MFP Blog Hop - Day 2

Mark's Finest Papers' Design Teams are celebrating our NEWEST STAMP RELEASE with a Blog Hop. Our very talented Design Teams have created exciting paper crafts for your inspiration. With the addition of New Design Team members, we’re going to have a really fun-packed Hop! Sit back, and hold on to your mouse! This is going to be a FABULOUS ride! Come Hop along with us! We have 4 New Stamp Sets Released today: Background Fun, Southwest Cowboy, Flourishes & Frame, and Apples & Camellia. For your convenience, all 4 stamp sets are available for purchase TODAY!

For your chance to win BLOG CANDY, visit and comment on each of the design team members' blogs on July 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th. On Saturday, July 17th, a winner will be chosen FOR EACH DAY from those participants who visited all the blogs listed for that day! Four different winners, one winner for each day. THAT MEANS IF YOU MISSED A DAY, YOU STILL HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE TO WIN! And, you can go back and comment, as the winners will be chosen Saturday morning!

The 4 Winners will be announced on the Mark's Finest Papers Blog on July 17, 2010. Each winner will receive 1 Stamp Set that will be released NEXT month.

Again I have created two cards with today’s set – Southwest Cowboy.

I decided to use a technique that I haven’t used in a very long time for my first card today – Shaving Cream background. You can’t see a whole lot of it, but I used Palette reinkers in Cognac, Raw Sienna and Moss Jardin. Then I carried the browns and greens into my stamped panels. After stamping the cowboy with Burnt Umber, I stamped it again on a post-it note and cut out the unstamped portion of his shirt. I masked the image and sponged Moss Jardin onto his shirt. The panel at the top right has one of the smaller images stamped on it; and then, after sponging in the desert, I added some Flower Soft Ultra Fine Sand to give it a little texture.. Don’t you love the rustic-looking font on the sentiment?

The background for my second card is a piece of Basic Grey Kraft DP, embossed with a wood grain Tim Holtz embossing folder and then sanded to bring out the wood grain. The moon, sky, and sand were sponged -- with the cactus stamped in Tim Holtz Walnut Stain.

Be sure to visit the rest of the team to see what they did with this lovely set and comment on each blog. You have a chance to win one of the stamp sets to be released in August.

Here is the Blog Hop LINE UP

July Guest Designer – Melisa Waldorf
Nancyruth

Lois - (that’s me)

Vicky

Jeanne
Anne
Debbie
Peggysue
Faith
Susan
Judi
Patty
Karen
Connie
Roxie
Vicki
Joanne
Julia
Claudine
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