MFP Blog Hop Day 4 - Friends

Welcome to the Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company

March Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured March  9

Hoppy Easter

Featured March 10

Easter

 Featured March 11

Fabulous Pets

Featured March 12

Friends

Featured March 13

Buddha

Featured March 14

Bundle of Joy

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 March 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, March 14, 2014.

Although I'm not an official part of the Blog Hop for the rest of the week, I'm so glad you stopped by my blog today.  My mom, who is 94 and currently lives in a nursing home, was an artist and ceramicist.  I have several of her ceramic pieces in my house -- two are hand-painted plaques which hang in my bathroom.  When I first saw today's stamp set, Friends, I immediately thought of this plaque.  You can see her signature at the bottom center.  Her initials are D.R., and she combined them to make the DeeR.

I decided I would try to duplicate this plaque on a card.  At a recent stamp show, I bought a pack of 6 1/2" cards/matching envelopes.  I figured I would need a pretty big card base to make this card and thought one of these card bases would work.  Here's my card:

My design is a combination of direct stamping onto the white card stock and cutting-and-pasting two extra images.  I added the curled wire to emulate the tendrils on my mom's plaque.

I think this layout is my favorite when making a CAS card.  I used Memento markers to color my flower because I didn't want any of the color of an alcohol marker to bleed through to the back of this one-layer card.

Make sure you check out the blogs of the participating design team members and comment for a chance to win a free stamp set.

Here's the Design Team:

 Jane C

Pat 
Thrifty Stamper

Marilynn  

Sue W

An'Jenic

  Amy
Pam

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

Come on back tomorrow for more creativity.

Card #1
Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Friends

Paper:  Marco's Papers card base/envelope; Paper Cellar Gold Holographic glitter paper; Mark's Finest Papers Snow Storm Smooth

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories:  Copic markers, Wire

Card #2
Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Friends
Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers - Premium Heavy White
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories:  Memento markers - Angel Pink, New Sprout, Bamboo Leaves; EK Tools Journaling pen