Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop - Day 4 - Fall Apples

Oct. Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured Oct 8 - I Am Thankful

Featured Oct 9 - Pandas 

Featured Oct 10 - Huge Blooms 

Featured Oct 11 - Fall Apples

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 Oct. 12, 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, Oct. 11, 2013.

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

Works of Art

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

Wise Men
                                               

My first card using today's set is a Side-Step Rocker card.   Side-Step cards are fun to make -- this one has a little bit of a twist to it.  I found that patterned paper at Michaels; it was the perfect DP for this apple-themed card.  I've already mailed this card to one of the nurses in my doctor's office.  I was recently diagnosed with diabetes, and she conducts the all-day diabetes education class.  It was very informative, and she made it fun as well.

Both of my cards today wound up being thank-you cards.  One of the sentiment stamps in this fall set is a collage of apple-related phrases.

I hope you found lots of inspiration this week.  Be sure to check out the blogs of the rest of the design team.  Remember, if you comment on their blogs, you may win one of this month's stamp sets.  

Here's the Design Team:  Patty, Lois (that's me), Jane, Pam, Pat, Marilynn, Karen, Bonnie, Kathy, Angela, Cathy, Toni, Sue, Janine, 
An'Jenic, Kate,  Shirley, Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop Day 3 - Huge Blooms

CCEE Stampers challenge is one post down.

Oct. Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured Oct 8 - I Am Thankful

Featured Oct 9 - Pandas 

Featured Oct 10 - Huge Blooms 

Featured Oct 11 - Fall Apples

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 Oct. 12, 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, Oct. 11, 2013.

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

Works of Art

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

Wise Men
                                               

My first card for Huge Blooms is actually a small card.  It measures 3 1/4" x 6 1/2".  I used the larger of the two flowers on the card and the smaller flower on the envelope.

I used the flower images only for the background, creating my own DP for my second card today.  The main focus of this one is the sentiment.

Be sure to check out the blogs of the rest of the design team.  Remember, if you comment on their blogs, you may win one of this month's stamp sets.  

Here's the Design Team:  Patty, Lois (that's me), Jane, Pam, Pat, Marilynn, Karen, Bonnie, Kathy, Angela, Cathy, Toni, Sue, Janine, 
An'Jenic,  Kate,  Shirley, Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

CCEE1341 - Football

As today is Brett Farve's birthday, Anne Harmon asked the CCEE Stampers to make a card related to football.  I know Brett Farve was a member of the Green Bay Packers, but my team is the Miami Dolphins; so my card is made with their colors of aqua, orange, and white.  I added a couple of sports-related buttons.

See what the rest of the team has done by checking out the CCEE Stampers Blog.

Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop Day 2 - Pandas

Oct. Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured Oct 8 - I Am Thankful

Featured Oct 9 - Pandas 

Featured Oct 10 - Huge Blooms 

Featured Oct 11 - Fall Apples

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 Oct. 12, 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, Oct. 11, 2013.

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

Works of Art

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

Wise Men
                                               

The layout for my first card today is a favorite of mine.  I used two of the small images from today's set.

Again my second card is a regular A2 card.  Are you noticing a trend for this month?  One regular and one not so regular.  Not much of a theme, but it's the best I could do this month.  I actually used an image from another MFP set, Wealthy Fish, behind the focal panel, which is popped up with foam dots.

The extra set this month is another Oriental set.  The main image on this set is actually a background of oriental symbols.  It made a nice base for my easel.

Be sure to check out the blogs of the rest of the design team.  Remember, if you comment on their blogs, you may win one of this month's stamp sets.  

Here's the Design Team:  Patty, Lois (that's me), Jane, Pam, Pat, Marilynn, Karen, Bonnie, Kathy, Angela, Cathy, Toni, Sue, Janine, 
An'Jenic,  Kate,  Shirley, Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop Day 1 - I Am Thankful

Oct. Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured Oct 8 - I Am Thankful

Featured Oct 9 - Pandas 

Featured Oct 10 - Huge Blooms 

Featured Oct 11 - Fall Apples

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 Oct. 12, 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, Oct. 11, 2013.

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

Works of Art

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

Wise Men
                                               

The directions for my first card this month came from one of the Technique Junkies Newsletter CDs.  It's called a double display card.  As you may be aware, I do love those fun folds.  There was lots of scoring and cutting on this.  Don't you just love that little scarecrow!

My second card is a regular A2 card.  That turkey looks pretty dapper in his perky hat!

The mini set this month is called Wise Men.  I made a card using this set for today.  There is no stamping on the front of the card -- just an ornament shape cut out revealing the Wise Men strategically stamped on the inside.  The star is a punched element.

Here is the inside.

Be sure to check out the blogs of the rest of the design team.  Remember, if you comment on their blogs, you may win one of this month's stamp sets.  

Here's the Design Team:  Patty, Lois (that's me,  Jane, Pam, Pat,  Marilynn, Karen, Bonnie, Kathy, Angela, Cathy, Toni, Sue, Janine, 
An'Jenic, Kate,  Shirley, Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

Speedy Fox & Friends - Snow Scene

This week the Speedy Fox and Friends challenge is to make a snow scene.  I thought that a side-step card might work well for a scene card.  I used several MFP sets in creating my card -- Winter Scenes and Christmas Selections.

Be sure to check out the MFP Blog to see the snow scenes that the rest of the team created.    If you'd like to play along with us, link your card up at the end of the MFP blog post and you might win a free stamp set.

CCEE1340 - Ovals

Anne Harmon is the CCEE Stampers hostess for the month of October, and she asked us to make cards today using ovals -- in honor of opals, which are October's birthstone and oval in shape.  I'm giving you a sneak peek at a brand-new set from Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company, called Pandas.  Look for it next week.  I found some bamboo paper at Michaels a couple of weeks ago and bought it, knowing that there was bamboo in this set.

Stop by the CCEE Stampers blog and see what the rest of the team has done with ovals.