MFP Blog Hop - Great Flowers and Flower Blocks

Welcome to the Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company

June Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 

 Featured June 10 - Gears To You and Gear Up 

Featured June 11 - Pretty Pears
 

 Featured June 12 - Great Flowers and Flower Blocks

I generally love MFP flower stamps and these two sets today are great. 

The first two cards use the flower blocks set. 

The first one is simple black and white with a touch of red.  The DP is actually black and white but looks slightly green below.  No colouring on this one just simple stamping with a gem in the centre.

 

This second card uses several of the tiles, a fancy spellbinders die and a MFP butterfly carefully cut out. Colouring was done with Prismacolor pencils on the images and with Copics on the standalone butterfly.

 

My next card uses the same flower from the Great Flowers stamped and masked and the lacy edge is made with a Martha Stewart punch.  Colouring is done with Prismacolor pencils.

 

My last card is paper pieced with dimension added using an embossing stylus.

 

 

Also entered for JUN14VSNE

 

 

Featured June 13 - Please Snow

 

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 

June 14, 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 June 13, 2014

 

Here's the Design Team:

 

Lois

Kelli Jo

Karen 

 Kathy

Toni

Janine

Shirley Q

Vickie

Sandy

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

Come on back tomorrow for more creativity.

Happy Christmas Mum

Thanks to Angie Bode I recently visited Prickley Pear stamps and found 2 lovely dog stamps - a Golden Retriever and a Springer Spaniel which you can see here.  I have also been seeing lots of wreaths created by Kittie Caracciolo so I tried one on this card for my Mum.  It is a big card 7" square but I wanted to make something worthwhile with this image which I have coloured to look like Mum's maniac Tess.
I used dies to cut the ring, a holly punch and a Martha Stewart punch on the greenery.  Red pearls were added for holly berries.

Thank you for looking - have a peaceful Sunday.

FOSTV 30 - Silver Wedding Joy

Monday has rolled round again and this week the challenge at FOSTV is to make a joy fold card.  Now I have to say I needed a nudge to make one of these again but they make for something a little different and yet they are quite simple to do - yes I have given a link to the tutorial.

You really should play along this week as there is a cute set on offer to one lucky person called Tweet Blessings .   You can find the challenge as challenge 30 at FOSTV















My card uses another great MFP set called Mother's Magnolias.  I love this set.  I used the acrylic distress technique using silver coloured paint and some blue ink.  The magnolia was coloured with Copics.  I used a Spellbinders m-bossabilities folder for the background and a Martha Stewart border punch to give the lacy edge.

I made the card for Chris and Debbie who recently celebrated their Silver Wedding anniversary by hosting a dinner dance for about 200 people who had been closely involved with them over some period in their married life.  What a wonderful idea.

  

 I hope you give the challenge a go this week - we would love to see what you create.

Have a good week.

6 MFP Country Church Christmas Cards

12 cards per month is my target for Christmas cards and even though I will actually need more than this getting going early is going to be a great help.
This set of 6 which was originally going to be a set of 4 with the burgundy coloured ink on the pale blue paper, mounted on the red paper I made two more - one in silver and one in brown.  Martha Stewart punches were used for the border and holly.
TLC367 was what started this set off - stamping in  single colour and no colouring in allowed.  The image is the beautiful church from MFP Christmas in the Country and the sentiment is from another set because we do not tend to use the expression Happy Holidays so much here.

With Love

A little Penny Black creation for this week's Penny Black challenge done with watercolour pencils and using the SFF021012 sketch and the challenge from WT362 for Bountiful Borders. I used the same punch from Martha Stewart on the red and yellow card stock.

Lois 4

Wow what an exciting time to have a little girl coming up for 4.  A friend at work asked for a card for Lois who is 4 on Tuesday and this is what I came up with.  I hope my friend and Lois like this very girlie card.

The image is a Messy Rabbit one and it is coloured with Copics.  I have used Spellbinders and Cuttlebug dies and also a punch from Martha Stewart which sadly feels a bit odd now when I use it.  The papers are from Doodlebug


If anyone can share a fool proof and easy way to sharpen punches I would love to hear about it.

Thanks for looking