MFT Wednesday Stamp Club

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Good Tuesday Morning!

This little girl is part of the MFT Pure Innocence line of stamps, named "My Basket of Stamps". Isn't she just precious? I pulled out the Basic Grey Sugar Rush DP and found a pattern and colors that fit the Easter theme. The card layout (with just a little tweak) is from this weeks MFT Wednesday Stamp Club Challenge (MFTWSC020310).

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My little girl is colored with Copics. I tried my hand at red hair this time. I love red hair (it is the color of my own hair) but I tend to gravitate to blond and sometimes brown when I am coloring with Copics. She is a little on the "carrot top" side but I like her! The bottom panel is punched with a MS border punch and half pearls added to the flower centers. A pale green satin ribbon and bow adds the finishing touch.

Copics Used:
Skin-E00
Hair- YR04, YR07, E09, E17
Basket- C1, C3
Dress- YG03, R22
Eggs- R22, V12, B21, Y15, YR02, Clear atYou Spica for sparkle

Just to remind you~
Coming up in a couple of days~Mark's Finest Papers Design Team is celebrating our BRAND NEW STAMPS for the Speedy the Cat Designer Collection and Serenity Collection with a Blog Hop! The blog hop runs Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Awesome new stamps coming our way!!

Enjoy!

One Last Valentine Card

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Happy Monday!!

I have a couple of new techniques in this post today. I hope you like them and will give them a try sometime!

This is my last Valentine card for the season. I have to get mine in the mail by Tuesday so that all my huggable family and friends will get them on time!

I started this card for one of the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday challenges that they are doing to celebrate the anniversary of the Timeless Tuesday Challenge. It is FTTC52F and the challenge is to use your favorite Flourishes stamp set. I have to say that "Lace Heart" is my all time favorite. It can be feminine, it can be manly, it can be used for all kinds of occasions when you want to speak from the heart.

The heart is stamped with Ruby Red. I sponged the edges with Apricot Appeal and Pumpkin Pie. This was to match the oranges in the Basic Grey Sugar Rush DP. Just love that paper!! After cutting out the heart, I put a ruffled border around the edge in white. The tutorial for the ruffle can be found on Jan Tink's blog. I used this weeks Mercy's Tuesday Sketch #59 for the layout. This card also meets this weeks Crazy4Challenges #23 challenge to make a Valentine theme card.

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The second technique I used was to cover the entire heart using a Clear atYou Spica pen. In real life it is a sparkling sensation! I took the close up photo below so that you can see for yourself. If you click the photo you will get an even better view. Love this technique.

Enjoy!

Hugs & Kisses

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Hi Everyone!
For those of you experiencing a winter like none other, I hope you are staying toasty warm!

My card is for today's SCS Featured Stamper Challenge~Raise The Bar. I am a big fan of Barbara's and I love going through her gallery. So much inspiration!

I chose her card Hugs and Kisses to CASE for this challenge. I used the same stamp set but a different element, changed up the layout a bit, using this weeks CPS #153 sketch, and changed the paper colors. I added a button (couldn't find a heart one...) to the sentiment circle to meet this week's Papertrey Peeps #1 challenge. The DP is some new that I picked up yesterday and was just itching to use it! Isn't it gorgeous?

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Supplies
Stamps: Papertrey Ink Simple Valentine
Paper: Scarlett Jewel, Sweet Blush, White, Bo-Bunny Gift of Love DP
Ink: Scarlett Jewel
Accessories: Scallop Punch, MS Border Punch, Button, BG Half Pearls, Pop Dots

Enjoy the rest of the weekend!!

Inspirational Thoughts

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Happy Saturday!! So glad the weekend is here!

My card is for today's SCS Inspiration Challenge~Erte. I went through so many pages of beautiful artwork and designs and decided to use this piece for my inspiration. What a fantastic place that Steph and Peggy sent us to!

The stamps I used are sneak peeks for sets being released by Mark's Finest Papers next week.

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Supplies:
Stamps: Marks Finest Papers Thoughts of Joy and Spring/Easter
Paper: Black, Basic Grey Indian Summer
Ink: Gold
Accessories: Gold EP, MS Corner Punch, Half Pearls

Have a great weekend and I will see you back here tomorrow with another card!

Enjoy!

Christmas In January???

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Happy Thursday!!

I have joined the Splitcoast Christmas Card Challenge again this year and committed to making five cards a month. The challenge runs for eleven months so I will end up with at least 55 cards by the end of November. That will be one thing checked off of my holiday "to do" list early on!

For January's challenge I chose to use a Waltzingmouse stamp set called Sewing Box Christmas. My inspiration for this card came from Claire's blog (owner of Waltzingmouse).

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Supplies:
Stamps: Waltzingmouse Sewing Box Christmas and Very Vintage Labels #4
Paper: Always Artichoke, White, Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses
Ink: Black Memento, Rose Red, Always Artichoke
Accessories: Spellbinders Labels4, Ribbon, Sizzix Embossing Folder, Button

I will probably take the day off from blogging tomorrow since I have gotten my nose in the first book of the Twilight series. Bill and Vanessa gave me all four books for Christmas! Have you all read them? If so, what did you think?

Enjoy!

Happy Birthday Papertrey Ink!!

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Happy Wednesday!!

Papertrey Ink is celebrating their third birthday this week with lots of news, new designers and fun challenges. I was able to finish cards for two of the challenges. Had to make them clean and simple in order to get them done! A working girl doesn't have time in the evenings to work on cards....unless you catch me staying up half the night.....Each of the designers had a digital file on their blog that you could download and make a card with.

My first card is using Dawn McVey's Happy Birthday sentiment in her signature style. I used PTI Lemon Tart, Aqua Mist and Berry Sorbet papers, CB Swiss Dot folder and Spellbinders circles. A double ribbon in matching colors finishes the card. The layout is from this weeks MoJo Monday Challenge #124.

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My second card is using Heather Nichols (Pine) cupcake file. It is only fitting to have three cupcakes for a third birthday, right?! I added atYou Spica Lemon to the candle flames and Clear to the frosting swirls. The papers are PTI Dark Chocolate, Ocean Tides and White. The sentiment is from the Signature Greetings Set.

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Happy Birthday PTI!!


Enjoy!

Winter Wishes and Red Mittens

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Happy Tuesday!

If the weather is anything like it is here, we could all use a pair of these red mittens!

My card today is from the SCS Virtual Stamp Night Challenge~Red Mittens. Adelle was our fabulous hostess for the challenge and gave a little information about the Olympics and the Red Mittens~

"One of my favorite parts of the opening ceremonies is the lighting of the torch. The relay leading up to these games is the longest domestic torch run in history, including more than 12 000 individual runners and reaching the most northern, southern, eastern and western points of the host country, Canada.Each of the torchbearers wears an official uniform including a pair of red mittens. They are red and white, fleece lined and toasty warm."

Her challenge was to make a card that included the colors red and white and the use of wool/yarn.

I pulled out a set that I have never inked up from Waltzingmouse Stamps. The set includes a lot of images with stitching on them. Love this set! The mittens were perfect for this challenge! The sentiment on the inside of the card states "Hope you are keeping warm and cozy".

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Supplies:
Stamps: Waltzingmouse Sewing Box Christmas
Paper: Real Red, White
Ink: Craft White
Accessories: White EP, Modern Label Punch, Red Yarn, CB EF

Enjoy!

It's My Blogaversary and Blog Candy!!

Happy February 1st Everyone!!
And Happy 1st Blogaversary to ME!!

Seems like yesterday that I decided to take the plunge and enter the blogging world. It has been fun and I have learned so much and met so many blogging friends. So to honor this occasion, I am sending you all "A Flurry of Love"!! It is only proper to send snowy hugs in February right?!

I am also going to give away some awesome BLOG CANDY as well!! I have lot's of goodies from Mark's Finest Papers that will go to one lucky winner! All you need to do is leave a comment on this post. I will announce the winner on February 14th.

Blog Candy

My card today was done for several challenges. I attended the SCS Virtual Stamp Night on Saturday night and was able to get one card done and uploaded before the website got a little finicky. After several attempts and continual "broken link" messages, I gave up and tried again Sunday morning (if you call 12:30 am... morning....).

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The SCS Featured Stamper challenge was posted and I just love Nicole's (a.k.a.Butterfly Ears) gallery! I immediately knew I wanted to case THIS CARD when I saw it! I combined the VSN challenge to use snow or ice on your card with a CASE of Nicole's card. For the card layout I used this weeks Friday Sketchers Challenge.

Supplies:
Stamps: MFT Flurry of Love
Paper: White, Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses
Ink: Black Memento, Soft Sky
Accessories: Copics Skin(E50, YR00, R20), Clothes (R43, R46, R20, G21, G24), Liquid Applique, Flower Soft, Fiskars Border Punch, Felt snowflakes, Heart brad, Spellbinders Circles

Don't forget to leave a comment for a chance to win!

Enjoy!

Spring Is Here!

Oh how I wish Spring were here!!

I tried to play in the Virtual Stamp Night challenges last night but Splitcoast was having some issues and I only got two cards uploaded. We have until Monday night to finish uploading, so I will work on some more cards tomorrow.

This card was for the first challenge~Opening Ceremonies. We were to pick a favorite participating nations flag and create a card inspired by it's color scheme. Of course I love the Red, White and Blue, but there were a lot of people using the US Flag colors, so I ventured out on the website that has all of the participating nations flags and chose the one from Andorra. Their flag is a three color vertical stripe of purple, yellow and pink.

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The butterflies and sentiment are sneak peeks from the upcoming February release of the Spring and Easter set by Mark's Finest Papers. There are five images and four sentiments in this set. Very versatile!

I colored the butterflies with Copics and cut them out. Added pop dots and placed them on a layer of MFP's Lemon Slice. The white card front is embossed with a Cuttlebug folder.

Copics Used: Y11, Y13, Y15, V12, V15, V17, R20, R22, R43

Hope you are having a great weekend!

Enjoy!

CHA Relay Mer Ian

TGIF!!

This is the last of the CHA relay cards that I did and used Mer Ian. Since I am still in Valentine's mode, he swam his way onto a heart card! Mer Ian is colored with Copics and cut out. I added a little glitz to his fin with blue stickles. The background panel and the heart are embossed with CB folders. The sentiment is a Greeting Farm stamp as well.

Copics Used: Fin (B21, B24, B29), Skin (E00), Hair (E31, E33, E37).

I will be heading back to Pensacola late tonight. Looking forward to being back home!

Have a great day!

Enjoy!