Brain Waves: March 2014

Monday, 31 March 2014

FOSTV118 - Up in the Sky

This week's challenge at FOSTV is projects with the theme Up in the Sky. I made a card with the duck set

It is a simple card with some distressing and I think it could be used for a guy. Thanks for checking in - you can find the challenge here http://mfpspeedytv.ning.com/page/friends-of-speedy-tv-challenge-118-up-in-the-sky-03-31-14. Have a great week.

Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Garden Show - Spring is in the air Blog Hop

Welcome to the Garden Show!

Spring is in the air, and we are ready to CELEBRATE!

Many of the Spring/Flower stamp sets in the Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Co.'s web store will be featured in this Blog Hop.

Follow along from March 25-27 for your chance to win the Garden Bunny Stamp set. One winner will be chosen. Just leave a comment. Each day you can leave a comment on each blog to increase your chance of winning!

Each day the designers will create a Garden Themed card or project using the tutorial that we have linked.

Good Luck and Happy Hopping!

Day #2 Garden Scapes

You can find the tutorial HERE.

Hop to these designer blogs today!

The card I made with this set is 7" square. I hope the postman treated it carefully as it was sent for a Birthday on Sunday to a friend in Cornwall who is bravely undergoing some heavy cancer treatment right now. Get well soon Andree. I featured Daffodils as the Daffodil is the emblem for Marie Curie Cancer care. The sets used include
Daffodil Greetings
Tree Greetings
Scenic Selections
Works of Art

Monday, 24 March 2014

FOSTV117 - 3 or more Brads

Hi - sorry to be late posting today but I was too tired to type and pre-schedule this last night. Last week was a crazy one for health issues with Mum's and included 4 falls - 2 each. Falls at any age aren't great but when you are in your senior years the body doesn't cope too well. I am hoping for less drama this week and praying for healing.

The card I have today uses the Marks Finest Papers Sunflowers from the Bring on the Sun set with 3 brads made using some DP and my I-top brad maker. I asked for the brad maker for Christmas the year they were all the rage but to be honest it sits unused most of the time. I used the biggest size brad for the flower centres. I sent this card to a friend being treated for cancer who was having a tough time a little while ago - you will see her Birthday card on Wednesday.

Please join in our FOSTV challenge this week - you have until Sunday and there is a prize on offer to one lucky participant. Full details can be found here http://mfpspeedytv.ning.com/page/friends-of-speedy-tv-challenge-117-3-or-more-brads-03-24-14.

Our Garden mini hop starts tomorrow so check out the Marks Finest Papers blog and don't forget to drop back here Wednesday.

Thanks and have a great week.

Monday, 17 March 2014

FOSTV116 - Altered Box

Well I actually altered a plastic tub but I think it counts. I was originally going to do a pretty gift box but having bought some play money on the internet I needed something to store it in and this container came into being. I used various oriental images from Marks Finest Papers from 2 different sets - Wealthy Fish and Works of Art. I originally pulled out about 5 sets but ended up with just this two. This item is practical rather than pretty but it has to go into my teaching bag of bits to travel to my youngest student so can't be too fancy!

Please join in our FOSTV challenge this week. I am sure you can find some sort of container that could do with a make over. The prize on offer to one lucky participant is the stamp set Vroom

Have a great week.

Friday, 14 March 2014

March Blog Hop 14th March

Welcome to the Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company

March Blog Hop!

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Featured March 9 - Hoppy Easter
Featured March 10 - Easter
Featured March 11 - Fabulous Pets

Featured March 12 - Friends
Featured March 13 - Buddha
Featured March 14 - Bundle of Joy

This is my card with this set which is going to someone Dave used to work with. I also did some simple decoration inside.

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 six winners will be announced on

March 15, 2014 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 March 14, 2014

Here's the Design Team:

Jane C

Pat
Thrfity Stamper

Marilynn

Sue W

An'Jenic

Amy

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

Come on back next month for more creativity, and don't forget our FOSTV challenges.

Thursday, 13 March 2014

March Blog Hop 13th March

Welcome to the Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company

March Blog Hop!

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Featured March 9 - Hoppy Easter
Featured March 10 - Easter
Featured March 11 - Fabulous Pets

Featured March 12 - Friends
Featured March 13 - Buddha
I made a couple of bookmarks as a bit of a joke with this set.

Featured March 14 - Bundle of Joy

commenting is 10 PM EST on Friday March 14, 2014

Here's the Design Team:

Jane C

Pat
Thrfity Stamper

Marilynn

Sue W

An'Jenic

Amy

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

Come on back tomorrow for more creativity.

Wednesday, 12 March 2014

March Blog Hop 12th March

Welcome to the Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company

March Blog Hop!

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Featured March 9 - Hoppy Easter
Featured March 10 - Easter
Featured March 11 - Fabulous Pets

Featured March 12 - Friends
I tried a card today (Zigzag 4 panel) which was not the easiest to construct as the measurements given were incorrect. With a little additional layer I made it work. The card I used was not stiff enough so had to be reinforced with an extra layer. If I make another one I will use some really substantial card.

This is the reverse and uses the Nature's Brushstrokes set and butterfly from Cracked Hello.

Another card made with this lovely set can be found here

Featured March 13 - Buddha
Featured March 14 - Bundle of Joy

commenting is 10 PM EST on Friday March 14, 2014

Here's the Design Team:

Jane C

Pat
Thrfity Stamper

Marilynn

Sue W

An'Jenic

Amy

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

Come on back tomorrow for more creativity.

Tuesday, 11 March 2014

High Hopes Challenge 209

The High Hopes challenge this week is Clean and Simple cards. As I won one of their challenges (number 207) I was invited to join them this week as part of their team for Challenge 209.

It was a busy week preparing for Marks Finest Papers blog hop see post below but I wanted to play along with High Hopes. You can find details of the High Hopes challenge and see all the wonderful DT cards here.

My card would not photograph well - I took another photo today so this may look different to the one on the main post. It is a single layer with quite a bit of white space so I hope it counts as CAS. I used the frog chilling from a recent release. It is called Lazy Day Frog. The sentiment and butterfly are from MFP and the die used for embossing is from Prickley Pear. It is coloured with pencils.