this week thanks to another freaking migraine.  So when I sat down to make the card last night, I grabbed some Prima botanicals paper, dies and MTME's Keep Strong digital stamp set.  After cutting my card base out completely wrong the first time, I finally got it right and began assembling all of the elements together.  My final touches were to sponge some old olive ink around the edges of my saying, card, and a tad over the rose before adding some gold pearl bead stickers.

Challenges card made for: My Time Made Easy, Crafty Friends Vintage.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps:  MTME Keep Strong Digital Stamps

Ink: Stampin Up! Old Olive

Card Stock: White, Stampin Up! Blush Blossom, Old Olive, Prima Botanicals Designer Paper

Accessories: Printer, Computer, MFT Jumbo Scallop Dienamic, MFT Leafy Flourish Dienamic, Prima Rose, Glue Dots, Dimensionals, Spellbinders, Ribbon Scrap, Sponge, Big Shot, Gold Pearl Bead Stickers

Just Smile

This week's Crazy 4 Challenges challenge is to use the colors blue and white with another color of our choice.  Well, I went with green since it's SUPPOSED to be springtime and decided to stamp some flowers.  Of course, I cheated just a tad and had to add a little yellow for the flower centers.

I actually started this card over the weekend, however, thanks to my "infamous" migraines, it's taken 4 days to complete the card.  I started out by stamping my Winter Crocus images from Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company in memento tuxedo black ink on white storm premium paper before coloring with prismacolor markers and layering onto bang up blue linen paper.  Then taking one of my cuttlebug embossing folders, I ran a piece of scrap white card stock through the big shot and then lightly stippled Adirondack sailboat blue ink over the raised lettering.

My final touches were to add some gorgeous royal blue satin ribbon with a green hat pin and some beads added onto it.  I also added my signature faux brads before popping up a cut out crocus image twice just below the main layered image.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and why don't you join this week's challenge?  They are a lot of fun and definitely get the mojo juices flowing.

Stamps: MFP Winter Crocus
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Adirondack Sailboat Blue
Card Stock: MFP White Storm, Bang Up Blue Linen
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Royal Blue Satin Ribbon, Hat Pin, Small Hole Punch, 2-Way Glue Pen, Stipple Brush, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Big Shot, Dimensionals, Beads

Basic Color Stippling

Hello every.  Today over on the Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company blog, I am the Featured Designer for the tutorial series.  I've often had people ask how do I get my color coverage by stippling.  Today I'm going to show you how to do just that.  It's actually really easy once you know the basics and it's a great way to fill in open spaces (i.e.: sky, grass, trees,).  You can also distress a project using this technique as well.

To start off, you need some ink, stipple brushes, and stamped images.

Once your images are colored and cut out you need to pick up the ink onto your brush by lightly "pouncing" the brush onto the ink pad , and then you can begin to stipple the ink over and around the colored images.

Once you are satisfied with the color coverage, you can move onto the next color, etc., etc.

Here's a sample of what your stippled project looks like before assembling.

To add a vintage touch to your project, tap your brush onto a caramel ink pad,

and pounce the ink onto the edges of your card until you are again satisfied with the color coverage.

Here's the completed project.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and feel free to check out the other tutorials on SpeedyTV.

Vintage Relaxing Teacup

Hello and welcome to Thursday.  Sorry I haven't been posting a lot this week, however, I have been dealing with the flu on top of my "normal it seems" migraines.  Today I am sharing a card I made for two different challenges, the sketch for Crazy 4 Challenges and a new one I found called Crafty Friends Challenges. 

I started out by stamping my images from Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company Love Remains and Relax A Bit in memento tuxedo black ink onto corn husk premium paper before coloring with prismacolor markers.  Once my coloring was done, I cut out my background sketch design and then die cut my focal image using a sizzix circle scallop lace die.

Then taking three different Tim Holtz distress inks (Forest Moss, Tattered Rose, and Tea Stain), I began stippling them over and around my images until I was satisfied with the color coverage.  Once my stippling was finished, I began to assemble my card.  For my final touches, I stippled some Adirondack caramel ink around the edge of the entire card and then added a small K&Company chipboard butterfly just below my teacup.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps:  MFP Relax A Bit, Love Remains

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Forest Moss, Tea Stain, Tattered Rose, Adirondack Caramel

Card Stock: MFP Corn Husk, K&Company Aged Floral Designer Paper

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Stipple Brushes, Dimensionals, Sizzix Die, Big Shot, Chipboard Butterfly, Glue Dots

Chicken Soup Anyone? - Friends of SpeedyTV Challenge #14

Welcome to Monday and another Friends of SpeedyTV challenge by Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company.  This week our challenge is to make a get well card and we'll be giving away the stamp set You Light Up Your Life as shown below.

My card this week uses the recently released set called Flaps My Wattles and is another one of those cards I made last week while suffering from my migraine and not able to sleep.

I started out by stamping my images in memento tuxedo black onto MFP's white storm premium paper and coloring with prismacolor markers.  Once my coloring was done, I lightly stippled Adirondack caramel and bashful blue inks around the edges of the layers before layering and adding some Making Memories baby brads. 

Since I had decided to keep the card semi-simple, I just tied a red satin ribbon around the top and added a brass rooster charm before adding some primas along the side with green gem centers.  My final touch was taking a black marker and adding some faux sewing lines along the stamped layered image so it could be entered into the SCS Fan Club central theme challenge for this month.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and why not join us this week at Friends of SpeedyTV.  You could win a free stamp set!

Stamps: MFP Flaps My Wattles

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Adirondack Caramel, Stampin Up! Bashful Blue

Card Stock: MFP White Storm, Scrambled Eggs, Orangerie Sunset, Deep Olive, MTME Digital Farmhouse Fresh

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Black Journal Marker, Making Memories Baby Brads, Primas, Glue Dots, Gem Stickers, Rooster Charm, Black Bakers Twine, Ribbon, Stipple Brushes