Paper Dolls

Now for our exciting news! Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Co. has a new line of Paper Dolls! For the next 16 days we will feature the new Paper Doll Sets on the MFP Blog (http://marksfinestpapers.blogspot.com) and on MFPSpeedyTV.ning.com

Some of the projects will feature tutorials, too! You will be surprised and delighted by some of the designers’ projects. From traditional paper dolls to scrapbook pages to creative tags and cards, the ideas are endless! Be sure to visit each day to see a new and beautiful paper doll project.

 

My card is featured today and shown here but go check out the scrapbook page created by Renee too which was yesterday's post.

 

If you are looking for my FOSTV post it is below.  Thanks for looking.

FOSTV105 - New Years Card with Chalk and Paper Piercing

Christmas is over, Boxing Day is over and the sales have begun so it must be almost New Year.
 

At FOSTV we are celebrating New Year with Chalk and Paper Piercing.

 

I made one card for this challenge but wasn't too happy with the piercing.  I then made two more so I am sharing all 3 here today.  We would love you to join us at FOSTV with anything up to 5 cards so pull out your chalks and your piercing tools and show us what you can do.

Not so great piercing!

Piercing courtesy of Spellbinders! Pocket Watches courtesy of MFP

 

Showing the detail

 

A piercing template used on this one! 
All is Calm is the set containing the Trees and the sentiment is from the New Year set.

The prize this week at FOSTV is the stamp set called Easter Scene

Have a great week.
On a personal note I would like to wish Lauren a very Happy Birthday and a great time in Bath.

VLV Week 4 for December

I need quite a few Thank You cards right now as my MIL needs some and so do we - good to need thank you cards don't you think? 

I used the last week of December's VLV sketches to make one of these using a Cuttlebug embossing folder that I have had for some time and rubbed distress ink over it.  The sentiment and star are from Verve and are stamped with Memento ink.  The border is cut using Spellbinders dies.

Thank you for checking this out.

VLV Week 3 for December

This card was made for week3 of the VLV challenges for December.  When I suddenly remembered I still have to make week 4 I realised I hadn't even posted week 3.  All this Christmas preparation and bank holidays and weekends really messes with your head!  Annoyingly after making this card I lost one of the dies.  All 3 were there and the next morning when I went to put them away the middle one was gone - I have looked high and low - it has gone to join the small music note stamp from MFP that decided to fly away a few weeks back!

Hope you had some good times with family and friends and my heart goes out to you if you had no power or worse still were flooded out. 

Happy Christmas to you all

Wishing all of you and your families and friends a very Happy Christmas. 

The angel on our tree - a gift from a special friend

The tree this year

From the wedding in San Francisco this summer

Here are a few of the decorations on the tree we have collected on our travels - we only will buy if made in the country we are visiting.  These are some from our travels in USA but we also have some one or two coloured wood ones from Switzerland.

Eagle Centre Wabasha, MN

Crater Lake, Oregon

Faneuil Hall, Boston

A gift from Minnesota when we visited for Christmas

Disney, Anaheim

Handcrafted in Florida

Hawaii

God bless you at this special time.

FOSTV104 - Wedding / Engagement Card

It is blowing a gale here and pouring with rain.  Thankfully we got most of our grocery shopping done before it started to really come down. 

FOSTV this week are concentrating on something far more lovely than this weather - Weddings and Engagements.  I used a Cricut card designed for Valentines day for my card and paired it with yellow poinsettias (Poinsettia Blooms) for a Christmas wedding celebration card.  It is simple and straightforward but conveys all it needs to.

May your Christmas week be filled with love as you celebrate with friends and family near and far.

Christmas Tags

I made a selection of gift tags using pieces I cut with my Cricut when I first started experimenting with it last year.  All the pieces had been put on one side but rather than bin them I decided to try them on some simple tags.  I added some gems and outline stickers to glam them up a bit.

The first group shot shows them hanging on a welcome light which has decided not to work this year.  It is old but it is sad when things pack up when they have been part of your Christmas decorations for many years.  I am entering these tags in this week's FCCB challenge.

The other pictures show them all separately

I used Cricut cartridges Teresa Collins December 25th and Trim the Tree.


I also used a couple of stamped images for a few more tags

Thank you for checking these out.

Vintage Christmas

This "vintage card" was given last night to the "wine man" Dennis and his wife.  It was a quick card using a Woodware Stamp for the background and a MFP stamp on the foreground panel.  I wanted to use lace on the card but as it was for a guy went for sparkly ribbon in neutral colours.  I have had the Woodware stamp a while but have only used it a few times so decided to pull it put and show it some ink.

I am entering this card in the following challenges

Sketch N Stash 128
Our Creative Corner
Sentimental Sundays 128 ( I hope background sentiments count)

Thanks for looking.

It's snowing mice!

I have used a stamp that has been in my collection a long time along with a more recent purchase to make this card.  The flourish is from a Chocolate Baroque set and the mouse hanging on the snowflake is from Penny Black.

 

I am pleased with the overall look of this card - I suddenly remembered I needed something cute so this was a last minute one!

Happy Christmas

FOSTV 103 - Christmas Cards

Hello - sorry to be so late posting today - my day has run away from me.  I have just got home from tutoring and actually feel like going to sleep and it is only 8pm!  Anyway you didn't come here to read about my day but to see my FOSTV103 card.

This week's challenge is to make a Christmas Card and I actually have two to share with you.  I made one for the challenge and then decided I wanted to try and be a bit more creative - hence my second card.

This first card uses the Wise Men set with some gold embossing powder on the star.

 

I combined 3 Marks Finest Papers sets to make this card Fabulous Dogs, Fantastic Dogs and Joyous Season.  I used gilding flakes on each ornament.

Thank you for looking and have a great week.

Penny Black Sketch N Stash

I combined some Penny Black Stamps that I have not used very often with some glittery embossing powder that is new for me this winter.  The sentiment is part of the Penny Black set and I am not sure I have used it before.  The pink flower was free with a magazine many months ago.  The feathers are from my stash.

This card is for the Sketch N Stash and Penny Black Saturday December challenges.

Christmas Critter

I made a Birthday card with the Cricut Dinosaur a few days ago and now I have a cute Christmas card for our niece's little boy.  The dinosaur is a single purchase from Cricut the trees are die cut, the holly is punched and the sentiment is computer generated and cut by hand.

This card is being entered in the FCCB challenge this week - FCCB190 Holiday Cards.

High Hopes Metal

OK I am mad.  I die cut a piece of coke can for my metal on this card to fit with this weeks High Hopes challenge - number 198.  The image from High Hopes has been in my stash for ages but I think it is great and the sentiment is from Kraftin Kimmie who is the person who introduced me to High Hopes stamps originally.  The colouring isn't great as I didn't choose the right card to work on but I think it will pass and the recipients will like it.

Hope all your festive plans are progressing but you still have time to think about the Christmas story.

Janine

MFP December Blog Hop - Family

Dec. Blog Hop! 

The red team shared their work last week and if you haven't checked it out then please do - they showed off some lovely new butterfly stamps.  The blue team are sharing this week the other new releases this month.  The Marks Finest Papers blog is the place to see the details.
 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured Dec. 10

Calm and Wisdom

Featured Dec. 11

Bow Hunting


 Featured Dec. 12 

Family

I have rubbed some gold onto the embossing but you can't see it in the photo.

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the following blogs (don't forget this one), each day for more chances to win! (You do NOT have to comment on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly!) All three winners will be announced on Dec. 14, 2013 on the Mark's Finest Papers blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. (HINT: The more you comment, the more chances you have to win and comments on the MFP blog count twice!) The deadline for commenting is 10 PM EST on Friday Dec. 13, 2013

 

 

Here's the Design Team:

   

Lois

 Pam

Pat G

Karen K

Kathy

Toni

Janine

Shirley Q

Gail

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

 

MFP December Blog Hop - Bow Hunting

Dec. Blog Hop! 

The red team shared their work last week and if you haven't checked it out then please do - they showed off some lovely new butterfly stamps.  The blue team are sharing this week the other new releases this month.  The Marks Finest Papers blog is the place to see the details.
 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured Dec. 10

Calm and Wisdom

Featured Dec. 11

Bow Hunting

I am not into hunting at all but I was still able to use this set with some elements from other MFP sets for some wintry cards.  The poinsettia, label and snowflake dies are from Spellbinders, the fern die from Impression Obsession and the foliage die from Penny Black. 

 Featured Dec. 12 

Family

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the following blogs (don't forget this one), each day for more chances to win! (You do NOT have to comment on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly!) All three winners will be announced on Dec. 14, 2013 on the Mark's Finest Papers blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. (HINT: The more you comment, the more chances you have to win and comments on the MFP blog count twice!) The deadline for commenting is 10 PM EST on Friday Dec. 13, 2013

 

 

Here's the Design Team:

   

Lois

 Pam

Pat G

Karen K

Kathy

Toni

Janine

Shirley Q

Gail

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

 

Special Day - Angie's Birthday.

Today is hopefully a lovely day for my friend Angie.  We have never met, maybe one day, but she has been a good friend to me.  She is due to be going out with other local friends today and I hope she has fun.  She had a wonderful weekend away with her family.

This is the card I made for her using the newly released MFP set called Butterfly Essence and Huge Blooms.  I used a pink sparkly embossing powder on it, and Copics to add colour.

detail - showing sparkle

inside

Thank you for looking and please check out the post below for the MFP blog hop.

MFP December Blog Hop - Calm and Wisdom

Dec. Blog Hop! 

The red team shared their work last week and if you haven't checked it out then please do - they showed off some lovely new butterfly stamps.  The blue team are sharing this week the other new releases this month.  The Marks Finest Papers blog is the place to see the details.
 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured Dec. 10

Calm and Wisdom
 

This set has grown on me while I worked with it. My first card is paper pieced and I used the sentiment from the set on the inside which you can see below the card front.

 

 

 

My second card uses glitter and some pale Copic colouring.  I used the Chinese symbols from the Works of Art set stamped in gold to make a background

 

  Featured Dec. 11

Bow Hunting


 Featured Dec. 12 

Family

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the following blogs (don't forget this one), each day for more chances to win! (You do NOT have to comment on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly!) All three winners will be announced on Dec. 14, 2013 on the Mark's Finest Papers blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. (HINT: The more you comment, the more chances you have to win and comments on the MFP blog count twice!) The deadline for commenting is 10 PM EST on Friday Dec. 13, 2013

 

 

Here's the Design Team:

   

Lois

 Pam

Pat G

Karen K

Kathy

Toni

Janine

Shirley Q

Gail

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.