Speedy Fox & Friends - Frame It

This week the challenge for the Speedy Fox & Friends team is "Frame It."  I pulled out one of my Spellbinders Frameabilities dies and a couple of the "Selections" sets from Mark's Finest Papers to make a Christmas card.

If you'd like to play along, just make a card with a frame and post it onto the MFP Blog.  Maybe you'll be the lucky one to win a free stamp set.


Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Scenic Selections, Christmas Selections
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Bamboo Leaves; TH Distress Tumbled Glass
Paper:  MFP Breezy Blue, Snow Storm Smooth; A C Specialty Papers Silver Foil
Accessories:  Copic markers, Spellbinders Snowflake Frameabilities, Oval Nestabilities, Sponge applicator, Silver trim

CCEE1335 - Cracked Glass

Vicky Gould picked a technique for her last CCEE challenge for August -- cracked glass, one of which I am not particularly fond.  I don't know if it's because I'm not patient enough or what, but I'm never really happy with my results.  With that said, here's my card:

Check out the rest of the CCEE Stampers and see their creations.  If you'd like to play along, link up a card at the end of the CCEE blog.

Stamps:  Inkadinkadoo Pocketwatch, Cloud Nine Designs Simple Thoughts Birthday
Ink:  Memento Espresso Truffle, Versamark
Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers Flecked Chocolate Cake, Cream Linen; DCWV Photos 2 DP
Accessories:  Timeless Rectangles die, Ranger Ultra Thick Embossing Powder

Speedy Fox & Friends - Twisted Easel

This week the Speedy Fox and Friends are making Twisted Easel cards, which are always fun.  This image from the MFP Joyous Season set is so peaceful.  I love the birch trees in the background and the gentle deer just lying there with that cardinal on her back.  I used a couple of Christmas buttons on the base.

If you'd like to play along in our challenge, just post your card at the end of the MFP Blog and maybe you could win a free stamp set.



Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Joyous Season
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Rhubarb Stalk
Paper:  MFP Deep Scarlet, Black Linen, Cream Linen
Accessories:  Copic markers, Buttons

CCEE1334 - Be an Angel Day

Today is "Be an Angel Day" so Vicky asked the CCEE Stampers to make a card with an angel on it.  Several years ago Splitcoaststampers presented a tutorial on how to do Stained Mosaic using pieces of cut-up rubber.  Check it out here.   I think this looks like a church window.  I didn't want to cover up any of the window, so I stamped the sentiment on a piece of vellum and wrapped it around the bottom of my card.

Check out the CCEE Stampers blog for some more angels.

Speedy Fox & Friends - House

This week the theme of the Speedy Fox and Friends challenge is "House."  I recently got an order containing some Memory Box and PoppyStamps dies, and I wanted to use them right away.  Isn't that always the way!?  I made a little scene which I hope looks like a wooden cabin and yard.  The swing in the tree and the window box are my new dies.

If you'd like to play along with us, hop over to the MFP Blog and link up your card.  Maybe you will be the winner of this week's free stamp set.


Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Tree Greetings
Ink:  Memento Expresso Truffle, TH Distress Tumbled Glass, Chipped Sapphire, Bundled Sage
Paper:  MFP Premium Heavy White, Hazelnut Tan, Snow Storm Smooth; MME Dolled Up DP
Accessories:  Copic markers; PoppyStamps Small Madison Window, Small Window Box; Memory Box Swing Set; MS fence punch, Branch; Fiskars Daisy punch; Mini brads

MFP Blog Hop Day 4 - Wealthy Fish

Aug. Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured Aug 13th - Pocket Watches

Featured Aug 14th - Joyous Season
 Featured Aug 15th  - Country Charm

 Featured Aug 16th - Wealthy Fish

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the following blogs (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 Aug 17, 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 Aug 16, 2013.

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

"Lucky You"

 The mini stamp set we have for you this month is

"Take Time Mini"
                                                      

Today's set is another in a series of MFP oriental stamp sets, Wealthy Fish.  My technique from the Technique Junkies Newsletter CD Move It is called a Side Step Rocker Card.  Again, I had also seen a similar tutorial for this type of card on Splitcoaststampers as well.  The card base on my card is a 7 1/2" circle.

My second card is pretty simple -- just the bamboo and the sentiment.

I hope you have enjoyed all my different techniques this week.  Be sure to check out the rest of the DT members' blogs for more inspiration.  Commenting on them will give you a chance to win a free stamp 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, Shirley, Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

MFP Blog Hop Day 3 - Country Charm

CCEE Challenge one post down.

Aug. Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured Aug 13th - Pocket Watches

Featured Aug 14th - Joyous Season
 Featured Aug 15th  - Country Charm

 Featured Aug 16th - Wealthy Fish

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the following blogs (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 Aug 17, 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 Aug 16, 2013.

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

"Lucky You"

 The mini stamp set we have for you this month is

"Take Time Mini"
                                                      

I had seen directions for this technique both on Splitcoaststampers and the Technique Junkies Newsletter CD, Move It.  It is called a Curved Fold Card.  I stamped, colored and cut out the four images from today's set (Country Charm) and placed them on the curved pieces, with the barn glued to the back.  I added a little punched-out fence and a cloud, and I was done.

Cutesy is not my style, but I had fun with this set.  My second card uses several of the images from this fun set, as well as a chicken-wire embossing folder.

Again, I invite you to check out all the cards made by our talented design team members and comment on their blogs for a chance to win a free stamp 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, Shirley, Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

CCEE 1333 - Brick Wall Card

Vicky picked a fun challenge for this week's CCEE Stampers blog -- a brick wall card.  This is such a fun technique -- very time-consuming, but the results are well worth it.  I never went to college, but I know all about those "walls of ivy."

To see how the rest of the team built their brick walls, check out the CCEE Stampers blog.

MFP Blog Hop Day 2 - Joyous Season

Aug. Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured Aug 13th - Pocket Watches

Featured Aug 14th - Joyous Season
 Featured Aug 15th  - Country Charm

 Featured Aug 16th - Wealthy Fish

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the following blogs (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 Aug 17, 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 Aug 16, 2013.

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

"Lucky You"

 The mini stamp set we have for you this month is

"Take Time Mini"
                                                      

Today's Technique Junkies Newsletter-inspired card is called a Z Foldover Card.  It is similar to a Joy Fold card, except for the extra panel, which is formed by the Z-fold.  Because of the plaid designer paper, I used just the pine bough and some red and green bling on the front.

The inside uses a sentiment from another MFP Christmas set called You Are an Angel -- and again a little bit of bling.

My second card is more simple.

My friend Rosemary said that the cardinal sitting on the deer's back looks like one of those Angry Birds!

Make sure you check out the rest of the DT members' blog and comment for a chance to win a free stamp 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, Shirley, Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

MFP Blog Hop Day 1 - Pocket Watches

Aug. Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured Aug 13th - Pocket Watches

Featured Aug 14th - Joyous Season
 Featured Aug 15th  - Country Charm

 Featured Aug 16th - Wealthy Fish

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the following blogs (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 Aug 17, 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 Aug 16, 2013.

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

"Lucky You"

 The mini stamp set we have for you this month is

"Take Time Mini"
                                                      

At the end of June I attended StampFest Orlando and purchased several technique CDs from the Technique Junkies Newsletter.  One of them, called Move It, had some really cool ideas; so each day during this month's hop, I am going to present a different technique I took from this CD.  My first card today, which uses both today's set (Pocket Watches) and this month's mini set (Take Time) is made using the directions for an Upright Diamond Fold Card.  I love fun fold cards!

My second card is made with this month's extra set (Lucky You) and is made with the directions for a Peek-A-Boo Card.  BTW, it took me three times to get this one right.  If nothing else, I am persistent!

And here's where it gets the name "Peek-A-Boo."  Notice that the circle up in the corner has changed from the "Lucky You" sentiment seen through the round opening on the front to an oriental coin.

Be sure to check out all the cards in today's hop.  The rest of the Senior DT has been working hard to present some inspiration to you.   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, Shirley, Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

Speedy Fox and Friends - Plaid

This week the Speedy Fox and Friends challenge is all about plaids!    I love using plaids on masculine cards, and my card today is a sneak peek at a new mini set from Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company, called Take Time, which will be available on Tuesday.

Inside the card it says, "Happy Belated Birthday!"

Be sure to check out all the plaid cards on the MFP Blog that the rest of the design team has created.  If you'd like to play along, just post your card on the blog and you could win a free stamp set.

Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Take Time
Ink:  Memento Rich Cocoa, Color Box Gold pigment
Paper:  MFP Flecked Chocolate Cake, Cream Linen; Basic Grey Oliver DP
Accessories:  Detail Gold embossing powder, Sizzix Spritely Sprockets

CCEE1332 - Make Your own Embellishments

This month's CCEE hostess, Vicky, gave us a real challenge this week -- make your own embellishments, plus use two different designer papers and an embossing folder.   Whew!  She wasn't asking much, was she? LOL!!!  My handmade embellishments were the three buttons, which I made using an SU embosslit.   I glued six "button" die-cuts together and then covered them with 3-D lacquer after I poked the holes for the cord in them.  To keep the lacquer out of the holes, I stuck a paper clip in the holes while waiting for the lacquer to dry.  The two designer papers are from an MME stack called Dolled Up.

Be sure to see how the other members of the team met Vicky's challenge.  Pop on over to the CCEE Stampers blog to view their handiwork!

Dare to Get Dirty

Each year in August, Splitcoaststampers has a week-long challenge for members of the Fan Club called Dare to Get Dirty -- named that because all of the challenges are made by present and former members of the Dirty Dozen, the best of the best on SCS!  I was able to get a card done for each of the 42 challenges.  Here is a sampling of my cards:

I love this sun ray technique.

Channeling my Florida neighbor (about 15 miles away) Kittie Caracciolo.  I learned how to make poinsettias look realistic several years ago by following one of her remarkable tutorials.

I love to weave strips of paper or ribbon.

I learned a new technique for this one -- Polished Stone.  Can I just say that I will probably be using this technique again and again.  It is so pretty.

This particular technique -- Faux Mosaic -- always reminds me of stained glass.  It adds something special to a Christmas card.

After the week was over, I packed up many of my DTGD cards and added a few more -- for a total of 55 cards -- and mailed them off to Operation Write Home, my favorite place to send my cards.  OWH boxes up packages of handmade cards and ships them to military bases for use by the men and women in the Armed Forces to write home to their loved ones.

Speedy Fox and Friends - Cooking

This week the Speedy Fox and Friends challenge takes us to the kitchen -- the theme is Cooking.  I combined three MFP sets to create my card.  Not sure what Santa has in mind for dinner, but he's going to town in the kitchen!

Pop on over to the Mark's Finest Papers blog and see what's on the rest of the DT's menu.  Link up your cooking card and you could win a free stamp set.

I have entered this card in the Crazy 4 Challenges challenge this week -- paper-piecing.

Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Holly Jolly Greetings, Recipe Card Starters, Recipe Completers
Paper:  MFP Deep Scarlet, Snow Storm Smooth; unknown DP
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Rhubarb Stalk, London Fog
Accessories:  Copic markers, Snow pen, Curly label punch

CCEE1331 - Masculine Birthday

The hostess for the CCEE Stampers for the month of August is Vicky Gould.  Her first challenge this month is to make a masculine birthday card -- BUT in brown, tan and green.  Even though I am not a big fan of boxers (I was bitten by a boxer as a kid), I do love coloring this image.

Masculine cards are not always easy, so be sure to check out the CCEE Stampers blog and maybe you'll get some inspiration.  If you do, be sure to link up your card.