FOSTV95 - Fall / Harvest

I love the autumn when you get crisp dry days and the colours are fully on show.  Sadly at the moment we are getting quite a lot of rain and yesterday's walk with Mum's dog Tess was a complete washout.  10 minutes into the walk "the heavens opened" and we had pouring rain, thunder, lightning and then a hail storm.  The two of us and Tess arrived back at Mum's house like drowned rats.  We had to wrap in towels while our jeans dried off! 
Fortunately before this wet spell we did get some lovely walks in to enjoy the colour changes. 

This week at FOSTV we are celebrating autumn, fall and harvest and there is a cute set which relates to harvest for one lucky participant called Corn Ears.

 

You can double your chances of winning by using Marks Finest Papers stamps but if you don't have any please play along just the same.

 

 

My card this week focuses more on the harvest side of things and uses the set called No Sour Grapes along with the leaves from Autumn Splendor.  The little acorn charm is also from MFP.  The edge was punched with a Martha Stewart border punch.

 

 



Thank you for visiting and please drop by the rest of the FOSTV team's blogs to see their cards in all their glory.

FOSTV 47 - Happy Thanksgiving

For those of you reading this blog in the USA - Happy Thanksgiving week.  This is my card for FOSTV47, a Thanksgiving card

I took the SFF sketch and turned it round and use one of Beate Johns ideas for using up scraps - you will see more of this idea - I have loads of scraps!

Well it is your turn now to make one more Thanksgiving card - you might have to hand deliver it or save it for next year - but we would love to see your creation.  Please join in our challenge at FOSTV - it will go up as number 47..

If you pray please pray for Mum who has to have 4 teeth removed at the hospital today.

Thanks for dropping in.

Janine

FOSTV43 - Halloween or Harvest

I went for the Harvest option for FOSTV 43 which is to make a project for Halloween or Harvest.  I used the Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich company, stamp set called Autumn Splendor.  The centre section is an emboss resist panel sponged with autumn colours.

We would love you to play along with the challenge again this week and there is a prize for one lucky participant.  The MFP set you could win this week is called I'm Going Batty.

It is a good week for winning as MFP are releasing new sets this week and the blog hop starts tomorrow.

Pop back again today as I have this month's mini set to show.

MFP September Blog Hop - Autumn Splendor

Welcome to Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Company's 

   September Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Buried Treasure Featured September 25
Going Batty Featured September 26
Autumn Splendor Featured September 27
Tweet That Featured September 28


Autumn Splendor is my favourite set this month and my first card uses the sketch SC402.  I used a new to me technique on the vertical strip using a highlighter pen and distress ink.  The main image was coloured with Copics.  I used an M-bossabilities folder on the horizontal panel.  I am entering this card in the Sentimental Sundays challenge.

 

My second card is a thank you card.  It is going to the carers in the home where my Mother in Law was while we were in the USA enjoying ourselves a few weeks ago - the carers did a brilliant job.  Again it was coloured with Copic markers.  2 stencils were used on the background and 2 different coloured distress inks. 

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 four winners will be announced on September 29, 2012 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 11PM EST on Friday September 28, 2012.