Speedy Fox and Friends - Purple

Today's Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge is to use one of my favorite colors -- purple.   I used several scraps of DP that were in my "purple" drawer and an image from an MFP set called No Sour Grapes.  The sentiment is from another set Now Showing.

Come on over to the MFP Blog and play along with us -- you might just be the winner of a stamp set.

Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - No Sour Grapes, Now Showing
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers  - Groovin' Grape, Spring Leaf, Snow Storm Smooth; scrap DP
Accessories:  Copic markers, Modern Label punch, Pearls

CCEE1326 - Dryer Sheet Flower

Brenda started off her month as hostess of the CCEE Stampers challenges with a technique I rarely use, and she's ending it with a technique I have never used -- Dryer Sheet Flower.  She gave us a link to the Splitcoaststampers tutorial, which I definitely had to check out.   After you have cut out the shapes from the dryer sheet, the instructions tell you to spray them with spray ink or shimmer mist.  Unfortunately, I had neither; so I put on my thinking cap.  I took a small mister filled with water and added some purple reinker.  Guess what -- it worked!  Also new to me was the Decorative Labels One die, which I really like.   I've had the Floral Flourishes dies for a while, but this was the first time I used them.

Stop on over at the CCEE Stampers blog to see all the pretty dryer sheet flowers.

Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Glad Glads
Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers - Premium Heavy White, Groovin' Grape, Spring Leaf; unknown DP
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress Bundled Sage, Dusty Concord reinker
Accessories:  Used dryer sheet, Rhinestone brad, Spellbinders Floral Flourishes, Labels One and Decorative Labels One dies, Sponge applicator, Ribbon, Stickles

Speedy Fox and Friends - Beach time!!!

It's summertime in Florida -- lots of rain, but also lots of sunshine and heat.  What do you do when it's hot?  You go to the BEACH!  So this week Speedy Fox and Friends are off to the beach.

We'd love for you to along with us and enjoy the sunshine, sand, and water.  Stop on over to the MFP Blog and join in on the fun.  If you link up a beach card, you might even win a free stamp set.

CCEE1325 - Masculine CAS Card

Brenda, our CCEE Stamper hostess this month, asked us to make a CAS masculine card this week.  As July 4th is just around the corner, I decided to use a new Mark's Finest Papers set to make my card.

Pop on over to the CCEE Stampers blog to see what the rest of the team has for you this week.

Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Be Proud
Paper:  MFP Dark Night Navy, Cherry Slush, Snow Storm Smooth; K & Company Americana DP
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Rhubarb Stalk
Accessories:  Copic markers

Speedy Fox & Friends -- Y

Today's Speedy Fox and Friends challenge on the MFP Blog is to use the letter "Y" on your card.  I have several Ys here.  My card base and daffodils are Yellow; my DP is Yellow and white chevrons; and there are two "Ys" in my sentiment -- one in happY and one in birthdaY.  I found the layout for my card on Page Maps.

We'd love for you to play along with Speedy Fox and Friends.  If you do, there's a chance that you could win some free stamps!  Pop on over to the blog and see what the rest of the team has created.

Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Daffodil Greetings, Glad Glads (sentiment)
Paper:  MFP Morning Sun, Spring Leaf, Snow Storm Smooth; Recollections Chevron DP
Ink:  Memento Espresso Truffle
Accessories:  Copic markers, EK Success border punch, Spellbinders Big Scallop Rectangle, Nested Pennants, Pearls

MFP Blog Hop Day 4 - Classic Dad

June Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured June 11th - Need a Vacation

Featured June 12th - Fire Fighter
Featured June 13th  - Be Proud

 Featured June 14th- Classic Dad

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 June 15, 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 11 PM EST on Friday,  June 14, 2013.

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

"You Are an Angel"

 The mini stamp set we have for you this month is

"Wings"
                                                      

Welcome to the Antique Car Show!  This set is great for making guy cards -- three classic cars and lots of good masculine sentiments.  I'm not sure what kind of cars these are supposed to be, but I googled "classic car" to make sure I colored them with appropriate colors.   I like the big grommets on my first card.  You can't really see it, but IRL you can see the red background in the center holes.  I found the macadam DP in a big 12 x 12 photo paper pad I've had for several years.

I had the design of this second card in my head for a couple of days before I started putting it together.  I almost tried to make individual banners for the word CLASSIC (because that's how I had envisioned it), but it was too much work.  So I finally just curved the sentiment and cut one big banner.  I cut the yellow matting with a pair of decorative scissors.   The "road" is a Cuttlebug chevron border folder.

And that's it for this month's hop.  Hopefully you found at least one or two ideas for how you can use these new stamps from Mark's Finest Papers.  And make sure you check out the blogs of the rest of the team.

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

Card 1

Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Classic Dad

Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers Snow Storm Heavy, Cherry Slush; DCWV Photo 2 DP

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Rhubarb Stalk

Accessories:  Copic markers, Large Eyelets

Card 2

Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Classic Dad

Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers Morning Sun, Snow Storm Smooth

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, London Fog

Accessories:  Copic markers, Cuttlebug Chevron border embossing folder, Silver pearls, Scallop scissors, Sponge applicator

MFP Blog Hop Day 3 - Be Proud

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June Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured June 11th - Need a Vacation

Featured June 12th - Fire Fighter
Featured June 13th  - Be Proud

 Featured June 14th- Classic Dad

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 June 15, 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 11 PM EST on Friday,  June 14, 2013.

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

"You Are an Angel"

 The mini stamp set we have for you this month is

"Wings"
                                                      

Today's set could be used for several USA holidays -- Memornial Day and Fourth of July in particular.  My first card is a thank-you card to a veteran and would lend itself very well for Memorial Day.  Both my dad and my brother were in the Marines, and I have a soft spot in my heart for veterans.

Here's a card for the 4th of July.  I recently found those QuicKutz dies on clearance on-line.  They are actually supposed to be a cannon blast, but I think they will pass for fireworks!

I do hope you liked my patriotic cards today and plan to check out the rest of the design team members' blogs.  There's sure to be some more red, white, and blue!

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

Card 1
Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Be Proud
Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers Cherry Slush, Snow Storm Smooth; K & Company Americana DP
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories:  Copic markers, Star eyelets

Card 2
Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Be Proud
Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers Dark Night Navy, Cherry Slush, Morning Sun, Snow Storm Smooth
Ink:  Memento Danube Blue
Accessories:  Copic markers, Quickutz Cannon Blast dies, Ribbon, Paper piercing tool, Pop dots

CCEE1324 - Baby Card

Brenda's challenge for the CCEE Stampers this week was to make a baby card/girl or boy, and we got bonus points if we had some soft green or yellow colors.  I actually had both soft green and yellow, so maybe I got lots of bonus points!

I love making fun fold cards so that's what I chose for today -- a Joy Fold card.

My daughter was at a garage sale a while ago and brought me a whole bunch of embellishments she found.  That's where I got the little beaded sentiment, which I used to hold the card closed.  The corner of the front image panel is just tucked in behind it.   I added some 3-D clear lacquer to the bubbles to give them a little shine.

If you'd like to see the rest of the team members' baby cards, hop on over to the CCEE Stampers blog.

Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Oh Baby, Now Showing
Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers - Morning Sun, Special Mint, Snow Storm Smooth; DCWV Nana's Kids
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories:  Copic markers, 3-D Clear Lacquer, Beaded words, Pearl

MFP Blog Hop Day 2 - Firefighter (and a Bonus)

June Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured June 11th - Need a Vacation

Featured June 12th - Fire Fighter
Featured June 13th  - Be Proud

 Featured June 14th- Classic Dad

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 June 15, 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 11 PM EST on Friday,  June 14, 2013.

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

"You Are an Angel"

 The mini stamp set we have for you this month is

"Wings"
                                                      

Even though the images on today's set, Firefighter, are really cute, this was the most challenging set for me.  I did finally decide to use the cute Dalmatian puppies.  When I was a teenager, we had a Dalmatian, which I have to tell you was not the brightest dog I've ever had.  But we loved him nonetheless!  We discovered an interesting "trick" he would perform.  If you threw a cigarette butt on the ground, he would pounce on it and try to put it out.  (This was in the days when we didn't know that cigarettes could kill you.)   So maybe that's why Dalmatians are called fire dogs -- because they really do try to put out fires!  BTW, the small fire hydrant was an afterthought.  There was a smudge on the paper, and I was trying to hide it.

As a bonus today, I'm showing you projects I made with the 5th and mini sets for this month -- a center-step card and a small memo pad holder.  I actually used this card for my June Christmas Card challenge card on Speedy TV, making four of them using You Are an Angel.   There's lots of glitz-and-glitter on this card.  In addition to the gold glitter paper that I used for the matting pieces and the narrow strips, I put Stickles on the angel wings.  I did some paper-piecing on this card -- the horn is gold paper and the gown is cream-colored shimmer paper.

I attended a card workshop on Saturday, and one of the projects we made was a small memo pad.  I thought it was really cute and decided to try to make one using the mini set for this month -- Wings.  I went up to Staples and bought some small memo pads, which were unfortunately just a bit larger than the one we used in class.  So I had to adjust the measurements of the original to fit the larger pad.  In addition, I used velcro to hold it closed rather than the magnets we used in class.  The magnet sheets I had were not strong enough to hold it closed.






Here it is opened.

Thanks for visiting my blog today.  I hope you were inspired by my projects.  Be sure to check out the rest of the design team members' blogs for more inspiration.
Patty P.,  Lois (that's me),  Jane,  Debbie,  Pam,  Pat,  Thrifty Stamper,  MariLynn,  Karen,  Bonnie,  Kathy,  Angela,  Cathy,  Toni,  Sue,  Janine,  An'jenic,  
Kate,  Shirley,  Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co 

Card 1
Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Fire Fighter
Paper:  Cherry Slush, Licorice Whips, Snow Storm Smooth; Recollections Red polka-dot DP
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories:  Copic markers, Ribbon, Circle punches, Pop dots

Card 2
Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - You Are an Angel
Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers Premium Heavy White; Recollections Gold glitter paper; American Crafts Gold Foil cardstock; Crafter's Companion Cream Shimmer paper
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories:  Copic markers, Stickles, Gold marker, Cuttlebug border die

Notepad Holder
Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Wings
Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers Lily Pad, MME Dolled Up DP
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories:  Copic markers, Fiskars Scallop border punch, K & Company pearls, Spellbinders Labels Eight die, Velcro squares, Prima flowers, Brad

MFP Blog Hop Day 1 - I Need a Vacation

June Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured June 11th - Need a Vacation

Featured June 12th - Fire Fighter
Featured June 13th  - Be Proud

 Featured June 14th- Classic Dad

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 June 15, 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 11 PM EST on Friday,  June 14, 2013.

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

"You Are an Angel"

 The mini stamp set we have for you this month is

"Wings"
                                                      

I used a little bit of paper piecing for my first card.  I had a pad of K & Company designer paper that had some tropical-looking paper in it, so I stamped the hibiscus on the same papers as I used for the inside and the front panel.  When I inked up the sentiment, I rubbed the ink off the heart before I stamped it.  Then I punched out a small heart from the same patterned paper.

Here is the inside.  The flamingo is also paper-pieced.

When you go on vacation, chances are that you'll send a post card or two back to your friends.  So I made one using some of the images from another MFP set, All Postal.  I found a small piece of patterned paper in my "blue" drawer that had some words on it that seemed to be appropriate for a leisurely vacation -- peace, tranquility, calm, serenity.

I hope you like my "vacation" cards and plan to check out the rest of the design team members' blogs.  I'm sure you'll love what everyone has done with this fun set.

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

Card 1
Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - I Need a Vacation
Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers Spring Leaf, Snow Storm Smooth; K & Company Hannah DP
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress Bundled Sage
Accessories:  Copic markers, Sponge applicator, heart punch

Card 2
Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - I Need a Vacation, All Postal
Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers Bang-Up Blue, Licorice Whips, Snow Storm Smooth; unknown DP
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories:  Copic markers

Speedy Fox and Friends - Envelope Card

This week's challenge at Speedy Fox and Friends was to make an envelope card.  I've seen several tutorials for making an envelope card, but I thought I would see if I could find something new.  I found this one on the internet.  It's made with a 12" x 12" piece of designer paper.

Here it is opened up.

If you'd like to try this envelope card or another version, we'd love to have you play along with us.  Link your card up to the MFP Blog and you might win a free stamp set.

Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers Glad Glads, Hello Butterflies, Sending Happy Thoughts
Paper:  MFP Deep Olive, Strawberry Freeze, Snow Storm Smooth; Chatterbox Swing Buds DP
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Bamboo Leaves
Accessories:  Copic markers, QuicKutz butterfly die, MS butterfly punch, Pearls, Ribbon

CCEE1323 - Direct to Paper

Another month, another CCEE Stampers hostess.  Brenda is starting her month as hostess with a technique that I rarely use -- Direct to Paper.  Brenda gave us a link to the tutorial on Splitcoaststampers, which I checked out,  and then decided to dive right in.  I'm not sure I'm happy with the results, but it is what it is!

The heron image is actually a line image, but I colored it in with black to make the silhouette.

Why don't you pop over to the CCEE Stampers blog and see what the rest of the team did with this technique.

Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Marsh Birds, Marsh Silhouettes
Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers - Bang-Up Blue, Licorice Whips, Snow Storm Smooth
Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black; Tim Holtz Distress Chipped Sapphire, Tumbled Glass, Worn Lipstick, Wild Honey, Scattered Straw
Accessories:  Clear embossing powder, Silver pearls

Speedy Fox & Friends - Pocket Card

Today the Speedy Fox and Friends challenge was to make a pocket card.  In looking for tutorials I found several different types of pocket cards.  I settled on this double pocket card.  I used one of the new MFP sets from the May release for my card.  My BFF and I go to the movies almost every week.  I thought I would give this to her on her next birthday -- with some movie tickets in that second pocket.

Pop on over the Mark's Finest Papers blog and see the pocket cards that the rest of the team has created.  If you decide to play along, link your card and you could win a free set of stamps.

Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Now Showing
Paper:  MFP Snow Storm Smooth; various red/white/black DP
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories:  Copic markers, Sizzix tag die, Circle punch, Ribbon, Pop dots, internet photo of movie tickets