MFP All About the Kids Baby Garland

MFP All About the Kids Baby Garland

For my garland I chose a puppy theme for a baby boy. I used stamps from Mark's Finest Papers' Fantastic Dogs and Firefighter stamp sets.  I used a gold stretchy cord to attach to the gift bag.  This garland went together very quickly and would be a nice variation to the usual gift tag used on gift bags!p

Thanks very much to Marks Finest Papers for choosing my name as a winner in the Kids Blog Challenge for trying the tutorials.  I earned the "Oh Baby" stamp set!

MFP All About the Kids Gift Card Holder

MFP All About the Kids Gift Card Holder

I have to admit when I started this project I wasn't so sure how it would turn out, but I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was......great directions, Vickie!!  I chose a Christmas theme for my project...what kid doesn't love a gift card?  I used some patterned paper from my stash and some green curling ribbon. I used this cute little gingerbread man from Mark's Finest Papers' Holiday Tags set.  Isn't he sweet?    I can definitely see me using this pattern again and again....it makes a nice, sturdy gift card holder.

Thanks very much to Marks Finest Papers for choosing my name as a winner in the Kids Blog Challenge for trying the tutorials.  I earned the "Oh Baby" stamp set!

MFP Challenge 286 - monochromatic colors

MFP Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge 286 - monochromatic color scheme

For my card I stamped a snowflake in a pale blue to make the background.  Then I stamped the word "Snowflakes" from Mark's Finest Papers "Snowflakes" set across the paper in a dark blue ink.  On a separate piece of paper I stamped in medium blue ink one of the snowflakes from the same stamp set, cut it out and mounted a piece of medium blue paper behind it.  I stamped "Warm Winter Wishes" from the "Snowball Mini" stamp set onto the front of the card in the same medium blue ink.

Thank you to Mark's Finest Papers for choosing my entry as the winner for this challenge!  I earned the stamp set "North American Woods".

MFP #285 CAS sentiment, small stamp

MFP Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge 285 - CAS sentiment, small stamp

I love snowflakes and wanted to use them in this challenge. I masked off an area and randomly stamped a snowflake in 3 colors. Then I stamped my sentiment in the lower left corner. I added a little sparkle to the snowflakes with a metallic jelly roll pen. To finish it off I edged the card in the same ink as my sentiment.

MFP #284 Round the Corners

MFP Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge 284 - Round the Corners

I wanted to use some fall colors and selected stamps from two of Marks Finest Papers stamp sets.....Holiday Tags and Autumn Splender. I colored the leaves with Copic markers and added a ribbon from my stash.  The sentiment is a rub on from the Paper Studio. I used a decorative corner rounder (how embarrassing, I couldn't find my regular one!!). Oh well!

MFP SF&F Challenge 283

MFP Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge 283 - have 3 panels

I chose a stamp from Marks Finest Papers' Dogwood Blossoms stamp set and cut the image into 3 panels after coloring it. I added a small "Love You" stamp along with ice white PerlenPen for the flower centers.  The panels are mounted on piece of white paper that was die cut with a floral design.

MFP #282 Collage Stamping

MFP Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge 282 - Collage Stamping

This was my first attempt at collage stamping (thanks for the nice tutorial!) and it was a lot of fun!! I chose stamps from "Hot Air Balloon" and "Big Trees" stamp sets.  One word stamp is done in a light gray over the whole card, and the other word stamp is done in  a light blue randomly over the card.  I used the trees to give perspective to the hot air balloon (focal point) and used a few rhinestones to accent the balloon.

MFP Everything Fall DP Tutorial

MFP Everything Fall Blog Hop Challenge - DP Tutorial

This was fun making leaves out of a flower punch!  I used 2 of Mark's Finest stamp sets on my card.....The tree is from the Big Trees set and the word is from the Autumn Splender set.  I added some gold highlights, although they are pretty hard to see.

MFP Everything Fall ATC Cards

MFP Everything Fall Blog Hop Tutorial - ATC Cards

This was my first attempt at ATC Cards, and after reading the tutorial I thought they would be really fun! I ended up making 4 of them....2 landscape and 2 portrait.

Top left - I found some pretty paper and added a sentiment from MFPs "All Postal" set.
Bottom left - this little sunflower stamp looks cute with the "Hi" from MFPs "All Postal" set.
Top right - the owl and sentiment are from MFPs "Autumn Splendor" set.
Bottom right - cute polar bear paper with a saying from MFPs "Snowflakes" set.

I had a lot of fun making these and hope you enjoy them!

MFP SF&F 281

MFP Speedy Fox & Friends Challenge 281 - use the negative die cut

I used a scalloped heart die cut from Spellbinders and colored the negative image with distress ink.  Then I placed a Memory Box die cut flower over top and stamped a sentiment for an anniversary card toward the bottom.

Thank you for all the nice comments, and especially to Mark's Finest Papers for choosing this entry as the winner of this week's challenge!  I earned the stamp set called "More Snowflakes".  How exciting!!

MFP SF&F Challenge 280

MFP Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge 280 - Banners

The leaves here are just beginning to get a little color and that put me in a fall mood.  I used a wreath die cut and stamped it with fall colored leaves.  I then added a banner. Next I mounted it on an embossed background.

MFP #278 Stamp Over a Stencil

MFP Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge 278 - stamp over a stencil

This was a new technique for me this week, and I chose this owl from Mark's Autumn Spendor set.
The stencil is from Dreamweaver's.  I added a die cut and this is how it turned out!

MFP Challenge #277 - Sympathy card

MFP Speedy Fox & Friends Challenge 277 - make a sympathy card

I chose a new embossing folder to work with and a sentiment from Mark's Finest Papers.  I wanted it to be a clean and simple card.

MFP Challenge 275

MFP Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge #275 - Border Punch Both Sides

I  like using border punches...it can really change the look of a card and they are a quick and easy way to add the little extra touch.  I embossed my background first, then used this flower border punch. My flower is from Mark's Finest Papers. 

MFP Challenge 274 - bakers twine

MFP Challenge #274 - use bakers twine
Since the Christmas in July blog hop, I've been in the mood for Christmas cards!  I used bakers twine to accent this card.  I'm hoping to have all my cards done early this year.....ha!

MFP Christmas in July Nugget Cake

MFP Christmas in July - Nugget Cake
This was an awesome tutorial by Lois and I knew the minute I s aw it what I was going to do!  This is a birthday cake for my sweetie with all the things he loves. The patterned paper themes are fishing and hunting. I used sentiments from Holiday Tags, ATC Cards and Firefighter.   Shhhhhh, don't tell him......we're celebrating his birthday this weekend!!

Thank you to Mark's Finest Papers for the "Snowflakes" stamp I earned for trying the tutorials in the Christmas in July blog challenge.  They were fun.....can't wait to try more of what I learned!!

MFP Christmas in July Challenge

MFP Christmas in July Challenge - Microwave popcorn stocking stuffer

This was a really neat idea for a stocking stuffer!  I used Christmas-type paper from my scrap pile, added a die cut ornament and a sentiment from the Holiday Tags stamp set.

MFP Speedy Fox & Friends 272

MFP Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge 272 - doodle a frame/border.

I drew 2 lines around each section and then doodled a wavy line  inside those lines. I used a Micron 5 pen.

MFP Speedy Fox & Friends #271

MFP Speedy Fox & Friends Challenge 271 - beach scene

Fun in the sun is what it's all about!  Who wouldn't enjoy a day at the beach?

Speedy Fox & Friends #270

MFP Speedy Fox & Friends Challenge 270 - white emboss on color

I used one of my favorite puppy stamps and sentiment from Mark's Finest Fantastic Dogs stamp set for this challenge.  I colored him with Copic marker E41.