Dec. Blog Hop Day 2/Marks Finest Papers-a Heinrich Company

Welcome back todays set brings back lots of childhood memories. Up north we had Pussy Willows everywhere. I also remember when I was older making faux ones with bumpy Chenille stems for Spring Craft shows. I really like this set.  I stamped the background with Distressed inks Old Paper and Pumice Stone with one of the images. Used Copics to color the main image.

This next set is called Snow & ice. I stamped and embossed the snowflakes. Sponged the background with 3 different blue Distressed inks and spritzed with water. 

Go check out the rest of the teams projects. Leave a message at each blog and you will have a chance to win a new stamp set.

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

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

Dec. Blog Hop Day 1/Marks Finest Papers-a Heinrich Company

Welcome to the first Blog Hop for the new Company. Be sure to check it out. Today we are showing a new stamp set called Pucker Up. This is a great set with cute sayings about lemons. Now go look at the rest of the teams projects. Leave a message at each blog and have a chance to win a new stamp set.

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

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

SSSD Ladies and an explanation to others.

I belong to a Yahoo Group of swapping stamping and scrapping ladies. I am the Hostess of a number of swaps and will be putting some swap information on here for the ladies to follow and I hope the rest of you will enjoy it also. On the first of every month starting Jan 1, 2012 I will be posting 2 tutorials. One for a technique and one for a different kind of card. We have tried this in the past on the group without the tutorial and things did not go well so hope that having picture by picture instructions will make this easy and fun. Today I am going to tell you about another swap starting in January called Build a Sketch. We have 17 pieces and will be using approximately 5 of them to make a card. This month we will be using these parts. #1 is your card base. #2 is the top layer 4 x 5 1/4. # 4 is a circle 2 to 21/2 ". #15 is a rectangle 4 7/8 x 2 7/8 and #17. is a smaller rectangle 2 1/4x 7/8. Now if you need to adjust your sizes a smidge that is fine but stick to these pieces.

 Here are a few examples of what you can do with the pieces to help you design a card.

Here is my card. Hope this helps ladies. The back layer is Encaustic wax. Stamps are all by Marks Finest Papers- a Heinrich Company.

Speedy the Cats Friends Challenge # 85/Thank you

This week on the Speedy Blog we are making Thank you cards. This is a new set coming out this month from MFP- a Heinrich Company. It's called Pucker Up. I don't have an MFP "Thank you" stamp so I used the word Thanksgiving from another set and only inked up the part that spelled out Thanks. And abra cadabra you get a Thank you card of sorts. I've colored the image with Copics and chalk.

Speedy TV Challenge 10

I received this set of stamps in the mail today. They were perfect for the Speedy TV challenge/ silhouettes and they screamed really loud at me to do some snakeskin. So I did. This is a great set available now at MFP-a Heinrich Company  called Buffalo Spring.

Relaxing .. 1 more day of vacation left

On Mondays there are 2 challenges I try to do. Mojo Monday Sketches and SpeedyTV. I combined the 2 this week because the challenge at Speedy TV is to use your favorite sketch. I don't have a favorite. I never know how a card will turn out but if I am in need of inspiration it can be found at the Mojo Monday blog site. So she has all my favorite sketches. I am just getting this in with little time to spare at both sites. The window die cut is from Poppy Stamps. There is a bigger one too and I think it will become mine soon. Stamp and flowers from MFP- A Heinrich Company.

Speedy the Cats Friends Challenge # 84/Favorite Embellishment

Check out this challenge on the Speedy Blog.  I love BLING!! This CAS card uses the new set Ice and Snow coming out later this month from Marks Finest Papers- a Heinrich Company. I've covered the image with lots of glitter as well as added a little blue bling here and there on the stamped snowflakes.