MFP Blog Hop Day 5 - Fairies

CCEE Stampers Challenge - one post down

Welcome to the Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company

February Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured Feb. 9

Foo Dogs

Featured Feb. 10

Birds of the Orient

 Featured Feb. 11

Birdcages

Featured Feb. 12

Medallion

Featured Feb. 13

Fairies

Featured Feb. 14

Lucky Duck

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the participating 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 six winners will be announced on 

Feb. 15, 2014, 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, Feb. 14, 2014

My best friend's birthday is in a couple of weeks, and one of the sentiments from today's set, Fairies, expresses my feelings for her.  We have been best friends for around 35 years, and we now share this addictive hobby of stamping.  I am giving her this card for her birthday.  I've put a birthday greeting on the inside.  The smaller mushrooms are images from this set; I made the larger mushrooms, using both circle and oval Nestabilities, some patterned paper, a pair of scissors, a marker, and a little imagination.

Here is the inside of my card in which I used one of the silhouetted fairies.  The sentiment is from the MFP Birthday mini set.

I used the Square Flip-Its Framelits dies today, as well as some pretty paper from Prima.  I stamped and cut out the mushrooms, then colored them with Copics.  Then I stamped the fairy silhouette on the DP as well as on the mushrooms, and lined up the cut-out mushrooms over the DP.  This way there's no break in the ink as probably would have happened had I just glued on the mushrooms and then stamped the fairy.

On the inside I stamped the other silhouette  and then added the birthday sentiment (from MFP Glad Glads) and the flourish.

Be sure to check out the "fairy" nice creations made by the rest of the design team.  Remember to comment often so that you'll be in the running for a free stamp set.

Here's the Design Team:

Lois (that's me)

Kelli Jo

Pat G

Karen 

Toni

Janine

Shirley Q

Gail

Vickie

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

Come back tomorrow for more creativity.

Card #1
Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Fairies, Birthday mini

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, TH Distress Tumbled Glass

Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers - Groovin' Grape, Spring Leaf, Snow Storm Smooth, Desert Sand; My Mind's Eye Dolled Up patterned paper

Accessories:  Copic markers, Spica glitter gel pen, Memento Rich Cocoa marker, Oval and Circle Nestabilities, Die-Namics Cloud Trio die, Fiskars Grass punch, Foam pop dots

Card #2
Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Fairies, Glad Glads
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers - Strawberry Freeze, Snow Storm Smooth; Prima Sweet Fairy DP
Accessories:  Copic markers, Sizzix Flip-Its Framelits (Squares), Sizzix Flourish die, Modern Label punch