MFP Blog Hop Day 4 - Tailgate Party

Sept. Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured Sept 10 - Koi Fish

Featured Sept 11 - Primitive Farm 

Featured Sept 12  -What a Scream

Featured Sept 13 - Tailgate Party

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the blogs listed below (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 Sept. 14, 2013, 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 10 PM EST on Friday, Sept. 13,  2013.

 The special stamp set we have for you this month is:

"Holiday Tag"

 The mini stamp set we have for you this month is:

"Nature's Brushstrokes"
                                                      

Well, here it is Friday already.  My challenge today is a Color Challenge -- Rust, Tangerine, Lime Green, any Neutral.  Today's set is a fun one -- the letters in several of the sentiments are individual stamps, so you can stamp a single letter in the pennant, which is what I did; and then I hung the pennants from a piece of twine to form a banner.  The football is stamped on Rust cardstock, cut out, and then run through my Big Shot using the Tiny Bubbles embossing folder, which sort of makes it look like a real football.

As a bonus today, I made a card using this month's mini set, Nature's Brushstrokes.  Even though it has many layers, I would still consider it a Clean and Simple card.  I colored the image with markers.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.  I hope you've gotten lots of inspiration from my cards this week.  Be sure to check out what the rest of the team has created using today's set.  Here's the Design Team:

Patty, Lois (that's me), Jane, Debbie. Pam, Pat, Thrfity Stamper, Marilynn, Karen, Bonnie, Kathy, Angela,
Cathy, Toni, Sue, Janine, An'Jenic, Kate, Shirley, Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

MFP Blog Hop Day 3 and CCEE1337 (Fun Folds)- What a Scream

Sept. Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured Sept 10 - Koi Fish

Featured Sept 11 - Primitive Farm 

Featured Sept 12  -What a Scream

Featured Sept 13 - Tailgate Party

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the blogs listed below (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 Sept. 14, 2013, 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 10 PM EST on Friday, Sept. 13,  2013.

 The special stamp set we have for you this month is:

"Holiday Tag"

 The mini stamp set we have for you this month is:

"Nature's Brushstrokes"
                                                      

Today is Technique Challenge day on my Blog.  I love making Halloween cards, and today's set has lots of fun Halloween images.   My first card, which is also for the CCEE Stampers challenge to use Fun Folds, was made using a technique I found on one of the Technique Junkies Newsletter CDs.  It's called an Inside Out Card.

And here's where the "inside out" part comes in.

If you'd like to play along with the CCEE Stampers, check out our blog and make a fun fold card of your own.

I also made an Inside Out Card using the extra set for this month, which is called Holiday Tag.  It contains images for Christmas (Santa, Candy Cane, and Gingerbread Man), as well as a tag on which they will fit and several appropriate sentiments.  I used the cute gingerbread man on my card along with some coordinating patterned paper I've had for several years.  (Gotta use up that old stuff to make room for new stuff!)

Here's the inside.  The "Merry Christmas" is actually from another MFP, aHC set called You Are an Angel.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.  Be sure to check out what the rest of the team has created using today's set.  Here's the Design Team:

Patty, Lois (that's me), Jane, Debbie. Pam, Pat, Thrfity Stamper, Marilynn, Karen, Bonnie, Kathy, Angela,
Cathy, Toni, Sue, Janine, An'Jenic, Kate, Shirley, Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

MFP Blog Hop Day 2 - Primitive Farm

Sept. Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured Sept 10 - Koi Fish

Featured Sept 11 - Primitive Farm 

Featured Sept 12  -What a Scream

Featured Sept 13 - Tailgate Party

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the blogs listed below (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 Sept. 14, 2013, 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 10 PM EST on Friday, Sept. 13,  2013.

 The special stamp set we have for you this month is:

"Holiday Tag"

 The mini stamp set we have for you this month is:

"Nature's Brushstrokes"
                                                      

Continuing with my theme this month of a different challenge every day, today I chose to do an Inspiration Challenge.  I'm not much into folk art, but I went on-line and found a couple of prints to use as the inspiration for my cards.  The first one is a print by Karen O'Lone-Hahn.

 

Here is my card, using the two cows from today's set as well as one of the images from another MFP, aHC set called Tree Greetings.  I sponged in the clouds using a die-cut as a template.

The first time I saw today's set, I immediately thought of a print that is in one of the examining rooms at my doctor's office.  I couldn't find it on-line anywhere, but I found this one by artist Keith Millison, which is similar.

Here is my card:

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.    Be sure to check out what the rest of the team has created using today's set.  Here's the Design Team:

Patty, Lois (that's me), Jane, Debbie. Pam, Pat, Thrfity Stamper, Marilynn, Karen, Bonnie, Kathy, Angela,
Cathy, Toni, Sue, Janine, An'Jenic, Kate, Shirley, Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

MFP Blog Hop Day 1 - Koi Fish

Sept. Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured Sept 10 - Koi Fish

Featured Sept 11 - Primitive Farm 

Featured Sept 12  -What a Scream

Featured Sept 13 - Tailgate Party

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the blogs listed below (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 Sept. 14, 2013, 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 10 PM EST on Friday, Sept. 13,  2013.

 The special stamp set we have for you this month is:

"Holiday Tag"

 The mini stamp set we have for you this month is:

"Nature's Brushstrokes"
                                                      

I'm going to try something a little different for this month's Blog Hop.  Each day I'm treating my blog as a different challenge.  Today it's a Sketch Challenge, using one of the layouts I found on Page Maps back in December.  Both of my cards today are using this layout.

My first card features the large Yin/Yang image.  I don't know a whole lot about Chinese philosophy, but I believe the two sides of this image are supposed to complement each other -- and perhaps provide harmony.

On my second card I used the smaller koi fish, drawing in the "waves" of the water.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.  I hope you like my idea of treating my part of the blog hop as a different challenge each day -- and that you'll come back and check out tomorrow's challenge.  But be sure to check out what the rest of the team has created using today's set.  Here's the Design Team:

Patty, Lois (that's me), Jane, Debbie. Pam, Pat, Thrfity Stamper, Marilynn, Karen, Bonnie, Kathy, Angela,
Cathy, Toni, Sue, Janine, An'Jenic, Kate, Shirley, Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

Featured Stamper and a Sneak Peek

Today's Featured Stamper over on Splitcoaststampers is Julie Elak (a/k/a Humma), and her gallery is full of lots of whiimsical critters.  I chose this card to CASE, changing it from a Christmas card to a Halloween card by using a brand-new set from Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company, What a Scream, which will be available for purchase on Tuesday.  I changed her snowman to a ghost.

I made this card more fun by popping up the ghost with a wobbly spring.  You can see in this photo how the image will move.

And when you let it go, it snaps back and wobbles.

Our September blog hop starts on Tuesday.  Be sure to come back and check out all the creations our design team has worked on for you.

Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - What a Scream
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers - Bright Pumpkin, Snow Storm Smooth
Accessories:  Copic markers, Corner rounder, Wobbly spring

Speedy Fox and Friends - Mask Something

This week the Speedy Fox and Friends challenge is to mask something.  Masking is one of my favorite techniques.  My card is a sneak peek at a brand-new set from Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company, called Koi Fish, which will be available on Tuesday.  My card has four koi swimming around, two of them under the lily pad.  That's where the masking came in.

If you like masking, check out what the rest of the team did.  Pop on over to the MFP blog; and, if you link up your own masking card, you might even win a free stamp set.

Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Koi Fish
Paper:  MFP Premium Heavy White
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories:  Copic markers, Post-It note for masking

CCEE1336 - Birthday Card

I am the hostess for the CCEE Stampers challenges for the month of September, which in my family has lots of birthdays -- my daughter, my daughter-in-law, two grandsons, a niece, and me.  So for my first challenge for the month I chose a birthday card.  My card is actually a CASE of a card made by Charlene Merrick (LilLuvsStampin on Splitcoast-stampers), who is currently on hiatus from the CCEE Stampers.  Charlene posted this card last month for a Clean and Simple challenge.  We were to CASE a card by a former CAS design team member.  So actually, my card is a CASE of a CASE!

I would invite you to pop over to the CCEE Stampers blog and see the birthday cards from the rest of the team.

Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Glad Glads

Paper:  MFP Premium Heavy White, scraps of other cardstock and DPs

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories:  Hexagon punch