MFP Blog Hop Day 3 and CCEE1229 - Garden Art

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

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are:

Asian Delights Featured July 17
Wild & Free Featured July 18
Garden Art Featured July 19
Hot & Spicy Featured July 20

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 July 21, 2012 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 11PM EST on Friday July 20, 2012.

My first card today is for both the MFP Blog Hop and the CCEE stampers challenge.  I am the CCEE challenge hostess for the month of July and asked the team to make a card using two different border punches on their cards.  

This little garden gnome is adorable, don't you think?  

I may be stretching the definition of "clean and simple" on my second card. 

Although there is a lot of "white" space, it wasn't so simple to make.  I did cut out the frog and pop him up on those mushrooms -- adding the googlie eyes.  The butterfly was stamped twice, once on the card and once on a piece of scrap paper.  I cut out the second butterfly and popped him on top of the the first one.  Both of my cards also included images from another MFP set called Scenic Selections -- the birds in the first card and the rock and grass in the second one.

Be sure to check out the following blogs and comment for a chance to win a free stamp set.