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DAY 4_MARK'S FINEST PAPERS APRIL BLOG HOP_GARDEN FAIRIES

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


Our New Sets are: In My Mother's Garden, Bearded Iris, Oh Boy, It's a Girl and Garden Fairies.For your convenience, all 4 stamp sets are available for purchase TODAY!

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

What do you need to do to qualify? Just comment on the Design Team blogs during the blog hop. The winner will be announced on the Mark’s Finest Papers blog on Saturday, April 16, 2011. ***See the MFP blog for all the contest rules and PRIZES!



FRIDAY, April 15, 2011: Garden Fairies

Emily-

Karen-

Patty-

Roxie-

Vicki-

Liz:

Claudine-

Dawn-

Nicole -

Marilynn-

Peggysue-

Connie –

Emily N.-

Neva

Silvia

Patricia

Chrissy

Guest Designer, Lillian

Mark’s Finest Papers

I love fairies and collect fairie books and love to read all thing fairie so this is a terrific set for me.
The first card was made using Lime Squeeze and Snow Storm White cs from MFP.
I love these colors together.
I inked this pretty fairie image 2 times in Palette Noir black and colored with Copic markers. I also added some teeny tiny aqua pearls to the tip of her wings. I then die cut one image with a plain Nestie and the second I line cut just the fairie and popped it over the main panel image. I then added a die cut Nestie scalloped mat.
The bg is embossed with a folder I received as a gift.
To embellish my card I used Doohickey die cut leaves with tiny pearls in the leaves and finished with a gorgeous paper flower.

The second card I made for yesterday SCS challenge. I have this beautiful picture of a rain drop in a leaf "I don't know who the photographer is" and though it would be perfect to show this cute fairie silhouette.
The image is inked in Palette Noir with the inside of wings colored with a red Copic marker.
I added a sentiment tag and a gorgeous red ribbon bow.
Clean and simple, I also really like how this one turned out.
Have a wonderful weekend, Nicky

April Blog Hop Day 3 "My Mother's Garden"

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


Our New Sets are: In My Mother's Garden, Bearded Iris, Oh Boy, It's a Girl and Garden Fairies.For your convenience, all 4 stamp sets are available for purchase TODAY!

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

What do you need to do to qualify? Just comment on the Design Team blogs during the blog hop. The winner will be announced on the Mark’s Finest Papers blog on Saturday, April 16, 2011. ***See the MFP blog for all the contest rules and PRIZES!

Thursday, April 14, 2011-In My Mother's Garden

Lois

Vicky

Dawn L.

Anne

Emily

Karen

Patty

Roxie

Vicki

Liz

Claudine

Dawn M

Nicole

Marilynn

Geri

Lynn

Neva

Silvia

Guest Designer, Lillian

Mark’s Finest Papers

I think this is my favorite of the new April stamps sets from MFP.
I used Lavender and white as my colors.
The image was stamped with Palette Noir black ink and colored with Copic markers.
I embossed the bg with a basket weave folder and the strip was done with two lengths of embossing strips...one buttons and the other zigzag.
The rest is self explanatory.
I think a wheel barrow full of flowers would look lovely in any garden.
I really love this sentiment.
Happy Hopping and good luck, Nicky

Day 2 of Mark's Finest Papers April Blog Hop

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


Our New Sets are: In My Mother's Garden, Bearded Iris, Oh Boy, It's a Girl and Garden Fairies.For your convenience, all 4 stamp sets are available for purchase TODAY!

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

What do you need to do to qualify? Just comment on the Design Team blogs during the blog hop. The winner will be announced on the Mark’s Finest Papers blog on Saturday, April 16, 2011. ***See the MFP blog for all the contest rules and PRIZES!

WEDNESDAY, April 13: Oh Boy, It's a Girl!

Lois

Vicky

Dawn L.

Anne

Peggysue

Connie

Claudine

Dawn M.

Nicole

Marilynn

Geri

Lynn

Emily N.

Patricia

Chrissy

Guest Designer, Lillian

Mark’s Finest Papers

Today is day 2 of MFP's Blog Hop. I am featuring the set "Oh Boy It's a Girl".
Don't you just love this darling elephant. I inked the elephant and the sentiment with Palette Noir onto a purple plaid and purple dots dp respectively, and line cut the image. All of the dp on this card is from DCWV/Baby Boy. I used bright white cs for the matting.
To add some pizazz I inked the diaper pin with Palette Noir onto the white dotted dp and line cut it also. I tied on a pretty ribbon knot and threaded the diaper pin thru it. I think it's looks cute.
Happy blogging everyone, Nicky

BLOG HOP DAY 1 for Mark's Finest Papers

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


Our New Sets are: In My Mother's Garden, Bearded Iris, Oh Boy, It's a Girl and Garden Fairies.For your convenience, all 4 stamp sets are available for purchase TODAY!

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

What do you need to do to qualify? Just comment on the Design Team blogs during the blog hop. The winner will be announced on the Mark’s Finest Papers blog on Saturday, April 16, 2011. ***See the MFP blog for all the contest rules and PRIZES!


TUESDAY April 12, 2011- Bearded Iris
Lois
Vicky
Dawn L.
Anne
Peggysue
Connie
Emily

Karen
Patty
Roxie
Vicki
Liz
Geri
Lynn
Emily N.
Neva
Silvia

Patricia

Chrissy

Guest Designer, Lillian

Mark’s Finest Papers

This is going to be my Mother's day card for my DMIL.
This is one of the images from the new set "Bearded Iris". This set can be very feminine and perfect for Mother's Day.
I stamped the image 3 times with Palette Noir black ink, colored with Copic markers then line cut the images. I layered some of the petal parts and used pop-up dots to raised the image onto a white oval Nestie shape die cut cs and then layered that over an scalloped oval Nestie die cut on black cs.
The dp is from 7 gypsies/gypsy market variety pack.
I distresses and sponged on black around the edges and mounted to a black mat.
My embellishment on this card is a threaded black ribbon with a pretty acrylic flower.
Happy hopping and good luck to every one, Nicky

Sneak Peek of "Oh Boy It's a Girl" by Mark's Finest Papers and the SCS, CAS114 challenge.

 

This is my card for today's challenge CAS114.
This is a sneak peek of Mark's Finest Papers new set "Oh Boy It's a Girl".

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That little cutie in the picture is my new Great Grandson Jackson.
I paper piece the giraffe with a green polka dot dp.
I popped the bow around his neck and added a green gem to match.
I only used dp on this card it's by DCWV/Nursery/Baby Boy.
I used a punched for the edging and a cute ribbon simply knoted. The sentiment is inked in Palette Noir.
Nicky

Sneak Peek of "Garden Fairies" by Mark's Finest Papers and the F4A59 challenge

Thanks for the fun technique. This is what I came up with. This is a soon to be released sneak peek of the set "Garden Fairies" by Mark's Finest Papers.







http://www.marksfinestpapers.com/servlet/StoreFrontFor the papers I used BoBunny and cs from MFP.
The image and sentiment are stamped with Versafine/Sepia. The embossing folder is from Sizzix.
I added this beautiful chocolate silk ribbon to finish.

Have a nice weekend, Nicky

Sneak Peek of "In My Mother's Garden" by Mark's Finest Papers and WT317 challenge

I love love love this image. In our WT317 challenge today we are to use decorative scissors. I used my on the bottom of the main image and main panel.
The image is stamped in Palette Noir black on watercolor paper then water colored with a small artist brush and watercolor paint. I added some Flower Soft to the hanging basket flowers to give them dimension but chose to water color the lillies in the earns. I added some tiny yellow gems to the middle of the flowers.
To finish I added some tiny white dots with a gel pen to the edging and a pretty blue satin ribbon.
The is a Sneak Peek coming soon to Mark's Finest Papers it is called "In My Mother's Garden.
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Thanks for looking, Nicky

SC327 challenge and a Sneak Peek for Mark's Finest release out soo "Oh! Boy It's a Girl!

This is a Sneak Peek of the upcoming set “Oh! Boy It’s a Girl!”. I think this is one of the cutest baby sets.
For the SC327 chalenge I used the image of the little Zebra. I stamped it’s image in Palette Noir black onto blue striped dp, I then stamped it on another dp but just line cut the bow and added a tiny gem.
All of the designer papers are Nana’s Nursery Baby Boy by DCWV.
I line cut the animal and popped it onto the panel #3.
On panel #2 I stamped my sentiment added a yellow ribbon and hat pin.
On panel 1 I just layered dp over the white card base.
To finish I added a pretty acrylic flower.
All of the supplies can be found at the MFP STORE. http://www.marksfinestpapers.com/servlet/StoreFront

Thanks for dropping by, Nicky

April Sneak Peek of the upcoming Set "In my Mother's Garden by Mark's Finest Papers

This is a Sneak Peek of an upcoming set for Mark's Finest Papers.
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The set it called "In my Mother's Garden" and I think it's gorgeous and you are only seeing a snippet of what's on this set.
Today's color challenge asked us to use the following colors:Poppy Parade
Baja Breeze
Pear Pizazz
I've substituted these colors with cs from MFP.
I inked the image in Palette Noir black and colored with copic markers and gel pens. I also added tiny half pearls in a green tone. I popped this adorable watering can onto some Nestabilities round die cuts in plain and scallop.
The dp is by K&Company/Julianne.
The border at the bottom is by Magnolia doohickeys/berry lace die and the tiny red flowers were made using a punch and then some half pearls were added.

Nicky

DAY 4_MARK'S FINEST PAPERS MARCH BLOG HOP_FISH YOU WERE HERE

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.



FRIDAY, March 11, 2011-Fish You Were Here

Emily-

Karen-

Patty-

Roxie-

Vicki-

Liz:

Claudine-

Joanne T.

Dawn-

Nicole -

Marilynn-

Peggysue-

Connie –

Emily N.-

Neva

Silvia

Patricia

Chrissy

Guest Desinger, Ted

Mark’s Finest Papers

Here my card for today’s Blog Hop.
The set used here is “Fishing you were here” now available at Mark’s Finest Papers.
I did the bg with TH’s alcohol ink and ink blender. I love the way the colors made the bg look like water.
I inked the images and sentiment with Palette Noir black and colored the images with Copic markers. I then used some Crystal effects and line cut all of the fishes.
I inked the water weeds in a med. and dark green marker. The sand was made using TH’s distress EP. I then took some of the sea shells I’ve been saving for a mirror frame and added them to the bottom of the card. I also added some gems in different shades of green to create water bubbles.
I worked hard on this one so I hope you like it.
Nicky

DAY 3_MARK'S FINEST PAPERS MARCH BLOG HOP_GRANDMA'S BOUDOIR

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.



Thursday, February 10, 2011-Grandma's Boudoir

Lois

Vicky

Dawn L.

Anne

Emily

Karen

Patty

Roxie

Vicki

Liz

Claudine

Dawn M

Nicole

Marilynn

Geri

Lynn

Neva

Silvia

Guest Desinger, Ted

Mark’s Finest Papers

This is a card featuring some of the images and sentiments from the new set “Grandma’s Boudoir”. This set and three others are now available at Mark’s Finest Papers.
For the bg I used Mossy Sage and BG/Capella dp.
I inked the shoes direct to rubber using colored markers.
The rest of the card is pretty straight forward and I think needs no description.
If you have a question about any of the details please pm me.
I think this is a fun set with lots of vintage images and sentiments.
All of the supplies used on my card are available at Mark’s Finest Papers.

Good luck to all the Blog Hoppers, Nicky

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

DAY 1_MARK'S FINEST PAPERS MARCH BLOG HOP_JUST DANDY

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.
TUESDAY March 8, 2011- Just Dandy

Lois
Vicky
Dawn L.
Anne
Peggysue
Connie
Emily

Karen
Patty
Roxie
Vicki
Liz
Geri
Lynn
Emily N.
Neva
Silvia

Patricia

Chrissy

Guest Designer Ted

SCS challenge WT312_MFP's Sneak Peak of upcoming new set "Grandma's Boudoir" coming Tuesday

This is my card for the WT312 challenge to use dots.
This is a Sneak Peek of the set “Grandma’s Boudoir” coming soon to Mark’s Finest Papers.
This is a 5.25" by 5.25" card.
The colors of the cs are Snow White, Harry Periwinkle and Julianne dp by K&C co.
The #1 panel is Harry Periwinkle matted with Snow White and Julianne dp.
I added the dots with a Periwinkle marker.
The main panel is Harry Periwinkle with a Snow white stamped layer.
The image is inked with Palette Noir black ink on Snow White cs.
I the penned the filigree on the dressing table and chair with a copper gel pen. I seat of the chair and insert in the dresser were pieced with K&C dp/Julianne.
I colored the Collie with Copic markers, line cut and popped with pop-up dots.
I also used a corner punch on the main panel.
I popped the main panel with pop-up dots , added 2 pretty ribbons and a gorgeous paper flower.



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Nicky

SCS challenge SC322 Mark's Finest Papers Sneak Peek for set "Fish You Were Here"

This is my card for today’s SC322 challenge.
Featuring a Sneak Peek set “Fish You Were Here” from Mark’s Finest Papers.
I used MFP’S Chine Blue Eyes, Markie’s Strawberry Milk and white cs.
I inked the images in Palette Noir and colored with Copic markers. The large fish was then covered with Crystal Effects “thanks Vicky” and the smal one I added some glitter to the fins.
The #1 panel has some sea weed and sentiment inked in a mid blue color.  Some brown sea leaves for panels #2 and 3.
For my #4 panel I inked an embossing folder “Tim Holtz” with a Spectrum ink pad. I love how it looks like a large coral and popped up my fish using dimensionals.
For #5 panel I chose a felt star fish.
To finish I added some blue gems to the sentiment and as air bubbles for the fishes.
All supplies can be found at Mark's Finest Papers.
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I had a lot of fun making this one.

Nicky

SCS challenge CC312 Misty Celery Rose

This is my card for the SCS, CC312 Misty Celery Rose challenge.
This is also a Sneak Peek of a set “Just Dandy” coming soon to Mark’s Finest Papers.
I inked the stamp with colored markers and used Versafine/Sepia for the dragonfly rom set “Whispering Wings” and sentiment.
This is a 5.25 inch square card, I used a corner punch to round the two top corners of every layer.
The embossed border was done using a CB folder/Pop Culture and added some light blue gems.
I also used some light blue gems on the dragonfly.
Clean, simple, easy and I hope you like it...
All supplies can be found at Mark’s Finest Papers.

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Nicky

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.

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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.
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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