2012

I would like to take this time to thank all of my loyal blog followers and friends for taking time out of your busy days to stop by my blog and leave all of the wonderful comments. I cherish each and everyone of you. I hope you have a fabulous, fun and safe 2012.

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.

Thank You So Much!

Hello I hope you had a lovely Christmas. I have a card I whipped up today for a few chllanges I will list below.

I used Dogwood and Butterfly and The Giving Tree from Gina K Designs. I colored the butterfly with copics before cutting it out. The background is sponged with memento cantaloupe and then I stamped one of the branches from Dogwood and Butterfly also in cantaloupe. As for the challenges I used this weeks sketch from MoJo Monday (MOJO221) and then SplitCoast Stampers Try a New Technique (TLC357) to make a thank you card. Thank you for stopping by.

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Happy Birthday

Hello I have a birthday card I made to play along with Suzanne's Color Me Creative Challenge to use Ivory and Gold.

I used Very Merry Christmas and Vogue Vases from Gina K Designs. I colored the bells with copics and sponged the circle with memento cantaloupe. I will also be entering this into StampTV, Tami's challenge is to make a birthday card in honor of the meaning of Christmas. Finally I used the sketch from The Sweetest Thing.

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.

Pocket Card

Hello I hope you are having a wonderful week and are getting all of your shopping, wrapping and baking done. As for me I have the shopping and wrapping done, and I hope to get a big jump on my baking this afternoon. Now you didn't come by here to hear about my Christmas progress. I have a pocket card I made to show you today.

I used Celebrate The Season from Gina K Designs and illustrated by Theresa Momber. I will be using this as a gift card holder. I was able to work in several challenges into this card. The first one being Case the DT member on StampTV, this time is it Giovana that we were to case, I choose this card. I keep pretty close to Giovana's original card, I changed the image, designer paper and I matted the insert. I am also entering this into the challenge listed below.
Can you believe that Christmas is in only three more days?  Thank you for stopping by.

Challenges

• Outlawz: Celebration
• Just Us Girls: Red/Olive/White/Kraft
• Really Reasonable Ribbons Ramblings: Anything Goes plus Ribbon
• iCopic: Last Minute Holiday Projects

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
Mark's Finest Papers

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
Mark's Finest Papers

The Cuttlebug Spot - Santa Baby

It is time for another challenge for The Cuttlebug Spot. This time the challenge is Santa Baby- Anything with Santa. Here is what I made.

 This is a pretty basic card, I used white craft ink to lightly sponge over the calendar and highlighted the 25th with a glitter gel pen.  I hope you can play along with us this week and make sure to check out what lovely creations the rest of the design team has for your viewing pleasure.  Thank you for stopping by.

I am also entering this card into Crazy 4 Challenges, challenge this week It's Santa.And into Joan's Garden challenge to show your Christmas card- Anything goes.

Speedy The Cat's Friends Challenge -Week 85 Thank You Card

It is time for another Speedy The Cat's Friends Challenge. This week Linda is challenge to make a Thank You Card.

I used a new set from Mark's Finest Papers called Pucker Up.  It is such a fun set to work with. I love the is leads to use bright happy colors. I also used the sketch from Monday Monday. What a great sketch this week.

I hope you can play along with us this week, there is a stamp set to be won!  If you do and use a MFP stamp you will get you name in twice. Best of luck and thank you for stopping by.

StampTV's CSS Alumni Treasure Chest Blog Hop

Welcome to the last stop on today's CSS Treasure Chest Blog Hop. You should have arrived here from the very creative and crafty Carolina.  Today's Treasure Chest Challenge is to make a Treat Holder with a Christmas or New Year's theme.  I have been wanting to make a cone treat holder for a long time so this was a prefect time for me to do so.  Now there isn't much stamping on my holder, just the sentiment, so I made a little 4" note card to match.  I used Very Merry Christmas from Gina K. Designs. Here is what I came up with.

Here is a picture of the treat holder.  The candies really pick up the light so there is a glare.

 

 Here is a picture of the card.

 

Make sure to leave a comment as you hop along because on Tuesday morning (December 13), we will randomly choose one of the comments from all the blogs and that person will receive a huge grab bag of fabulous Gina K. Designs Stamps!
If you came here without hopping you can start at StampTV.  I hope you have enjoyed hopping through and can paly along with us.  Thank you for stopping by.

I am also entering in the following challenges

• Let's Ink It Up: Christmas projects
• Cute Card Thursday: Anything Goes
• Joan's Garden: Show us your Christmas card

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Hello, We are in full Christmas mode here. I was able to get a big chunk of my Christmas shopping done. The house is nearly done with decorations and I have a couple of Christmas projects done. Before I show you my card and ornament I have a bit of news. I am so thrilled to be a Guest Designer for this weeks Try a New Technique on SplitCoast Stampers. This week the challenge is to use buttons to create something Christmasy or wintery. I went with Christmas.

I hope you can join us this week and pull out those buttons (you know you have them) and make something fun. Thank you for stopping by.

Check it out..... Creative Vision is playing the Grinch Game again this year. I played along last it and it was fun, I even one a stamp!!!

Blue and Silver Christmas

Here is a super quick card I whipped up today for a challenge over at Paper And .Such The challenge is no coloring, well those of you who know me that is a real challenge for me as I love to color. I had fun with this and it is always good to brake out of the rut sometimes. And to top it off I have another Christmas card made.  I used Festive Frame from Gina K Designs embossed it in silver on blue.   I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Speedy The Cat's Friends Challenge- Favorite Embellishment

Hello it is time for another challenge from Speedy The Cat's Friends. This week I am challenging you to use your favorite embellishment. for me I love embellishments even though of late I haven't been using very many of them. Anyway my favorite embellishment is sticky backed pearls. I almost always use them in some way or another. Not sure if you could really call nestabilities and embellishment or not, but I love them to and again it is rare that I don't use at least one on a card.

This stamp is a new one the will be released later this month from Mark's Finest Papers called Pucker Up. I love the lemon images is this set. You can bet that I will be using them a lot.

So what is your favorite embellishment?  We would love to see what you create using it.  I hope you can play along with us this week.  If you do and use a Mark's Finest Papers stamp you will get you name put in twice for a chance to win a stamp set.

Thank you for stopping by.

The Cuttlebug Spot-Crafting Leftovers

Hello and welcome to another challenge for The Cuttlebug Spot. This week the challenge is Crafting Leftovers, to use scraps on your project. I use all scraps that I had. I loved this paper I got last year and still had a fairly large piece of it so I knew I wanted to use it. I used Celebrate the Season from Gina K Designs.

Be sure to check out the fabulous creations from the rest of the design team. I hope you can play along with us this week. Thank you for stopping by.

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

Mark's Finest Papers

Thank you for stopping.