MFP Blog Hop Day 1 - Gears to You & Gear Up

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June Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured  June 10

Gears To You & Gear Up

Featured June 11

Pretty Pears

 Featured June 12

Great Flowers & Flower Blocks

Featured June 13

Please Snow

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 

June 14, 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, June 13, 2014.

I'm not an official part of the Blog Hop today or tomorrow, but thanks for stopping by.  I do have some cards featuring today's sets to show you.  The two using Gears to You are both rather clean and simple -- and all four of my cards would be appropriate for a guy.  For the first one, I inked up an acrylic block, spritzed it with a little water, and stamped it in the center of the card.  Then I stamped the gears and sentiment.  

The only stamping on my second card is the sentiment.  The background is embossed and the gears are die cuts.

I've also got two cards made with the other (coordinating) set for today, Gear Up.  Both of these cards are a bit busier than the first two.   Gear Up contains a background stamp and one sentiment.  I stamped the background in black and colored in the gears with metallic pens, cutting out the full image and layering it on both silver and copper papers.  I tied a silver ribbon in a knot (no bows for guys!) and then popped up the sentiment panel, which also includes a die cut of a gear).

My second card is one-layer, with some die-cuts and copper twine added.  The sentiment is from the Gears to You mini set.

Here's the Design Team for today:

 Jane C

Pat 
Thrfity Stamper

Marilynn 
Bonnie 

Sue W

An'Jenic

  Pam M

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

Come on back tomorrow for more creativity.

Card #1

Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Gears to You

Ink:  Ranger Distress Tea Dye, Versamark, Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers - Premium Heavy White

Accessories:  Detail Gold and Copper embossing powder, Acrylic block, Water spritzer

Card #2

Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Gears to You

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers - Black Linen, Snow Storm Smooth; American Crafts Silver, Gold and Copper Glitter paper

Accessories:  Cuttlebug Retro Circles embossing folder, Spellbinders Spritely Sprockets dies

Card #3

Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Gear Up

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers - Snow Storm Smooth, Black Linen; American Crafts Silver and Copper Glitter paper

Accessories:  Fabel-Castell Gold, Silver, and Copper artist pens; Ribbon; Spellbinders Spritely Sprockets die, Foam pop dots

Card #4

Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Gear Up & Gears to You

Ink:  Memento London Fog, Versamark

Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers - Premium Heavy White; American Crafts Copper Glitter paper

Accessories:  Copper twine, Copper embossing powder, Spellbinders Spritely Sprockets die, Circle punch, Foam pop dot