New Pines

Second post for me tonight.  For my My Time Made Easy sketch, please scroll down one post.  Thanks.

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

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Pucker Up Featured December 13

Pussy Willows Featured December 14
Ice and Snow Featured December 14

New Pines Featured December 15

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! We will announce all four winners on December 16, 2011 on the Mark's Finest Papers blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. The winners will be chosen at 11PM EST on Thursday December 15, 2011.

Lois

Vicky

Anne

Connie

Linda

Karen H.

Patty P.

Geri

Dawn M.

Marilynn

Chrissy

Karen K.

Pam

Debbie

Brenda T

Bonnie - that's me! 

Harriet

Tammylee

Silvia

Mark's Finest Papers

Today Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company is featuring the set New Pines.  For my project, I chose to make an altered frame I picked up at the dollar store.  I wanted my frame to look as if someone was "looking out a window to the outside" with a Christmas swag over the window.  After I stamped my images in memento tuxedo black onto Mark's Finest Papers Grandma's Snow Covered Porch card stock, I pulled out a couple of different shades of green prismacolor markers and colored my pine trees before stamping the saying over two of them.  Once I had stippled some clouds above and around the saying, I took the two remaining pines, cut them out and popped them up on dimensionals and pop dots to get varying levels of dimension.  Then came adding the swag.

Following Kittie's flower spray and pine cone tutorials, I punched several different colors of Martha Stewart pine branches and added those over a couple of ferns to use as a base.  Once that was done, I punched out some poinsettia's using a Martha Stewart punch I had found online, some small hydrangea flowers, and two cardinals to add to the swag and scene.  Once all of that was added, I put some Tim Holtz distress stickles in the centers of the poinsettia's and used a black marker for the centers of the smaller flowers.  Here's a close-up:

Thanks for stopping by today.  Don't forget to continue hopping along to the rest of the designers blogs and leave a comment for a chance to win today's stamp set. Have a great day.

Stamps: MFP New Pines
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Bashful Blue
Card Stock: MFP Grandma's Snow Covered Porch, Olive, Card Stock Scraps
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers,  Martha Stewart Punches, Black Marker, Ranger Crystal Accents, Stipple Brush, Dollar Store Frame, Tim Holtz Distress Ice Stickles, Pop Up Glue Dots, Pop Dots, Dimensionals

Some Springy Little Friends - My Time Made Easy Pretty Pattern Sketch #38

Hello everyone and welcome to December!!!  You officially have only 24 shopping days until Christmas, and even less to wrap, ship and hid those presents from inquiring eyes/minds. ;)  This week the My Time Made Easy Pretty Pattern Sketch Team is having a week in review.  Basically, pick one of the sketches between sketches #19-23 and sketches #25-26, then base your card or project on that sketch.  This week I chose to go with sketch #22 not only because of it's simplicity, but after the week I've had with migraines again and then just finding out my 19 year old son is a Type 1 diabetic like his dad, I needed to do something really simple.

I started out by printing out Wonderful Woodland Creatures and coloring the bear and fox to match the colors of the Color Infusion digital paper.  Then pulling out some matching Stampin Up! card stock and retired designer paper, I got work layering my card and Color Infusion designer paper.  Once the card was done, I dusted off two Marvy scallop circle punches, punched the matching colors, and then cut out my main images to layer over the scalloped ones.  For the final touches, I once again followed Kittie747's floral spray tutorial found on her blog here to make the remainder of my embellishments using Ranger Crystal Accents, paper crimper, Martha Stewart punches, and gold ice stickles. 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.  Don't forget when uploading this week to put BOTH of the correct keywords for your sketch.  For example: I chose MTMEPPS22 as my sample, so when I upload that one to my online gallery, I'll have that keyword plus this week's MTMEPPS38.

Stamps: MTME Wonderful Woodland Creatures

Card Stock: MTME Color Infusion Digital Paper, Stampin Up! Retired Designer Paper, Rich Razzelberry, Kiwi Kiss

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Marvy Punches, Martha Stewart Foliage, 3-way Hydrangea, and Pine Bough Punches, Ranger Crystal Accents, Gold Ice Stickles, Paper Crimper