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.

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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

Hello Magnolia's - May Just One Swap

Hello and welcome to the weekend!!  Last night I decided to try a new technique called cascading images even though my migraine was giving me fits and the pain meds were not working.  So I figured it was either stamp or cry....stamping won out! ;)

I started out by stamping my main magnolia image from Mother's Magnolias by Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company in memento tuxedo black onto snow storm smooth card stock and then again onto plain photocopy paper to cut out and use as a mask for my cascading images.  Once my mask was cut out, I added some removable tape to the back, and then stamped the remaining two images before coloring with prismacolor markers.

Once my coloring was finished, I stamped the saying from Hello Butterflies and then the small butterfly from the new Scenic Selections being released on May 15th.  I kept everything pretty simple by adding pearl heart brads as the only embellishments for my card.

I also decided to enter my card into a couple of new challenge blogs I just discovered last night.

DYSU #71 - Flowers

Card Making Mammas #45 - May Flowers

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: MFP Hello Butterflies, Mother's Magnolias, Scenic Selections

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Card Stock: All MFP

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Photocopy Paper, Removable Tape, Pearl Heart Brads