Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Welcome to the MFP March Blog Hop! This month, we are releasing 4 NEW SETS!


Our New Sets are: Just Dandy, African Veldt, Grandma's Boudoir, and Fish You Were Here.For your convenience, all 4 stamp sets are available for purchase TODAY!

We have a NEW Blog Candy Contest! BE A GUEST DESIGNER!

PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY!

All Blog Hop participants will have the chance to win a Month Long GUEST DESIGNER position on our Senior Design team! That’s right! ONE lucky winner will receive a Guest Designer package that will include April 2011’s Four New Release sets, a selection of Premium Papers, and beautiful embellishments. The winner will also receive a Guest Designer Watermark, Blog Button and have the choice to participate in the April 2011 Blog Hop!


What do you need to do to qualify? Just comment on the Design Team blogs during the blog hop. EACH DAY that participants comment on all the Design Team blogs, their name will be entered once in the random drawing. Each participant has the opportunity to have his/her name entered up to four times. (There are four days of the blog hop, so there are up to four entries per person.) The winner will be announced on the Mark’s Finest Papers blog on Saturday, March 12, 2011.

WEDNESDAY, March 9, 2011-African Veldt



Lois

Vicky

Dawn L.

Anne

Peggysue

Connie

Joanne T.

Claudine

Dawn M.

Nicole

Marilynn

Geri

Lynn

Emily N.

Patricia

Chrissy

Guest Desinger, Ted

Mark’s Finest Papers


For today’s Blog Hop I made this tissue box for my cousin’s Birthday. She is crazy about elephants and this new set “African Velt” available now with 3 other new sets at Mark’s Finest Papers.
This is a GORGEOUS set so make sure to check it out.
For the cs I used Snow White, China Blue Eyes and black.
I made the box out of solid white the layered on the blue and black panels.
I used a punch for the design on the lid and a round Nestie for the tissue hole.
The bottom border was created by using a punch and offsetting two layers of the black and blue to create a shadowed effect. Sorry, it does not show well on the photo.
For the main panel I inked the images in Palette Noir black and sponged some of the black around the edges.
I think that my cousin with like it with the matching card that I made last week for the Sneak Peek.
Good luck to all of the Blog Hoppers, Nicky

26 comments:

  1. How awesome is that!! What beautiful work, Nicole!!

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  2. What a lovely work of art you have made Nicole! That box is gorgeous!
    Connie

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  3. how cool is that!! love it and so will your cousin!!

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  4. That set just rocks on a tissue box - great idea and I know your cousin will love it.

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  5. Great use of African theme stamp set. Your box is great.

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  6. This is awesome, Nicky! I am loving all of the fab tissue boxes I have been seeing! Must try one! :)

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  7. What creativity - amazing project!

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  8. You and these awesome tissue boxes - I have got to try one; come on down and help me!

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  9. wow, love the tissue bos. Great idea.
    crotnem@gmail.com

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  10. Really cool tissue box and I'm sure your cousin will love it!

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  11. What a great gift idea! Love your clean design on this box

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  12. Now that is just beautiful! Amazing how you can do so much with just the black and white! TFS!

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  13. Fabulous box!! Love how you did this!!

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  14. This makes a fantastic gift, Nicole. I love the drama of the black on white!

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  15. OOOOO Nicole this is AWESOME LOVE this project, I have been wanting to make one of these, thanks for the gorgeous inspiration!

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  16. wowsa - great tissue box! I want one for my classroom! Great job.

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  17. Love the colours and the great border around the bottom.
    Thanks for sharing! :)

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  18. Very nice project!! I like the color scheme you used for this set, very dramatic!

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  19. Perfect gift for your cousin.

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  20. I really am impressed by these tissue boxes!

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  21. What a stunning tissue box! I love all of these majestic creatures in sillouette like this!

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  22. Nice job with the tissue box!

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