MFP Blog Hop - Day Three and Stampin'B's Challenge

Welcome to the MFP February Blog Hop! This month, we are releasing 4 NEW SETS!

Our New Sets are: Greet the Day with Gerber, Big Cats, Spring Has Sprung and He is the Lamb. For your convenience, all 4 stamp sets are available for purchase TODAY!

We have a BRAND NEW Blog Candy Contest! BE A GUEST DESIGER!

PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY!

All Blog Hop participants will have the chance to win a Month Long GUEST DESIGNER position on our Senior Design team! That’s right! ONE lucky winner will receive a Guest Designer package that will include March 2011’s Four New Release sets, a selection of Premium Papers, and beautiful embellishments. The winner will also receive a Guest Designer Watermark, Blog Button and have the choice to participate in the March 2011 Blog Hop!

What do you need to do to qualify? Just comment on the Design Team blogs during the blog hop. EACH DAY that participants comment on all the Design Team blogs, their name will be entered once in the random drawing. Each participant has the opportunity to have his/her name entered up to four times. (There are four days of the blog hop, so there are up to four entries per person.) The winner will be announced on the Mark’s Finest Papers blog on Saturday, February 12, 2011

Today's set is called Spring Has Sprung. My first card is not only for the MFP Blog Hop but also doubles as my Stampin'B challenge card. Our hostess this week, Brenda (a/k/a Benzi on SCS) wanted us to use a bird on our card. A duck is a bird -- right!




The cute little duckling is colored with Copic markers and cut out using a circle nestie, matted with the lacey circle. I just bought one of Tim Holtz's Sizzix On the Edge dies and thought it would look good across the bottom -- using both sides of the die.

I've made a couple Tri Shutter cards and found them quite fun.

Using the alternate measurements (5 x 10 1/2 inches) my card folds up to 3 1/2 x 5 inches. I used Basic Grey Urban Prarie DP for all the panels except the center ones. The upper and lower center panels are actually stamped with the basketweave stamp from MFP Background Fun on MFP Desert Sand cardstock. I stamped, colored and cut out the Easter basket on the front and the eggs on the back (stamping the watermark stamp of Speedy the Cat on one of the eggs).

Be sure to check out the rest of the DT's blogs and comment on each to enter your name in the random drawing.

Nancyruth
Lois (that's me)
Vicky
Anne
Emily
Karen
Patty
Roxie
Vicki
Liz
Claudine
Dawn M
Joanne T
Nicole
Marilynn
Geri
Lynn
Neva
Silvia Mabie
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