Speedy The Cat's Friends Challenge-Week 88 Snowflake

Hello, I picked this weeks challenge for Speedy the Cat's Friends Challenge and I picked to use a snowflake on your project. For my card I used a snowflake and the emboss resist technique to create a background. The stamps are from Ice and Snow from Mark's Finest Papers.

I hope you can play along with this week. If you do you have a chance at winning a stamp set from Mark's Finest Papers. If you use a stamp from Mark's Finest Papers you will get you name in twice! Thank you for stopping by.

Speedy The Cat's Friends Challenge-Anything Goes

It is time for another challenge over at Speedy The Cat's Friends Challenge, this week Patty is challenge is an easy one, Anything Goes.

I used Winter Crocus from Mark's Finest Papers. The crocus are colored with copics. If you play you have a chance to win a stamp set from Mark's Finest Papers, and if you use a stamp from MFP you will get your name in twice! Thank you for stopping by. I need to keep this post short as I still have much to do for Christmas and to top it off I am having an allergy attack, yuck. Thank you for stopping and I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas.

Speedy the Cat's Friends Challenge-Christmas Card

For this weeks challenge over at Speedy The Cat's Friends Challenge is from Patty and she picked a Christmas card.

For my card I picked the church from Christmas in the Country from Mark's Finest Papers. After stamping the church I very little coloring, mostly highlighting. Then I masked off the church and using a circle I punched out to mask the moon I sponged the sky. Finally I added a few stars. I hope you can find a little time between shopping, wrapping and holiday baking to play along with us this week. If you play you have a chance to win a stamp set from Mark's Finest Papers, and if you use a stamp from MFP you will get your name in twice! Thank you for stopping by.

Mark's Finest Papers December Release Blgo Hop

Hello! Welcome to Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Company's November Blog Hop!

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Pucker Up Featured December 13

Pussy Willows Featured December 14 Ice and Snow Featured December 14

New Pines Featured December 15

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! We will announce all four winners on December 16, 2011 on the Mark's Finest Papers blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. The winners will be chosen at 11PM EST on Thursday December 15, 2011.

Lois
Vicky
Anne
Connie
Linda 
Karen H.
Patty P.
Geri
Dawn M.
Marilynn
Chrissy 
Karen K.
Pam 
Debbie 
Brenda T
Bonnie 
Harriet 
Tammylee
Silvia
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Mark's Finest Papers December Release Blgo Hop

Hello! Welcome to Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Company's November Blog Hop!

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Pucker Up Featured December 13

Pussy Willows Featured December 14 Ice and Snow Featured December 14

New Pines Featured December 15


And here is my card using Ice and Snow

And one using Pussy Willows

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! We will announce all four winners on December 16, 2011 on the Mark's Finest Papers blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. The winners will be chosen at 11PM EST on Thursday December 15, 2011.

Lois
Vicky 
Anne
Connie
Linda
Karen H.
Patty P.
Geri 
Dawn M.
Marilynn 
Chrissy 
Karen K.
Pam
Debbie
Brenda T
Bonnie 
Harriet
Tammylee
Silvia
Mark's Finest Papers

Thank you for stopping by.

Mark's Finest Papers December Release Blog Hop

Hello! Welcome to Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Company's December Blog Hop!

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Pucker Up Featured December 13

Pussy Willows Featured December 14 Ice and Snow Featured December 14

New Pines Featured December 15

Today the Design Team are featuring projects using Pucker Up.  For my project I decided to make a card that is a treat holder.  

Here is a photo of the inside

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! We will announce all four winners on December 16, 2011 on the Mark's Finest Papers blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. The winners will be chosen at 11PM EST on Thursday December 15, 2011.

Lois
Vicky
Anne
Connie
Linda 
Karen H.
Patty P.
Geri
Dawn M.
Marilynn 
Chrissy
Karen K.
Pam 
Debbie
Brenda T
Bonnie 
Harriet
Tammylee
Silvia
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Speedy The Cat's Friends Challenge Week 83 - Make It Masculine

Hello I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family and friends. And for those of you that were brave enough to tackle black Friday were able to find lots of great deals. As for me I stayed home at eat leftovers, played games with the family and spent a little time in my girl cave. So on to this weeks Speedy The Cat's Friends Challenge.   Linda challenges us to make a masculine card. I whipped this up this card up the other day in just a few minutes so it would be a great one to make when you need something in a hurry. I used A Trip To Lancaster that was just released earlier this week.

I hope that you can play along with us this week. If you do you have a chance to win at set from Mark's Finest Papers, and if you use a MFP stamp you get your name in twice. Thank you for stopping by.

MFP Blog Hop - What A Fox

Hello! Welcome to Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Company's November Blog Hop!

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Peaceful Nuthatch

A Trip to Lancaster

What a Fox

Here is my sample for What A Fox.  This is another great set.  I colored the scene with a combination of copics and colored pencils. 

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! We will announce all three winners on Thanksgiving Day. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. The winners will be chosen at 11PM EST on Wednesday November 23, 2011.

Lois  

Vicky 

  Anne  

Connie 

Linda  

Karen H. 

Patty P.  

Geri  

Dawn M.  

Marilynn  

Chrissy

Karen K.  

Pam 

  Debbie 

  Brenda T 

Bonnie  

Harriet Mark's Finest Papers

I hope you have enjoyed the hop this week.   For those of you in the United States I hope you and your family have a very Happy Thanksgiving.   Thank you for stopping by.
 

A Trip To Lancaster

Hello! Welcome to Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Company's November Blog Hop!

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Peaceful Nuthatch

A Trip to Lancaster

What a Fox

Hello and welcome to day two of Mark's Finest Papers November Blog Hop.  Today we are sharing projects made with A Trip To Lancaster.  This is a great set to work with and is very easy to make masculine cards.  I love using red and kraft card stock with these images.  For my card I colored with copics and then sponged in the ground and sky with memento inks.

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! We will announce all three winners on Thanksgiving Day. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. The winners will be chosen at 11PM EST on Wednesday November 23, 2011.

Lois  

Vicky  

Anne  

Connie 

Linda  

Karen H.  

Patty P.  

Geri 

  Dawn M.  

Marilynn 

  Chrissy 

  Karen K. 

Pam  

Debbie
                      Brenda T (you are here)

Bonnie  

Harriet

Mark's Finest Papers

 Thank you for stopping by.
 

MFP Nov Blog Hop Day #1

Hello! Welcome to Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Company's November Blog Hop!

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Peaceful Nuthatch

A Trip to Lancaster

What a Fox

Before I get to my projects I have to say that I am very excited as this is my first official blog hop as a senior design team member for Mark's Finest Paper's.  For today we are sharing samples made with Peaceful Nuthatch.  I have to say I love the cute little nuthatch and have so much fun coloring it.  For my first card I used the larger of the two images and used colored pencils with OMS.  After cutting out the image with a nestabilities die and before removing it from the die, I sponged with memento new sprout and bamboo leaves.

Next I stole an idea from my mom (Geri)  and made a snow globe that I bought at Michaels.

 And here is the other side.

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! We will announce all three winners on Thanksgiving Day. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. The winners will be chosen at 11PM EST on Wednesday November 23, 2011.

Lois

Vicky

Anne 

  Connie 

Linda 

  Karen H.

  Patty P.

  Geri 

  Dawn M.

  Marilynn

Chrissy

Karen K.

  Pam 

  Debbie

                       Brenda T (You are here)

Bonnie

Harriet

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Thank you for stopping.

 

Speedy The Cat's Friends Challenege~Week 82 Color Challenge

Hello it is time for another challenge at Speedy The Cat's Friends Challenge. This week Harriet challenges us to use white, black and one other color. I picked Red as my other color.

I used the barn image from a new set coming from Mark's Finest Papers called A Trip to Lancaster, which will be available on Tuesday 11/29.  I hope you can play along with us this week. If so you will have a chance at winning a stamp set and if you use a stamp from Mark's Finest Paper you will get your name put in twice.  Thank you for stopping by.

Speedy the Cat's Friends Challenge-Winter Theme

Hello, for this weeks Speedy The Cat's Friends Challenge I picked a winter theme. I love making winter cards they are always among my favorite cards. On my card I am sneaking a peek at a new set from Mark's Finest Papers that will be release a little later this month.

Did you see the big news?  Mark's Finest Papers is under new ownership.  You can read about it here.  I hope you can play along with us this week at Speedy the Cat's Friends Challenge.  If you do play and use Mark's Finest Papers stamps you get you name in twice for a chance to win a stamp set.
Thank you for stopping by and have a super weekend.

Speedy The Cat's Friends Challenge-Scraps Only

For this weeks Speedy the Cat's Friends Challenge Linda challenges us to use scraps only. Well I have tons of them. Picked to use only card stock scraps as that is what I have the most of. Everything on this card including the base is from scraps. The image is from Mark's Finest Papers set Country Thanksgiving and is one I had colored and set aside having not used it as I had originally intended.

This is a great challenge to use up some of the scarps we all have. I hope you can play along this week. If you do you will have a chance at winning at stamp set from Mark's Finest Papers. If you use a stamp from Mark's Finest Papers you will get you name in twice, how cool it that.

Be on the look out in the next few days I will be having some blog candy.

Good luck and thank you for stopping by.

I am also entering this card into Simon Says Challenge-Anything Goes.

Speedy The Cat's Friends Challenge- 12 Days of Christmas

Hello it is time for another challenge from Speedy The Cat's Friends Challenge. This week we are joining in on the 12 Days of Christmas Hop that Mark's Finest Papers is having. For my project I chose to do an acetate box. I had one on hand that I had bought a few years ago and used it.

This is super simple and quick to make. I took a strip of card stock that was 12 inches long and then wrapped it around the box to get where I needed to score for the folds. I wrapped that with some jute ribbon. For the focal piece I used this wonderful winter scene from Christmas in the Country from Mark's Finest Papers. I colored with copics and then sponged in the sky. I finished up by matting it and then attaching it to the band. 

I hope you can play along with us this week.  One person will win a stamp set from Mark's Finest Papers and if you use a stamp from Mark's Finest Papers you will get your name put in twice.  Thank you for stopping by.


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Country Christmas

Hello I hope you week is going well. I have a card I made last night. As soon as the sketch was posted on SCS I looked and knew right away the card I wanted to make. So I stayed up late and whipped this up.

 I used Christmas in the Country from Mark's Finest Paper's.  Then I colored with copics and accented the with stickles.  The sky background is sponged with memento summer sky.  Thank you for stopping by and have a great rest of the week.

Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop Day 2

Hello! Welcome to the October 2011 MFP New Releases Blog Hop!

This month's new releases are: Holly Greetings, Christmas in the Country, Snowball?, Country Thanksgiving, Cardinals in Winter, and Ginger Cookies.For your convenience, all these sets are available TODAY at Mark's Finest Papers.

So, do you want to WIN today's Featured Stamp Sets: Christmas in the Country and Snowball? (If you don't want to wait to win, you can always purchase the sets right away! We'll substitute a set from NEXT month's release if today's winner has already purchased this set!)

For your chance to win: Comment on the following Design Team members' blogs TODAY before midnight EDT. There will be ONE random winner chosen from the comments on today's Blog Hop blogs. That winner will win Christmas in the Country and Snowball?. We will announce the winner's name on tomorrow's MFP blog post.

Lois
Vicky
Dawn
Anne
Peggysue
Connie
Linda
Karen
Patty
Liz
Geri
Lynn
Debbie
Mark’s Finest Papers

For my first card I used Christmas in the Country.  I love this set and am very please with how easy it is to color.  I colored  the church with copics and then sponged the sky with summer sky memento ink and the ground with desert sand.  It is a bit hard to tell in the photo, but the image is matted on navy and silver card stock.

Next I have a card using Snowball.  Snowball is such a fun set with cute images and fun sentiments.  I picked this adorable penguin for my card.  For the background I embossed light blue card stock with a sizzix folder and then with a white paint dabber I highlighted the snowflakes.  The snow drifts are just torn paper and accented with stickles.

Good luck and thank you for stopping by.

Speedy The Cat's Friends Challenge - Week#76 No Designer Paper

Hello and welcome to this weeks Speedy The Cat's Friends Challenge, this Linda is challenge us to not use any designer paper.  For those of you who know me already know I love designer paper, and rarely make a card without it.  I always admire all of the fabulous all white cards so I gave it a try and almost made.  I had to stick a very thin gray mat on mine.  I am really pleased with how this one came out.  The best part is the fun surprise sentiment on the inside.

This is a new set from Mark's Finest Papers called Snowball that will be available next Tuesday.  Be sure to check out the rest of the wonderful creations from the design team.

I hope you can play along this week with us at Speedy The Cat's Friends challenge.  You may just win a stamp set!!  And if you use a Mark's Finest Paper's stamp you will be entered into the drawing twice.  Good luck.

Thank you for stopping by

Happy Haunting

Hello today I have a little refrigerator magnet I made for Monday try a new technique on SCS. The challenge was to cover chipboard with patterned paper.  I used basic grey's eerie paper for the background.  That cute little ghost is from Mark's Finest Paper's set Boo To You.  The sentiment is from Get Your Broom On.  Thank you for stopping by.

Speedy The Cat's Friends Challnege Week 74 - Things With Wings

Hello, this week for Speedy The Cat's Friends Challenge Carol challenges us to use Things With Wings. For my card I used Lilacs in the Summer.  I love butterflies so it wasn't a hard pick for me. Be sure to check out all of the fabulous creations from the rest of the design team.

I hope you can play along this week with us at Speedy The Cat's Friends challenge.  You may just win a stamp set!!  And if you use a Mark's Finest Paper's stamp you will be entered into the drawing twice.  Good luck.

I will also be entering this card into the following challenges
Stampin' B's: To use two or more SpellBinders on your card
The Play Date Cafe: color challenge, yellow orange and green

Thank you for stopping by and have a super weekend.

MFP Blog Hop Day #4 Get Your Broom On

Hello! Welcome to the September 2011 MFP New Releases Blog Hop! This week's new releases are:Autumn Glory, Boo To You, Covered Bridges, Get Your Broom On .For your convenience, all these sets are available TODAY at Mark's Finest Papers. So, do you want to WIN today's Featured Stamp Set:Get Your Broom On? (If you don't want to wait to win, you can always purchase the sets right away! We'll substitute a set from NEXT month's release if today's winner has already purchased this set!) For your chance to win: Comment on the following Design Team members' blogs TODAY before midnight EDT. There will be ONE random winner chosen from the comments on today's Blog Hop blogs. That winner will win Get Your Broom On. We will announce the winner's name on tomorrow's MFP blog post.

I have another Halloween card to share with you today.  I dragged out my colored pencils for this one.  I don't use them much, but this image seemed to call for them.   The sentiment was fun for me as it took me out of my comfort zone.  Normally I like things straight and even so I try for perfect, so free hand cutting out the sentiment was a stretch, but I really like how it came out so you may see it again. 

 Be sure to check out the designs teams gorgeous creations.

Emily
Nancyruth
Neva
Faith
Dawn
Marilynn
Patricia
Chrissy
Karen
Pam
Joanne
Markie
Carol
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