SCS challenges CAS108 AND TLC314

This is my card for the CAS108 and TLC314.
CAS108 is to make a card representing the Great Outdoors.
TLC314 is to use a handmade ticket.

This is a Sneak Peek of a soon to be released set “African Veldt” by Mark’s Finest Papers.
I love this adorable elephant head and sentiment.
Colors used black, white and Baby Blue Eyes all from MFP.
The images are inked with Palette Noir Black and the sponging is done with a med. grey.
I colored the elephant with Copic markers.
I made this a offset gatefold card.
The elephant is mounted on plain and scalloped circle Nesties.
I added a pretty black ribbon for the closure.
Don’t you just love these fabulous images.
All supplies can be found at Mark’s Finest Papers.

http://www.marksfinestpapers.com/servlet/StoreFront

Nicky

SCS challenge F4A53 to make a Tropical card

This was  fun and easy.  The F4A53 challenge to is make a tropical card.
I used this beautiful sunset photo that Chuck and I took on one of our vacations.
The fushsia shades are incredible in this photo.
I used black and a fushsia shade pink for my cs.
A black ribbon, some exotic flowers and two pretty black blossoms.
I also used a TH embossing folder on the pink cs but it doesn’t show much.
I stamped a Happy Birthday sentiment directly onto the photo with Palette Noir Black.
The sentiment is from the Big Cat set by Mark’s Finest Papers.
http://www.marksfinestpapers.com/servlet/the-2118/*Big-Cats-Stamp-Set/Detail

Nicky

Slitcoast CC321 challenge

I was on holidays in Florida for the last two weeks.  We went to Jacksonville for two days and I got to meet up with Faith and Lois. I also got to meet a few other stamping friends of Faith's. We went out for breakfast, crazy shopping trip and then dinner. It was such a fabulous day and I was so thrilled to meet Lois and Karen. I think that they all wore me out with the shopping, we went to 5 stores and I spent way too much money...LOL Can you believe I had bruises on the tops of my feet. LOL
My husband Chuck got the chance to catch up with Faith's husband Mark. Even though it was a great day for all of us poor Markie got sick. He went to the hospital and got diagnosed and is on medication, I hope he gets better real soon. I couldn't believe how much he's grown since the last time I saw him.

Roxie, what a wonderful sketch.
This is my card for the CC321 challenge.
I decided to go with a black and white theme so that I could feature this beautiful white tiger by Mark’s Finest Papers.

http://www.marksfinestpapers.com/servlet/the-2118/*Big-Cats-Stamp-Set/Detail

There is some trickery in the size of the tiger, IRL he is much larger. I stamped the image in Palette Noir Black, then photo copied the image to word where I reduced the size to my liking and then quadrupled the image. I addes blue to the eyes and pink to his nose with Copic markers.
I then printed and cut the images for my card, I added a black matting.
The bg is partially embossed with a TH’s folder.
With the small panel I decided to move it for conveniece of the design and used a black ribbon.
I popped the images to get more depth.
I hope that you love this Big Cat as much as I do.

Nicky

CC311 challenge at Splitcoast Stampers.

I would like to annouce that yesterday was the arrival of my first GreatGrandson Jackson. He is absolutely gorgeous and we are thrilled.

For the CC311 challenge today we are to use Perfect Plum, Rose Red and Always Artichoke.
I substituted PP with Groovy Grape from MFP and the other colors are in the dp that is from DCWV/Safari Chic.
I stamped the image with a med. Tan and dark brown then colored the eyes a purple color and added some Amythist gems.
On the foliage I decided to line cut some of the outer leaves to give it some depth.
For the image I angled slightly under the foliage to make him look like he’s peering at you thru the branches.
For the desert we are to use hardware.  I used a beautiful floral button in pewter.
Nicky

Day 4 of Mark's Finest Papers February Blog Hop

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


Our New Sets are: Greet the Day with Gerber, Big Cats, Spring Has Sprung and He is the Lamb.For your convenience, all 4 stamp sets are available for purchase TODAY!

We have a BRAND NEW Blog Candy Contest! BE A GUEST DESIGER!

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 March 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 March 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, February 12, 2011

FRIDAY, February 11, 2011-He is the Lamb

Emily-

Karen-

Patty-

Roxie-

Vicki-

Liz:

Claudine-

Dawn-

Joanne T-

Nicole -

Marilynn-

Peggysue-

Connie –

Emily N.-

Neva

Silvia Mabie

Mark’s Finest Papers

This card is made using the new set “He is the Lamb” by Mark’s Finest Papers.
http://www.marksfinestpapers.com/servlet/StoreFront
I inked the stamp with Palette Noir black ink twice and added some color and shadows with a pale skin colored marker. I then just line cut the head of the second image and used dimensionals to pop over the firs image.
I added some lillies to the sentiment panel and colored in the same tones as the lamb.
The dp is from Basic Grey and I added a simple punched border as an embellishment.
Nicky

Day 3 of Mark's Finest Papers February Blog Hop

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


Our New Sets are: Greet the Day with Gerber, Big Cats, Spring Has Sprung and He is the Lamb.For your convenience, all 4 stamp sets are available for purchase TODAY!

We have a BRAND NEW Blog Candy Contest! BE A GUEST DESIGER!

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 March 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 March 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, February 12, 2011

Thursday, February 10, 2011-Spring Has Sprung

Nancyruth

Lois

Vicky


Anne

Emily

Karen

Patty

Roxie

Vicki

Liz

Claudine

Dawn M

Joanne T

Nicole

Marilynn

Geri

Lynn

Neva

Silvia Mabie

Mark’s Finest Papers

This is a card using the new set “Spring has Sprung” from Mark’s Finest Papers.
http://www.marksfinestpapers.com/servlet/StoreFront
This is a quick and easy single layered card.
The duck in inked in Palette Noir black and colored with Copic markers. The grass was done inked direct to stamp with different colors of green.
I then added the sentiment, the flourish, the ribbon and a tiny yellow gem to the flourish.
Nicky

Day 2 of Mark's Finest Papers February Blog Hop

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


Our New Sets are: Greet the Day with Gerber, Big Cats, Spring Has Sprung and He is the Lamb.For your convenience, all 4 stamp sets are available for purchase TODAY!

We have a BRAND NEW Blog Candy Contest! BE A GUEST DESIGER!

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 March 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 March 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, February 12, 2011

WEDNESDAY, February 9, 2011- Big Cats

Nancyruth

Lois

Vicky

Dawn L.

Anne

Peggysue

Connie

Claudine

Dawn M.

Joanne T

Nicole

Marilynn

Geri

Lynn

Emily N.

Mark’s Finest Papers

This card was made using the new “Big Cats” set from Mark’s Finest Papers.
http://www.marksfinestpapers.com/servlet/StoreFront
I inked this stamp with different shades of brown markers and stamped on white cs.
I did not color as I thought the mixed inking showed plenty of shades and hues.
I used a plain and scalloped circles Nesties for the matting.
The bg dp is from Basic Grey. There is a knoted grossgrain ribbon tied in a simple knot and a birthday sentiment.
Nicky

Day 1 of Mark's Finest Papers February Blog Hop

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


Our New Sets are: Greet the Day with Gerber, Big Cats, Spring Has Sprung and He is the Lamb.For your convenience, all 4 stamp sets are available for purchase TODAY!

We have a BRAND NEW Blog Candy Contest! BE A GUEST DESIGER!

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 March 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 March 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, February 12, 2011.
TUESDAY February 8, 2011- Greet the Day with Gerber
Nancyruth
Lois
Vicky
Anne
Peggysue
Connie
Emily
Karen
Patty
Roxie
Vicki
Liz
Geri
Lynn
Emily N.
Neva
Silvia Mabie
Mark’s Finest Papers

This card was done using the new set “Greet the Day with Gerber” from Mark’s Finest Papers.
http://www.marksfinestpapers.com/servlet/StoreFront
I inked the stamp with Palette Noir and stamped it onto some dark cream colored cs and colored it with Copic Markers and gel pens, I added some glitter to the center or the flowers.
The bg panel is done with a embossing fofder that was inked with a white ink pad and then run thru the CB.
I punched two small holes in the main panel and added a pretty two-tone ribbon.
I finished by adding a sentiment to the lower right hand corner.
Thanks for visiting our Blog Hop and see you tomorrow for day 2.
Nicky