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
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

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.

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.

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.

 

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.

The Cuttlebug Spot - Gobble, Gobble, Gobble

It is time for another challenge from The Cuttlebug Spot. This week the challenge is to use a turkey on your project. I only have one turkey stamp, which is surprising being as I have hundreds of stamps. So this one is a discounted one from Mark's Finest Papers.

I hope you can play along with us this week. Now head over to The Cuttlebug Spot and check out the rest of the desing teams gorgeous creations. Thank you for stopping by.

Speedy The Cat's Friends Challenge~Favortie Technique

Hello this week Patty challenges us to make a card or project using your favorite technique. I have several techniques that I love, but for this challenge I picked sponging. I sponge on most of my card some more than others. I love to create scenes by sponging. So I gave myself a little extra challenge and created this scene card without any coloring other than sponging.

I used stamps from a new set from Mark's Finest Papers called A Trip to Lancaster. This set will be available very soon. I hope you can play along with us this week as one lucky entrant will win a stamp set from Mark's Finest Papers and if you use a MFP stamp you will get your name in twice!  Now head over to Mark's Finest Papers blog and check out the gorgeous creations from the rest of the design team.  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.

Did you Hear??? The Cuttlebug Spot Challenges are back!!!

That is right, how cool is that? I am super excited to be back with The Cuttlebug Spot. The challenges will be for two weeks and we sure hope you will play along with us. For our first challenge back it is super easy peasy "Anything Goes"  Here is my card.

 Now head over to The Cuttlebug Spot and check out the gorgeous creations from rest of the design team and while you are there take notice that there are some awesome prizes to win.  Thank you for stopping by.

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.